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United States Secretary of the Navy
Incumbent: Ray Mabus since: June 18, 2009[1]
First	Benjamin Stoddert
Formation	June 18, 1798
Website	Official Website

The United States Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) is the civilian head of the Department of the Navy. The position was a member of the President's Cabinet until 1947, when the Navy, Army, and newly created Air Force were placed in the Department of Defense and the Secretary of the Navy was placed under the Secretary of Defense.^[2] The position of Secretary of the Navy is filled by appointment of the Executive Branch and requires confirmation by a majority vote of the Senate.

Responsibilities

The Secretary of the Navy is responsible for, and has the authority under Title 10 of the United States Code, to conduct all the affairs of the Department of the Navy, including: recruiting, organizing, supplying, equipping, training, mobilizing, and demobilizing. The Secretary also oversees the construction, outfitting, and repair of naval ships, equipment and facilities. SECNAV is responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies and programs that are consistent with the national security policies and objectives established by the President and the Secretary of Defense.^[3][4]

The Department of the Navy consists of two Uniformed Services: the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.^[5] Whenever the Coast Guard operates as a service in the Navy, the Secretary of the Navy has the same powers and duties with respect to the Coast Guard as the Secretary of Homeland Security when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy.^[6]

The Navy Secretary

The Office of the Secretary of the Navy and its subordinate officials are known collectively as the Navy Secretariat. Other members of the Secretariat include the Undersecretary of the Navy (the Secretary's principal deputy), the Assistant Secretaries of the Navy (ASN), the General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, the Naval Inspector General, the Chief of Legislative Affairs, and the Chief of Naval Research. The Office of the Secretary of the Navy has sole responsibility within the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Headquarters of the Marine Corps for acquisition, auditing, financial and information management, legislative affairs, public affairs, research, and development.^[7]

Secretaries of the Navy^[8][9]

     Denotes acting Secretaries

Continental Congress

Picture	Name	Term of Office
	Joseph Hewes	1776–1778

Cabinet

No.	Picture	Name	State	Term of Office	Served under
1		Benjamin Stoddert	Maryland	June 18, 1798–March 31, 1801	John Adams
2		Robert Smith	Maryland	July 27, 1801 - March 4, 1809	Thomas Jefferson
3		Paul Hamilton	South Carolina	May 15, 1809–December 31, 1812	James Madison
4		William Jones	Pennsylvania	January 19, 1813–December 1, 1814
5		Benjamin Williams Crowninshield	Massachusetts	January 16, 1815–September 30, 1818	James Madison, James Monroe
6		Smith Thompson	New York	January 1, 1819–August 31, 1823	James Monroe
7		Samuel Lewis Southard	New Jersey	September 16, 1823–March 4, 1829	James Monroe, John Quincy Adams
8		John Branch	North Carolina	March 9, 1829–May 12, 1831	Andrew Jackson
9		Levi Woodbury	New Hampshire	May 23, 1831–June 30, 1834
10		Mahlon Dickerson	New Jersey	July 1, 1834–June 30, 1838	Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren
11		James Kirke Paulding	New York	July 1, 1838–March 4, 1841	Martin Van Buren
12		George Edmund Badger	North Carolina	March 6, 1841–September 11, 1841	William Henry Harrison, John Tyler
13		Abel Parker Upshur	Virginia	October 11, 1841–July 23, 1843	John Tyler
14		David Henshaw	Massachusetts	July 24, 1843–February 18, 1844
15		Thomas Walker Gilmer	Virginia	February 19, 1844–February 28, 1844
16		John Young Mason	Virginia	March 26, 1844–March 4, 1845
17		George Bancroft	Massachusetts	March 11, 1845–September 9, 1846	James Knox Polk
18		John Young Mason	Virginia	September 10, 1846–March 4, 1849
19		William Ballard Preston	Virginia	March 8, 1849–July 22, 1850	Zachary Taylor
20		William Alexander Graham	North Carolina	August 2, 1850–July 25, 1852	Millard Fillmore
21		John Pendleton Kennedy	Maryland	July 26, 1852–March 4, 1853
22		James Cochran Dobbin	North Carolina	March 8, 1853–March 4, 1857	Franklin Pierce
23		Isaac Toucey	Connecticut	March 7, 1857–March 4, 1861	James Buchanan
24		Gideon Welles	Connecticut	March 7, 1861–March 4, 1869	Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
25		Adolph Edward Borie	Pennsylvania	March 9, 1869–June 25, 1869	Ulysses S. Grant
26		George Maxwell Robeson	New Jersey	June 26, 1869–March 4, 1877
(acting)		William Faxon		March 4, 1877–March 13, 1877	Rutherford B. Hayes
27		Richard Wigginton Thompson	Indiana	March 13, 1877–December 20, 1880
28		Nathan Goff, Jr.	West Virginia	January 7, 1881–March 4, 1881
29		William Henry Hunt	Louisiana	March 7, 1881–April 16, 1882	James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur
30		William Eaton Chandler	New Hampshire	April 16, 1882–March 4, 1885	Chester A. Arthur
31		William Collins Whitney	New York	March 7, 1885–March 4, 1889	Grover Cleveland
32		Benjamin Franklin Tracy	New York	March 6, 1889–March 4, 1893	Benjamin Harrison
33		Hilary Abner Herbert	Alabama	March 7, 1893–March 4, 1897	Grover Cleveland
34		John Davis Long	Massachusetts	March 6, 1897–April 30, 1902	William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt
35		William Henry Moody	Massachusetts	May 1, 1902–June 30, 1904	Theodore Roosevelt
36		Paul Morton		July 1, 1904–June 30, 1905
37		Charles Joseph Bonaparte	Maryland	July 1, 1905–December 16, 1906
38		Victor Howard Metcalf	California	December 17, 1906–November 30, 1908
39		Truman Handy Newberry	Michigan	December 1, 1908–March 4, 1909
40		George von Lengerke Meyer	Massachusetts	March 6, 1909–March 4, 1913	William Howard Taft
41		Josephus Daniels	North Carolina	March 5, 1913–March 4, 1921	Woodrow Wilson
42		Edwin Denby	Michigan	March 6, 1921–March 10, 1924	Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
(acting)		Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.	New York	March 10, 1924–March 19, 1924	Calvin Coolidge
43		Curtis Dwight Wilbur	California	March 19, 1924–March 4, 1929
44		Charles Francis Adams III	Massachusetts	March 5, 1929–March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
45		Claude Augustus Swanson	Virginia	March 4, 1933–July 7, 1939	Franklin D. Roosevelt
46		Charles Edison	New Jersey	July 7, 1939–January 2, 1940
				January 2, 1940–June 24, 1940
(acting)		Lewis Compton		June 24, 1940–July 11, 1940
47		William Franklin Knox	Illinois	July 11, 1940–April 28, 1944
(acting)		Ralph A. Bard		April 28, 1944–May 19, 1944
48		James Vincent Forrestal	New York	May 19, 1944–September 17, 1947	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman

Secretaries of the Navy (Department of Defense)

No.	Picture	Name	Term of Office	Served under
1		John L. Sullivan	September 18, 1947–May 24, 1949	Harry S. Truman
2		Francis P. Matthews	May 25, 1949–July 31, 1951
3		Dan A. Kimball	July 31, 1951–January 20, 1953
4		Robert B. Anderson	February 4, 1953–March 3, 1954	Dwight D. Eisenhower
5		Charles S. Thomas	May 3, 1954–April 1, 1957
6		Thomas S. Gates	April 1, 1957–June 8, 1959
7		William B. Franke	June 8, 1959–January 19, 1961
8		John B. Connally, Jr	January 25, 1961–December 20, 1961	John F. Kennedy
9		Fred Korth	January 4, 1962–November 1, 1963
(acting)		Paul B. Fay	November 2, 1963–November 28, 1963	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
10		Paul H. Nitze	November 29, 1963–June 30, 1967	Lyndon B. Johnson
(acting)		Charles F. Baird	July 1, 1967–August 31, 1967
11		Paul R. Ignatius	September 1, 1967–January 24, 1969
12		John H. Chafee	January 31, 1969–May 4, 1972	Richard M. Nixon
13		John W. Warner	May 4, 1972–April 8, 1974
14		J. William Middendorf, II	April 8, 1974–January 20, 1977	Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford
15		W. Graham Claytor, Jr.	February 14, 1977–August 24, 1979	Jimmy Carter
16		Edward Hidalgo	October 24, 1979–January 20, 1981
17		John Lehman	February 5, 1981–April 10, 1987	Ronald Reagan
18		Jim Webb	May 1, 1987–February 23, 1988
19		William L. Ball	March 28, 1988–May 15, 1989	Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush
20		Henry L. Garrett III	May 15, 1989–June 26, 1992	George H.W. Bush
(acting)		Daniel Howard	June 26, 1992–July 7, 1992
21		Sean O'Keefe	July 7, 1992–October 2, 1992
			October 2, 1992–January 20, 1993
(acting)		Admiral Frank B. Kelso II	January 20, 1993–July 21, 1993	Bill Clinton
22		John H. Dalton	July 22, 1993–November 16, 1998
23		Richard Danzig	November 16, 1998–January 20, 2001
(acting)		Robert B. Pirie, Jr.	January 20, 2001–May 24, 2001	George W. Bush
24		Gordon R. England	May 24, 2001–January 30, 2003
(acting)		Susan Livingstone	January 30, 2003–February 7, 2003
(acting)		Hansford T. Johnson	February 7, 2003–September 30, 2003
25		Gordon R. England	October 1, 2003–December 29, 2005[10]
(acting)		Dionel M. Aviles	December 29, 2005[10] - January 3, 2006[10]
26		Donald C. Winter	January 3, 2006[10] - March 13, 2009[11]	George W. Bush, Barack Obama
(acting)		B. J. Penn	March 13, 2009[11] - May 19, 2009[12]	Barack Obama
27		Ray Mabus	June 18, 2009[1] - Present

References

United States Department of the Navy leadership Secretaries Cabinet Level Stoddert • Smith • Hamilton • Jones • Crowninshield • S Thompson • Southard • Branch • L. Woodbury • Dickerson • Paulding • Badger • Upshur • Henshaw • Gilmer • Mason • Bancroft • Mason • Preston • Graham • Kennedy • Dobbin • Toucey • Welles • Borie • Robeson • R Thompson • Goff • Hunt • Chandler • Whitney • Tracy • Herbert • Long • Moody • Morton • Bonaparte • Metcalf • Newberry • Meyer • Daniels • Denby • Wilbur • Adams • Swanson • Edison • Knox • Forrestal Dept. of Defense Sullivan • Matthews • Kimball • Anderson • Thomas • T. Gates • Franke • Connally • Korth • Nitze • Ignatius • Chafee • Warner • Middendorf • Claytor • Hidalgo • Lehman • Webb • Ball • Garrett • O'Keefe • Dalton • Danzig • England • Winter • Mabus Under Secretaries Forrestal • Bard • A. Gates • Sullivan • Kenney • Kimball • Whitehair • Thomas • T. Gates • Franke • Bantz • Fay • BeLieu • Baldwin • Baird • Warner • Sanders • Middendorf • Potter • Macdonald • Woolsey • Murray • Goodrich • Garrett • Howard • Danzig • Hultin • Pirie • Livingstone • Aviles • Work Assistant Secretaries Pre-1954 Fox • Faxon • Soley • McAdoo • T. Roosevelt Sr. • Allen • Hackett • Darling • Newberry • Satterlee • Winthrop • F. Roosevelt • G. Woodbury • T. Roosevelt Jr. • Robinson • Jahncke • H. Roosevelt • Edison • Compton • Bard • Hensel • Kenney • Andrews • Koehler • Askins • Fogler Post-1954 Financial Management and Comptroller • Installations and Environment • Manpower and Reserve Affairs • Research, Development and Acquisitions • General Counsel of the Navy • defunct: (Air · Installations and Logistics · Material · Research and Development · Research, Engineering and Systems · Shipbuilding and Logistics)

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