United States Secretary of Commerce

The **United States Secretary of Commerce** is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce." Until 1913 there was one Secretary of Commerce and Labor, uniting this department with the Department of Labor, which is now headed by a separate Secretary of Labor.

## List of U.S. secretaries of commerce

- Parties
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- Status

|No.|class=unsortable|Portrait|Name|State of residence|Took office|Left office|colspan=2|President(s)||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|||New York|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1913–1921)||||||
|||Missouri||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|California|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||style="background: ;"||(1921–1923)||
|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1923-1929)|||||||||||
|||Massachusetts||||||||||||
|||Illinois|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1929–1933)||||||
|||Michigan||||||||||||
|||South Carolina|||rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4|(1933–1945)||||||
|||New York||||||||||||
|||Texas||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Iowa|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||||||
|rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4|(1945–1953)|||||||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"|Missouri|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||||||
|||New York||||||||||||
|||Ohio||||||||||||
|||Massachusetts|||rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4|(1953–1961)||||||
|||New York||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Michigan|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|North Carolina|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||style="background: ;"||(1961–1963)||
|rowspan=5 style="background: ;"||rowspan=5|(1963–1969)|||||||||||
|||New Jersey||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|New York|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||||||
|||New York||||||||||||
|||New York|||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1969–1974)||||||
|||Illinois||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|South Carolina|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||||||
|rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1974–1977)|||||||||||
|||Maryland||||||||||||
|||Massachusetts||||||||||||
|||North Carolina|||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1977–1981)||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"|North Carolina|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||||||
|||Illinois||||||||||||
|||Connecticut|||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1981–1989)||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"|Ohio|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||||||
|||Ohio||||||||||||
|||Texas|||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1989–1993)||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6aa;"|California|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||||||
|||Pennsylvania||||||||||||
|||New York|||rowspan=6 style="background: ;"||rowspan=6|(1993–2001)||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|Texas|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||||||
|||Tennessee||||||||||||
|||Illinois||||||||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"|Texas|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||||||
|||California||||||||||||
|||Texas|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(2001–2009)||||||
|||Florida||||||||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||rowspan=7 style="background: ;"||rowspan=7|(2009–2017)|
|||Washington||||||||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"|Minnesota|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||||||
|||New York||||||||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"|Minnesota|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"|Massachusetts|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||||||
|||Illinois||||||||||||
|colspan=3|_Vacant_|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(2017–2021)|||||||
|||Florida||||||||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"|Virginia|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(2021–2025)|
|||Rhode Island||||||||||||
|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"|Maryland|style="background:#E6E6AA;"||style="background:#E6E6AA;"||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(2025–present)|
|||New York||Incumbent||||||||||

## Living former secretaries of commerce

As of December 2025, there are nine living former secretaries of agriculture, the oldest being Wilbur Ross (served 2017-2021). The most recent death of a former secretary of state was that of John Bryson (served 2011-2012) on May 13, 2025.

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: United States Secretary
- **body**: Commerce
- **flag**: Flag of the United States Secretary of Commerce.svg
- **flagborder**: yes
- **flagsize**: 130
- **flagcaption**: Flag of the secretary
- **insignia**: Seal of the United States Department of Commerce.svg
- **insigniasize**: 120
- **insigniacaption**: Seal of the United States Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce
- **image**: Howard Lutnick 2025.jpg
- **incumbent**: Howard Lutnick
- **incumbentsince**: February 19, 2025
- **department**: United States Department of Commerce
- **style**: Madam Secretary (informal)
The Honourable#United States, The Honorable (formal)
- **member of**: United States Cabinet, Cabinet
- **reports to**: President of the United States
- **seat**: Herbert C. Hoover Building, Washington, D.C.
- **appointer**: President of the United States
- **appointer qualified**: with United States Senate advice and consent
- **termlength**: No fixed term
- **precursor**: United States Department of Commerce and Labor, Secretary of Commerce and Labor
- **first**: William C. Redfield
- **succession**: United States presidential line of succession, Tenth
- **deputy**: Deputy Secretary of Commerce
- **salary**: Executive Schedule, Executive Schedule, Level I