Hoover Cabinet

Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States

Herbert Hoover , who was elected President of the United States in 1928 , was one of the few incumbents who had previously served as minister in a US cabinet . He served as Secretary of Commerce under his predecessor Calvin Coolidge . His presidency was determined by the Great Depression , which ultimately contributed decisively to his defeat against the Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 .

Hoover took over two incumbents from the Coolidge cabinet . Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon remained in his post until 1932, and Labor Secretary James J. Davis until 1930. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson was Secretary of War in the Taft Cabinet from 1911 to 1913 .

During Hoover's four-year tenure, there were four personnel changes at the top of the ministries. War Minister James William Good died the same year he took office.

The Hoover Cabinet on March 8, 1929

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	Herbert Clark Hoover	1929-1933
Vice President of the United States	Charles Curtis	1929-1933
United States Secretary of State	Henry Lewis Stimson	1929-1933
United States Secretary of the Treasury	Andrew William Mellon	1929-1932
	Ogden Livingston Mills	1932-1933
United States Secretary of War	James William Good	1929
	Patrick Jay Hurley	1929-1933
United States Secretary of the Navy	Charles Francis Adams	1929-1933
United States Attorney General	William DeWitt Mitchell	1929-1933
United States Postal Secretary	Walter Folger Brown	1929-1933
United States Secretary of the Interior	Ray Lyman Wilbur	1929-1933
United States Secretary of Agriculture	Arthur Mastick Hyde	1929-1933
United States Secretary of Commerce	Robert Patterson Lamont	1929-1932
	Roy Dikeman Chapin	1932-1933
United States Secretary of Labor	James John Davis	1929-1930
	William Nuckles Doak	1930-1933
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Herbert Mayhew Lord	1929
	James Clawson Roop	1929-1933