United States Under Secretary of Commerce explained

A United States Under Secretary of Commerce is one of several positions in the United States Department of Commerce, serving under the United States Secretary of Commerce.

History

In June 1939, Edward J. Noble was appointed the first Under Secretary of Commerce[1] a role created especially for him by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that had a salary of $10,000 per year.[2] He was succeeded by Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, the former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who later served as president of the Export-Import Bank.[3] The role was later held by various prominent people, including Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (under President Truman),[4] and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson), when the job had a salary of $21,000 per year.[5] [6] On December 13, 1979, President Jimmy Carter replaced the role of Under Secretary, which was then held by Luther H. Hodges Jr., with United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce, and Hodges became the first holder.[7]

Transportation

In 1950, President Truman proposed transferring the functions of the Maritime Commission to the Department of Commerce to be led by the newly created Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation.[8] Truman had created Civil Aeronautics Administration and transferred the Bureau of Public Roads within the department the previous year. In 1966, all transportation activities of Commerce were moved to the newly established United States Department of Transportation, which was led by former Under Secretary Alan Stephenson Boyd.[9]

Current positions

The Under Secretary positions are:[10]

Former Under Secretaries

List of former Under Secretaries of Commerce

ImageName[12] Term BeganTerm EndedPresident(s) served under
Edward J. Noble19391940Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wayne Chatfield-Taylor19401945
Alfred Schindler19451946Harry S. Truman
William Chapman Foster1946[13] [14] 1948[15]
Charles W. Sawyer19481949
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney1949[16] 1950
W. Walter Williams1952[17] 1958Dwight D. Eisenhower
Philip A. Ray1959[18] 1961
Edward Gudeman1961[19] 1963[20] John F. Kennedy
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.19631965John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
LeRoy Collins19651966Lyndon B. Johnson
Howard J. Samuels19671969
Joseph W. Bartlett1968[21] 1969
Rocco C. Siciliano1969[22] 1971[23] [24] Richard Nixon
James Thomas Lynn1971[25] 1973
John K. Tabor1973[26] 1975[27] Gerald Ford
James Baker1975[28] 1976
Edward O. Vetter1976[29] 1977
Sidney Harman19771978Jimmy Carter
Luther H. Hodges Jr.1978[30] 1979

List of former Under Secretaries of Commerce for Transportation

ImageNameTerm BeganTerm EndedPresident(s) served under
Philip B. Fleming1950[31] 1951Harry S. Truman
Delos W. Rentzel1951[32] 1951[33]
Jack Garrett Scott1952[34] [35] 1953[36]
1953[37] 1955Dwight D. Eisenhower
Louis S. Rothschild1955[38] 1958
John J. Allen Jr.19591961
Clarence D. Martin Jr.19611965[39] John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Alan Stephenson Boyd1965[40] 1966Lyndon B. Johnson

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Noble Family . 2017-12-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160624003545/http://www.gouverneurmuseum.org/articles/people/noble/noble.html . 2016-06-24 . dead .
  2. News: TIMES . Special to THE NEW YORK . NOBLE ENTERS NEW POST; Sworn in as the First Under Secretary of Commerce . 6 June 2020 . . 10 June 1939.
  3. News: Times . Special to The New York TimesThe New York . Wayne Chatfield Taylor Dead; Roosevelt and Truman Aide, 73; Banker Held Major Posts in Commerce, Treasury and the Export-Import Bank In Many Public Posts Envoy at Trade Meetings . 6 June 2020 . . 23 November 1967.
  4. News: Egan . Charles E. . C.V. Whitney Offers Resignation As Under Secretary of Commerce; OFFERS TO RESIGN . 19 June 2020 . . 28 March 1950.
  5. News: Franklin Roosevelt Jr. Named Under Secretary of Commerce; Post Pays $21,000 a Year --Holton, a Hodges Aide, Given Higher Post F.D. ROOSEVELT JR. IS NAMED TO POST . 19 June 2020 . . 1 February 1963.
  6. News: Letters to The Times; Recovery for Appalachia; Under Secretary of Commerce Cites Plan for Attacking Poverty . 19 June 2020 . . 2 April 1964.
  7. News: Smith . Terence . A Chicago Developer Named Commerce Chief . 19 June 2020 . . 17 November 1979.
  8. News: A New Commerce Department . 19 June 2020 . . 14 March 1950.
  9. News: Morris . John D. . SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION; 12th Man Joining the Cabinet . 19 June 2020 . . 2 October 1966.
  10. Web site: Leadership . www.commerce.gov . . 21 September 2022 . en.
  11. Web site: US CODE: Title 15,1503a. Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs . September 22, 2007 .
  12. Web site: General Records of the Department of Commerce . www.archives.gov . . 19 June 2020 . en . 15 August 2016.
  13. News: W.C. Foster Gets Commerce Office; in Commerce Post . 19 June 2020 . . 30 November 1946.
  14. News: Foster Takes Commerce Post . 19 June 2020 . . 6 December 1946.
  15. News: Foster Resigns Commerce Post . 19 June 2020 . . 21 May 1948.
  16. News: Changes Federal Post . 19 June 2020 . . 25 February 1949.
  17. News: Senate Unit Backs 3 for Commerce Jobs . 19 June 2020 . . 24 January 1953.
  18. News: COMMERCE AIDE BACKED; Philip Ray Is Confirmed as the Under Secretary . 19 June 2020 . . 28 August 1959.
  19. News: Senators Approve Williams for Post . 19 June 2020 . . 31 January 1961.
  20. News: Commerce Aide to Resign . 19 June 2020 . . 16 January 1963.
  21. News: Commerce Aide Named . 19 June 2020 . . 26 July 1968.
  22. News: Semple Jr . Robert B. . Most Nixon Aides in Top Echelons Still Unnamed; Large Gaps Remain in Some Key Federal Agencies . 19 June 2020 . . 18 January 1969.
  23. News: Washington: For the Record . 19 June 2020 . . 3 March 1971.
  24. News: Rocco C. Siciliano Business . 19 June 2020 . . 23 October 1971.
  25. News: Washington: For the Record . 19 June 2020 . . 27 April 1971.
  26. News: Apple Jr . R. W. . President Will Not Testify In Inquiries on Watergate . 19 June 2020 . . 30 May 1973.
  27. News: Honan . William H. . John K. Tabor, 78, Lawyer and Official In Commerce Dept. . 19 June 2020 . . September 12, 1999 . en.
  28. News: United Press International . July 23, 1975 . Pittsburgh Businessman Ford Treasury Nominee . The Leader-Times . Kittanning, PA . subscription . . 1.
  29. News: June 24, 1976 . President Ford Wednesday Nominated Edward O. Vetter of Dallas, Tex., to be undersecretary of commerce . Santa Ana Register . Santa Ana, CA . subscription . . 4.
  30. News: Son of Ex‐Secretary Picked . 19 June 2020 . . 6 March 1979.
  31. Book: Nominations to United States Maritime Commission and to Federal Maritime Board . 12 March 2023 . United States Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce . 28 June 1950.
  32. News: Rentzel Is Confirmed for Commerce Post . 19 June 2020 . . 18 April 1951.
  33. News: Rentzel Resigns as Sawyer's Aide; Leaves Commerce Post . 19 June 2020 . . 13 November 1951.
  34. News: TIMES . Special to THE NEW YORK . BENDETSEN NAMED UNDER SECRETARY . 19 June 2020 . . 24 April 1952.
  35. News: Scott Sworn as Commerce Aide . 19 June 2020 . . 9 May 1952.
  36. Williams . C. Dickerman . Transportation Regulation and the Department of Commerce . . March 1953 . 62: 563 . 568 . 19 June 2020.
  37. News: Trussel . C. P. . SENATE CONFIRMS 3 COMMERCE AIDES; Approves Williams, Anderson and Murray -- Consideration of Stassen Is Slated Today . 19 June 2020 . . 27 January 1953.
  38. News: Rothschild Takes Oath Today . 19 June 2020 . . 2 March 1955.
  39. Web site: Guide to the Clarence Daniel Martin, Jr. Papers 1916-1976 . ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu . . 19 June 2020.
  40. News: Blair . William M. . PRESIDENT NAMES AIR AGENCY HEADS; 8 Top Federal Posts Filled -- Boyd, Head of C.A.B., Gets Transport Job . 19 June 2020 . . 28 April 1965.

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