Truman's cabinet

Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States

Harry Truman takes his oath of office in the presence of the cabinet (April 1945)

President Truman and part of the cabinet during its session in August 1945

Harry S. Truman assumed the office of President of the United States on April 12, 1945, succeeding the late Franklin D. Roosevelt . Truman had only become its vice-president just under three months earlier . Contrary to many predictions, the Democrat retained his post after the 1948 presidential election .

During Harry Truman's presidency, the Navy Department was transformed into a sub-agency of the newly created Department of Defense ; This status was also given to the Army Office as the successor to the War Ministry . From then on, only the Minister of Defense still had cabinet rank.

Most of the ministers taken over by President Roosevelt were no longer in office in 1946. Only James V. Forrestal , Minister of the Navy since 1944, was not taken into account in the cabinet reshuffle. He then also took over the newly created post of Minister of Defense.

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	Harry S. Truman	1945-1953
Vice President of the United States	vacant	1945-1949
	Albums William Barkley	1949-1953
United States Secretary of State	Edward Reilly Stettinius	1945
	James Francis Byrnes	1945-1947
	George Catlett Marshall	1947-1949
	Dean Gooderham Acheson	1949-1953
United States Secretary of the Treasury	Henry Morgenthau	1945
	Frederick Moore Vinson	1945-1946
	John Wesley Snyder	1946-1953
United States Secretary of War	Henry Lewis Stimson	1945
	Robert Porter Patterson	1945-1947
	Kenneth Claiborne Royall	1947
United States Secretary of the Navy	James Vincent Forrestal	1945-1947
United States Secretary of Defense	James Vincent Forrestal	1947-1949
	Louis Arthur Johnson	1949-1950
	George Catlett Marshall	1950-1951
	Robert Abercrombie Lovett	1951-1953
United States Attorney General	Francis Beverley Biddle	1945
	Tom Campbell Clark	1945-1949
	James Howard McGrath	1949-1952
	James Patrick McGranery	1952-1953
United States Postal Secretary	Frank Comerford Walker	1945
	Robert Emmet Hannegan	1945-1947
	Jesse Monroe Donaldson	1947-1953
United States Secretary of the Interior	Harold LeClair Ickes	1945-1946
	Julius Albert pitcher	1946-1949
	Oscar Littleton Chapman	1949-1953
United States Secretary of Agriculture	Claude Raymond Wickard	1945
	Clinton Presba Anderson	1945-1948
	Charles Franklin Brannan	1948-1953
United States Secretary of Commerce	Henry Agard Wallace	1945-1946
	William Averell Harriman	1946-1948
	Charles W. Sawyer	1948-1953
United States Secretary of Labor	Frances Coralie Perkins	1945
	Lewis Baxter threshold brook	1945-1948
	Maurice Joseph Tobin	1948-1953
White House Chief of Staff	John Roy Steelman	1946-1953
Director of the Bureau of the Budget	Harold E. Smith	1945-1946
	James Edwin Webb	1946-1949
	Frank Pace	1949-1950
	Frederick Lawton	1950-1953