The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior , concerned with such matters as national parks and natural resources. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet .
Secretaries of the Interior Name Term of Office President(s) served under Thomas Ewing March 8 , 1849 - July 22 , 1850 Zachary Taylor , Millard Fillmore Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan August 15 , 1850 - August 26 , 1850 Millard Fillmore Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart September 14 , 1850 - March 7 , 1853 Millard Fillmore Robert McClelland March 8 , 1853 - March 9 , 1857 Franklin Pierce Jacob Thompson March 10 , 1857 - January 8 , 1861 James Buchanan Caleb Blood Smith March 5 , 1861 - December 31 , 1862 Abraham Lincoln John Palmer Usher January 1 , 1863 - May 15 , 1865 Abraham Lincoln James Harlan May 16 , 1865 - August 31 , 1866 Andrew Johnson Orville Hickman Browning September 1 , 1866 - March 4 , 1869 Andrew Johnson Jacob Dolson Cox March 5 , 1869 - October 31 , 1870 Ulysses S. Grant Columbus Delano November 1 , 1870 - September 30 , 1875 Ulysses S. Grant Zachariah Chandler October 19 , 1875 - March 11 , 1877 Ulysses S. Grant Carl Schurz March 12 , 1877 - March 7 , 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel J. Kirkwood March 8 , 1881 - April 17 , 1882 James A. Garfield , Chester A. Arthur Henry Moore Teller April 18 , 1882 - March 3 , 1885 Chester A. Arthur L.Q.C. Lamar March 6 , 1885 - January 10 , 1888 Grover Cleveland William Freeman Vilas January 16 , 1888 - March 6 , 1889 Grover Cleveland John Willock Noble March 7 , 1889 - March 6 , 1893 Benjamin Harrison Michael Hoke Smith March 6 , 1893 - September 1 , 1896 Grover Cleveland David Rowland Francis September 3 , 1896 - March 5 , 1897 Grover Cleveland Cornelius Newton Bliss March 6 , 1897 - February 19 , 1899 William McKinley Ethan Allen Hitchcock February 20 , 1899 - March 4 , 1907 William McKinley , Theodore Roosevelt James Rudolph Garfield March 5 , 1907 - March 5 , 1909 Theodore Roosevelt , William Howard Taft Richard Achilles Ballinger March 6 , 1909 - March 12 , 1911 William Howard Taft Walter Lowrie Fisher March 13 , 1911 - March 5 , 1913 William Howard Taft Franklin Knight Lane March 6 , 1913 - February 29 , 1920 Woodrow Wilson John Barton Payne March 15 , 1920 - March 4 , 1921 Woodrow Wilson Albert Bacon Fall March 5 , 1921 - March 4 , 1923 Warren G. Harding Hubert Work March 5 , 1923 - July 24 , 1928 Warren G. Harding , Calvin Coolidge Roy Owen West July 25 , 1928 - March 4 , 1929 Calvin Coolidge Ray Lyman Wilbur March 5 , 1929 - March 4 , 1933 Herbert Hoover Harold LeClair Ickes March 4 , 1933 - February 15 , 1946 Franklin D. Roosevelt , Harry S. Truman Julius Albert Krug March 18 , 1946 - December 1 , 1949 Harry S. Truman Oscar Littleton Chapman December 1 , 1949 - January 20 , 1953 Harry S. Truman Douglas McKay January 21 , 1953 - April 15 , 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower Fred Andrew Seaton June 8 , 1956 - January 20 , 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower Stewart Lee Udall January 21 , 1961 - January 20 , 1969 John F. Kennedy , Lyndon Johnson Walter J. Hickel January 24 , 1969 - November 25 , 1970 Richard Nixon Rogers Clark Ballard Morton January 29 , 1971 - April 30 , 1975 Richard Nixon , Gerald Ford Stanley K. Hathaway June 12 , 1975 - October 9 , 1975 Gerald Ford Thomas S. Kleppe October 17 , 1975 - January 20 , 1977 Gerald Ford Cecil D. Andrus January 23 , 1977 - January 20 , 1981 Jimmy Carter James G. Watt January 23 , 1981 - November 8 , 1983 Ronald Reagan William Patrick Clark November 18 , 1983 - February 7 , 1985 Ronald Reagan Donald Paul Hodel February 8 , 1985 - January 20 , 1989 Ronald Reagan Manuel Lujan, Jr. February 3 , 1989 - January 20 , 1993 George H. W. Bush Bruce Babbitt January 22 , 1993 - January 2 , 2001 Bill Clinton Gale Ann Norton January 31 , 2001 - presentGeorge W. Bush
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List of Secretaries of the Interior (http://www.doi.gov/anniversary/secretaries.html )
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The Department of the Interior (DOI) is the nation’s principal conservation agency. Interior is a large, decentralized agency with over 80,000 employees and 180,000 volunteers located at approximately 2,400 operating locations across the United States, Puerto Rico, U.S. territories, and freely associated states. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne applauded the Senates confirmation of Brent Wahlquist to serve as director of Interiors Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
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