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 Savig 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 - present |
George W. Bush |
