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The United States secretary of the interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior. The secretary and the Department of the Interior are responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land along with natural resources, leading such agencies as the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Geological Survey, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service. The secretary also serves on and appoints the private citizens on the National Park Foundation Board. The secretary is a member of the United States Cabinet and reports to the president of the United States. The function of the U.S. Department of the Interior is different from that of the interior minister designated in many other countries.

As the policies and activities of the Department of the Interior and many of its agencies have a substantial impact in the Western United States,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the secretary of the interior has typically come from a western state; only one secretary since 1949, Rogers Morton, was not a resident or native of a state lying west of the Mississippi River.

Secretary of the Interior is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule,<ref>Template:UnitedStatesCode</ref> thus earning a salary of US$246,400, as of January 2024.<ref name="opm-pay-table-2024ex"> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The current interior secretary is Doug Burgum, who was sworn in on February 1, 2025.

Line of successionEdit

The line of succession for the secretary of the interior is as follows:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

  1. Deputy Secretary of the Interior
  2. Solicitor of the Interior
  3. Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget
  4. Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management
  5. Assistant Secretary for Water and Science
  6. Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks
  7. Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs
  8. Director, Security, Safety, and Law Enforcement, Bureau of Reclamation
  9. Central Region Director, US Geological Survey
  10. Intermountain Regional Director, National Park Service
  11. Region 6 (Mountain-Prairie Region) Director, US Fish and Wildlife Service
  12. Colorado State Director, Bureau of Land Management
  13. Regional Solicitor, Rocky Mountain Region

List of secretaries of the interiorEdit

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Parties

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Number Portrait Name State of residence Took office Left office President(s)
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |1 File:ThomasEwingSr.jpg Thomas Ewing Ohio Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1849–1850)
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(1850–1853)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |2 File:Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan.png Template:Sortname Pennsylvania Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |3 File:AxHHStuart (cropped).jpg Template:Sortname Virginia Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">4 File:Robert McClelland 1.jpg Template:Sortname Michigan Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1853–1857)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">5 File:Jacob Thompson (ca. 1857).jpg Template:Sortname Mississippi Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1857–1861)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">6 File:CBSmith.jpg Template:Sortname Indiana Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1861–1865)
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">7 File:John Palmer Usher.jpg Template:Sortname Indiana Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |
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(1865–1869)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">8 File:James-Harlan.jpg Template:Sortname Iowa Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" |
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">9 File:Orville Hickman Browning - Brady-Handy.jpg Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" |
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">10 File:Jacob Dolson Cox - Brady-Handy.jpg Template:Sortname Ohio Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1869–1877)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">11 File:CDelano.jpg Template:Sortname Ohio Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">12 File:Zachariah Chandler.jpg Template:Sortname Michigan Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">13 File:Carl-Schurz.jpg Template:Sortname Missouri Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1887–1881)
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">14 File:Samuel Jordan Kirkwood.png Template:Sortname Iowa Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1881)
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1881–1885)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">15 File:Henry Moore Teller.png Template:Sortname Colorado Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">16 File:Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar.png Template:Sortname Mississippi Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1885–1889)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">17 File:Vilas2.jpg Template:Sortname Wisconsin Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">18 File:John Willock Noble.png Template:Sortname Missouri Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1889–1893)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">19 File:M. Hoke Smith, 1912.jpg Template:Sortname Georgia Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1893–1897)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">20 File:David Rowland Francis.png Template:Sortname Missouri Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">21 File:Cornelius Newton Bliss.jpg Template:Sortname New York Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1897–1901)
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">22 File:EAHitchcock-SecInterior.jpg Template:Sortname Missouri Template:Dts Template:Dts
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(1901–1909)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">23 File:James Rudolph Garfield.png Template:Sortname Ohio Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">24 File:Richard Achilles Ballinger.png Template:Sortname Washington Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1909–1913)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">25 File:Walter L. Fisher cph.3a00307.jpg Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">26 File:Franklin Knight Lane.png Template:Sortname California Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1913–1921)
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California Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">27 File:John Barton Payne (1855–1935) - Official portrait.jpg Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">28 File:Albert Fall.jpg Template:Sortname New Mexico Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1921–1923)
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">29 File:Hubert Work cph.3b20185.jpg Template:Sortname Colorado Template:Dts Template:Dts
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(1923–1929)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">30 File:Roy Owen West.png Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">31 File:RayLymanWilbur.gif Template:Sortname California Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1929–1933)
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">32 File:Ickes.gif Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1933–1945)
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(1945–1953)
File:Oscar Littleton Chapman.png Template:Sortname
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Colorado Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">33 File:Julius A Krug.png Template:Sortname Wisconsin Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">34 File:Oscar Littleton Chapman.png Template:Sortname Colorado Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">35 File:Douglas McKay.png Template:Sortname Oregon Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1953–1961)
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Nebraska Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">36 File:Seaton.gif Template:Sortname Nebraska Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">37 File:Stewart L Udall - 1960s.gif Template:Sortname Arizona Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1961–1963)
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(1963–1969)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">38 File:Hickel.gif Template:Sortname Alaska Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1969–1974)
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California Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">39 File:RogersClarkBallardMorton.jpg Template:Sortname Maryland Template:Dts Template:Dts
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(1974–1977)
File:Kent Frizzell - Department of Justice.jpg Template:Sortname
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Kansas Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">40 File:Stanley K Hathaway.png Template:Sortname Wyoming Template:Dts Template:Dts
File:Kent Frizzell - Department of Justice.jpg Template:Sortname
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Kansas Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">41 File:Thomas S Kleppe.gif Template:Sortname North Dakota Template:Dts Template:Dts
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(1977–1981)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">42 File:Cecil D Andrus.png Template:Sortname Idaho Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">43 File:James g watt.png Template:Sortname Colorado Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=4 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1981–1989)
File:J.J. Simmons, III - Surface Transportation Board Vice Chairman.jpg Template:Sortname
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New Jersey Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">44 File:William patrick clark.png Template:Sortname California Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">45 File:Donald hodel.JPG Template:Sortname Oregon Template:Dts Template:Dts
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Virginia Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1989–1993)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">46 File:Lujan manuel.jpg Template:Sortname New Mexico Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">47 File:Bruce babbitt.jpg Template:Sortname Arizona Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1993–2001)
File:Thomas Slonaker, Special Trustee for American Indians, Department of Interior - NARA - 5609637.jpg Template:Sortname
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Arizona Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=5 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(2001–2009)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">48 File:Gale Norton.jpeg Template:Sortname Colorado Template:Dts Template:Dts
File:Lynn Scarlett.jpg Template:Sortname
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California Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">49 File:Dirk Kempthorne, official Interior Dept color photo, 2006.jpg Template:Sortname Idaho Template:Dts Template:Dts
File:Lynn Scarlett.jpg Template:Sortname
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California Template:Dts Template:Dts
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(2009–2017)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">50 File:Ken Salazar official DOI portrait.jpg Template:Sortname Colorado Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">51 File:Sally Jewell official portrait.jpg Template:Sortname Washington Template:Dts<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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(2017–2021)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">52 File:Ryan Zinke official portrait (cropped).jpg Template:Sortname Montana Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">53 File:David Bernhardt official photo.jpg Template:Sortname Colorado Template:Dts Template:Dts
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File:Scott de la Vega.jpg Template:Sortname
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New York Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(2021–2025)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">54 File:Secretary Deb Haaland, official headshot.jpg Template:Sortname New Mexico Template:Dts Template:Dts
File:Walter Cruickshank official photo.jpg Template:Sortname
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(2025–present)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">55 File:Portait of Secretary Doug Burgum, 2025 (cropped) (cropped).jpg Template:Sortname North Dakota Template:Dts present

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