(2006 – present)]]
The is the head of the United States Department Of The Interior . 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 . The Secretary typically comes from a Western State ; only one of the last 16 Secretaries 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 .
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Picture |
Name |
State of Residence |
Term of Office |
President(s) served under |
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| 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 | Millard Fillmore |
| 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 |
| 8 | | James Harlan | Iowa | May 16 , 1865 – August 31 , 1866 | Andrew Johnson |
| 9 | | Orville Hickman Browning | Illinois | September 1 , 1866 – March 4 , 1869 | Andrew Johnson |
| 10 | | Jacob Dolson Cox | Ohio | March 5 , 1869 – October 31 , 1870 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| 11 | | Columbus Delano | Ohio | November 1 , 1870 – September 30 , 1875 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| 12 | | Zachariah Chandler | Michigan | October 19 , 1875 – March 11 , 1877 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| 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 | Grover Cleveland |
| 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 | Grover Cleveland |
| 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 | William Howard Taft |
| 26 | | Franklin Knight Lane | California | March 6 , 1913 – February 29 , 1920 | Woodrow Wilson |
| 27 | | John Barton Payne | Illinois | March 15 , 1920 – March 4 , 1921 | Woodrow Wilson |
| 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 | Harry S. Truman |
| 35 | | Douglas McKay | Oregon | January 21 , 1953 – April 15 , 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 36 | | Fred Andrew Seaton | Nebraska | June 8 , 1956 – January 20 , 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 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 | Gerald Ford |
| 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 | Ronald Reagan |
| 45 | | Donald Paul Hodel | Oregon | February 8 , 1985 – January 20 , 1989 | Ronald Reagan |
| 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 26 , 2006 - | George W. Bush |
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