how many commissioners have there been?
21
No. Name Took Office Left Office President served under Notable for
1 Harvey Washington Wiley, M.D. January 1, 1907 March 15, 1912 Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft Chemist; advocacy of the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906; subsequent work at Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories
2 Carl L. Alsberg M.D. December 16, 1912 July 15, 1921 William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding
3 Walter Gilbert Campbell 7/16/1921 6/30/1924 Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
4 Charles Albert Browne, Jr. 7/1/1924 6/30/1927 Calvin Coolidge
3 Walter Gilbert Campbell 7/1/1927 4/30/1944 Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt
5 Paul B. Dunbar, Ph.D. 5/6/1944 5/31/1951 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman
6 Charles W. Crawford 6/1/1951 7/31/1954 Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower
7 George P. Larrick 8/12/1954 12/27/1965 Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
8 James Lee Goddard, M.D. 1/17/1966 7/1/1968 Lyndon B. Johnson
9 Herbert Leonard Ley, Jr., M.D. 7/1/1968 12/12/1969 Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon
10 Charles C. Edwards, M.D. 12/13/1969 3/15/1973 Richard M. Nixon
11 Alexander Mackay Schmidt, M.D. 7/20/1973 11/30/1976 Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford
12 Donald Kennedy, Ph.D. 4/4/1977 6/30/1979 Jimmy Carter
13 Jere Edwin Goyan, Ph.D. 10/21/1979 1/20/1981 Jimmy Carter
14 Arthur Hull Hayes Jr., M.D. 4/13/1981 9/11/1983 Ronald Reagan
15 Frank Edward Young, M.D., Ph.D. 7/15/1984 12/17/1989 Ronald Reagan
16 David Aaron Kessler, M.D. 11/8/1990 2/28/1997 George H. W. Bush\nBill Clinton
17 Jane Ellen Henney, M.D. 1/17/99 1/19/2001 Bill Clinton
18 Mark Barr McClellan, M.D., Ph.D 11/14/2002 3/26/2004 George W. Bush
19 Lester Mills Crawford, D.V.M., Ph.D. 7/18/2005 9/23/2005 George W. Bush Charged with conflict of interest and lying about stock he and his wife owned in companies regulated by FDA.
20 Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D. 12/13/2006 1/20/2009 George W. Bush Member of the board of directors of BioTime (NYSE MKT: BTX), a biotechnology and regenerative medicine company.
21 Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. 5/22/2009 present Barack Obama
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