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U.S. Secretaries of Defense

Does not include those who served a few weeks as temporary/acting Secretary of Defense
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17 September 1947 - 28 March 1949
James V. Forrestal
28 March 1949 - 19 September 1950
Louis A. Johnson
21 September 1950 - 12 September 1951
George C. Marshall
17 September 1951 - 20 January 1953
Robert A. Lovett
28 January 1953 - 8 October 1957
Charles E. Wilson
9 October 1957 - 1 December 1959
Neil H. McElroy
2 December 1959 - 20 January 1961
Thomas S. Gates, Jr.
21 January 1961 - 29 February 1968
Robert S. McNamara
1 March 1968 - 20 January 1969
Clark M. Clifford
22 January 1969 - 29 January 1973
Melvin R. Laird
30 January 1973 - 24 May 1973
Elliot L. Richardson
2 July 1973 - 19 November 1975
James R. Schlesinger
20 November 1975 - 20 January 1977
Donald Rumsfeld
21 January 1977 - 20 January 1981
Harold Brown
21 January 1981 - 23 November 1987
Caspar Weinberger
23 November 1987 - 20 January 1989
Frank Carlucci
21 March 1989 - 20 January 1993
Richard B. Cheney
21 January 1993 - 3 February 1994
Leslie Aspin
3 February 1994 - 24 January 1997
William J. Perry
24 January 1997 - 20 January 2001
William S. Cohen
20 January 2001 - 18 December 2006
Donald Rumsfeld
18 December 2006 - 30 June 2011
Robert M. Gates
1 July 2011 - 26 February 2013
Leon Panetta
27 February 2013 - 17 February 2015
Chuck Hagel
17 February 2015 - 19 January 2017
Ash Carter
20 January 2017 - 1 January 2019
Jim Mattis
23 July 2019 - 9 November 2020
Mark Esper
22 January 2021 - 20 January 2025
Lloyd Austin
25 January 2025 - Present
Pete Hegseth
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