United States Department of Commerce

United States Department of Commerce
Set up:	February 14, 1903
Seat:	Herbert C. Hoover Building , Washington, DC
Supervisory authority:	President of the United States
minister	Wilbur Ross
Deputy	Karen Dunn Kelley
Household:	$ 9.4 billion (2006)
Employees:	36,000 (2004)
Homepage:	commerce.gov

The United States Department of Commerce ( English United States Department of Commerce , DOC ) is part of the federal government and taking care of the needs of the economy - with the aim of their growth to promote. The agency was originally established on February 14, 1903 as the Ministry of Trade and Labor . In 1913, however, the “Labor” division was spun off into what is now the independent Ministry of Labor .

Entrance to the Hoover Building

organization

The mission of the Department of Commerce is to create jobs and secure living standards for all citizens of the United States by building the necessary infrastructure . On this basis, economic growth, competitiveness and permanent positive development should be ensured. For this purpose, the authority collects economic and demographic data through the census office in order to enable economic and political decisions. The Ministry of Commerce grants patents , the rights for trademarks (trademarks) and helps with the implementation and introduction of industry standards ( norm ).

Around 36,000 people work for the agency, which is headed by the United States Secretary of Commerce . The agency is based in the Herbert C. Hoover Building , an administrative building in the Federal Triangle just a few meters from the White House .

Ministerial situation 2011–2013

After John Bryson stepped down as Secretary of Commerce in June 2012, the Department of Commerce was pending. From June 2012 to the end of May 2013, Bryson’s Deputy Minister of Commerce, Rebecca Blank, was acting as Acting Secretary of Commerce . On May 2, 2013, Hyatt heiress Penny Pritzker was nominated by President Barack Obama as the new Secretary of Commerce.

Since Rebecca Blank became Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on May 31 and the Senate had not yet confirmed Pritzker's nomination, President Obama found an interim solution in Cameron Kerry , brother of US Secretary of State John Kerry . Kerry headed the Commerce Department from June 1st to 25th - again only temporarily.

On June 25, 2013, the US Senate confirmed Pritzker's nomination as Secretary of Commerce with a 97-1 vote. On the following day, June 26th, the new minister was sworn to take her oath of office. Cameron Kerry accepted the post of General Counsel in the Department of Commerce.

Subordinate authorities

A B-57 of the United States Department of Commerce

• Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)
• Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA)

• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

• Bureau of the Census

• Economic Development Administration (EDA)
• International Trade Administration (ITA)
• Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
• Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)
• Technology Administration (TA)

• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)

• Office of Technology Policy (OTP)

List of trade ministers

No.	image	Surname	Term of office	under president
01		William Cox Redfield	March 5, 1913 - October 31, 1919	Woodrow Wilson
02		Joshua Willis Alexander	December 16, 1919– March 4, 1921
03		Herbert Clark Hoover	March 5, 1921 - August 21, 1928	Warren G. Harding , Calvin Coolidge
04th		William Fairfield Whiting	August 22, 1928– March 4, 1929	Calvin Coolidge
05		Robert Patterson Lamont	March 5, 1929 - August 7, 1932	Herbert Hoover
06th		Roy Dikeman Chapin	August 8, 1932 - March 3, 1933
07th		Daniel Calhoun Roper	March 4, 1933 - December 23, 1938	Franklin D. Roosevelt
08th		Harry Lloyd Hopkins	December 24, 1938 - September 18, 1940
09		Jesse Holman Jones	September 19, 1940– March 1, 1945
10		Henry Agard Wallace	March 2, 1945 - September 20, 1946	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
11		William Averell Harriman	October 7, 1946– April 22, 1948	Harry S. Truman
12		Charles W. Sawyer	May 6, 1948 - January 20, 1953
13		Charles Sinclair Weeks	January 21, 1953 - November 10, 1958	Dwight D. Eisenhower
-		Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss	1958–1959 (provisional)
14th		Frederick Henry Mueller	August 10, 1959 - January 19, 1961
15th		Luther Hartwell Hodges	January 21, 1961– January 15, 1965	John F. Kennedy , Lyndon B. Johnson
16		John Thomas Connor	January 18, 1965– January 31, 1967	Lyndon B. Johnson
17th		Alexander Buel Trowbridge	June 14, 1967– March 1, 1968
18th		Cyrus Rowlett Smith	March 6, 1968 - January 19, 1969
19th		Maurice Hubert Stans	January 21, 1969– February 15, 1972	Richard Nixon
20th		Peter George Peterson	February 29, 1972– February 1, 1973
21st		Frederick Baily Dent	February 2, 1973– March 26, 1975	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
22nd		Rogers Clark Ballard Morton	May 1, 1975 - February 2, 1976	Gerald Ford
23		Elliot Lee Richardson	February 2, 1976 - January 20, 1977
24		Juanita Morris Kreps	January 23, 1977– October 31, 1979	Jimmy Carter
25th		Philip Morris Klutznick	January 9 , 1980 - January 19, 1981
26th		Howard Malcolm Baldrige	January 20, 1981– July 25, 1987	Ronald Reagan
27		Calvin William Verity	October 19, 1987– January 30, 1989
28		Robert Adam Mosbacher	January 31, 1989– January 15, 1992	George Bush
29		Barbara Hackman Franklin	February 27, 1992– January 20, 1993
30th		Ronald Harmon Brown	January 22, 1993-3 April 1996	Bill Clinton
31		Michael Kantor	April 12, 1996– January 21, 1997
32		William Michael Daley	January 30, 1997– July 19, 2000
33		Norman Yoshio Mineta	July 21, 2000– January 19, 2001
34		Donald Louis Evans	January 20, 2001 - February 7, 2005	George W. Bush
35		Carlos Miguel Gutierrez	February 7, 2005 - January 20, 2009
36		Gary Faye Locke	March 24, 2009 - August 1, 2011	Barack Obama
37		John E. Bryson	October 21, 2011– June 21, 2012
38		Penny Sue Pritzker	June 26, 2013 - January 20, 2017
39		Wilbur Louis Ross Jr.	Since February 28, 2017	Donald Trump

See also

• United States Federal Government
• United States Political System

Web links

Commons : United States Department of Commerce  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cameron Kerry Acting Trade Secretary: John Kerry's brother joins the cabinet. In: n-tv.de . May 14, 2013, accessed July 20, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Nikolaus Piper: Rewarded retrospectively by Obama. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 2, 2013, accessed March 9, 2018 . 
3. ^ Swearing-In Ceremony of Ms. Penny Pritzker as the 38th US Secretary of Commerce. US Department of Commerce, June 26, 2013, accessed July 20, 2018 (English, video on YouTube, 18:31 minutes). 
4. ↑ Commerce Leadership. (No longer available online.) US Department of Commerce, archived from the original on March 16, 2015 ; accessed on March 9, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.