List Of People Who Have Held Multiple United States Cabinet-level Positions

The Cabinet of the United States, which is the principal advisory body to the president of the United States, has had numerous officers serving as heads of multiple different federal executive departments, or other cabinet-level positions, which can differ under each president. The vice president historically is also part of the presidential cabinet, ready to assume the Presidency should the need arise. As the years progressed, some departments lost their original status in the president's cabinet, while other agencies were established or reorganized as such entitles. Unlike in many parliamentary cabinets, it is generally less common in the United States for officeholders to obtain multiple such positions over the years.

Edmund Randolph became the first person to have served in two different presidential cabinet posts when he was appointed secretary of state by President George Washington in 1794
after previously serving as attorney general during Washington's first term in office. Patricia Roberts Harris was the first woman and the first person of color to serve multiple posts in a president's cabinet when President Jimmy Carter appointed her secretary of health and human services
in 1979, having earlier served as secretary of housing and urban development through the first half of Carter's administration.

List of multiple cabinet-level officeholders

The following list includes people who have lead two or more different executive departments or other cabinet-level offices, which can vary under each president. The table below is organized by date of second appointment or election to such a position. Officeholders whose terms begin the same day are ranked alphabetically by last name.

Former permanent Cabinet members

* The Secretary of War became defunct when the Department of War was split between the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force by the National Security Act of 1947, and both were absorbed into the Department of Defense in 1949.
* The Postmaster General ceased to be a member of the Cabinet when the Post Office Department was re-organized into the United States Postal Service (USPS) by the Postal Reorganization Act, a special agency independent of the executive branch.
* The Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force ceased to be members of the Cabinet when their particular departments was absorbed into the Department of Defense in 1949.

See also

* Cabinet reshuffle
* List of people who have served in all three branches of the United States federal government

Notes

References

External links

The Cabinet
- Provided by the White House. Retrieved March 23, 2022.

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