List of United States political appointments across party lines
List of appointees
Ɨ Person was an appointee of the previous administration and was reappointed or retained by the President.

List of United States political appointments across party lines

Section Title: List of appointees
Table Section Text: Ɨ Person was an appointee of the previous administration and was reappointed or retained by the President.

Appointee	Position	Term ↑	President

Name	Party	Name	Party

Thomas Jefferson	Anti-Administration	Secretary of State	1790–1793	George Washington	Pro-Administration

James Monroe	Anti-Administration	Minister to France	1794–1796

Edmund J. Randolph	Federalist	Secretary of State	1794–1795

Timothy Pickering	Federalist	Secretary of State	1795–1797

Joseph Habersham	Federalist	Postmaster General	1801 Ɨ	Thomas Jefferson	Democratic-Republican

Rufus King	Federalist	Minister to Britain	1801–1803 Ɨ

James Bayard	Federalist	Treaty of Ghent peace commissioner	1814	James Madison	Democratic-Republican

Richard Rush	Federalist	Comptroller of the Treasury	1811–1814

Attorney General	1814–1817

Lewis Cass	Democratic	Ambassador to France	1841–1842 Ɨ	William Henry Harrison	Whig

Joseph Holt	Republican	Commissioner of Patents	1857–1859	James Buchanan	Democratic

Postmaster General	1859–1860

Secretary of War	1861

Andrew Johnson	Democratic	Military Governor of Tennessee	1862–1865	Abraham Lincoln	Republican

Henry Connelly	Democratic	Governor of the Territory of New Mexico	1861–1865

George Foster Shepley	Democratic	Military Governor of Louisiana	1862–1864

John S. Phelps	Democratic	Military Governor of Arkansas	1862

Edwin M. Stanton	Democratic	Secretary of War	1862–1865

Daniel Sickles	Democratic	Special Minister to the South American Republics	1865

James Harlan	Republican	Secretary of the Interior	1865–1866	Andrew Johnson	Democratic/Unionist

Henry Stanbery	Republican	Attorney General	1866–1868

Alexander W. Randall	Republican	Postmaster General	1866–1869

Orville H. Browning	Republican	Secretary of the Interior	1866–1869

John M. Schofield	Republican	Secretary of War	1868–1869

William M. Evarts	Republican	Attorney General	1868–1869

Daniel Sickles	Democratic	Minister to Spain	1869–1873	Ulysses S. Grant	Republican

Caleb Cushing	Democratic	Minister to Spain	1874–1877

David M. Key	Democratic	Postmaster General	1877–1880	Rutherford B. Hayes	Republican

Allen G. Thurman	Democratic	Paris international monetary conference	1881	James A. Garfield	Republican

William Rosecrans	Democratic	Register of the Treasury	1889–1893 Ɨ	Benjamin Harrison	Republican

Walter Q. Gresham	Republican	Secretary of State	1893–1895 Ɨ	Grover Cleveland	Democratic

Theodore Roosevelt	Republican	Civil Service Commissioner	1893–1895 Ɨ

Edward S. Bragg	Democratic	Consul General in Havana	1902	Theodore Roosevelt	Republican

Consul General in Hong Kong	1903–1906

Luke E. Wright	Democratic	Secretary of War	1905–1910

Francis Cockrell	Democratic	Interstate Commerce Commission	1908–1909

Jacob M. Dickinson	Democratic	Secretary of War	1909–1911	William Howard Taft	Republican

Herbert Hoover	Republican	Administrator of the United States Food Administration	1917–1919	Woodrow Wilson	Democratic

Elihu Root	Republican	Ambassador extraordinary, mission to Russia	1917

Theodore Roosevelt Jr.	Republican	Governor-General of the Philippines	1933 Ɨ	Franklin Roosevelt	Democratic

Hugh R. Wilson	Republican	Ambassador to Switzerland	1933–1937 Ɨ

Assistant Secretary of State	1937–1938

Ambassador to Germany	1938

William M. Jardine	Republican	Ambassador to Egypt	1933 Ɨ

William H. Woodin	Republican	Secretary of the Treasury	1933

Marriner Stoddard Eccles	Republican	Chairman of the Federal Reserve	1933–1948

Henry Stimson	Republican	Secretary of War	1940–1945

Frank Knox	Republican	Secretary of the Navy	1940–1944

Nelson Rockefeller	Republican	Coordinator of the Office of Inter-American Affairs	1940–1944

Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs	1944–1945

Fiorello La Guardia	Republican	Office of Civilian Defense	1941

William Donovan	Republican	Head of the Office of the Coordinator of Information	1941–1942

Head of the Office of Strategic Services	1942–1945

Patrick J. Hurley	Republican	Minister to New Zealand	1942

Ambassador to China	1945

John Gilbert Winant	Republican	Ambassador to Britain	1941–1946

U.S. Representative to UNESCO	1946	Harry S. Truman	Democratic

Herbert Hoover	Republican	Chairman of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (Hoover Commission)	1947

Warren Austin	Republican	Ambassador to the United Nations	1947–1953

Martin Patrick Durkin	Democratic	Secretary of Labor	1953	Dwight Eisenhower	Republican

Walter F. George	Democratic	Special Ambassador to NATO	1957

William McChesney Martin, Jr.	Democratic	Chairman of the Federal Reserve	1955–1961 Ɨ

Robert Bernard Anderson	Democratic	Secretary of Navy	1953–1954

Deputy Secretary of Defense	1954–1957

Secretary of the Treasury	1957–1961

Robert McNamara	Republican	Secretary of Defense	1961–1968	John F. Kennedy	Democratic

C. Douglas Dillon	Republican	Secretary of the Treasury	1961–1965

John McCone	Republican	Director of Central Intelligence	1961–1965

McGeorge Bundy	Republican	National Security Advisor	1961–1966

Christian Herter	Republican	U.S. Trade Representative	1962–1966

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.	Republican	Ambassador to South Vietnam	1963–1964

Lyndon B. Johnson	Democratic

1965–1967

United States Ambassador at Large	1967–1968

Ambassador to West Germany	1968–1969

John W. Gardner	Republican	Secretary of Health and Human Services	1965-1968

Jack Vaughn	Republican	Director of the Peace Corps	1966-1969

Edward Brooke	Republican	Member of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)	1967

John Lindsay	Republican	Vice Chairman of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)	1967

William McCulloch	Republican	Member of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)	1967

Erwin Griswold	Republican	Solicitor General	1967–1969

William H. Brown III	Republican	Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	1968–1969

Sargent Shriver	Democratic	Ambassador to France	1969–1970 Ɨ	Richard Nixon	Republican

Elizabeth Hanford	Democratic	Deputy Assistant to President for Consumer Affairs	1969–1973

Federal Trade Commission	1973–1977

John Connally	Democratic	Secretary of the Treasury	1971–1972

Daniel Patrick Moynihan	Democratic	Assistant for Urban Affairs	1969–1970

Ambassador to India	1973–1975

Gerald Ford	Republican

Ambassador to the United Nations	1975–1976

Togo D. West Jr.	Democratic	Associate Deputy Attorney General	1975-1976

Robert Casey	Democratic	Federal Maritime Commission	1976–1977

James Schlesinger	Republican	Secretary of Energy	1977–1979	Jimmy Carter	Democratic

Lawrence Eagleburger	Republican	Ambassador to Yugoslavia	1977–1981

William H. Webster	Republican	Director of the FBI	1978-1981

Frank Carlucci	Republican	Deputy Director of the CIA	1978-1981

Mike Mansfield	Democratic	Ambassador to Japan	1981–1988 Ɨ	Ronald Reagan	Republican

Paul Volcker	Democratic	Chairman of the Federal Reserve	1983–1987 Ɨ

Jeane Kirkpatrick	Democratic	Ambassador to the United Nations	1981–1985

William Bennett	Democratic	National Endowment for the Humanities	1981–1985

Secretary of Education	1985–1988

R. James Woolsey Jr.	Democratic	Delegate at Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks	1983–1986

Delegate to the Nuclear and Space Arms Talks	1986–1987

Paul Nitze	Democratic	Chief Negotiator of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty	1981–1984

Eric J. Fygi	Democratic	Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Energy	1981-1989Ɨ

Max Kampelman	Democratic	Ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe	1981–1983 Ɨ

Delegation to the Negotiations with the Soviet Union on Nuclear and Space Arms in Geneva	1985–1989

Counselor to the Department of State	1987–1989

Preston Robert Tisch	Democratic	Postmaster General	1986–1988

Lauro Cavazos	Democratic	Secretary of Education	1988–1990

George H. W. Bush	Republican

Dennis B. Ross	Democratic	Director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff	1989–1992

Eric J. Fygi	Democratic	Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Energy	1989-1993Ɨ

Griffin Bell	Democratic	Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform	1989

Robert Strauss	Democratic	Ambassador to Soviet Union/Russia	1991–1992

Diane Ravitch	Democratic	Assistant Secretary of Education	1991–1993

Richard Stone	Democratic	Ambassador to Denmark	1992–1993

Michael Chertoff	Republican	Attorney for the District of New Jersey	1993–1994 Ɨ	Bill Clinton	Democratic

William S. Sessions	Republican	Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation	1993 Ɨ

David Gergen	Republican	Counselor to the President	1993–1993

Sheila Bair	Republican	Chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting	1993

Roger W. Johnson	Republican	GSA Administrator	1993–1996

Louis Freeh	Republican	Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation	1993–2001

John Negroponte	Republican	Ambassador to the Philippines	1993–1996

William J. Crowe	Republican	Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board	1993–1994

Ambassador to the United Kingdom	1994–1997

Julie Belaga	Republican	Board of Directors of the Export Import Bank	1994–1999

Marc L. Marks	Republican	Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission	1994–2000

John Hamre	Republican	Comptroller of the Department of Defense	1994–1997

Deputy Secretary of Defense	1997–2000

Alan Greenspan	Republican	Chairman of the Federal Reserve	1995–2001 Ɨ

William Cohen	Republican	Secretary of Defense	1997–2001

Robert Mueller	Republican	Attorney for the Northern District of California	1998–2001

David M. Walker	Republican	Comptroller General of the United States	1998–2001

John DiIulio	Democratic	Director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives	2001	George W. Bush	Republican

George McGovern	Democratic	United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture	2001Ɨ

Richard Swett	Democratic	Ambassador to Denmark	2001Ɨ

John Marburger	Democratic	Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy	2001–2009

Tom Schieffer	Democratic	Ambassador to Australia	2001–2005

Ambassador to Japan	2005–2009

Eric J. Fygi	Democratic	Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Energy	2001-2009Ɨ

Norman Mineta	Democratic	Secretary of Transportation	2001–2006

Paul McHale	Democratic	Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense	2002–2006

Richard Carmona	Democratic	Surgeon General	2002–2006

Tony P. Hall	Democratic	United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture	2002–2006

Gracia Hillman	Democratic	Commissioner for the Election Assistance Commission	2003–2009

Pam Iovino	Democratic	Assistant VA Secretary for Congressional and Legislative Affairs	2004–2005

R. David Paulison	Democratic	Federal Emergency Management Agency	2005–2009

Pete Geren	Democratic	Acting Secretary of the Air Force	2005

Secretary of the Army	2006–2009

Zell Miller	Democratic	American Battle Monuments Commission member	2005–2009

Lanny Davis	Democratic	Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board	2006–2007

Diane Farrell	Democratic	Board of Directors of the Export Import Bank	2007–2009

Lois Lerner	Democratic	Director Exempt Organizations	2006–2009

Neel Kashkari	Republican	Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability	2009 Ɨ	Barack Obama	Democratic

Michael B. Donley	Republican	Secretary of the Air Force	2009–2013 Ɨ

Ray LaHood	Republican	Secretary of Transportation	2009–2013

Robert Gates	Republican	Secretary of Defense	2009–2011 Ɨ

Jon Huntsman Jr.	Republican	Ambassador to China	2009–2011

Dan Rooney	Republican	Ambassador to Ireland	2009–2012

Douglas Kmiec	Republican	Ambassador to Malta	2009–2011

John M. McHugh	Republican	Secretary of the Army	2009–2015

Jim Leach	Republican	Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities	2009–2013

Chuck Hagel	Republican	Co-Chair of President's Intelligence Advisory Board	2009–2013

Secretary of Defense	2013–2015

Larry Pressler	Republican	U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad	2009–2014

Ben Bernanke	Republican	Chairman of the Federal Reserve	2010–2014 Ɨ

Jeff Immelt	Republican	Chairperson of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness	2011–2013

Jerome Powell	Republican	Federal Reserve Board of Governors	2012–2017

James Comey	Republican	Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation	2013–2017

Sloan D. Gibson	Republican	United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs	2014–2017

Robert A. McDonald	Republican	Secretary of Veterans Affairs	2014–2017

Chris Smith	Republican	Representative to the United Nations General Assembly	2015-2016

Michael Flynn	Democratic	National Security Advisor	2017	Donald Trump	Republican

Gary Cohn	Democratic	Director of the National Economic Council	2017–2018

Peter Navarro	Democratic	Director of the National Trade Council	2017

Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy	2017–present

Robert O. Work	Democratic	Deputy Secretary of Defense	2017 Ɨ

Jared Kushner	Democratic	Senior Advisor to the President of the United States and Director of the Office of American Innovation	2017–present

Eric J. Fygi	Democratic	Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Energy	2017 – present Ɨ

Jeff Merkley	Democratic	Representative to the United Nations General Assembly	2017-present

Barbara Lee	Democratic	Representative to the United Nations General Assembly	2017-present

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Cohen was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the position of Secretary of Defense, from 1997 to 2001.

final_sentence: Cohen was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the position of Secretary of Defense, from 1997 to 2001.