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Flag of the Secretary of the Navy

Seal of the Department of the Navy

Incumbent

Ray Mabus

since May 19, 2009

Department of the Navy

Style Mister Secretary

Reports to Secretary of Defense

Deputy Secretary of Defense

Appointer The President

with Senate advice and consent

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Secretary of the Navy(or SECNAV) is a

statutory office (10 U.S.C. 5013

(http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode

/10/5013.html)) and the head (chief executiveofficer) of the Department of the Navy, a military

department (component organization) within the

Department of Defense of the United States of

America.

The Secretary of the Navy must by law be a

civilian, at least 5 years removed from active

military service, and is appointed by the

President and requires confirmation by a

majority vote of the Senate.

The Secretary of the Navy was, from its creation

in 1798, a member of the President's Cabinet

until 1949, when the Secretary of the Navy (and

the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force) was

by amendments to the National Security Act of

1947 made subordinate to the Secretary of

Defense.[1]

1 Responsibilities

1.1 Navy Regulations

1.2 U.S. Coast Guard

2 The Navy Secretariat

3 Secretaries of the Navy

[7][8]

3.1 Continental Congress

3.2 Executive Department

17981947

3.3 Military Department

(Department of Defense) 1947

4 References

5 See also

6 External links

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Term length No fixed term as known.

Inaugural

holder

Benjamin Stoddert

Formation June 18, 1798

Succession 3rd in SecDef succession

Deputy The Under Secretary

(principal civilian deputy)

Chief of Naval Operations

(navy advisor and deputy)

The Commandant

(Marine Corps advisor and deputy)

Salary Executive Schedule, level II

Website Official Website

(http://www.navy.mil/secnav)

The Department of the Navy (DoN) consists of

two Uniformed Services: the United States Navy

and the United States Marine Corps.[2]The

Secretary of the Navy is responsible for, and has

statutory authority (10 U.S.C. 5013(http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode

/10/5013.html)) to "conduct all the affairs of the

Department of the Navy", i.e. as its chief

executive officer, subject to the limits of the law,

and the directions of the President and the

Secretary of Defense. In effect, all authority

within the Navy and Marine Corps, unless

specifically exempted by law, is derivative of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Navy.

Specifically enumerated responsibilities of the SECNAV in beforementioned section are: recruiting,

organizing, supplying, equipping, training, mobilizing, and demobilizing. The Secretary also

oversees the construction, outfitting, and repair of naval ships, equipment and facilities. SECNAV

is responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies and programs that are consistent

with the national security policies and objectives established by the President or the Secretary of

Defense.[3][4]

The Secretary of the Navy is a member of the Defense Acquisition Board (DAB), chaired by the

Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. Furthermore, the Secretary

has several statutory responsibilities under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) withrespect to the administration of the military justice system for the Navy & the Marine Corps,

including the authority to convene general courts-martial and to commute sentences.

The principal military advisers to the SECNAV are the two service chiefs of the naval services: for

matters regarding the Navy the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), and for matters regarding the

Marine Corps the Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC). The CNO and the Commandant act as

the principal executive agents of the SECNAV within their respective services to implement the

orders of the Secretary.

The United States Navy Regulations is the principal regulatory document of the Department of the

Navy, and any changes to it can only be approved by the Secretary of the Navy.

Whenever the United States Coast Guard operates as a service within the Department of the Navy,


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the Secretary of the Navy has the same powers and duties with respect to the Coast Guard as the

Secretary of Homeland Security when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy.[5]

The Office of the Secretary of the Navy, also known within DoD as theNavy Secretariator

simply just as the Secretariatin a DoN setting, is the immediate headquarters staff that supports theSecretary in discharging his duties. The principal officials of the Secretariat include the Under

Secretary of the Navy (the Secretary's principal civilian deputy), the Assistant Secretaries of the

Navy (ASN), the General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, the Judge Advocate General of

the Navy (JAG), the Naval Inspector General (NIG), the Chief of Legislative Affairs, and the Chief

of Naval Research. The Office of the Secretary of the Navy has sole responsibility within the

Department of the Navy for acquisition, auditing, financial and information management,

legislative affairs, public affairs, research, and development.[6]

The Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps have their own separatestaffs, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations(also known by its acronym OPNAV) and

Headquarters Marine Corps.

Denotes acting Secretaries


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Position Picture Name Term of Office

Chairman of the Marine Committee John Adams October 13, 17751779

Member of the Marine Committee John Langdon October 13, 1775?

Member of the Marine Committee Silas Deane October 13, 1775?

Member of the Marine Committee Joseph Hewes 1775 [9]

Continental Navy Board

(under Marine Committee)

November 6, 177628

October 28, 1779

Chairman of the Continental Board

of Admiralty

Francis Lewis December 17791780

Secretary of MarineAlexander

McDougall

February 7, 1781August 29,

1781

Agent of Marine

(devolved onto Superintendent of

Finance)

Robert Morris August 29, 17811784 [10]

(Post of Secretary of Marine created but remained vacant)


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No. Picture Name State Term of Office Served under

1Benjamin

StoddertMaryland

June 18, 1798March

31, 1801John Adams

2 Robert Smith Maryland July 27, 1801 March

4, 1809Thomas Jefferson

3 Paul HamiltonSouth

Carolina

May 15,

1809December 31,

1812

James Madison

4 William Jones PennsylvaniaJanuary 19,1813December 1,

1814

5Benjamin W.

CrowninshieldMassachusetts

January 16,

1815September 30,

1818

James Madison,

James Monroe

6 Smith Thompson New York January 1,

1819August 31, 1823James Monroe

7Samuel L.

SouthardNew Jersey

September 16,

1823March 4, 1829

James Monroe,

John Quincy

Adams

8 John BranchNorthCarolina

March 9, 1829May12, 1831

Andrew Jackson

9 Levi WoodburyNew

Hampshire

May 23, 1831June

30, 1834


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10Mahlon

DickersonNew Jersey

July 1, 1834June 30,

1838

Andrew Jackson,

Martin Van Buren

11

James K.

Paulding New York

July 1, 1838March 4,

1841 Martin Van Buren

12 George E. Badger North

Carolina

March 6,

1841September 11,

1841

William Henry

Harrison, John

Tyler

13 Abel P. Upshur Virginia

October 11, 1841July

23, 1843

John Tyler

14 David Henshaw Massachusetts

July 24,

1843February 18,

1844

15Thomas W.

GilmerVirginia

February 19,

1844February 28,

1844

16 John Y. Mason VirginiaMarch 26,

1844March 4, 1845

17 George Bancroft Massachusetts

March 11,

1845September 9,1846

James Knox Polk

18 John Y. Mason VirginiaSeptember 10,

1846March 4, 1849


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19William B.

PrestonVirginia

March 8, 1849July

22, 1850Zachary Taylor

20 William A.Graham NorthCarolina August 2, 1850July25, 1852

Millard Fillmore

21 John P. Kennedy Maryland July 26, 1852March

4, 1853

22 James C. Dobbin NorthCarolina

March 8, 1853March4, 1857

Franklin Pierce

23 Isaac Toucey ConnecticutMarch 7, 1857March

4, 1861James Buchanan

24 Gideon Welles ConnecticutMarch 7, 1861March

4, 1869

Abraham Lincoln,

Andrew Johnson

25 Adolph E. Borie PennsylvaniaMarch 9, 1869June

25, 1869

Ulysses S. Grant

26George M.

RobesonNew Jersey

June 26, 1869March

4, 1877


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(acting) William FaxonMarch 4, 1877March

13, 1877

Rutherford B.

Hayes27

Richard W.

Thompson Indiana

March 13,

1877December 20,1880

28 Nathan Goff, Jr. West VirginiaJanuary 7,

1881March 4, 1881

29 William H. Hunt Louisiana March 7, 1881April16, 1882

James Garfield,Chester A. Arthur

30William E.

Chandler

New

Hampshire

April 16, 1882March

4, 1885Chester A. Arthur

31 William C.Whitney

New York March 7, 1885March4, 1889

Grover Cleveland

32Benjamin F.

TracyNew York

March 6, 1889March

4, 1893

Benjamin

Harrison

33 Hilary A. Herbert AlabamaMarch 7, 1893March

4, 1897Grover Cleveland

34 John D. Long MassachusettsMarch 6, 1897April

30, 1902

William

McKinley,

Theodore

Roosevelt


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35William H.

MoodyMassachusetts

May 1, 1902June 30,

1904

Theodore

Roosevelt

36 Paul Morton Illinois July 1, 1904June 30,1905

37Charles J.

BonaparteMaryland

July 1,

1905December 16,

1906

38 Victor H. Metcalf CaliforniaDecember 17,1906November 30,

1908

39Truman H.

NewberryMichigan

December 1,

1908March 4, 1909

40George von L.

Meyer

MassachusettsMarch 6, 1909March

4, 1913

William Howard

Taft

41 Josephus DanielsNorth

Carolina

March 5, 1913March

4, 1921Woodrow Wilson

42 Edwin C. Denby Michigan

March 6, 1921March

10, 1924

Warren G.

Harding, CalvinCoolidge

(acting)Theodore

Roosevelt, Jr.New York

March 10,

1924March 19, 1924Calvin Coolidge


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43 Curtis D. Wilbur CaliforniaMarch 19,

1924March 4, 1929

44Charles F. AdamsIII

MassachusettsMarch 5, 1929March4, 1933

Herbert Hoover

45Claude A.

SwansonVirginia

March 4, 1933July 7,

1939

Franklin D.

Roosevelt

46 Charles Edison New Jersey

July 7, 1939January

2, 1940

January 2, 1940June

24, 1940

(acting) Lewis ComptonJune 24, 1940July 11,

1940

47 Frank Knox IllinoisJuly 11, 1940April

28, 1944

(acting) Ralph A. BardApril 28, 1944May

19, 1944

48 James V. Forrestal New York

May 19,

1944September 17,

1947

Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Harry

S. Truman


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No. Image Name

Term of Office Served under:

Began EndedDays of

ServiceSecretary President

1John L.

Sullivan

18

September

1947

24 May

1949614

James V.

Forrestal

Louis A.

Johnson

Harry S.

Truman2

Francis P.

Matthews

25 May

1949

31 July

1951797

Louis A.

Johnson

George C.

Marshall

3Dan A.

Kimball

31 July

1951

20 January

1953

539

George C.

Marshall

Robert A.Lovett

4Robert B.

Anderson

4 February

1953

3 March

1954392

Charles E.

Wilson

Dwight D.

Eisenhower

5Charles S.

Thomas

3 May 19541 April

1957

1064

6Thomas S.

Gates, Jr.

1 April

19578 June 1959 798

Charles E.

Wilson

Neil H.

McElroy

7William B.

Franke8 June 1959

19 January

1961591

Neil H.

McElroy

Thomas S.

Gates, Jr.

8John B.

Connally

25 January

1961

20

December

1961

329Robert S.

McNamara

John F.

Kennedy


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9 Fred Korth4 January

1962

1

November

1963

666

(acting) Paul B. Fay 2November

1963

28November

1963

26

John F.

KennedyLyndon B.

Johnson

10 Paul H. Nitze

29

November

1963

30 June

19671309

Lyndon B.

Johnson

(acting)Charles F.

Baird1 July 1967

31 August

196761

11Paul R.

Ignatius

1

September

1967

24 January

1969511

Robert S.

McNamara

Clark

Clifford

Melvin R.

Laird

Lyndon B.

Johnson

Richard M.

Nixon

12 John H.Chafee 31 January1969 4 May 1972 1189 Melvin R.Laird

Richard M.

Nixon

13John W.

Warner4 May 1972

8 April

1974704

Melvin R.

Laird

Elliot

Richardson

James R.

Schlesinger

14J. William

Middendorf

8 April

1974

20 January

19771018

James R.

Schlesinger

Donald H.

Rumsfeld

Richard M.

Nixon

Gerald Ford

15W. Graham

Claytor, Jr.

14 February

1977

24 August

1979921

Harold

Brown

Jimmy

Carter


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16Edward

Hidalgo

24 October

1979

20 January

1981454

17 John Lehman 5 February1981 10 April1987 2255 Caspar W.Weinberger

Ronald

Reagan

18 Jim Webb 1 May 198723 February

1988298

Caspar W.

Weinberger

Frank C.

Carlucci

19William L.

Ball

28 March

1988

15 May

1989 413

Frank C.

Carlucci

Richard B.

Cheney

Ronald

Reagan

George H.

W. Bush

20Henry L.

Garrett III

15 May

1989

26 June

19921138

Richard B.

Cheney

George H.

W. Bush(acting)

Daniel

Howard

26 June

19927 July 1992 11

21 Sean O'Keefe

7 July 19922 October

199287

2 October

1992

20 January

1993110

(acting)

Admiral

Frank B.

Kelso II

20 January

1993

21 July

1993182 Les Aspin

Bill Clinton

22John H.

Dalton

22 July

1993

16

November

1998

1943

Les Aspin

William J.

Perry

William S.

Cohen


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23Richard

Danzig

16

November

1998

20 January

2001796

William S.

Cohen

(acting)

Robert B.

Pirie, Jr.

20 January

2001

24 May

2001 124

Donald H.

Rumsfeld

George W.

Bush

24Gordon R.

England

24 May

2001

30 January

2003616

(acting)Susan

Livingstone

30 January

2003

7 February

20038

(acting)Hansford T.

Johnson

7 February

2003

30

September

2003

235

25Gordon R.

England

1 October

2003

29

December

2005[11]820

(acting)Dionel M.

Aviles

29

December

2005[11]

3 January

2006[11]5

26Donald C.

Winter

3 January

2006[11]13 March

2009[12]1165

Donald H.

Rumsfeld

Robert M.

Gates

George W.

Bush

Barack

Obama


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(acting) B. J. Penn13 March

2009[12]19 May

2009[13]67

Robert M.

Gates

Barack

Obama

27 Ray Mabus19 May

2009[12]Present 1764

Robert M.

Gates

Leon

Panetta

Chuck

Hagel

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planned. Winter had agreed to remain in office until March 13, 2009, to ease the transition of the

Department of Defense. [...] BJ Penn will be the acting Secretary of the Navy until the Senate confirms a

nominee chosen by President Barack Obama."

^Staff reporter (2005-05-19). "Mabus Sworn in as New Navy Secretary" (http://www.defenselink.mil

/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=18435). NNS. Retrieved 2009-05-20. "Ray Mabus, former Mississippi

governor and U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was sworn in May 19 as the 75th

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Military awards of the United States Department of the Navy

Stephen Mallory, the only Secretary of the Navy of the Confederate States of America

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