FIRST TERM CABINET
January 20, 1953 - January 19, 1957
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First term cabinet members during a meeting on July 29, 1955.
Clockwise from left: Wilton Persons, Henry Cabot Lodge, Douglas McKay, George Humphrey, Richard Nixon, Herbert Brownell, Sinclair Weeks, Oveta Culp Hobby, Philip Young, Rowland Hughes, Arthur Flemming, Maxwell Rabb, James Mitchell, Arthur Summerfield, John Foster Dulles, President Eisenhower, Charles Wilson, Ezra Taft Benson, Harold Stassen, and Sherman Adams.
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First term cabinet members during a meeting on July 29, 1955.
Clockwise from left: Wilton Persons, Henry Cabot Lodge, Douglas McKay, George Humphrey, Richard Nixon, Herbert Brownell, Sinclair Weeks, Oveta Culp Hobby, Philip Young, Rowland Hughes, Arthur Flemming, Maxwell Rabb, James Mitchell, Arthur Summerfield, John Foster Dulles, President Eisenhower, Charles Wilson, Ezra Taft Benson, Harold Stassen, and Sherman Adams.
| TITLE | NAME | START DATE |
| Secretary of State | John Foster Dulles | Jan. 21, 1953 |
| Secretary of Treasury | George Magoffin Humphrey | Jan. 21, 1953 |
| Secretary of Defense | Charles Erwin Wilson | Jan. 28, 1953 |
| Attorney General | Herbert Brownell, Jr. | Jan. 21, 1953 |
| Postmaster General | Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield | Jan. 21, 1953 |
| Secretary of Interior | • Douglas McKay • Frederick Andrew Seaton | • Jan. 21, 1953 • June 8, 1956 |
| Secretary of Agriculture | Ezra Taft Benson | Jan. 21, 1953 |
| Secretary of Commerce | Sinclair Weeks | Jan. 21, 1953 |
| Secretary of Labor | • Martin Patrick Durkin • James Paul Mitchell | • Jan. 21, 1953 • Oct. 8, 1953 |
| Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare | • Oveta Culp Hobby • Marion Bayard Folsom | • April 11, 1953 • Aug. 1, 1955 |
SECOND TERM CABINET
January 20, 1957 - January 20, 1961
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Group photo of Second Administration Cabinet members. Clockwise around the table are: Deputy Assistant to the President Wilton Persons, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Vice President Richard Nixon, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, HEW Secretary Marion Folsom, Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson, Budget Director Percival Brundage, Director of Defense Mobilization Gordon Gray, Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, DDE, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary to the Cabinet Maxwell Raab, and Assistant to the President Sherman Adams, Jr.
May 10, 1957
National Park Service photo
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Group photo of Second Administration Cabinet members. Clockwise around the table are: Deputy Assistant to the President Wilton Persons, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Vice President Richard Nixon, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, HEW Secretary Marion Folsom, Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson, Budget Director Percival Brundage, Director of Defense Mobilization Gordon Gray, Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, DDE, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary to the Cabinet Maxwell Raab, and Assistant to the President Sherman Adams, Jr.
May 10, 1957
National Park Service photo
| TITLE | NAME | START DATE |
| Secretary of State | • John Foster Dulles • Christian Archibald Herter | • Jan. 21, 1953 • April 22, 1959 |
| Secretary of Treasury | • George Magoffin Humphrey • Robert Bernard Anderson | • Jan. 21, 1953 • July 29, 1957 |
| Secretary of Defense | • Charles Erwin Wilson • Neil Hosler McElroy • Thomas S. Gates, Jr. | • Jan. 28, 1953 • Oct. 9, 1957 • Dec. 2, 1959 |
| Attorney General | • Herbert Brownell, Jr. • William Pierce Rogers | • Jan. 21, 1953 • Nov. 8, 1957 |
| Postmaster General | Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield | Jan. 21, 1953 |
| Secretary of Interior | Frederick Andrew Seaton | June 8, 1956 |
| Secretary of Agriculture | Ezra Taft Benson | Jan. 21, 1953 |
| Secretary of Commerce | • Sinclair Weeks • Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss • Frederick H. Mueller | • Jan. 21, 1953 • Nov. 13, 1958 • Aug. 19, 1959 |
| Secretary of Labor | James Paul Mitchell | Oct. 8, 1953 |
| Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare | • Marion Bayard Folsom • Arthur Sherwood Flemming | • Aug. 1, 1955 • Aug. 1, 1958 |