United States Secretary of the Army

The United States Secretary of the Army has statutory responsibility for all matters relating to the United States Army: manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems and equipment acquisition, communications, and financial management. It is a non-Cabinet position under the United States Secretary of Defense. This position was created September 18, 1947 when the Department of War became the Department of the Army and made a branch of the new Department of Defense.

Kenneth Claiborne Royall, the last United States Secretary of War, became the first Secretary of the Army when the National Defense Act of 1947 took effect and was the last Army secretary to hold the cabinet status, which was henceforth assigned to the Secretary of Defense.

Secretaries of the Army

Name	Term of Office	Served under
Kenneth Claiborne Royall	September 18, 1947 - April 27, 1949	Harry S. Truman
Gordon Gray	June 20, 1949 - April 12, 1950	Truman
Frank Pace	April 12, 1950 - January 20, 1953	Truman
Robert TenBroek Stevens	February 4, 1953 - July 21, 1955	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wilber Marion Brucker	July 21, 1955 - January 19, 1961	Eisenhower
Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr	January 24, 1961 - June 30, 1962	John F. Kennedy
Cyrus Roberts Vance	July 5, 1962 - January 21, 1964	JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson
Stephen Ailes	January 28, 1964 - July 1, 1965	LBJ
Stanley R. Resor	July 2, 1965 - June 30, 1971	LBJ, Richard M. Nixon
Robert F. Froehlke	July 1, 1971 - May 14, 1973	Nixon
Howard H. Callaway	May 15, 1973 - July 3, 1975	Nixon, Gerald R. Ford
Martin R. Hoffmann	August 5, 1975 - January 20, 1977	Ford
Clifford L. Alexander, Jr	February 14, 1977 - January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
John O. Marsh, Jr	January 21, 1981 - August 13, 1989	Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush
Michael P.W. Stone	August 14, 1989 - January 20, 1993	Bush
Togo D. West, Jr	November 22, 1993 - December 2, 1997	Bill Clinton
Robert M. Walker (acting)	December 2, 1997 - July 2, 1998	Clinton
Louis Caldera	July 2, 1998 - January 20, 2001	Clinton
Gregory R. Dahlberg (acting)	January 20, 2001 - March 5, 2001	George W. Bush
Joseph W. Westphal (acting)	March 5, 2001 - May 31, 2001	Bush
Thomas E. White	May 31, 2001 - May 9, 2003	Bush
Les Brownlee (acting)	May 10, 2003 - November 18, 2004	Bush
Francis J. Harvey	November 19, 2004 - Present	Bush

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