United States Department of War

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The United States Department of War (English United States Department of War ) was from 1789 to 1947, responsible for the ground forces, the Ministry of USA . It was in the 1947 Department of the Army of Defense transferred.

Minister of War

The Ministry was headed by the Secretary of War . The Minister of War was also a member of the Cabinet . He was initially responsible for all military affairs. In 1798 a Secretary of the Navy was appointed to the cabinet for the first time . As a result, the Minister of War's area of ​​responsibility was limited to the army .

In 1947 the areas were merged under the Ministry of Defense. The office of Minister of War was replaced by that of Secretary of the Army . For the Air Force , which was split off from the US Army at the same time , an equal post, that of Secretary of the Air Force, was introduced. However, both are no longer members of the cabinet, but report to the defense minister and are comparable in rank to a state secretary .

List of ministers of war

No.	image	Surname	Term of office	under US President
1		Henry Knox	1789-1794	George Washington
2		Timothy Pickering	1795	George Washington
3		James McHenry	1796-1800	George Washington, John Adams
4th		Samuel Dexter	1800-1801	John Adams
5		Henry Dearborn	1801-1809	Thomas Jefferson
6th		William Eustis	1809-1813	James Madison
7th		John Armstrong Jr.	1813-1814	James Madison
8th		James Monroe	1814-1815	James Madison
9		William Harris Crawford	1815-1816	James Madison
10		John Caldwell Calhoun	1817-1825	James Monroe
11		James Barbour	1825-1828	John Quincy Adams
12		Peter Buell Porter	1828-1829	John Quincy Adams
13		John Henry Eaton	1829-1831	Andrew Jackson
14th		Lewis Cass	1831-1836	Andrew Jackson
15th		Joel Roberts Poinsett	1837-1841	Martin Van Buren
16		John Bell	1841	William Henry Harrison , John Tyler
17th		John Canfield Spencer	1841-1843	John Tyler
18th		James Madison Porter	1843-1844	John Tyler
19th		William Wilkins	1844-1845	John Tyler
20th		William Learned Marcy	1845-1849	James K. Polk
21st		George Walker Crawford	1849-1850	Zachary Taylor
22nd		Charles Magill Conrad	1850-1853	Millard Fillmore
23		Jefferson Finis Davis	1853-1857	Franklin Pierce
24		John Buchanan Floyd	1857-1860	James Buchanan
25th		Joseph Holt	1861	James Buchanan
26th		Simon Cameron	1861-1862	Abraham Lincoln
27		Edwin M. Stanton	1862-1868	Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
28		John McAllister Schofield	1868-1869	Andrew Johnson
29		John Aaron Rawlins	1869	Ulysses S. Grant
30th		William Tecumseh Sherman	1869	Ulysses S. Grant
31		William Worth Belknap	1869-1876	Ulysses S. Grant
32		Alphonso taffeta	1876	Ulysses S. Grant
33		James Donald Cameron	1876-1877	Ulysses S. Grant
34		George Washington McCrary	1877-1879	Rutherford B. Hayes
35		Alexander Ramsey	1879-1881	Rutherford B. Hayes
36		Robert Todd Lincoln	1881-1885	James A. Garfield , Chester A. Arthur
37		William Crowninshield Endicott	1885-1889	Grover Cleveland
38		Redfield Proctor	1889-1891	Benjamin Harrison
39		Stephen Benton Elkins	1891-1893	Benjamin Harrison
40		Daniel Scott Lamont	1893-1897	Grover Cleveland
41		Russell Alexander Alger	1897-1899	William McKinley
42		Elihu Root	1899-1904	William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt
43		William Howard Taft	1904-1908	Theodore Roosevelt
44		Luke Edward Wright	1908-1909	Theodore Roosevelt
45		Jacob McGavock Dickinson	1909-1911	William Howard Taft
46		Henry Lewis Stimson	1911-1913	William Howard Taft
47		Lindley Miller Garrison	1913-1916	Woodrow Wilson
48		Newton Diehl Baker	1916-1921	Woodrow Wilson
49		John Wingate Weeks	1921-1925	Warren G. Harding , Calvin Coolidge
50		Dwight Filley Davis	1925-1929	Calvin Coolidge
51		James William Good	1929	Herbert Hoover
52		Patrick Jay Hurley	1929-1933	Herbert Hoover
53		George Henry Dern	1933-1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt
54		Harry Hines Woodring	1936-1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt
55		Henry Lewis Stimson	1940-1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
56		Robert Porter Patterson	1945-1947	Harry S. Truman
57		Kenneth Claiborne Royall	1947	Harry S. Truman

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