United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
The United States Deputy Secretary of Defense ( DEPSECDEF ) is the highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Defense after the Secretary of Defense . He is appointed by the US President with the advice and approval of the Senate . The law states that the deputy minister must be a civilian; any time he or she served as an officer in active military service must have been at least seven years prior to the date of his appointment.
history
The post of Deputy Minister of Defense was created in April 1949. Originally, the incumbent was initially referred to as the Under Secretary of Defense . In August of the same year, the National Security Act of 1947 was amended to change the title to Deputy Secretary of Defense . Stephen Early , previously assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt , was the first to hold the office and was sworn in on May 2, 1949. On August 10th of that year he was promoted from Under Secretary to Deputy Secretary .
In October 1972 the position of Second Deputy Secretary of Defense was created by law . The first and only owner between December 23, 1975 and January 10, 1977 was Robert Fred Ellsworth ; thereafter the office was abolished.
Area of responsibility
In the event that the Defense Minister dies or resigns, the Deputy Secretary is his first successor. He has all the powers that the Minister also has. In the normal daily routine of the Department of Defense, the Deputy Minister is responsible for the agency as Chief Operating Officer . He oversees the administration, while the Secretary of Defense deals with the top priority issues and gives direct advice to the President on military matters. Meanwhile, as chairman of the Senior Level Review Group , his deputy also oversees the Quadrennial Defense Review .
The current incumbent and thus deputy of Mark Esper is David Norquist, who was sworn in as 34th Deputy Secretary of Defense on July 31, 2019.
List of incumbents
| number | image | Surname | Term of office | Deputy Minister | appointed under President |
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| 1 |
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Stephen Tyree Early | August 10, 1949 - September 30, 1950 |
Louis A. Johnson George C. Marshall |
Harry S. Truman |
| 2 |
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Robert Abercrombie Lovett | October 4, 1950 - September 16, 1951 | George C. Marshall | |
| 3 |
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William Chapman Foster | September 24, 1951 - January 20, 1953 | Robert A. Lovett | |
| 4th | Roger M. Kyes | February 2, 1953 - May 1, 1954 | Charles E. Wilson | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| 5 |
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Robert Bernard Anderson | May 3, 1954 - August 4, 1955 | ||
| 6th | Reuben Buck Robertson | August 5, 1955 - April 25, 1957 | |||
| 7th |
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Donald Aubrey Quarles | May 1, 1957 - May 8, 1959 | Charles E. Wilson Neil H. McElroy |
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| 8th |
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Thomas Sovereign Gates | June 8, 1959 - December 1, 1959 | Neil H. McElroy | |
| 9 |
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James Henderson Douglas | December 11, 1959 - January 24, 1961 |
Thomas S. Gates Robert McNamara |
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| 10 | Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric | January 24, 1961 - January 20, 1964 | Robert McNamara | John F. Kennedy | |
| 11 |
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Cyrus Roberts Vance | January 28, 1964 - June 30, 1967 | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| 12 |
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Paul Henry Nitze | July 1, 1967 - January 20, 1969 | Robert McNamara Clark M. Clifford |
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| 13 | David Packard | Jan. 24, 1969 - December 13, 1971 | Melvin R. Laird | Richard Nixon | |
| 14th |
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David Kenneth Rush | February 23, 1972 - January 29, 1973 | ||
| 15th |
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William Perry Clements | Jan. 30, 1973 - January 20, 1977 |
Elliot L. Richardson James R. Schlesinger Donald Rumsfeld |
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| 16 |
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Charles William Duncan | January 31, 1977 - July 26, 1979 | Harold Brown | Jimmy Carter |
| 17th |
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William Graham Claytor | Aug. 24, 1979 - January 16, 1981 | ||
| 18th |
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Frank Charles Carlucci | February 4, 1981 - December 31, 1982 | Caspar Weinberger | Ronald Reagan |
| 19th | William Paul Thayer | January 12, 1983 - January 4, 1984 | |||
| 20th |
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William Howard Taft IV | February 3, 1984 - April 22, 1989 | Caspar Weinberger Frank Carlucci Dick Cheney |
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| 21st |
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Donald Jesse Atwood | April 24, 1989 - January 20, 1993 | Dick Cheney | George Bush |
| 22nd |
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William James Perry | March 5, 1993 - February 3, 1994 | Les Aspin | Bill Clinton |
| 23 |
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John Mark Deutch | March 11, 1994 - May 10, 1995 | William Perry | |
| 24 |
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John P. White | June 22, 1995 - July 15, 1997 | William Perry William Cohen |
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| 25th |
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John J. Hamre | July 29, 1997 - March 31, 2000 | William Cohen | |
| 26th |
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Rudolph F. de Leon | March 31, 2000 - March 1, 2001 | William Cohen Donald Rumsfeld |
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| 27 |
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Paul Dundes Wolfowitz | March 2, 2001 - May 13, 2005 | Donald Rumsfeld | George W. Bush |
| 28 |
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Gordon Richard England | January 4, 2006 - February 11, 2009 | Donald Rumsfeld Robert Gates |
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| 29 |
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William J. Lynn | February 12, 2009 - October 5, 2011 | Robert Gates, Leon Panetta | Barack Obama |
| 30th |
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Ashton Baldwin Carter | October 6, 2011 - December 3, 2013 | Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel | |
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Christine Fox (acting) | December 3, 2013 - April 30, 2014 | Chuck Hagel | ||
| 31 |
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Robert Orton Work | since April 30, 2014 - July 14, 2017 | ||
| 32 |
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Patrick M. Shanahan | July 19, 2017 - June 23, 2019 | James N. Mattis | Donald Trump |
| 33 |
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David Norquist | July 31, 2019 | Mark Esper |
Remarks
- ^ David L. Norquist> US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE> Biography. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
- ^ Previously Under Secretary of Defense
- ↑ previously exercised the office provisionally from May 13, 2005
- ^ Acting Secretary of Defense Will Resign as Deputy Secretary of Defense. Retrieved June 4, 2020 (American English).