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Cabinet of President Harry S. Truman
The table provides a list of cabinet members in the administration of President Harry S. Truman.
| April 12, 1945–January 20, 1949 (Term 1) | |
|---|---|
| *Newly created department, subsuming the Departments of War and the Navy. | |
| State | Edward Reilly Stettinius |
| James F. Byrnes (from July 3, 1945) | |
| George C. Marshall (from January 21, 1947) | |
| Treasury | Henry Morgenthau, Jr. |
| Frederick Moore (from July 23, 1945) | |
| John Wesley Snyder (from June 25, 1946) | |
| War | Henry Lewis Stimson |
| Robert Porter Patterson (from September 27, 1945) | |
| Kenneth Clairborne Royall (from July 25, 1947) | |
| Defense* | James Vincent Forrestal (from September 17, 1947) |
| Navy | James Vincent Forrestal |
| Attorney General | Francis Biddle |
| Tom C. Clark (from July 1, 1945) | |
| Interior | Harold L. Ickes |
| Julius Albert Krug (from March 18, 1946) | |
| Agriculture | Claude Raymond Wickard |
| Clinton Presba Anderson (from June 30, 1945) | |
| Charles Franklin Brannan (from June 2, 1948) | |
| Commerce | Henry A. Wallace |
| W. Averell Harriman (from January 28, 1947) | |
| Charles Sawyer (from May 6, 1948) | |
| Labor | Frances Perkins |
| Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach (from July 1, 1945) | |
| January 20, 1949–January 20, 1953 (Term 2) | |
| State | Dean Acheson |
| Treasury | John Wesley Snyder |
| Defense | James Vincent Forrestal |
| Louis Arthur Johnson (from March 28, 1949) | |
| George C. Marshall (from September 21, 1950) | |
| Robert Abercrombie Lovett (from September 17, 1951) | |
| Attorney General | Tom C. Clark |
| James Howard McGrath (from August 24, 1949) | |
| Interior | Julius Albert Krug |
| Oscar Littleton Chapman (from January 19, 1950) | |
| Agriculture | Charles Franklin Brannan |
| Commerce | Charles Sawyer |
| Labor | Maurice Joseph Tobin |