House Members Who Served in the President's Cabinet
More that 100 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have served in the President’s Cabinet. Consisting of the heads of the 15 Executive Branch departments, the Cabinet advises the President and helps carry out the adminstration's policies.
Secretary of State
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1794-1795 | Edmund Jenings Randolph (1779; 1781; 1782)1 | Virginia | George Washington | |
1795-1800 | Timothy Pickering (1813-1817) | Massachusetts | Federalist | George Washington John Adams |
1800-1801 | John Marshall (1799-1800) | Virginia | Federalist | John Adams |
1801-1809 | James Madison, Jr. (1789-1797) | Virginia | Anti-Administration Democratic Republican | Thomas Jefferson |
1811-1817 | James Monroe (1783-1786)2 | Virginia | Anti-Administration | James Madison |
1817-1825 | John Quincy Adams (1831-1848) | Massachusetts | Federalist Republican Whig | James Monroe |
1825-1829 | Henry Clay (1811-1814; 1815-1817; 1817-1821; 1823-1825) | Kentucky | Democratic Republican Anti-Jacksonian Whig | John Quincy Adams |
1831-1833 | Edward Livingston (1795-1801; 1823-1829) | Louisiana New York | Jacksonian | Andrew Jackson |
1833-1834 | Louis McLane (1817-1827) | Delaware | Jacksonian | Andrew Jackson |
1834-1841 | John Forsyth (1813-1818; 1823-1827) | Georgia | Democratic Republican Jacksonian | Martin Van Buren |
1841-1843 | Daniel Webster (1813-1817; 1823-1827) | New Hampshire Massachusetts | Federalist Adams Anti-Jacksonian Whig | |
1844-1845 | John C. Calhoun (1811-1817) | South Carolina | Democratic Republican Nullifier Democrat | John Tyler |
1845-1849 | James Buchanan (1821-1831) | Pennsylvania | Democratic Republican Democrat | James K. Polk |
1850-1852 | Daniel Webster (1813-1817; 1823-1827) | New Hampshire Massachusetts | Federalist Adams Anti-Jacksonian Whig | Millard Fillmore |
1852-1853 | Edward Everett (1825-1835) | Massachusetts | Whig | Millard Fillmore |
1869 | Elihu Benjamin Washburne (1853-1869) | Illinois | Whig Opposition Party Republican | Ulysses S. Grant |
1869-1877 | Hamilton Fish (1843-1845) | New York | Whig | Ulysses S. Grant |
1881 | James G. Blaine (1863-1876) | Maine | Republican | Chester A. Arthur |
1889-1892 | James G. Blaine (1863-1876) | Maine | Republican | Benjamin Harrison |
1897-1898 | John Sherman (1855-1861) | Ohio | Opposition Party Republican Party | William McKinley |
1913-1915 | William Jennings Bryan (1891-1895) | Nebraska | Democrat | Woodrow Wilson |
1933-1944 | Cordell Hull (1907-1921; 1923-1931) | Tennessee | Democrat | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
1945-1947 | James F. Byrnes (1911-1925) | South Carolina | Democrat | Harry S. Truman |
1959-1961 | Christian A. Herter (1943-1953) | Massachusetts | Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
2018-2021 | Mike Pompeo (2011-2017) | Kansas | Republican | Donald J. Trump |
Secretary of the Treasury
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1789-1795 | Alexander Hamilton(1782; 1783; 1788)3 | New York | N/A | George Washington |
1801 | Samuel Dexter (1793-1795) | Massachusetts | Federalist | John Adams Thomas Jefferson |
1801-1814 | Albert Gallatin (1795-1801) | Pennsylvania | Democratic Republican | Thomas Jefferson James Madison |
1814 | George Washington Campbell (1803-1809) | Tennessee | Democratic Republican | James Madison |
1829-1831 | Samuel Delucenna Ingham (1813-1818; 1821-1829) | Pennsylvania | Republican Jackson Republican Jacksonian | Andrew Jackson |
1831-1833 | Louis McLane (1817-1827) | Delaware | Jacksonian | Andrew Jackson |
1841-1843 | Walter Forward (1822--1825) | Pennsylvania | Republican Jackson Republican | John Tyler |
1843-1844 | John Canfield Spencer (1817-1819) | New York | Republican | John Tyler |
1850-1853 | Thomas Corwin (1831-1840; 1859-1861) | Ohio | Whig Republican | Millard Fillmore |
1857-1860 | Howell Cobb (1843-1851; 1855-1857) | Georgia | Democrat | James Buchanan |
1860-1861 | Philip Francis Thomas (1839-1841; 1875-1877) | Maryland | Democrat | James Buchanan |
1864-1865 | William Pitt Fessenden (1841-1843) | Maine | Whig Opposition Republican | Abraham Lincoln |
1869-1873 | George Sewel Boutwell (1863-1869) | Massachusetts | Republican | Ulysses S. Grant |
1877-1881 | John Sherman (1855-1861) | Ohio | Opposition Party Republican | Rutherford B. Hayes |
1881 | William Windom (1859-1869) | Minnesota | Republican | James Garfield Chester A. Arthur |
1889-1891 | William Windom (1859-1869) | Minnesota | Republican | Benjamin Harrison |
1893-1897 | John Griffin Carlisle (1877-1890) | Kentucky | Democrat | Grover Cleveland |
1918-1920 | Carter Glass (1902-1918) | Virginia | Democrat | Woodrow Wilson |
1932-1933 | Ogden Livingston Mills (1921-1927) | New York | Republican | Herbert Hoover |
1945-1946 | Frederick Moore Vinson (1924-1929; 1931-1938) | Kentucky | Democrat | Harry S. Truman |
1968-1969 | Joseph Walker Barr (1859-1861) | Indiana | Democrat | Lyndon B. Johnson |
1993-1994 | Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. (1948-1955) | Texas | Democrat | William J. Clinton |
Secretary of Defense
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1969-1973 | Robert Melvin Laird (1953-1969) | Wisconsin | Republican | Richard M. Nixon |
1975-1977 | Donald Henry Rumsfeld (1963-1969) | Illinois | Republican | Gerald R. Ford |
1989-1993 | Richard Bruce Cheney (1979-1989) | Wyoming | Republican | George H.W. Bush |
1993-1994 | Leslie Aspin (1971-1993) | Wisconsin | Democrat | William J. Clinton |
1997-2001 | William Sebastian Cohen (1973-1979) | Maine | Republican | William J. Clinton |
2001-2006 | Donald Henry Rumsfeld (1963-1969) | Illinois | Republican | George W. Bush |
2011-2013 | Leon Edward Panetta (1977-1993) | California | Democrat | Barack Obama |
Attorney General
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1789-1794 | Edmund Jenings Randolph (1779; 1781; 1782)4 | Virginia | George Washington | |
1801-1804 | Levi Lincoln (1800-1801) | Massachusetts | Republican | Thomas Jefferson |
1807-1811 | Caesar Augustus Rodney (1803-1805; 1821-1822) | Delaware | Democratic Republican | Thomas Jefferson James Madison |
1811-1814 | William Pinkney (1791; 1815-1816) | Maryland | Democratic Republican | James Madison |
1839-1839 | Felix Grundy (1811-1814) | Tennessee | Republican Jacksonian Democrat | Martin Van Buren |
1841 | John Jordan Crittendon (1861-1863) | Kentucky | Democratic Republican Anti-Jacksonian Whig Opposition American (Know-Nothing) | William Henry Harrison |
1841-1843 | Hugh Swinton Legaré (1837-1839) | South Carolina | Democrat | John Tyler |
1843-1845 | John Nelson (1821-1823) | Maryland | Republican | John Tyler |
1845-1846 | John Young Mason (1831-1837) | Virginia | Jacksonian | James K. Polk |
1846-1848 | Nathan Clifford (1839-1843) | Maine | Democrat | James K. Polk |
1848-1849 | Isaac Toucey (1835-1839) | Connecticut | Democrat | James K. Polk |
1850-1853 | John Jordan Crittenden (1861-1863) | Kentucky | Democratic Republican Anti-Jacksonian Whig Opposition American (Know-Nothing) Unionist | Millard Fillmore |
1853-1857 | Caleb Cushing (1835-1843) | Massachusetts | Anti-Jacksonian Whig | Franklin Pierce |
1861-1864 | Edward Bates (1827-1829) | Missouri | Adams | Abraham Lincoln |
1869-1870 | Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1873-1875) | Massachusetts | Republican | Ulysses S. Grant |
1897-1898 | Joseph McKenna (1885-1892) | California | Republican | William McKinley |
1904-1906 | William Henry Moody (1895-1902) | Massachusetts | Republican | Theodore Roosevelt |
1919-1921 | Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1909-1915) | Pennsylvania | Democrat | Woodrow Wilson |
1952-1953 | James Patrick McGranery (1937-1945) | Pennsylvania | Democrat | Harry S. Truman |
Secretary of the Interior
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1850-1853 | Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (1841-1843) | Virginia | Whig | Millard Fillmore |
1853-1857 | Robert McClelland (1843-1849) | Michigan | Democrat | Franklin Pierce |
1857-1861 | Jacob Thompson (1839-1851) | Mississippi | Democrat | James Buchanan |
1861-1863 | Caleb Blood Smith (1843-1849) | Indiana | Whig | Abraham Lincoln |
1869-1870 | Jacob Dolson Cox (1877-1879) | Ohio | Republican | Ulysses S. Grant |
1870-1875 | Columbus Delano (1845-1847; 1865-1867; 1868-1869) | Ohio | Whig Republican | Ulysses S. Grant |
1885-1888 | Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1857-1860; 1873-1877) | Mississippi | Democrat | Grover Cleveland |
1961-1969 | Stewart Lee Udall (1955-1961) | Arizona | Democrat | John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson |
1971-1975 | Roger Clark Ballard Morton (1963-1971) | Maryland | Republican | Richard M. Nixon Gerald R. Ford |
1975-1977 | Thomas Savig Kleppe (1967-1971) | North Dakota | Republican | Gerald R. Ford |
1989-1993 | Manuel Lujan Jr. (1969-1989) | New Mexico | Republican | George H.W. Bush |
2017-2018 | Ryan Zinke (2015-2017) | Montana | Republican | Donald J. Trump |
2021-present | Debra Haaland (2019-2021) | New Mexico | Democrat | Joseph R. Biden, Jr. |
Secretary of Agriculture
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1889-1893 | Jeremiah McLain Rusk (1871-1877) | Wisconsin | Republican | Benjamin Harrison Grover Cleveland |
1897-1913 | James Wilson (1873-1877; 1883-1885) | Iowa | Republican | William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft |
1945-1948 | Clinton Presba Anderson (1941-1947) | New Mexico | Democrat | Harry S. Truman |
1977-1981 | Robert Selmer Bergland (1971-1977) | Minnesota | Democrat | Jimmy Carter |
1991-1992 | Edward Rell Madigan (1973-1991) | Illinois | Republican | George H.W. Bush |
1993-1994 | Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy (1987-1993) | Mississippi | Democrat | William J. Clinton |
1995-2001 | Daniel Robert Glickman (1977-1995) | Kansas | Democrat | William J. Clinton |
Secretary of Commerce
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1904-1906 | Victor Howard Metcalf (1899-1904)5 | California | Republican | Theodore Roosevelt |
1913-1919 | William Cox Redfield (1911-1913) | New York | Democrat | Woodrow Wilson |
1919-1921 | Joshua Willis Alexander (1907-1919) | Missouri | Democrat | Woodrow Wilson |
1975-1976 | Rogers Clark Ballard Morton (1963-1971) | Maryland | Republican | Gerald R. Ford |
2000-2001 | Norman Y. Mineta (1975-1995) | California | Democrat | William J. Clinton |
Secretary of Labor
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1904-1906 | Victor Howard Metcalf (1899-1904)6 | California | Republican | Theodore Roosevelt |
1913-1921 | William Bauchop Wilson (1907-1913) | Pennsylvania | Democrat | Woodrow Wilson |
1985-1987 | William Emerson Brock III (1963-1971) | Tennessee | Republican | Ronald Reagan |
1991-1993 | Lynn Morley Martin (1981-1991) | Illinois | Republican | George H.W. Bush |
2009-2013 | Hilda L. Solis (2001-2009) | California | Democrat | Barack Obama |
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1961-1962 | Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (1949-1953)7 | Connecticut | Democrat | John F. Kennedy |
1981-1983 | Richard Schultz Schweiker (1961-1969) | Pennsylvania | Republican | Ronald Reagan |
1983-1985 | Margaret M. Heckler (1967-1983) | Massachusetts | Republican | Ronald Reagan |
1993-2001 | Donna Shalala (2019-2021) | Florida | Democrat | William J. Clinton |
2017 | Tom Price (2005-2017) | Georgia | Republican | Donald J. Trump |
2021-present | Xavier Becerra (1993-2017) | California | Democrat | Joseph R. Biden, Jr. |
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1989-1993 | Jack French Kemp (1971-1989) | New York | Republican | George H.W. Bush |
2021-present | Marcia L. Fudge (2008-2021) | Ohio | Democrat | Joseph R. Biden Jr. |
Secretary of Transportation
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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2001-2006 | Norman Y. Mineta (1975-1995) | California | Democrat | George W. Bush |
2009-2013 | Ray LaHood (1995-2009) | Illinois | Republican | Barack Obama |
Secretary of Energy
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1998-2001 | Bill Richardson (1983-1997) | New Mexico | Democrat | William J. Clinton |
Secretary of Education
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1961-1962 | Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (1949-1953)8 | Connecticut | Democrat | John F. Kennedy |
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1989-1992 | Edward Joseph Derwinski (1959-1983) | Illinois | Republican | George H.W. Bush |
Secretary of Homeland Security
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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2003-2005 | Thomas Joseph Ridge (1983-1995) | Pennsylvania | Republican | George W. Bush |
Secretary of War
Cabinet Service | Individual (House Service) | State | Party | Administration |
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1795 | Timothy Pickering (1813-1817) | Massachusetts | Federalist | George Washington |
1796-1800 | James McHenry (1783-1786)9 | Maryland | N/A | George Washington John Adams |
1800-1801 | Samuel Dexter (1793-1795) | Massachusetts | Federalist | John Adams |
1801-1809 | Henry Dearborn (1793-1797) | Massachusetts | Anti-Administration Republican | Thomas Jefferson James Madison |
1807-1812 | William Eustis (1801-1805; 1820-1823) | Massachusetts | Republican | James Madison |
1813-1814 | John Armstrong Jr. (1787-1788)10 | New York Pennsylvania | Democratic Republican | James Madison |
1814-1815 | James Monroe (1783-1786)11 | Virginia | Anti-Administration | James Madison |
1817-1825 | John Caldwell Calhoun (1811-1817) | South Carolina | Democratic Republican Nullifier Democrat | James Monroe |
1828-1829 | Peter Buell Porter (1809-1813; 1815-1816) | New York | Republican | John Quincy Adams |
1841-1843 | John Canfield Spencer (1817-1819) | New York | Republican | John Tyler |
1849-1850 | George Walker Crawford (1843) | Georgia | Whig | Zachary Taylor |
1850-1853 | Charles Magill Conrad (1849-1850) | Georgia | Whig | Millard Fillmore |
1853-1857 | Jefferson Davis (1845-1856) | Mississippi | Democrat | Franklin Pierce |
1877-1879 | George Washington McCrary (1869-1877) | Iowa | Republican | Rutherford B. Hayes |
1879-1881 | Alexander Ramsey (1843-1857) | Minnesota Pennsylvania | Whig Republican | Rutherford B. Hayes |
1891-1893 | Stephen Benton Elkins (1873-1877) | New Mexico West Virginia | Republican | Benjamin Harrison |
1921-1925 | John Wingate Weeks (1905-1913) | Massachusetts | Republican | Warren G. Harding |
1929 | James William Good (1909-1929) | Iowa | Republican | Herbert Hoover |
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