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United States Secretary of the Interior

PostUnited States
Secretary
Bodythe Interior
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InsigniacaptionOfficial Seal
IncumbentKen Salazar
IncumbentsinceJanuary 20, 2009
FirstThomas Ewing
FormationMarch 3, 1849
SuccessionEighth

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The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior.

The US Department of the Interior should not be confused with the concept of Ministries of the Interior as used in other countries. Ministries of the Interior correspond primarily to the Department of Homeland Security in the US cabinet and secondarily to the Department of Justice.

The Department of the Interior oversees such agencies as the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Geological Survey, and the National Park Service. The Secretary also serves on and appoints the private citizens on the National Park Foundation board. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.

Because the policies and activities of the Department of the Interior and many of its agencies have a substantial impact in the western United States, the Secretary of the Interior typically comes from a western state; only one of the individuals to hold the office since 1949 is not identified with a state lying west of the Mississippi River. The Secretary of the Interior is eighth in the United States presidential line of succession.

The current Secretary of the Interior under Barack Obama's administration is former Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado.

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United States presidential line of succession
Preceded by
Attorney General		8th in lineSucceeded by
Secretary of Agriculture

# Picture Name State of Residence Took office Left office President(s) served under
1 Thomas Ewing Ohio March 8, 1849 July 22, 1850 Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore
2 Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan Pennsylvania August 15, 1850 August 26, 1850 Millard Fillmore
3 Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart Virginia September 14, 1850 March 7, 1853
4 Robert McClelland Michigan March 8, 1853 March 9, 1857 Franklin Pierce
5 Jacob Thompson Mississippi March 10, 1857 January 8, 1861 James Buchanan
6 Caleb Blood Smith Indiana March 5, 1861 December 31, 1862 Abraham Lincoln
7 John Palmer Usher Indiana January 1, 1863 May 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
8 James Harlan Iowa May 16, 1865 August 31, 1866 Andrew Johnson
9 Orville Hickman Browning Illinois September 1, 1866 March 4, 1869
10 Jacob Dolson Cox Ohio March 5, 1869 October 31, 1870 Ulysses S. Grant
11 Columbus Delano Ohio November 1, 1870 September 30, 1875
12 Zachariah Chandler Michigan October 19, 1875 March 11, 1877
13 Carl Schurz Missouri March 12, 1877 March 7, 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes
14 Samuel J. Kirkwood Iowa March 8, 1881 April 17, 1882 James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur
15 Henry Moore Teller Colorado April 18, 1882 March 3, 1885 Chester A. Arthur
16 Lucius Q.C. Lamar Mississippi March 6, 1885 January 10, 1888 Grover Cleveland
17 William Freeman Vilas Wisconsin January 16, 1888 March 6, 1889
18 John Willock Noble Missouri March 7, 1889 March 6, 1893 Benjamin Harrison
19 M. Hoke Smith Georgia March 6, 1893 September 1, 1896 Grover Cleveland
20 David Rowland Francis Missouri September 3, 1896 March 5, 1897
21 Cornelius Newton Bliss New York March 6, 1897 February 19, 1899 William McKinley
22 Ethan Allen Hitchcock Missouri February 20, 1899 March 4, 1907 William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt
23 James Rudolph Garfield Ohio March 5, 1907 March 5, 1909 Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft
24 Richard Achilles Ballinger Washington March 6, 1909 March 12, 1911 William Howard Taft
25 Walter Lowrie Fisher Illinois March 13, 1911 March 5, 1913
26 Franklin Knight Lane California March 6, 1913 February 29, 1920 Woodrow Wilson
27 John Barton Payne Illinois March 15, 1920 March 4, 1921
28 Albert Bacon Fall New Mexico March 5, 1921 March 4, 1923 Warren G. Harding
29 Hubert Work Colorado March 5, 1923 July 24, 1928 Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
30 Roy Owen West Illinois July 25, 1928 March 4, 1929 Calvin Coolidge
31 Ray Lyman Wilbur California March 5, 1929 March 4, 1933 Herbert Hoover
32 Harold LeClair Ickes Illinois March 4, 1933 February 15, 1946 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
33 Julius Albert Krug Wisconsin March 18, 1946 December 1, 1949 Harry S. Truman
34 Oscar Littleton Chapman Colorado December 1, 1949 January 20, 1953
35 Douglas McKay Oregon January 21, 1953 April 15, 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower
36 Fred Andrew Seaton Nebraska June 8, 1956 January 20, 1961
37 Stewart Lee Udall Arizona January 21, 1961 January 20, 1969 John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
38 Walter J. Hickel Alaska January 24, 1969 November 25, 1970 Richard Nixon
39 Rogers Clark Ballard Morton Maryland January 29, 1971 April 30, 1975 Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
40 Stanley K. Hathaway Wyoming June 12, 1975 October 9, 1975 Gerald Ford
41 Thomas S. Kleppe North Dakota October 17, 1975 January 20, 1977
42 Cecil D. Andrus Idaho January 23, 1977 January 20, 1981 Jimmy Carter
43 James G. Watt Colorado January 23, 1981 November 8, 1983 Ronald Reagan
44 William Patrick Clark California November 18, 1983 February 7, 1985
45 Donald Paul Hodel Oregon February 8, 1985 January 20, 1989
46 Manuel Lujan, Jr. New Mexico February 3, 1989 January 20, 1993 George H. W. Bush
47 Bruce Babbitt Arizona January 22, 1993 January 2, 2001 Bill Clinton
48 Gale Ann Norton Colorado January 31, 2001 March 31, 2006 George W. Bush
49 Dirk Kempthorne Idaho May 29, 2006 January 20, 2009
50 Ken Salazar Colorado January 20, 2009 Present Barack Obama

Name Term of office Date of birth
Cecil Andrus 1977 � 1981 August 25, 1931(age 79)
James G. Watt 1981 � 1983 January 31, 1938(age 72)
William P. Clark 1983 � 1985 October 23, 1931(age 78)
Donald Hodel 1985 � 1989 May 23, 1935(age 75)
Manuel Lujan 1989 � 1993 May 12, 1928(age 82)
Bruce Babbitt 1993 � 2001 June 27, 1938(age 72)
Gale Norton 2001 � 2006 March 11, 1954(age 56)
Dirk Kempthorne 2006 � 2009 October 29, 1951(age 58)

United States Secretaries of the Interior

Ewing * McKennan * Stuart * McClelland * Thompson * C Smith * Usher * Harlan * Browning * Cox * Delano * Chandler * Schurz * Kirkwood * Teller * Lamar * Vilas * Noble * M Smith * Francis * Bliss * Hitchcock * Garfield * Ballinger * Fisher * Lane * Payne * Fall * Work * West * Wilbur * Ickes * Krug * Chapman * McKay * Seaton * Udall * Hickel * Morton * Hathaway * Kleppe * Andrus * Watt * Clark * Hodel * Lujan * Babbitt * Norton * Kempthorne * Salazar

United States Department of the Interior

Bureau of Indian Affairs * Bureau of Land Management * Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement * Bureau of Reclamation * Fish and Wildlife Service * Geological Survey * Office of Surface Mining * National Business Center * National Park Service * Office of Insular Affairs * |

Leaders of the United States federal executive departments

Agriculture * Commerce * Defense * Education * Energy * Health and Human Services * Homeland Security * Housing and Urban Development * Interior * Justice * Labor * State * Transportation * Treasury * Veterans Affairs
Past department leaders: Commerce and Labor * Health, Education, and Welfare * Navy * Post Office * War



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