Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV)
| PRESIDENT | SECRETARY OF THE NAVY |
| Abraham Lincoln 4 Mar 1861- 15 Apr 1865 |
Gideon Welles 1861-1869 |
| Andrew Johnson 15 Apr 1865 - 3 Mar 1869 |
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| Ulysses S. Grant 4 Mar 1869 - 3 Mar 1877 |
Adolph E. Borie 1869 |
| George M. Robeson 1869 - 1877 |
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| Rutherford B. Hayes 4 Mar 1877 - 3 Mar 1881 |
Richard W. Thompson 1877-1881 |
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Nathan Goff, Jr. 7 Jan 1881 - 6 Mar 1881 |
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James Garfield 04 Mar 1881 - 19 Sep 1881 |
William H. Hunt 7 Mar 1881 - 16 Apr 1882 |
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Chester Arthur 20 Sep 1881 - March 4, 1885 |
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| William E. Chandler 16 Apr 1882 - 6 Mar 1885 |
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| Grover Cleveland March 4, 1885 - March 4, 1889 |
William C. Whitney 7 Mar 1885 - 5 Mar 1889 |
| Benjamin Harrison March 4, 1889 - March 4, 1893 |
Benjamin F. Tracy 6 Mar 1889 - 6 Mar 1893 |
| Grover Cleveland March 4, 1893 - March 4, 1897 |
Hilary A. Herbert 7 Mar 1893 - 5 Mar 1897 |
| William McKinley 4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
John D. Long 1897-1901 |
| Theodore Roosevelt 14 Sep 1901 - 3 Mar 1909 |
William H. Moody 1901-1904 |
| Paul Morton 1904-1905 |
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| Charles J. Bonaparte 1905-1906 |
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| Victor M. Metcalf 1906-1908 |
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| Truman H. Newberry 1908-1909 |
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| William Howard Taft 4 Mar 1909 - 3 Mar 1913 |
George von L. Meyer 1909-1913 |
| Woodrow Wilson 4 Mar 1913 - 3 Mar 1921 |
Josephus Daniels 1913-1921 |
| Warren G. Harding 4 Mar 1921- 2 Aug 1923 |
Edwin Denby 1921-1924 |
| Calvin Coolidge 2 aug 1923 - 3 Mar 1929 |
Curtis D. Wilbur 1924-1929 |
| Herbert Hoover 4 Mar 1929 - 3 Mar 1933 |
Charles Francis Adams 1929-1933 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
Claude A. Swanson 4 Mar 1933 - 7 Jul 1939 |
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Charles Edison 2 Jan 1940 - 24 Jun 1940 | |
| Franklin Knox 11 Jul 1940 - 28 Apr 1944 |
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| James V. Forrestal 19 May 1944- 17 Sep 1947 |
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| Harry S. Truman 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
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| John L. Sullivan 18 Sep 1947 - 24 May 1949 |
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| Francis P. Matthews 25 May 1949 - 31 Jul 1951 |
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| Dan A. Kimball 31 Jul 1951 - 20 Jan 1953 |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
Robert B. Anderson 04 Feb 1953 - 02 May 1954 |
| Charles S. Thomas 3 May 1954 - 31 Mar 1957 |
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| Thomas S. Gates, Jr. 1 Apr 1957 - 7 Jun 1959 |
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| William B. Franke 8 Jun 1959 - 20 Jan 1961 |
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| John F. Kennedy 20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 |
John B. Connally, Jr. 23 Jan 1961- - 20 Dec 1962 |
| Fred H. Korth 3 Jan 1963 - 1 Nov 1963 |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969 |
Paul H. Nitze 27 Nov 1963 - 30 Jun 1967 |
| Paul R. Ignatius 1 Sep 1967 - 24 Jan 1969 |
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| Richard M. Nixon 20 Jan 1969 - 9 Aug 1974 |
John H. Chafee 31 Jan 1969 - 4 May 1972 |
| John W. Warner 4 May 1972 - 9 Apr 1974 |
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| Gerald R. Ford 9 Aug 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 |
J. William Middendorf, II 20 Jun 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 |
| James Earl Carter 20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 |
W. Graham Claytor, Jr. 14 Feb 1977 - 24 Aug 1979 |
| Edward Hidalgo 24 Oct 1979 - 20 Jan 1981 |
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| Ronald Reagan 20 Jan 1981- 20 Jan 1989 |
John Lehman, Jr. 5 Feb 1981 - 10 Apr 1987 |
| James H. Webb, Jr. 10 Apr 1987 - 23 Feb 1988 |
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| William Ball May 1988 - Jan 1989 |
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| George Bush 20 Jan 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 |
W. Lawrence Garrett 1989 - 26 Jun 1992 |
| Sean O'Keefe 6 Jul 1992 - 20 Jan 1993 |
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| William J. Clinton 20 Jan 1993 - 20 Jan 2001 |
John H. Dalton 1993 - Nov 1998 |
| Richard Danzig Nov 1998 - |
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| Robert B. Pirie, Jr.,
(Acting) Nov 2000 - 24 May 2001 |
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| George W. Bush 20 Jan 2001 - 20 Jan 2008 |
Gordon R. England 24 May 2001 - 24 Jan 2003 |
| Susan Morrisey Livingstone
(Acting) 24 Jan 2003 - 7 Feb 2003 |
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| H. T. Johnson (Acting) 7 Feb 2003 - 1 Oct 2003 |
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| Gordon R. England 1 Oct 2003 - 3 Jan 2006 |
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| Donald C. Winter 3 Jan 2006 - 19 May 2009 |
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| Barack H. Obama 20 Jan 2008 - |
Ray Mabus 19 May 2009 - |
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