United States Secretary of Commerce - List of Secretaries of Commerce

List of Secretaries of Commerce

Parties

No party Democratic Republican

Status
Denotes acting Commerce Secretary
No. Portrait Name State of Residence Took Office Left Office President(s)
1 William C. Redfield New York March 5, 1913 October 31, 1919 Woodrow Wilson
2 Joshua W. Alexander Missouri December 16, 1919 March 4, 1921
3 Herbert Hoover California March 5, 1921 August 21, 1928 Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
4 William F. Whiting Massachusetts August 22, 1928 March 4, 1929
5 Robert P. Lamont Illinois March 5, 1929 August 7, 1932 Herbert Hoover
6 Roy D. Chapin Michigan August 8, 1932 March 3, 1933
7 Daniel C. Roper South Carolina March 4, 1933 December 23, 1938 Franklin Roosevelt
8 Harry Hopkins New York December 24, 1938 September 18, 1940
9 Jesse H. Jones Texas September 19, 1940 March 1, 1945
10 Henry A. Wallace Iowa March 2, 1945 September 20, 1946
Harry S. Truman
- Alfred Schindler September 20, 1946 October 7, 1946
11 W. Averell Harriman New York October 7, 1946 April 22, 1948
12 Charles W. Sawyer Ohio May 6, 1948 January 20, 1953
13 Sinclair Weeks Massachusetts January 21, 1953 November 10, 1958 Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Lewis Strauss West Virginia November 13, 1958 June 30, 1959
14 Frederick H. Mueller Michigan June 30, 1959 August 10, 1959
August 10, 1959 January 19, 1961
15 Luther H. Hodges North Carolina January 21, 1961 January 15, 1965 John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
16 John T. Connor New Jersey January 18, 1965 January 31, 1967
17 Alexander Trowbridge New York January 31, 1967 June 14, 1967
June 14, 1967 March 1, 1968
18 C. R. Smith New York March 6, 1968 January 19, 1969
19 Maurice Stans New York January 21, 1969 February 15, 1972 Richard Nixon
20 Peter Peterson Illinois February 29, 1972 February 1, 1973
21 Frederick B. Dent South Carolina February 2, 1973 March 26, 1975
Gerald Ford
22 Rogers Morton Maryland May 1, 1975 February 2, 1976
23 Elliot Richardson Massachusetts February 2, 1976 January 20, 1977
24 Juanita M. Kreps North Carolina January 23, 1977 October 31, 1979 Jimmy Carter
- Luther H. Hodges, Jr. North Carolina October 31, 1979 January 9, 1980
25 Philip Klutznick Illinois January 9, 1980 January 20, 1981
26 Malcolm Baldrige, Jr. Connecticut January 20, 1981 July 25, 1987 Ronald Reagan
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. Ohio July 25, 1987 October 19, 1987
27 William Verity, Jr. Ohio October 19, 1987 January 30, 1989
28 Robert Mosbacher Texas January 31, 1989 January 15, 1992 George H. W. Bush
- Rockwell A. Schnabel January 15, 1992 February 27, 1992
29 Barbara Franklin Pennsylvania February 27, 1992 January 20, 1993
30 Ron Brown New York January 22, 1993 April 3, 1996 Bill Clinton
31 Mickey Kantor Tennessee April 12, 1996 January 21, 1997
32 William M. Daley Illinois January 30, 1997 July 19, 2000
- Robert L. Mallett July 19, 2000 July 21, 2000
33 Norman Mineta California July 21, 2000 January 20, 2001
34 Donald Evans Texas January 20, 2001 February 7, 2005 George W. Bush
35 Carlos Gutierrez Florida February 7, 2005 January 20, 2009
- Otto J. Wolff January 20, 2009 March 26, 2009 Barack Obama
36 Gary Locke Washington March 26, 2009 August 1, 2011
- Rebecca Blank Minnesota August 1, 2011 October 21, 2011
37 John Bryson New York October 21, 2011 June 11, 2012
- Rebecca Blank Minnesota June 11, 2012 Incumbent

Source: Department of Commerce: Secretaries

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