United States Secretary of Education
List of Secretaries of Education

United States Secretary of Education

Section Title: List of Secretaries of Education
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No.	Portrait	name	State of Residence	Took Office	Left Office	President

1	-	Shirley Hufstedler	California	November 30, 1979	January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter

2	-	Terrel Bell	Utah	January 22, 1981	January 20, 1985	Ronald Reagan

-	William Bennett	New York	February 6, 1985	September 20, 1988

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4	-	Lauro Cavazos	Texas	September 20, 1988	December 12, 1990

George H. W. Bush

–	-	Ted Sanders Acting	Illinois	December 12, 1990	March 22, 1991

5	-	Lamar Alexander	Tennessee	March 22, 1991	January 20, 1993

6	-	Richard Riley	South Carolina	January 21, 1993	January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton

7	-	Rod Paige	Texas	January 20, 2001	January 20, 2005	George W. Bush

8	-	Margaret Spellings	January 20, 2005	January 20, 2009

9	-	Arne Duncan	Illinois	January 21, 2009	January 1, 2016	Barack Obama

10	-	John King Jr.	New York	January 1, 2016	March 14, 2016

March 14, 2016	January 20, 2017

–	-	Phil Rosenfelt Acting	Virginia	January 20, 2017	February 7, 2017	Donald Trump

11	-	Betsy DeVos	Michigan	February 7, 2017	Incumbent

Sentence(s)

The current Education Secretary is Betsy DeVos, under President Donald Trump, from February 7, 2017.

final_sentence: The current Education Secretary is Betsy DeVos, under President Donald Trump, from February 7, 2017.