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- Status
Denotes acting Secretary of the Interior
Number | Portrait | Name | State of Residence | Took office | Left office | President(s) | |
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Thomas Ewing | Ohio | March 8, 1849 | July 22, 1850 | Zachary Taylor | |
Millard Fillmore | |||||||
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Thomas M. T. McKennan | Pennsylvania | August 15, 1850 | August 26, 1850 | ||
3 | ![]() |
Alexander H. H. 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 B. Smith | Indiana | March 5, 1861 | December 31, 1862 | Abraham Lincoln | |
7 | ![]() |
John P. Usher | Indiana | January 1, 1863 | May 15, 1865 | Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson |
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8 | ![]() |
James Harlan | Iowa | May 16, 1865 | August 31, 1866 | Andrew Johnson | |
9 | ![]() |
Orville H. Browning | Illinois | September 1, 1866 | March 4, 1869 | Andrew Johnson | |
10 | ![]() |
Jacob D. 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 M. Teller | Colorado | April 18, 1882 | March 3, 1885 | ||
16 | ![]() |
Lucius Q. C. Lamar II | Mississippi | March 6, 1885 | January 10, 1888 | Grover Cleveland | |
17 | ![]() |
William F. Vilas | Wisconsin | January 16, 1888 | March 6, 1889 | ||
18 | ![]() |
John W. Noble | Missouri | March 7, 1889 | March 6, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison | |
19 | ![]() |
Hoke Smith | Georgia | March 6, 1893 | September 1, 1896 | Grover Cleveland | |
20 | ![]() |
David R. Francis | Missouri | September 3, 1896 | March 5, 1897 | ||
21 | ![]() |
Cornelius N. Bliss | New York | March 6, 1897 | February 19, 1899 | William McKinley | |
22 | ![]() |
Ethan A. Hitchcock | Missouri | February 20, 1899 | March 4, 1907 | ||
Theodore Roosevelt | |||||||
23 | ![]() |
James R. Garfield | Ohio | March 5, 1907 | March 4, 1909 | ||
24 | ![]() |
Richard A. Ballinger | Washington | March 6, 1909 | March 12, 1911 | William Howard Taft | |
25 | ![]() |
Walter L. Fisher | Illinois | March 13, 1911 | March 5, 1913 | ||
26 | ![]() |
Franklin K. Lane | California | March 6, 1913 | February 29, 1920 | Woodrow Wilson | |
– | Alexander T. Vogelsang Acting |
California | February 29, 1920 | March 13, 1920 | |||
27 | ![]() |
John B. Payne | Illinois | March 15, 1920 | March 4, 1921 | ||
28 | ![]() |
Albert B. Fall | New Mexico | March 5, 1921 | March 4, 1923 | Warren G. Harding | |
29 | ![]() |
Hubert Work | Colorado | March 5, 1923 | July 24, 1928 | ||
Calvin Coolidge | |||||||
30 | ![]() |
Roy O. West | Illinois | July 25, 1928 | March 4, 1929 | ||
31 | ![]() |
Ray Lyman Wilbur | California | March 5, 1929 | March 4, 1933 | Herbert Hoover | |
32 | ![]() |
Harold L. Ickes | Illinois | March 4, 1933 | February 15, 1946 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Harry S. Truman | |||||||
– | ![]() |
Oscar L. Chapman Acting |
Colorado | February 15, 1946 | March 18, 1946 | ||
33 | ![]() |
Julius A. Krug | Wisconsin | March 18, 1946 | December 1, 1949 | ||
34 | ![]() |
Oscar L. Chapman | Colorado | December 1, 1949 | January 20, 1953 | ||
35 | ![]() |
Douglas McKay | Oregon | January 21, 1953 | April 15, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
– | Clarence A. Davis Acting |
Nebraska | April 15, 1956 | June 8, 1956 | |||
36 | ![]() |
Fred A. Seaton | Nebraska | June 8, 1956 | January 20, 1961 | ||
37 | ![]() |
Stewart L. Udall | Arizona | January 21, 1961 | January 20, 1969 | John F. Kennedy | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |||||||
38 | ![]() |
Walter J. Hickel | Alaska | January 24, 1969 | November 25, 1970 | Richard Nixon | |
– | Fred J. Russell Acting |
California | November 25, 1970 | January 29, 1971 | |||
39 | ![]() |
Rogers C. B. Morton | Maryland | January 29, 1971 | April 30, 1975 | ||
Gerald Ford | |||||||
– | D. Kent Frizzell Acting |
Kansas | April 30, 1975 | June 12, 1975 | |||
40 | ![]() |
Stanley K. Hathaway | Wyoming | June 12, 1975 | October 9, 1975 | ||
– | D. Kent Frizzell Acting |
Kansas | October 9, 1975 | October 17, 1975 | |||
41 | ![]() |
Thomas S. Kleppe | North Dakota | October 17, 1975 | January 20, 1977 | ||
– | Alfred G. Albert Acting |
January 20, 1977 | January 23, 1977 | Jimmy Carter | |||
42 | ![]() |
Cecil D. Andrus | Idaho | January 23, 1977 | January 20, 1981 | ||
43 | ![]() |
James G. Watt | Colorado | January 23, 1981 | November 8, 1983 | Ronald Reagan | |
– | J. J. Simmons III Acting |
New Jersey | November 8, 1983 | November 18, 1983 | |||
44 | ![]() |
William P. Clark | California | November 18, 1983 | February 7, 1985 | ||
45 | Donald P. Hodel | Virginia | February 8, 1985 | January 20, 1989 | |||
– | Earl E. Gjelde Acting |
Virginia | January 20, 1989 | February 3, 1989 | George H. W. Bush | ||
46 | ![]() |
Manuel Lujan Jr. | New Mexico | February 3, 1989 | January 20, 1993 | ||
47 | ![]() |
Bruce E. Babbitt | Arizona | January 22, 1993 | January 2, 2001 | Bill Clinton | |
– | Thomas N. Slonaker Acting |
Arizona | January 2, 2001 | January 31, 2001 | |||
George W. Bush | |||||||
48 | ![]() |
Gale A. Norton | Colorado | January 31, 2001 | March 31, 2006 | ||
– | ![]() |
Lynn Scarlett Acting |
California | April 1, 2006 | May 26, 2006 | ||
49 | ![]() |
Dirk Kempthorne | Idaho | May 29, 2006 | January 19, 2009 | ||
– | ![]() |
Lynn Scarlett Acting |
California | January 19, 2009 | January 20, 2009 | ||
Barack Obama | |||||||
50 | ![]() |
Ken Salazar | Colorado | January 20, 2009 | April 12, 2013 | ||
51 | ![]() |
Sally Jewell | Washington | April 12, 2013[4] | January 20, 2017 | ||
– | ![]() |
Kevin Haugrud Acting |
January 20, 2017 | March 1, 2017 | Donald Trump | ||
52 | ![]() |
Ryan Zinke | Montana | March 1, 2017 | January 2, 2019 | ||
53 | ![]() |
David Bernhardt | Virginia | January 2, 2019 | April 11, 2019 | ||
April 11, 2019 | Incumbent |