page_title: List of Yale University people
section_title: Cabinet members, chairpersons/administrators and advisers
hierarchical_section_title: List of Yale University people / Law and politics / Cabinet members, chairpersons/administrators and advisers
caption_attribution_description: Dean G. Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State, January 21, 1949 to January 20, 1953
context_page_description: Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.
context_section_description: The following have worked within the cabinet for their respective governments.
  Dean Acheson (B.A, 1915), Secretary of State in the Truman presidential administration
  James Jesus Angleton (B.A. 1941), chief of CIA Counterintelligence Staff (1954–1974)
  Michael J. Astrue (B.A. 1978), Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (2007–2013)
  Les Aspin (B.A. 1960), Secretary of Defense, congressman (D–Wisconsin) (1971–1993)
  McGeorge Bundy (B.A. 1940), former cabinet official, National Security Advisor (1961–1966)
  Jay Carney (B.A. 1987), White House Press Secretary in the Obama administration, 2011–2017
  Ashton Carter (B.S. 1976), physicist, Harvard University professor, and United States Secretary of Defense in the Obama administration
  John Chafee (B.A. 1947), Governor of Rhode Island (1962–69), Secretary of the Navy (1969–72), U.S. senator (R-Rhode Island, 1976–99) (also listed under Senators and Governors)
  Fredrick Chien (M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1962),  Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (1990-96), Speaker of the National Assembly (1996-99), President of Control Yuan (1999-2005)
  John M. Clayton (1815), secretary of state in the Zachary Taylor administration, senator (AJ-Delaware, 1829–1836; W-Delaware, 1845–1849; O-Delaware 1853–1856) (also listed under Senators)
  Hillary Clinton (J.D. 1973), U.S. Secretary of State (2009–2013), U.S. senator (D-New York, 2001–2009)
  William H. Donaldson (B.A. 1954), chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2003–2005), co-founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, founder and former dean of the Yale School of Management, president of the New York Stock Exchange
  William M. Evarts (1837), secretary of state in the Rutherford B. Hayes administration, U.S. senator (R-New York, 1885–91) (also listed under Senators)
  Olu Falae, Finance Minister of Nigeria (1989–1991), presidential candidate (1999)
  David Frum (B.A. and M.A. 1982), White House speech writer in the Bush administration (2000) who coined the phrase "Axis of Evil"
  Roswell Gilpatric (B.A. 1928), Deputy Secretary of Defense (1961–1964), presiding partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1966–1977)
  T. Keith Glennan (B.S. 1927), first administrator of NASA
  Austan Goolsbee (B.A. 1991, M.A. 1991), Chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors (2010–2011), professor of economics, University of Chicago
  Porter Goss (B.A. 1960), CIA director (2004–2006), Florida congressman
  Stephen Hadley (J.D. 1972), national security advisor
  Robert S. Ingersoll (1937), deputy secretary of state and ambassador to Japan under presidents Nixon and Ford
  John Kerry (B.A. 1966), U.S. senator (D-Massachusetts, 1985–2013) United States Secretary of State (2013–2017)
  Lewis Libby (B.A. 1972), former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, principal figure in the Plame Affair
  Robert Marjolin (Economics, 1934), French Marshall Plan implementer and European Commissioner
  William McChesney Martin, Jr. (B.A. ca. 1926), the ninth and longest-serving chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve
  Steven Mnuchin (B.A. 1985), secretary of the treasury (2017–) in the Trump presidential administration
  Rogers Morton (B.A.), Secretary of Interior and Secretary of Commerce
  John Negroponte (B.A. 1960), first director of national intelligence (2005–present), first ambassador to post-Saddam Iraq (2004–2005)
  Urjit Patel, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, (2016–)
  Wilbur Ross (B.A.), secretary of commerce (2017–) in the Trump presidential administration
  Robert Rubin (LL.B. 1964), secretary of the treasury (1995–1999) in the Clinton presidential administration
  Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888), secretary of state in the Hoover presidential administration
  Alphonso Taft (B.A. 1833, Law), attorney general and secretary of war in the Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration
  Strobe Talbott (B.A. 1968), deputy secretary of state (1994–2001) in the Clinton presidential administration, president of the Brookings Institution
  Cyrus Vance (B.A. 1939, Law 1942), secretary of state in the Carter presidential administration
  Janet Yellen (Ph.D. 1971), Chair of the Federal Reserve (2014–2018)
caption: Dean Acheson
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