United States Secretary Of Commerce: Head of the U.S. Department of Commerce
The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce.
| United States Secretary of Commerce | |
|---|---|
 Seal of the Department | |
 Flag of the Secretary | |
| United States Department of Commerce | |
| Style | Mr. Secretary (informal) The Honorable (formal) |
| Member of | Cabinet |
| Reports to | President of the United States |
| Seat | Herbert C. Hoover Building, Washington, D.C. |
| Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
| Term length | No fixed term |
| Constituting instrument | 15 U.S.C. § 1501 |
| Precursor | Secretary of Commerce and Labor |
| Formation | March 15, 1913 |
| First holder | William Cox Redfield |
| Succession | Tenth |
| Deputy | Deputy Secretary of Commerce |
| Salary | Executive Schedule, level I |
| Website | Commerce.gov |
List of Secretaries of Commerce
- Parties
No party (1) Democratic (20) Republican (18)
- 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 C. 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 D. 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 Acting | 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 Acting | 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 B. 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 George 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. Acting | 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 | |
| – |  | Bud Brown Acting | 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 Acting | California | January 15, 1992 | February 27, 1992 | ||
| 29 |  | Barbara Franklin | Pennsylvania | February 27, 1992 | January 20, 1993 | ||
| 30 |  | Ron Brown | New York | January 20, 1993 | April 3, 1996 | Bill Clinton | |
| – |  | Mary L. Good Acting | Texas | April 3, 1996 | April 12, 1996 | ||
| 31 |  | Mickey Kantor | Tennessee | April 12, 1996 | January 21, 1997 | ||
| 32 |  | William M. Daley | Illinois | January 30, 1997 | July 19, 2000 | ||
| – |  | Robert L. Mallett Acting | 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 Acting | January 20, 2009 | March 26, 2009 | Barack Obama | ||
| 36 |  | Gary Locke | Washington | March 26, 2009 | August 1, 2011 | ||
| – |  | Rebecca Blank Acting | Minnesota | August 1, 2011 | October 21, 2011 | ||
| 37 |  | John Bryson | New York | October 21, 2011 | June 11, 2012 | ||
| – | | Rebecca Blank Acting | Minnesota | June 11, 2012 | June 1, 2013 | ||
| – |  | Cameron Kerry Acting | Massachusetts | June 1, 2013 | June 26, 2013 | ||
| 38 |  | Penny Pritzker | Illinois | June 26, 2013 | January 20, 2017 | ||
| – | Vacant | January 20, 2017 | February 28, 2017 | Donald Trump | |||
| 39 |  | Wilbur Ross | Florida | February 28, 2017 | January 20, 2021 | ||
| – |  | Wynn Coggins Acting | January 20, 2021 | March 3, 2021 | Joe Biden | ||
| 40 | .jpg) | Gina Raimondo | Rhode Island | March 3, 2021 | — | ||
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