United States Secretary of the Interior

Infobox US Cabinet
post = United States
Secretary of the Interior
insignia = US-DeptOfTheInterior-Seal.svg
insigniasize = 140px
insigniacaption = Official Seal


incumbent = Dirk Kempthorne
incumbentsince = May 26, 2006
first = Thomas Ewing
formation = March 8, 1849
succession = Eighth
website = [http://www.doi.gov www.doi.gov]

The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior. The Department of the Interior oversees such agencies as the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Geological Survey, and the National Park Service. The Secretary also serves on and appoints the private citizens on the National Park Foundation board. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet. The Secretary typically comes from a western state; only one of the last 16 Secretaries is not identified with a state lying west of the Mississippi River. The Secretary of the Interior is eighth in the United States presidential line of succession.

ecretaries of the Interior

#	Picture	Name	State of Residence	Term of Office	President(s) served under
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18		John Willock Noble	Missouri	March 7, 1889–March 6, 1893	Benjamin Harrison
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31		Ray Lyman Wilbur	California	March 5, 1929–March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
32		Harold LeClair Ickes	Illinois	March 4, 1933–February 15, 1946	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
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36		Fred Andrew Seaton	Nebraska	June 8, 1956–January 20, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
37		Stewart Lee Udall	Arizona	January 21, 1961–January 20, 1969	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
38		Walter J. Hickel	Alaska	January 24, 1969–November 25, 1970	Richard Nixon
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41		Thomas S. Kleppe	North Dakota	October 17, 1975–January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford
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48		Gale Ann Norton	Colorado	January 31, 2001–March 31, 2006	George W. Bush
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Chris Traver

References

External links

* www.doi.gov/past_secretaries.html List of Secretaries of the Interior]
* [http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/utley-mackintosh/index.htm "The Department of Everything Else: Highlights of Interior History] (1989)