page_title: Ray Mabus
section_title: Secretary of the Navy
hierarchical_section_title: Ray Mabus / Career / Secretary of the Navy
caption_attribution_description: English: Image courtesy of The White House. President Barack Obama meets with Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus in the Oval Office, June 17, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
context_page_description: Raymond Edwin Mabus Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy from 2009 to 2017. Mabus previously served as the State Auditor of Mississippi from 1984 to 1988, as the 60th Governor of Mississippi from 1988 to 1992 and as the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1994 to 1996.
context_section_description: On March 27, 2009, Mabus was nominated by President Obama as Secretary of the Department of the Navy. He was sworn in on May 19, 2009, and held a ceremonial swearing in at Washington Navy Yard on June 18, 2009, where he was re-sworn in by the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
caption: Mabus meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office in June 2010.
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