United States Secretaries of the Interior

Carl Christian Schurz (German: [ˈkaʁl ˈʃʊʁts]; March 2, 1829 – May 14, 1906) was a German revolutionary, American statesman and reformer, U.

Michael Hoke Smith (September 2, 1855 – November 27, 1931) was an American politician and newspaper owner who served as United States Secretary of the Interior (1893–1896), 58th Governor of Georgia (1907–1909, 1911), and a United States Senator (1911–1920) from Georgia.

James Harlan (August 26, 1820 – October 5, 1899) was an attorney and politician, a member of the United States Senate (1855–1865), (1867–1873) and a U.

Cornelius Newton Bliss (January 26, 1833 – October 9, 1911) was an American merchant, politician and art collector, who served as Secretary of the Interior in the administration of President William McKinley and as Treasurer of the Republican National Convention in four successive campaigns.

Donald Paul Hodel (born May 23, 1935) is former United States Secretary of Energy and former Secretary of the Interior and Chairman of the company FreeEats.

Manuel Lujan Jr. (born May 12, 1928), is a Republican politician from the U.

Thomas Ewing, Sr.

Gale Ann Norton (born March 11, 1954) served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W.

Zachariah Chandler (December 10, 1813 – November 1, 1879) was an American politician, one of the founders of the Republican Party, whose radical wing he dominated as a lifelong abolitionist.

Harold LeClair Ickes (/ˈɪkəs/ IK-əss; March 15, 1874 – February 3, 1952) was an American administrator and politician.

The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the U.

Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (December 20, 1813 – September 1, 1894), was an American politician best known as Iowa's American Civil War Governor.

Cecil Dale Andrus (born August 25, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as Governor of Idaho for 14 years; from 1971 to 1977, and again from 1987 to 1995.

Ethan Allen Hitchcock (September 19, 1835 – April 9, 1909) served under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt as U.

James Rudolph Garfield (October 17, 1865 – March 24, 1950) was an American politician, lawyer and son of President James Abram Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield.

Rogers Clark Ballard Morton (September 19, 1914 – April 19, 1979) was an American politician who served as the U.

Dirk Arthur Kempthorne (born October 29, 1951) is an American politician who was the United States Secretary of the Interior from 2006 to 2009, serving under President George W.

Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27, 1938) is an American politician from the state of Arizona.

David Rowland Francis (October 1, 1850 – January 15, 1927) was an American politician.

Stewart Lee Udall (January 31, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was an American politician and later, a federal government official.

Columbus Delano, (June 4, 1809 – October 23, 1896) was a lawyer, rancher, banker, statesman and a member of the prominent Delano family.

Kenneth Lee "Ken" Salazar (born March 2, 1955), served as the 50th United States Secretary of the Interior, in the administration of President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013.

Sarah Margaret Roffey Jewell (born February 21, 1956) is the 51st United States Secretary of the Interior, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama.

Walter Joseph "Wally" Hickel (August 18, 1919 – May 7, 2010) was an American businessman and politician.

John Barton Payne (January 26, 1855 – January 24, 1935) was an American politician, lawyer and judge.

Franklin Knight Lane (July 15, 1864 – May 18, 1921) was a political progressive and American Democratic politician from California who served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1913 to 1920.

Caleb Blood Smith (April 16, 1808 – January 7, 1864) was an American journalist and politician, serving in the Cabinet of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.

Oscar Littleton Chapman (October 22, 1896 – February 8, 1978) was the U.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (September 17, 1825 – January 23, 1893) was an American politician and jurist from Mississippi.

William Patrick Clark Jr.

Stanley Knapp Hathaway (July 19, 1924 – October 4, 2005) served as 27th Governor of Wyoming from January 2, 1967 to January 6, 1975, and as United States Secretary of the Interior under President Gerald Ford from June to October, 1975.

William Freeman Vilas (July 9, 1840 – August 27, 1908) was a member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1891 to 1897.

John Palmer Usher (January 9, 1816 – April 13, 1889) was a U.

Jacob Dolson Cox, (Jr.) (October 27, 1828 – August 4, 1900) was a statesman, lawyer, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and later a Republican politician from Ohio.

Ray Lyman Wilbur (April 13, 1875 – June 26, 1949) was an American medical doctor who served as the third president of Stanford University and was the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior.

Robert McClelland (August 1, 1807 – August 30, 1880) was a US statesman, serving as U.

Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 – November 30, 1944) was a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G.

Roy Owen West (October 27, 1868 – November 29, 1958) was a Chicago politician who served as U.

James Gaius Watt (born January 31, 1938) served as U.

Henry Moore Teller (May 23, 1830 – February 23, 1914) was an American politician from Colorado, serving as a US senator between 1876–1882 and 1885–1909, also serving as Secretary of the Interior between 1882 and 1885.

Hubert Work (July 3, 1860 – December 14, 1942) was a U.

Frederick Andrew "Fred" Seaton (December 11, 1909 – January 16, 1974) was an American newspaperman and politician.

Thomas Savig Kleppe (July 1, 1919 – March 2, 2007) was an American politician who served as the Representative from North Dakota.

Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (April 2, 1807 – February 13, 1891) was a U.

Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan (March 31, 1794 – July 9, 1852) was a 19th-century politician and lawyer who served briefly as United States Secretary of the Interior under President Millard Fillmore.

Orville Hickman Browning (February 10, 1806 – August 10, 1881) was a Republican Senator from Illinois.

John Willock Noble (October 26, 1831 – March 22, 1912) was a U.

Jacob Thompson (May 15, 1810 – March 24, 1885) was the United States Secretary of the Interior, who resigned on the outbreak of the American Civil War, to become Inspector General of the Confederate States Army.

Walter Lowrie Fisher (July 4, 1862 – November 9, 1935) was United States Secretary of the Interior under President William Howard Taft from 1911 to 1913.

Richard Achilles Ballinger (July 9, 1858 – June 6, 1922) was mayor of Seattle, Washington, from 1904–1906, Commissioner of the General Land Office from 1907-1908 and U.

James Douglas McKay (June 24, 1893 – July 22, 1959) was a businessman and politician from the U.

Julius Albert Krug (November 23, 1907 – March 26, 1970) was a politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Interior for the administration of President Harry S.