List of foreign-born United States Cabinet Secretaries
Defunct departments
The departments are listed in order of their establishment (earliest first). denotes the first foreign-born secretary of that particular department

List of foreign-born United States Cabinet Secretaries

Section Title: Defunct departments
Table Section Text: The departments are listed in order of their establishment (earliest first). denotes the first foreign-born secretary of that particular department

#	Secretary	Position	Year appointed	Country of birth	Party	Administration	Ref.

1	—	Postmaster General	—	—	—	—	—

2	—	Secretary of the Navy	—	—	—	—	—

3	James McHenry*	Secretary of War	1796	Ireland	Independent	George Washington

Federalist	John Adams

4	Oscar Straus*	Secretary of Commerce and Labor	1906	Germany	Republican	Theodore Roosevelt

5	Anthony Celebrezze*	Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	1962	Italy	Democratic	John F. Kennedy

Lyndon Johnson

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Irish-born James McHenry, who was appointed by Washington as Secretary of War in 1796 and served the same post in John Adams's administration.

final_sentence: Irish-born James McHenry, who was appointed by Washington as Secretary of War in 1796 and served the same post in John Adams's administration.