United States Secretary of the Interior

Parties

Whig (3) Democratic (17) Republican (33)

Status

Denotes acting Secretary of the Interior

Number	Name	State of residence	Took office	Left office
1	Thomas Ewing	Ohio	March 8, 1849	July 22, 1850	Zachary Taylor
1	Thomas Ewing	Ohio	March 8, 1849	July 22, 1850	Millard Fillmore
2	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
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
14	Samuel J. Kirkwood	Iowa	March 8, 1881	April 17, 1882	Chester A. Arthur
15	Henry M. Teller	Colorado	April 18, 1882	March 3, 1885	Chester A. Arthur
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	Grover Cleveland
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	Grover Cleveland
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	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	Theodore Roosevelt
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	William Howard Taft
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	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	Calvin Coolidge
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
32	Harold L. Ickes	Illinois	March 4, 1933	February 15, 1946	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
37	Stewart L. Udall	Arizona	January 21, 1961	January 20, 1969	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
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	Jimmy Carter
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	George H. W. Bush
47	Bruce E. Babbitt	Arizona	January 22, 1993	January 12, 2001	Bill Clinton
–	Thomas N. Slonaker Acting	Arizona	January 12, 2001	January 31, 2001	Bill Clinton
–	Thomas N. Slonaker Acting	Arizona	January 12, 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 26, 2006	January 19, 2009
–	Lynn Scarlett Acting	California	January 19, 2009	January 20, 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^[6]	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	Colorado	January 2, 2019	April 11, 2019
53	David Bernhardt	Colorado	April 11, 2019	January 20, 2021
–	Scott de la Vega Acting	New York	January 20, 2021	March 16, 2021	Joe Biden
54	Deb Haaland	New Mexico	March 16, 2021	Incumbent	Joe Biden