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President Clinton’s Cabinet 1996-97

Mar 26, 1997

The tables on this page show the composition of President Bill Clinton’s first-term Cabinet and his nominations for his second term starting in 1997.

The information about the history of Cabinet positions has been sourced from “Governing by Consent – An Introduction to American Politics”, John F. Bibby, Congressional Quarterly, 1992, p478.

President Clinton’s Cabinet – 1996 and 1997
Department	Year Established	Notes	1996	1997
State	1789	Originally named Department of Foreign Affairs but redesignated Department of State in 1789	Warren Christopher	Madeleine Albright
Treasury	1789	Expanded through a subsequent series of statutes	Robert E. Rubin	Robert E. Rubin
Interior	1849	Created by the merger of the General Land Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Pension Office, and Patent Office	Bruce Babbitt	Bruce Babbitt
Agriculture	1862	Originally administered by a commissioner, the department saw its powers expand in 1889	Dan Glickman	Dan Glickman
Justice	1870	Before 1870 the attorney general was a cabinet officer but not head of a department	Janet Reno	Janet Reno
Labor	1913	Originally a bureau within the Department of Interior, it became an independent department in 1913	Robert B. Reich	Alexis Herman
Commerce	1913	Designated a department when the Department of Commerce and Labor, created in 1903, was reorganised	Mickey Kantor	William Daley
Defence	1949	After several reorganisations, the original Departments of War (1789) and Navy (1798) were merged into the Department of Defence	William J. Perry	William Cohen
Health and Human Services	1953	Established as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare but redesignated Health and Human Services when Education was made a separate department in 1979	Donna E. Shalala	Donna E. Shalala
Housing and Urban Development	1965	Created by combining agencies responsible for housing, including the Housing and Home Finance Agency, with those involved in urban development	Henry G. Cisneros	Andrew Cuomo
Transportation	1966	Created out of eight existing agencies	Federico F. Pena	Rodney Slater
Energy	1977	Created by transferring existing energy agencies and bureaus to the new department	Hazel R. O’Leary	Federico F. Pena
Education	1979	Originally the Office of Education in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare	Richard W. Riley	Richard W. Riley
Veterans Affairs	1988	Created by elevating the Veterans Administration to cabinet-level status	Jesse Brown	Jesse Brown

Other Appointments – 1997
Position/Office	Notes	1996 Incumbent	1997 Nominee
Chief of Staff		Leon Panetta	Erskine W. Bowles
Director of Office of Management and Budget		Franklin D. Raines	Franklin D. Raines
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers	Chief Economic Adviser	Joseph Stiglitz	Janet Yellen
United Nations Ambassador	This position has Cabinet-level status by presidential fiat	Madeleine Albright	Bill Richardson
Small Business Administration Director	This position has Cabinet-level status by presidential fiat	Phil Lader	Aida Alvarez
Domestic Policy Adviser		Carol Rasco	Bruce Reed
Special Envoy to Latin America	McLarty will also have a seat on the National Economic Council		Mack McLarty
White House Counsel		Jack Quinn

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