U.S. Secretaries of Defense by Picture - Statistics

General Stats

Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
1989-1993	Dick Cheney	100%
2025-Present	Pete Hegseth	78%
1975-1977 \| 2001-2006	Donald Rumsfeld	67%
1961-1968	Robert McNamara	67%
2015-2017	Ash Carter	56%
1981-1987	Caspar Weinberger	56%
1950-1951	George C. Marshall	56%
2017-2019	Jim Mattis	56%
2011-2013	Leon Panetta	56%
2006-2011	Robert Gates	56%
1959-1961	Thomas S. Gates Jr.	56%
1993-1994	Les Aspen	44%
2021-2025	Lloyd Austin	44%
1949-1950	Louis A. Johnson	44%
2019 \| 2019-2020	Mark Esper	44%
1969-1973	Melvin R. Laird	44%
1997-2001	William Cohen	44%
1973	Bill Clements	33%
1953-1957	Charles Erwin Wilson	33%
2013-2015	Chuck Hagel	33%
1968-1969	Clark Clifford	33%
1973	Elliott Richardson	33%
1977-1981	Harold Brown	33%
1989	William Howard Taft IV	33%
1994-1997	William Perry	33%
2020-2021	Christopher C. Miller	22%
2021	David Norquist	22%
1987-1989	Frank Carlucci	22%
1947-1949	James Forrestal	22%
1973-1975	James R. Schlesinger	22%
1957-1959	Neil H. McElroy	22%
2019	Patrick M. Shanahan	22%
2019	Richard V. Spencer	22%
1951-1953	Robert A. Lovett	22%
2025	Robert G. Salesses	22%