Kennedy Cabinet

John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States

John F. Kennedy took office as President of the United States on January 20, 1961 and was the first Catholic to be elected to the highest office in the United States . On November 22, 1963 , he was shot dead on the street in Dallas . He was succeeded by the previous Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson .

A special feature of his cabinet was that the Democrat Kennedy appointed two Republicans , Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara . Personnel changes remained the exception during his less than three-year presidency.

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	1961-1963
Vice President of the United States	Lyndon Baines Johnson	1961-1963
United States Secretary of State	David Dean Rusk	1961-1963
United States Secretary of the Treasury	Clarence Douglas Dillon	1961-1963
United States Secretary of Defense	Robert Strange McNamara	1961-1963
United States Attorney General	Robert Francis Kennedy	1961-1963
United States Postal Secretary	James Edward Day	1961-1963
	John Austin Gronouski	1963
United States Secretary of the Interior	Stewart Lee Udall	1961-1963
United States Secretary of Agriculture	Orville Lothrop Freeman	1961-1963
United States Secretary of Commerce	Luther Hartwell Hodges	1961-1963
United States Secretary of Labor	Arthur Joseph Goldberg	1961–1962
	William Willard Wirtz	1962-1963
United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare	Abraham Alexander Ribicoff	1961–1962
	Anthony Joseph Celebrezze	1962-1963
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	David E. Bell	1961–1962
	Kermit Gordon	1962-1963