Interior

Department of the Interior
Secretary Gale Norton


Previous Secretaries listed after headlines

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March 8, 1849 - July 22, 1850 -- Thomas Ewing
August 15, 1850 - August 26, 1850 -- Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan
September 14, 1850 - March 7, 1853 -- Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart
March 8, 1853 - March 9, 1857 -- Robert McClelland
March 10, 1857 - January 8, 1861 -- Jacob Thompson
March 5, 1861 - December 31, 1862 -- Caleb Blood Smith
January 1, 1863 - May 15, 1865 -- John Palmer Usher
May 16, 1865 - August 31, 1866 -- James Harlan
September 1, 1866 - March 4, 1869 -- Orville Hickman Browning
March 5, 1869 - October 31, 1870 -- Jacob Dolson Cox
November 1, 1870 - September 30, 1875 -- Columbus Delano
October 19, 1875 - March 11, 1877 -- Zachariah Chandler
March 12, 1877 - March 7, 1881 -- Carl Schurz
March 8, 1881 - April 17, 1882 -- Samuel J. Kirkwood
April 18, 1882 - March 3, 1885 -- Henry Moore Teller
March 6, 1885 - January 10, 1888 -- L.Q.C. Lamar
January 16, 1888 - March 6, 1889 -- William Freeman Vilas
March 7, 1889 - March 6, 1893 -- John Willock Noble
March 6, 1893 - September 1, 1896 -- Michael Hoke Smith
September 3, 1896 - March 5, 1897 -- David Rowland Francis
March 6, 1897 - February 19, 1899 -- Cornelius Newton Bliss
February 20, 1899 - March 4, 1907 -- Ethan Allen Hitchcock
March 5, 1907 - March 5, 1909 -- James Rudolph Garfield
March 6, 1909 - March 12, 1911 -- Richard Achilles Ballinger
March 13, 1911 - March 5, 1913 -- Walter Lowrie Fisher
March 6, 1913 - February 29, 1920 -- Franklin Knight Lane
March 15, 1920 - March 4, 1921 -- John Barton Payne
March 5, 1921 - March 4, 1923 -- Albert Bacon Fall
March 5, 1923 - July 24, 1928 -- Hubert Work
July 25, 1928 - March 4, 1929 -- Roy Owen West
March 5, 1929 - March 4, 1933 -- Ray Lyman Wilbur
March 4, 1933 - February 15, 1946 -- Harold LeClair Ickes
March 18, 1946 - December 1, 1949 -- Julius Albert Krug
December 1, 1949 - January 20, 1953 -- Oscar Littleton Chapman
January 21, 1953 - April 15, 1956 -- Douglas McKay
June 8, 1956 - January 20, 1961 -- Fred Andrew Seaton
January 21, 1961 - January 20, 1969 -- Stewart Lee Udall
January 24, 1969 - November 25, 1970 -- Walter J. Hickel
January 29, 1971 - April 30, 1975 -- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton
June 12, 1975 - October 9, 1975 -- Stanley K. Hathaway
October 17, 1975 - January 20, 1977 -- Thomas Savig Kleppe
January 23, 1977 - January 20, 1981 -- Cecil D. Andrus
January 23, 1981 - November 8, 1983 -- James G. Watt
November 18, 1983 - February 7, 1985 -- William Patrick Clark
February 8, 1985 - January 20, 1989 -- Donald Paul Hodel
February 3, 1989 - January 20, 1993 -- Manuel Lujan, Jr.
January 22, 1993 - January 2, 2001 -- Bruce Babbitt
January 31, 2001 - present -- Gale Ann Norton