United States Secretary of Commerce

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File:Commerce Building Secretary's Office.jpg
The Commerce Secretary's office as it looked in the mid-20th century.

The United States secretary of commerce (SecCom) is the head of the United States Department of Commerce. The secretary serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all matters relating to commerce. The secretary reports directly to the president and is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States. The secretary is appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. The secretary of commerce is responsible for promoting American businesses and industries. The department states its mission as 'to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States'.[1]

Until 1913, there was one secretary of commerce and labor, uniting this department with the United States Department of Labor, which is now headed by a separate United States secretary of labor.[2]

The secretary of commerce is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule[3] with an annual salary of US$221,400, as of January 2021.[4]

The current secretary of commerce is Howard Lutnick.[5]

List of U.S. secretaries of commerce

Parties

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Status

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  Denotes acting commerce secretary
No. Portrait Name[6] State of residence Took office Left office President(s)
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(1913–1921)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">2 File:JoshuaWillisAlexander.jpg Template:Sortname Missouri Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">3 File:President Hoover portrait.jpg Template:Sortname California Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1921–1923)
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1923-1929)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">4 File:WilliamFairfieldWhiting.jpg Template:Sortname Massachusetts Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">5 File:RobertPattersonLamont.jpg Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1929–1933)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">6 File:RobertDikemanChapin.jpg Template:Sortname Michigan Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">7 File:Daniel Calhoun Roper pers0178.jpg Template:Sortname South Carolina Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=4 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1933–1945)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">8 File:Harry Lloyd Hopkins.jpg Template:Sortname New York Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">9 File:Jesse Holman Jones pers0174.jpg Template:Sortname Texas Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">10 File:HenryAgardWallace.jpg Template:Sortname Iowa Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=4 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1945–1953)
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style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">11 File:William Averell Harriman.png Template:Sortname New York Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">12 File:CharlesSawyer.jpg Template:Sortname Ohio Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">13 File:CharlesSinclairWeeks.jpg Template:Sortname Massachusetts Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=4 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1953–1961)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">- File:Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss pers0164.jpg Template:Sortname New York Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">14 File:Frederick Henry Mueller pers0162.jpg Template:Sortname Michigan Template:Dts Template:Dts
Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">15 File:Luther Hodges.jpg Template:Sortname North Carolina Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1961–1963)
rowspan=5 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1963–1969)
16 File:JohnThomasConnor.jpg Template:Sortname New Jersey Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">17 File:AlexanderBuelTrowbridge.jpg Template:Sortname New York Template:Dts Template:Dts
Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">18 File:Cyrus Rowlett Smith pers0154.jpg Template:Sortname New York Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">19 File:Maurice Stans.jpg Template:Sortname New York Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1969–1974)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">20 File:PeterGeorgePeterson.jpg Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">21 File:FrederickBailyDent.jpg Template:Sortname South Carolina Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1974–1977)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">22 File:RogersClarkBallardMorton.jpg Template:Sortname Maryland Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">23 File:ElliotLeeRichardson.jpg Template:Sortname Massachusetts Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">24 File:Kreps-juanita-morris.png Template:Sortname North Carolina Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1977–1981)
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style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">25 File:PhilipMorrisKlutznick.jpg Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">26 File:Malcolm Baldridge pers0138.jpg Template:Sortname Connecticut Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1981–1989)
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style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">27 File:CalvinWilliamVerity.jpg Template:Sortname Ohio Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">28 File:RobertAdamMosbacher.jpg Template:Sortname Texas Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1989–1993)
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style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">29 File:BarbaraHackmanFranklin.jpg Template:Sortname Pennsylvania Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">30 File:RonBrownUS.JPG Template:Sortname New York Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=6 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1993–2001)
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style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">31 File:MichaelKantor.jpg Template:Sortname Tennessee Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">32 File:DaleyWilliam.jpg Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts
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style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">33 File:NormanYoshioMineta.jpg Template:Sortname California Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">34 File:Donald Evans.jpg Template:Sortname Texas Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(2001–2009)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">35 File:Carlos Gutierrez official portrait.jpg Template:Sortname Florida Template:Dts Template:Dts
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(2009–2017)
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style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">37 File:John Bryson official portrait.jpg Template:Sortname New York Template:Dts Template:Dts
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style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">38 File:Penny Pritzker official portrait.jpg Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts
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(2017–2021)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">39 File:Wilbur Ross Official Portrait.jpg Template:Sortname Florida Template:Dts Template:Dts
Template:Ifsubst style="color:black">– File:Wynn Coggins US Commerce Dept.jpg Template:Sortname
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(2021–2025)
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Maryland

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(2025–present)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">41 File:Howard Lutnick 2025.jpg Template:Sortname New York Template:Dts Incumbent

Line of succession

The line of succession for the secretary of commerce is as follows:[7]

  1. Deputy Secretary of Commerce
  2. General Counsel of the Department of Commerce
  3. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
  4. Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs
  5. Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology
  6. Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  7. Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration
  8. Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Commerce and Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Administration
  9. Boulder Laboratories Site Manager, National Institute of Standards and Technology

References

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External links

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