United States Deputy Secretary of Defense - List of Deputy Secretaries of Defense

List of Deputy Secretaries of Defense

No. Image Name Term of Office Secretaries of Defense serving under: President appointed by:
Began Ended Days of Service
1 Stephen Early 2 May 1949
10 August 1949		 9 August 1949
30 September 1950 		516 Louis A. Johnson
George Marshall		 Harry S. Truman
2 Robert A. Lovett 4 October 1950 16 September 1951 316 George Marshall
3 William Chapman Foster 24 September 1951 20 January 1953 484 Robert A. Lovett
4 Roger M. Kyes 2 February 1953 1 May 1954 453 Charles E. Wilson Dwight D. Eisenhower
5 Robert B. Anderson 3 May 1954 4 August 1955 458
6 Reuben B. Robertson, Jr. 5 August 1955 25 April 1957 629
7 Donald A. Quarles 1 May 1957 8 May 1959 737 Charles E. Wilson
Neil H. McElroy
8 Thomas S. Gates 8 June 1959 1 December 1959 176 Neil H. McElroy
9 James H. Douglas, Jr. 11 December 1959 24 January 1961 410 Thomas S. Gates
Robert McNamara
10 Roswell Gilpatric 24 January 1961 20 January 1964 1091 Robert McNamara John F. Kennedy
11 Cyrus Vance 28 January 1964 30 June 1967 1249 Lyndon B. Johnson
12 Paul Nitze 1 July 1967 20 January 1969 569 Robert McNamara
Clark Clifford
13 David Packard 24 January 1969 13 December 1971 1053 Melvin R. Laird Richard Nixon
14 Kenneth Rush 23 February 1972 29 January 1973 341
15 William P. Clements, Jr. 30 January 1973 20 January 1977 1451 Elliot Richardson
James R. Schlesinger
Donald Rumsfeld
16 Charles W. Duncan, Jr. 31 January 1977 26 July 1979 906 Harold Brown Jimmy Carter
17 W. Graham Claytor, Jr. 24 August 1979 16 January 1981 511
18 Frank Carlucci 4 February 1981 31 December 1982 695 Caspar Weinberger Ronald Reagan
19 W. Paul Thayer 12 January 1983 4 January 1984 357
20 William Howard Taft IV 3 February 1984 22 April 1989 1905 Caspar Weinberger
Frank Carlucci
Dick Cheney
21 Donald J. Atwood Jr. 24 April 1989 20 January 1993 1367 Dick Cheney George H. W. Bush
22 William J. Perry 5 March 1993 3 February 1994 335 Les Aspin Bill Clinton
23 John M. Deutch 11 March 1994 10 May 1995 425 William J. Perry
24 John P. White 22 June 1995 15 July 1997 754 William J. Perry
William Cohen
25 John J. Hamre 29 July 1997 31 March 2000 976 William Cohen
26 Rudy de Leon 31 March 2000 1 March 2001 335 William Cohen
Donald Rumsfeld
27 Paul Wolfowitz 2 March 2001 13 May 2005 1533 Donald Rumsfeld George W. Bush
28 Gordon R. England 13 May 2005
4 January 2006		 4 January 2006
11 February 2009		 236
1134		 Donald Rumsfeld
Robert Gates
29 William J. Lynn III 12 February 2009 5 October 2011 1383 Robert Gates
Leon Panetta		 Barack Obama
30 Ashton B. Carter 6 October 2011 Incumbent 417 Leon Panetta

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