United States Department of Commerce and Labor

The trade and United States Department of Labor (English United States Department of Commerce and Labor ) was a short-lived Ministry of Government of the United States . It was located in the Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, DC and was founded on February 14, 1903 and renamed the United States Department of Commerce on March 4, 1913 . Its offices and agencies, specializing in the labor market, were transferred to the new United States Department of Labor .

The department was led by the US Secretary of Commerce and Labor.

List of U.S. Commerce and Labor Ministers

Surname	Term of office	under president
George B. Cortelyou	February 18, 1903-30. June 1904	Theodore Roosevelt
Victor H. Metcalf	July 1, 1904-16. December 1906	Theodore Roosevelt
Oscar Solomon Straus	December 17, 1906-5. March 1909	Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Nagel	March 6, 1909-4. March 1913	William Howard Taft