USA Government

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Legislative

Speakers of the House of Representatives

No. Name Term Start Term End Party State
1 Frederick Muhlenberg 1789-04-01 1791-03-04 Pro-Admin Pennsylvania
2 Jonathan Trumbull Jr. 1791-10-24 1793-03-04 Pro-Admin Connecticut
3 Frederick Muhlenberg 1793-12-02 1795-03-04 Pro-Admin Pennsylvania
4 Jonathan Dayton 1795-12-07 1799-03-04 Federalist New Jersey
5 Theodore Sedgwick 1799-12-02 1801-03-04 Federalist Massachusetts
6 Nathaniel Macon 1801-12-07 1807-03-04 Democratic-Repub North Carolina
7 Joseph B. Varnum 1807-10-26 1811-03-04 Democratic-Repub Massachusetts
8 Henry Clay 1811-11-04 1814-01-19 Democratic-Repub Kentucky
9 Langdon Cheves 1814-01-19 1815-03-04 Democratic-Repub South Carolina
10 John W. Taylor 1819-12-06 1821-03-04 Democratic-Repub New York
11 Philip P. Barbour 1821-12-03 1823-03-04 Democratic-Repub Virginia
12 Henry Clay 1823-12-01 1825-03-04 Democratic-Repub Kentucky
13 John W. Taylor 1825-12-05 1827-03-04 Adams New York
14 Andrew Stevenson 1827-12-03 1834-06-02 Jacksonian Virginia
15 John Bell 1834-06-02 1835-03-04 Jacksonian Tennessee
16 James K. Polk 1835-12-07 1839-03-04 Democratic Tennessee
17 Robert M.T. Hunter 1839-12-16 1841-03-04 Whig Virginia
18 John White 1841-05-31 1843-03-04 Whig Kentucky
19 John Winston Jones 1843-12-04 1845-03-04 Democratic Virginia
20 John Wesley Davis 1845-12-01 1847-03-04 Democratic Indiana
21 Robert C. Winthrop 1847-12-06 1849-03-04 Whig Massachusetts
22 Howell Cobb 1849-12-22 1851-03-04 Democratic Georgia
23 Linn Boyd 1851-12-01 1855-03-04 Democratic Kentucky
24 Nathaniel P. Banks 1856-02-02 1857-03-04 American Party Massachusetts
25 James L. Orr 1857-12-07 1859-03-04 Democratic South Carolina
26 William Pennington 1860-02-01 1861-03-04 Republican New Jersey
27 Galusha A. Grow 1861-07-04 1863-03-04 Republican Pennsylvania
28 Schuyler Colfax 1863-12-07 1869-03-04 Republican Indiana
29 Theodore M. Pomeroy 1869-03-03 1869-03-04 Republican New York
30 James G. Blaine 1869-12-06 1875-03-04 Republican Maine
31 Michael C. Kerr 1875-12-06 1876-08-19 Democratic Indiana
32 Samuel J. Randall 1876-12-04 1881-03-04 Democratic Pennsylvania
33 J. Warren Keifer 1881-12-05 1883-03-04 Republican Ohio
34 John G. Carlisle 1883-12-03 1889-03-04 Democratic Kentucky
35 Thomas B. Reed 1889-12-02 1891-03-04 Republican Maine
36 Charles F. Crisp 1891-12-07 1895-03-04 Democratic Georgia
37 Thomas B. Reed 1895-12-02 1899-03-04 Republican Maine
38 David B. Henderson 1899-12-04 1903-03-04 Republican Iowa
39 Joseph G. Cannon 1903-11-09 1911-03-04 Republican Illinois
40 Champ Clark 1911-04-04 1919-03-04 Democratic Missouri
41 Frederick H. Gillett 1919-05-19 1925-03-04 Republican Massachusetts
42 Nicholas Longworth 1925-12-07 1931-03-04 Republican Ohio
43 John N. Garner 1931-12-07 1933-03-04 Democratic Texas
44 Henry T. Rainey 1933-03-09 1934-08-19 Democratic Illinois
45 Joseph W. Byrns 1935-01-03 1936-06-04 Democratic Tennessee
46 William B. Bankhead 1936-06-04 1940-09-15 Democratic Alabama
47 Sam Rayburn 1940-09-16 1947-01-03 Democratic Texas
48 Joseph W. Martin Jr. 1947-01-03 1949-01-03 Republican Massachusetts
49 Sam Rayburn 1949-01-03 1953-01-03 Democratic Texas
50 Joseph W. Martin Jr. 1953-01-03 1955-01-03 Republican Massachusetts
51 Sam Rayburn 1955-01-03 1961-11-16 Democratic Texas
52 John W. McCormack 1962-01-10 1971-01-03 Democratic Massachusetts
53 Carl Albert 1971-01-03 1977-01-03 Democratic Oklahoma
54 Tip O'Neill 1977-01-04 1987-01-03 Democratic Massachusetts
55 Jim Wright 1987-01-06 1989-06-06 Democratic Texas
56 Tom Foley 1989-06-06 1995-01-03 Democratic Washington
57 Newt Gingrich 1995-01-04 1999-01-03 Republican Georgia
58 Dennis Hastert 1999-01-06 2007-01-03 Republican Illinois
59 Nancy Pelosi 2007-01-04 2011-01-03 Democratic California
60 John Boehner 2011-01-05 2015-10-29 Republican Ohio
61 Paul Ryan 2015-10-29 2019-01-03 Republican Wisconsin
62 Nancy Pelosi 2019-01-03 2023-01-03 Democratic California
63 Kevin McCarthy 2023-01-07 2023-10-03 Republican California
64 Mike Johnson 2023-10-25 Incumbent Republican Louisiana

Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate

Executive

White House

Presidents

No. President Term Start Term End State
1 George Washington 1789 1797 Virginia
2 John Adams 1797 1801 Massachusetts
3 Thomas Jefferson 1801 1809 Virginia
4 James Madison 1809 1817 Virginia
5 James Monroe 1817 1825 Virginia
6 John Quincy Adams 1825 1829 Massachusetts
7 Andrew Jackson 1829 1837 Tennessee
8 Martin Van Buren 1837 1841 New York
9 William Henry Harrison 1841 1841 Indiana
10 John Tyler 1841 1845 Virginia
11 James K. Polk 1845 1849 Tennessee
12 Zachary Taylor 1849 1850 Louisiana
13 Millard Fillmore 1850 1853 New York
14 Franklin Pierce 1853 1857 New Hampshire
15 James Buchanan 1857 1861 Pennsylvania
16 Abraham Lincoln 1861 1865 Illinois
17 Andrew Johnson 1865 1869 Tennessee
18 Ulysses S. Grant 1869 1877 Illinois
19 Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 1881 Ohio
20 James A. Garfield 1881 1881 Ohio
21 Chester A. Arthur 1881 1885 New York
22 Grover Cleveland 1885 1889 New York
23 Benjamin Harrison 1889 1893 Indiana
24 Grover Cleveland 1893 1897 New York
25 William McKinley 1897 1901 Ohio
26 Theodore Roosevelt 1901 1909 New York
27 William Howard Taft 1909 1913 Ohio
28 Woodrow Wilson 1913 1921 New Jersey
29 Warren G. Harding 1921 1923 Ohio
30 Calvin Coolidge 1923 1929 Vermont
31 Herbert Hoover 1929 1933 California
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933 1945 New York
33 Harry S. Truman 1945 1953 Missouri
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953 1961 Kansas
35 John F. Kennedy 1961 1963 Massachusetts
36 Lyndon B. Johnson 1963 1969 Texas
37 Richard Nixon 1969 1974 California
38 Gerald Ford 1974 1977 Michigan
39 Jimmy Carter 1977 1981 Georgia
40 Ronald Reagan 1981 1989 California
41 George H. W. Bush 1989 1993 Texas
42 Bill Clinton 1993 2001 Arkansas
43 George W. Bush 2001 2009 Texas
44 Barack Obama 2009 2017 Illinois
45 Donald Trump 2017 2021 New York
46 Joe Biden 2021 2025 Delaware
47 Donald Trump 2025 Incumbent Florida

Vice Presidents

No. Vice President President Term Start Term End
1 John Adams George Washington 1789 1797
2 Thomas Jefferson John Adams 1797 1801
3 Aaron Burr Thomas Jefferson 1801 1805
4 George Clinton Thomas Jefferson 1805 1809
5 Elbridge Gerry James Madison 1813 1814
6 Daniel D. Tompkins James Monroe 1817 1825
7 John C. Calhoun John Quincy Adams 1825 1829
8 Martin Van Buren Andrew Jackson 1833 1837
9 Richard Mentor Johnson Martin Van Buren 1837 1841
10 John Tyler William Henry Harrison 1841 1841
11 George M. Dallas James K. Polk 1845 1849
12 Millard Fillmore Zachary Taylor 1849 1850
13 William R. King Franklin Pierce 1853 1853
14 John C. Breckinridge James Buchanan 1857 1861
15 Hannibal Hamlin Abraham Lincoln 1861 1865
16 Andrew Johnson Abraham Lincoln 1865 1865
17 Schuyler Colfax Ulysses S. Grant 1869 1873
18 Henry Wilson Ulysses S. Grant 1873 1875
19 William A. Wheeler Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 1881
20 Chester A. Arthur James A. Garfield 1881 1881
21 Thomas A. Hendricks Grover Cleveland 1885 1889
22 Levi P. Morton Benjamin Harrison 1889 1893
23 Adlai Stevenson I Grover Cleveland 1893 1897
24 Garret A. Hobart William McKinley 1897 1899
25 Theodore Roosevelt William McKinley 1901 1901
26 Charles W. Fairbanks Theodore Roosevelt 1905 1909
27 James S. Sherman William Howard Taft 1909 1912
28 Thomas R. Marshall Woodrow Wilson 1913 1921
29 Calvin Coolidge Warren G. Harding 1921 1923
30 Charles G. Dawes Calvin Coolidge 1925 1929
31 Charles Curtis Herbert Hoover 1929 1933
32 John Nance Garner Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933 1941
33 Henry A. Wallace Franklin D. Roosevelt 1941 1945
34 Harry S. Truman Franklin D. Roosevelt 1945 1945
35 Alben W. Barkley Harry S. Truman 1949 1953
36 Richard Nixon Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953 1961
37 Lyndon B. Johnson John F. Kennedy 1961 1963
38 Hubert Humphrey Lyndon B. Johnson 1965 1969
39 Spiro T. Agnew Richard Nixon 1969 1973
40 Gerald Ford Richard Nixon 1973 1974
41 Nelson Rockefeller Gerald Ford 1974 1977
42 Walter Mondale Jimmy Carter 1977 1981
43 George H. W. Bush Ronald Reagan 1981 1989
44 Dan Quayle George H. W. Bush 1989 1993
45 Al Gore Bill Clinton 1993 2001
46 Dick Cheney George W. Bush 2001 2009
47 Joe Biden Barack Obama 2009 2017
48 Mike Pence Donald Trump 2017 2021
49 Kamala Harris Joe Biden 2021 2025
50 JD Vance Donald Trump 2025 Incumbent

Chiefs of Staff

No. Name Term Start Term End President(s) Served
1 John R. Steelman 1946-12-12 1953-01-20 Harry S. Truman
2 Sherman Adams 1953-01-20 1958-10-07 Dwight D. Eisenhower
3 Wilton Persons 1958-10-07 1961-01-20 Dwight D. Eisenhower
4 Kenneth O'Donnell 1961-01-20 1963-11-22 John F. Kennedy
5 Walter Jenkins 1963-11-22 1964-10-14 Lyndon B. Johnson
6 W. Marvin Watson 1965-02-01 1968-04-26 Lyndon B. Johnson
7 James R. Jones 1968-04-26 1969-01-20 Lyndon B. Johnson
8 H. R. Haldeman 1969-01-20 1973-04-30 Richard Nixon
9 Alexander Haig 1973-05-04 1974-09-21 Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
10 Donald Rumsfeld 1974-09-21 1975-11-20 Gerald Ford
11 Dick Cheney 1975-11-20 1977-01-20 Gerald Ford
12 Hamilton Jordan 1979-06-11 1980-06-30 Jimmy Carter
13 Jack Watson 1980-06-30 1981-01-20 Jimmy Carter
14 James Baker 1981-01-20 1985-02-03 Ronald Reagan
15 Donald Regan 1985-02-04 1987-02-27 Ronald Reagan
16 Howard Baker 1987-02-27 1988-07-01 Ronald Reagan
17 Kenneth Duberstein 1988-07-01 1989-01-20 Ronald Reagan
18 John H. Sununu 1989-01-20 1991-12-15 George H. W. Bush
19 Samuel K. Skinner 1991-12-16 1992-08-23 George H. W. Bush
20 James Baker 1992-08-24 1993-01-20 George H. W. Bush
21 Mack McLarty 1993-01-20 1994-07-17 Bill Clinton
22 Leon Panetta 1994-07-17 1997-01-20 Bill Clinton
23 Erskine Bowles 1997-01-20 1998-10-20 Bill Clinton
24 John Podesta 1998-10-20 2001-01-20 Bill Clinton
25 Andrew Card 2001-01-20 2006-04-14 George W. Bush
26 Joshua Bolten 2006-04-14 2009-01-20 George W. Bush
27 Rahm Emanuel 2009-01-20 2010-10-01 Barack Obama
28 Pete Rouse (Acting) 2010-10-01 2011-01-13 Barack Obama
29 William M. Daley 2011-01-13 2012-01-09 Barack Obama
30 Jack Lew 2012-01-09 2013-01-25 Barack Obama
31 Denis McDonough 2013-01-25 2017-01-20 Barack Obama
32 Reince Priebus 2017-01-20 2017-07-31 Donald Trump
33 John F. Kelly 2017-07-31 2019-01-02 Donald Trump
34 Mick Mulvaney (Acting) 2019-01-02 2020-03-31 Donald Trump
35 Mark Meadows 2020-03-31 2021-01-20 Donald Trump
36 Ron Klain 2021-01-20 2023-02-08 Joe Biden
37 Jeff Zients 2023-02-08 2025-01-20 Joe Biden
38 Susie Wiles 2025-01-20 Incumbent Donald Trump

Cabinet

Department of State

Secretaries of State
No. Name Term Start Term End President(s) Served
1 Thomas Jefferson 1790-03-22 1793-12-31 George Washington
2 Edmund J. Randolph 1794-01-02 1795-08-20 George Washington
3 Timothy Pickering 1795-12-10 1800-05-12 George Washington, John Adams
4 John Marshall 1800-06-06 1801-03-04 John Adams
5 James Madison 1801-03-05 1809-03-03 Thomas Jefferson
6 Robert Smith 1809-03-06 1811-04-01 James Madison
7 James Monroe 1811-04-02 1817-03-04 James Madison
8 John Quincy Adams 1817-09-22 1825-03-04 James Monroe
9 Henry Clay 1825-03-07 1829-03-04 John Quincy Adams
10 Martin Van Buren 1829-03-28 1831-05-23 Andrew Jackson
11 Edward Livingston 1831-05-24 1833-05-29 Andrew Jackson
12 Louis McLane 1833-05-29 1834-06-30 Andrew Jackson
13 John Forsyth 1834-06-27 1841-03-04 Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren
14 Daniel Webster 1841-03-06 1843-05-08 William H. Harrison, John Tyler
15 Abel P. Upshur 1843-07-24 1844-02-28 John Tyler
16 John C. Calhoun 1844-04-01 1845-03-10 John Tyler
17 James Buchanan 1845-03-10 1849-03-07 James K. Polk
18 John M. Clayton 1849-03-08 1850-07-22 Zachary Taylor
19 Daniel Webster 1850-07-23 1852-10-24 Millard Fillmore
20 Edward Everett 1852-11-06 1853-03-04 Millard Fillmore
21 William L. Marcy 1853-03-07 1857-03-06 Franklin Pierce
22 Lewis Cass 1857-03-06 1860-12-14 James Buchanan
23 Jeremiah S. Black 1860-12-17 1861-03-05 James Buchanan
24 William H. Seward 1861-03-05 1869-03-04 Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
25 Elihu B. Washburne 1869-03-05 1869-03-16 Ulysses S. Grant
26 Hamilton Fish 1869-03-17 1877-03-12 Ulysses S. Grant
27 William M. Evarts 1877-03-12 1881-03-07 Rutherford B. Hayes
28 James G. Blaine 1881-03-07 1881-12-19 James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur
29 Frederick T. Frelinghuysen 1881-12-19 1885-03-06 Chester A. Arthur
30 Thomas F. Bayard 1885-03-07 1889-03-06 Grover Cleveland
31 James G. Blaine 1889-03-07 1892-06-04 Benjamin Harrison
32 John W. Foster 1892-06-29 1893-02-23 Benjamin Harrison
33 Walter Q. Gresham 1893-03-07 1895-05-28 Grover Cleveland
34 Richard Olney 1895-06-10 1897-03-05 Grover Cleveland
35 John Sherman 1897-03-06 1898-04-27 William McKinley
36 William R. Day 1898-04-28 1898-09-16 William McKinley
37 John Hay 1898-09-30 1905-07-01 William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt
38 Elihu Root 1905-07-19 1909-01-27 Theodore Roosevelt
39 Robert Bacon 1909-01-27 1909-03-05 Theodore Roosevelt
40 Philander C. Knox 1909-03-06 1913-03-05 William H. Taft
41 William J. Bryan 1913-03-05 1915-06-09 Woodrow Wilson
42 Robert Lansing 1915-06-24 1920-02-13 Woodrow Wilson
43 Bainbridge Colby 1920-03-23 1921-03-04 Woodrow Wilson
44 Charles E. Hughes 1921-03-05 1925-03-04 Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
45 Frank B. Kellogg 1925-03-05 1929-03-28 Calvin Coolidge
46 Henry L. Stimson 1929-03-28 1933-03-04 Herbert Hoover
47 Cordell Hull 1933-03-04 1944-11-30 Franklin D. Roosevelt
48 Edward Stettinius Jr. 1944-12-01 1945-06-27 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
49 James F. Byrnes 1945-07-03 1947-01-21 Harry S. Truman
50 George C. Marshall 1947-01-21 1949-01-20 Harry S. Truman
51 Dean Acheson 1949-01-21 1953-01-20 Harry S. Truman
52 John Foster Dulles 1953-01-21 1959-04-22 Dwight D. Eisenhower
53 Christian A. Herter 1959-04-22 1961-01-20 Dwight D. Eisenhower
54 Dean Rusk 1961-01-21 1969-01-20 John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
55 William P. Rogers 1969-01-22 1973-09-03 Richard Nixon
56 Henry Kissinger 1973-09-22 1977-01-20 Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
57 Cyrus Vance 1977-01-23 1980-04-28 Jimmy Carter
58 Edmund Muskie 1980-05-08 1981-01-20 Jimmy Carter
59 Alexander Haig 1981-01-22 1982-07-05 Ronald Reagan
60 George P. Shultz 1982-07-16 1989-01-20 Ronald Reagan
61 James Baker 1989-01-25 1992-08-23 George H. W. Bush
62 Lawrence Eagleburger 1992-12-08 1993-01-20 George H. W. Bush
63 Warren Christopher 1993-01-20 1997-01-17 Bill Clinton
64 Madeleine Albright 1997-01-23 2001-01-20 Bill Clinton
65 Colin Powell 2001-01-20 2005-03-16 George W. Bush
66 Condoleezza Rice 2005-01-26 2009-01-20 George W. Bush
67 Hillary Clinton 2009-01-21 2013-02-01 Barack Obama
68 John Kerry 2013-02-01 2017-01-20 Barack Obama
69 Rex Tillerson 2017-02-01 2018-03-31 Donald Trump
70 Mike Pompeo 2018-04-26 2021-01-20 Donald Trump
71 Antony Blinken 2021-01-26 2025-01-20 Joe Biden
72 Marco Rubio 2025-01-21 Incumbent Donald Trump
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