United States Deputy Secretary of Defense in Encyclopedia

The United States Deputy Secretary of Defense is the second-highest ranking official in the United States Department of Defense. According to the U.S. Defense department website, the Deputy Secretary has the authority to

No.	Name	Term of Office	President(s) served under
1	Stephen T. Early	1949 - 1950	Harry S. Truman
2	Robert A. Lovett	1950 - 1951	Harry S. Truman
3	Roger M. Kyes	1953?1954	Dwight D. Eisenhower
4	Robert B. Anderson	1954?1955	Dwight D. Eisenhower
5	Donald A. Quarles	1955?1959	Dwight D. Eisenhower
6	Thomas S. Gates	1959	Dwight D. Eisenhower
7	James H. Douglas	1959?1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
8	Roswell Gilpatric	1961?1964	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
9	Cyrus R. Vance	1964?1967	Lyndon B. Johnson
10	Paul H. Nitze	1967?1969	Lyndon B. Johnson
11	David Packard	1969?1971	Richard Nixon
12	Bill Clements	1971?1977	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
13	Charles W. Duncan, Jr.	1977?1979	Jimmy Carter
14	W. Graham Claytor, Jr.	1979?1981	Jimmy Carter
15	Frank C. Carlucci	1981?1983	Ronald Reagan
16	W. Paul Thayer	1983?1984	Ronald Reagan
17	William Howard Taft IV	1984?1989	Ronald Reagan
18	Donald J. Atwood Jr.	1989?1993	George H. W. Bush
19	William J. Perry	1993?1994	Bill Clinton
20	John M. Deutch	1994?1995	Bill Clinton
21	John P. White	1995?1997	Bill Clinton
22	John Hamre	1997?2000	Bill Clinton
23	Rudy de Leon	2000?2001	Bill Clinton
24	Paul Wolfowitz	2001?2005	George W. Bush
25	Gordon R. England	2005?Present	George W. Bush

United States Deputy Secretary of Defense

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