United States Department of the Interior

United States Department of the Interior
Set up:	March 3, 1849
Seat:	Main Interior Building , Washington, DC
Supervisory authority:	President of the United States
minister	David Bernhardt
Deputy
Household:	US $ 21.3 billion (2018) $
Employees:	almost 70,000 (2018)
Homepage:	doi.gov

The United States Department of the Interior (amtl. United States Department of the Interior ) in the United States of America an agency of the federal government with cabinet rank , which deals with the management and protection of all federally owned land. It is roughly comparable to the German Federal Agency for Real Estate and is in stark contrast to interior ministries in many other countries, which are often responsible for internal security . In the United States, these functions are carried out by the Department of Justice (e.g. Federal Police) and the Department of Internal Security (e.g. Border Guard) - similar to Switzerland , where the police are not in the Department of the Interior but in the Department of Justice and Police Department are located.

The Ministry of the Interior is headed by the Secretary of the Interior . Usually a politician from the western United States is appointed Secretary of the Interior because much of the federally administered areas are in the western part of the country. Only one of the home secretaries since 1949 was from east of the Mississippi .

Subordinate authorities

The following authorities report directly to the Ministry of the Interior:

• Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
• Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)
• Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
• Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
• Bureau of Reclamation
• Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)
• Office of Insular Affairs (OIA)
• Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR)
• Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE)
• United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
• National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC)
• National Park Service (NPS)
  

  Headquarters of the Ministry

List of interior ministers

No.	Illustration	Surname	Term of office	under US President
1		Thomas Ewing	March 8, 1849-22. July 1850	Zachary Taylor , Millard Fillmore
2		Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan	August 15, 1850-26. August 1850	Millard Fillmore
3		Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart	September 14, 1850-7. March 1853
4th		Robert McClelland	March 8, 1853-9. March 1857	Franklin Pierce
5		Jacob Thompson	March 10, 1857-8. January 1861	James Buchanan
6th		Caleb Blood Smith	March 5, 1861-31. December 1862	Abraham Lincoln
7th		John Palmer Usher	January 1, 1863-15. May 1865
8th		James Harlan	May 16, 1865-31. August 1866	Andrew Johnson
9		Orville Hickman Browning	September 1, 1866–4. March 1869
10		Jacob Dolson Cox	March 5, 1869–31. October 1870	Ulysses S. Grant
11		Columbus Delano	November 1, 1870-30. September 1875
12		Zachariah Chandler	October 19, 1875–11. March 1877
13		Carl Schurz	March 12, 1877-7. March 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes
14th		Samuel Jordan Kirkwood	March 8, 1881-17. April 1882	James A. Garfield , Chester A. Arthur
15th		Henry Moore Teller	April 18, 1882-3. March 1885	Chester A. Arthur
16		Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar	March 6, 1885-10. January 1888	Grover Cleveland
17th		William Freeman Vilas	January 16, 1888–6. March 1889
18th		John Willock Noble	March 7, 1889–6. March 1893	Benjamin Harrison
19th		Michael Hoke Smith	March 6, 1893–1. September 1896	Grover Cleveland
20th		David Rowland Francis	September 3, 1896-5. March 1897
21st		Cornelius Newton Bliss	March 6, 1897-19. February 1899	William McKinley
22nd		Ethan Allen Hitchcock	February 20, 1899–4. March 1907	William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt
23		James Rudolph Garfield	March 5, 1907-5. March 1909	Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft
24		Richard Achilles Ballinger	March 6, 1909-12. March 1911	William Howard Taft
25th		Walter Lowrie Fisher	March 13, 1911-5. March 1913
26th		Franklin Knight Lane	March 6, 1913-29. February 1920	Woodrow Wilson
27		John Barton Payne	March 15, 1920-4. March 1921
28		Albert Bacon case	March 5, 1921–4. March 1923	Warren G. Harding
29		Hubert Work	March 5, 1923-24. July 1928	Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
30th		Roy Owen West	July 25, 1928–4. March 1929	Calvin Coolidge
31		Ray Lyman Wilbur	March 5, 1929-4. March 1933	Herbert Hoover
32		Harold LeClair Ickes	March 4, 1933-5. February 1946	Franklin D. Roosevelt , Harry S. Truman
33		Julius Albert pitcher	March 18, 1946–1. December 1949	Harry S. Truman
34		Oscar Littleton Chapman	December 1, 1949-20. January 1953
35		James Douglas McKay	January 21, 1953-15. April 1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower
36		Fred Andrew Seaton	June 8, 1956-20. January 1961
37		Stewart Lee Udall	January 21, 1961-20. January 1969	John F. Kennedy , Lyndon B. Johnson
38		Walter Joseph Hickel	January 24, 1969–25. November 1970	Richard Nixon
39		Rogers Clark Ballard Morton	March 29, 1971-30. April 1975	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
40		Stanley Knapp Hathaway	June 12, 1975-9. October 1975	Gerald Ford
41		Thomas Savig Kleppe	October 17, 1975-20. January 1977
42		Cecil Dale Andrus	January 23, 1977-20. January 1981	Jimmy Carter
43		James Gaius Watt	Jan. 23, 1981-8. November 1983	Ronald Reagan
44		William Patrick Clark	November 18, 1983-7. February 1985
45		Donald Paul Hodel	February 8, 1985-20. January 1989
46		Manuel Lujan Jr.	February 3, 1989-20. January 1993	George Bush
47		Bruce Edward Babbitt	January 22, 1993-2. January 2001	Bill Clinton
48		Gale Ann Norton	January 31, 2001–31. March 2006	George W. Bush
49		Dirk Arthur Kempthorne	May 26, 2006 – January 2009
50		Kenneth Lee Salazar	January 2009 – April 2013	Barack Obama
51		Sally Margaret Jewell	April 2013–20. January 2017
52		Ryan Keith Prong	March 1, 2017–31. December 2018	Donald Trump
53		David Longly Bernhardt	April 11, 2019–

Web links

Commons : United States Department of the Interior  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fiscal Year 2020: The Interior Budget in Brief. (PDF; 3.9 MB) In: doi.gov. United States Department of the Interior, March 8, 2019, p. 177 , accessed January 18, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Fiscal Year 2020: The Interior Budget in Brief. (PDF; 3.9 MB) In: doi.gov. United States Department of the Interior, March 8, 2019, p. 34 , accessed January 18, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Fiscal Year 2020: The Interior Budget in Brief. (PDF; 3.9 MB) In: doi.gov. United States Department of the Interior, March 8, 2019, p. 43 , accessed January 18, 2020 .