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PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN'S CABINET
TERMS OF OFFICE
1945 - 1953
Department of Agriculture
(USDA)
SECRETARY OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF:
- 09/40 (held over from FDR): Wickard, Claude R. (Raymond)
[1893-1967]
resigned 04/17/45, effective 06/30/45
- 06/30/45 (sworn in): Anderson, Clinton P. (Presba) [1895-1975]
nominated 05/23/45
confirmed 06/01/45
resigned 05/07/48, effective 05/10/48
- 06/02/48 (sworn in): Brannan, Charles F. (Franklin) [1903-1992]
nominated 05/24/48
confirmed 05/28/48
served until 01/20/53
Department of the Air Force
(USAF)
SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE:
- 09/18/47 (sworn in): Symington, (William) Stuart [1901-1988]
nominated 08/21/47 (recess appointment)
confirmed 12/08/47
served until sworn in as Chaiman of the National Security Resources
Board 04/24/50 (appointed 03/30/50)
- 04/24/50 (sworn in): Finletter, Thomas K. (Knight) [1893-1980]
nominated 04/05/50
confirmed 04/13/50
served until 01/20/53
Department of the Army
(USA)
SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE:
- 08/21/47 (appointed): Royall, Kenneth C. (Claiborne) [1894-1971]
resigned 04/01/49, effective 04/27/49
- 06/20/49 (sworn in): Gray, Gordon [1909-1982]
nominated 06/07/49
confirmed 06/13/49
resigned 02/06/50, effective 04/13/50 (in order to become President
of the University of
- 04/13/50 (sworn in): Pace, Frank C. Jr. [1912-1988]
nominated 03/30/50
confirmed 04/10/50
served until 01/20/53
Department of Commerce
(DOC)
SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF:
- 03/02/45 (held over from FDR): Wallace, Henry A. (Agard)
[1888-1965]
asked to resign by President Truman 09/20/46, effective 09/20/46
- See: Personal Papers at Franklin
D. Roosevelt Library
- See also: Personal Papers at University of Iowa, Historical
and Literary Manuscripts
Collections, Special Collections Department
- See also: Personal Papers at Library of Congress, Manuscript
Division (Microfilm)
- See also: Personal Papers at Iowa State University,
Parks Library (Microfilm)
- See: Oral History at Columbia
University Libraries, Oral History Research Office
- See also: Oral Histories at Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
- 10/07/46 (sworn in): Harriman, W. (William) Averell [1891-1986]
nominated 09/22/46 (recess appointment)
confirmed 01/27/47
resigned 04/22/48, effective 04/22/48
- 05/06/48 (sworn in): Sawyer, Charles [1887-1979]
nominated 04/22/48
confirmed 05/05/48
served until 01/20/53
- Personal Papers (57 linear feet)
Department of Defense
(DOD)
SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF:
- 09/17/47 (sworn in): Forrestal, James V. (Vincent) [1892-1949]
nominated 07/26/47
confirmed 07/26/47
resigned 03/03/49, effective 03/31/49
- 03/28/49 (sworn in): Johnson, Louis A. (Arthur) [1891-1966]
nominated 03/03/49
confirmed 03/23/49
resigned 09/12/50, effective 09/19/50
- 09/21/50 (sworn in): Marshall, George C. (Catlett), Jr. [1880-1959]
nominated 09/18/50
confirmed 09/20/50
resigned 09/12/51, effective 09/12/51
- 09/17/51 (sworn in): Lovett, Robert A. (Abercrombie) [1895-1986]
nominated 09/12/51
confirmed 09/14/51
served until 01/20/53
Department of the Interior
(DOI)
SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE:
- 03/04/33 (held over from FDR): Ickes, Harold L. (LeClair)
[1874-1952]
resigned 02/12/46, effective 02/15/46
- See: Personal Papers at Library of Congress, Manuscript
Division
- 03/15/46 (sworn in): Krug, Julius A. (Albert) [1907-1970]
nominated 02/26/46
confirmed 03/05/46
resigned 11/10/49, effective 12/01/49
- 12/01/49 (sworn in): Chapman, Oscar L. (Littleton) [1896-1978]
nominated 11/11/49
confirmed 01/18/50
served until 01/20/53
Department of Justice
(DOJ)
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF:
- 09/05/41 (held over from FDR): Biddle, Francis B. (Beverley)
[1886-1968]
resigned 05/21/45, effective 06/30/45
- 06/30/45 (sworn in): Clark, Tom C. (Campbell) [1899-1977]
nominated 05/23/45
served until sworn in as Associate Justice of the United States
- 08/24/49 (sworn in): McGrath, J. (James) Howard [1903-1966]
nominated 07/28/49
confirmed 08/18/49
resigned 04/03/52, effective 04/07/52
- 05/27/52 (sworn in): McGranery, James P. (Patrick) [1895-1962]
nominated 04/03/52
confirmed 05/20/52
served until 01/20/53
- See: Personal Papers at Library of Congress, Manuscript
Division
Department of Labor
(DOL)
SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF:
- 03/04/33 (held over from FDR): Perkins, Frances [1880-1965]
resigned 05/23/45, effective 06/30/45
- See also: Personal Papers at Radcliffe College, Schlesinger
Library
- 06/30/45 (sworn in): Schwellenbach, Lewis B. (Baxter) [1894-1948]
nominated 05/23/45
confirmed 05/31/45
died in office 06/10/48
- See: Personal Papers at Library of Congress, Manuscript
Division
- 08/13/48 (sworn in): Tobin, Maurice J. (Joseph) [1901-1953]
nominated 08/07/48
confirmed 01/31/49
served until 01/20/53
Department of the Navy
(USN)
SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE:
- 03/19/44 (held over from FDR): Forrestal, James V. (Vincent)
[1892-1949]
served until appointed Secretary of Defense 09/17/47
- 09/18/47 (sworn in): Sullivan, John L. (Lawrence) [1899-1982]
nominated 11/24/47
confirmed 12/08/47
resigned 04/26/49, effective 05/25/49
- 05/25/49 (sworn in): Matthews, Francis P. (Patrick) [1887-1952]
nominated 05/13/49
confirmed 05/19/49
resigned 07/26/51, effective 07/31/51
- 07/31/51 (sworn in): Kimball, Dan A. (Able) [1896-1970]
nominated 06/28/51
confirmed 07/27/51
served until 01/20/53
See: United States
Postal Service (USPS)
POSTMASTER GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE:
- 09/11/40 (held over from FDR): Walker, Frank C. (Comerford)
[1886-1959]
resigned 05/02/45, effective 06/30/45
- 06/30/45 (sworn in): Hannegan, Robert E. (Emmet) [1903-1949]
nominated 05/02/45
confirmed 05/07/45
resigned 11/24/47, effective 12/01/47
- 12/16/47 (sworn in): Donaldson, Jesse M. (Monroe) [1885-1970]
nominated 11/24/47
confirmed 12/15/47, reconfirmed 02/07/49 (the Postmaster General
serves for only one
presidential term, as distinguished from the other Cabinet officers
who serve at the will of the President, and thus was required
to be confirmed by the Senate each presidential term)
served until 01/20/53
Department of State
(DOS)
SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF:
- 12/01/44 (held over from FDR): Stettinius, Edward R. (Reilly)
Jr. [1900-1949]
- Personal Papers (2 reels of Microfilm)
- See also: Personal Papers at University
of Virginia, Special Collecitions Department
- See also: Newspaper Clippings from Stettinius' Scrapbooks
at Yale University,
Sterling Memorial Library (Microfilm)
- See also: Newspaper Clippings at Wisconsin Historical
Society Archives (Microfilm)
- 07/03/45 (sworn in): Byrnes, James F. (Francis) [1879-1972]
nominated 06/30/45
confirmed 07/02/45
resigned 12/19/46, effective 01/21/47
- See: Personal Papers at Clemson University Libraries,
Strom Thurmond Institute
- 01/21/47 (sworn in): Marshall, George C. (Catlett), Jr. [1880-1959]
nominated 01/07/47
confirmed 01/08/47
resigned 01/07/49, effective 01/20/49
- 01/21/49 (sworn in): Acheson, Dean G. (Gooderham) [1893-1971]
nominated 01/07/49
confirmed 01/18/49
served until 01/20/53
Department of the Treasury
SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE:
- 01/01/34 (held over from FDR): Morgenthau, Henry Jr. [1856-1946]
resigned07/05/45, effective 07/21/45
- 07/17/45 (sworn in): Vinson, Fred(erick) M. (Moore) [1890-1953]
nominated 07/06/45
confirmed 07/17/45
served until sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court 06/25/46 (appointed 06/06/46)
- Personal Papers (49 reels of Microfilm)
- 06/25/46 (sworn in): Snyder, John W. (Wesley) [1895-1985]
nominated 06/06/46
confirmed 06/11/46
served until 01/20/53
- Personal Papers (107 linear feet)
- Oral History (1,932 pages)
See: Department
of Defense (DOD)
SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF:
- 07/10/40 (held over from FDR): Stimson, Henry L. (Lewis)
[1867-1950]
resigned 09/18/45, effective 09/21/45
- 09/27/45 (sworn in): Patterson, Robert P. (Porter) [1891-1952]
nominated 09/18/45
confirmed 09/21/45
resigned 07/18/47, effective 07/24/47
- See: Personal Papers at Library of Congress, Manuscript
Division
- 07/24/47 (sworn in): Royall, Kenneth C. (Claiborne) [1894-1971]
nominated 07/18/47
confirmed 07/19/47
served until appointed Secretary of the Army 08/21/47 (the department
was integrated into
the Department of Defense in 1947)
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