FIRST TERM CABINET
January 20, 1953 - January 19, 1957
Description
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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
Description
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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 Jan. 21, 1953
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

 

Last Revised Date
July 12, 2023