United States Assistant Secretary of War

This list only includes those persons who served as the assistant secretary, or first assistant secretary. At various times, there were also "second" or "third" assistant secretaries, ranking below the assistant secretary. • Thomas Alexander Scott (March 10, 1861 – January 24, 1862) • Peter H. Watson (January 24, 1862 – January 28, 1862) • Joseph Doe (c. 1893–1897) • George de Rue Meiklejohn (1897–1901) • William Cary Sanger (1901–1903) • Robert Shaw Oliver (1903–1913) • Henry Skillman Breckinridge (1913–1916) –– under Lindley M. Garrison during Woodrow Wilson's presidency • William Moulton Ingraham (1916–1917) • Benedict Crowell (1917–1920) • William Reid Williams (1920–1921) • Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (c. 1921–1923) • Dwight F. Davis (1923–1925) • Hanford MacNider (October 16, 1925 – January 4, 1928) • Charles B. Robbins (January 4, 1928 – March 5, 1929) • Patrick J. Hurley (March 5, 1929 – December 1929) • Frederick Huff Payne (1930– c. 1933) • Harry Hines Woodring (1933–1936) • Louis A. Johnson (1937–1940) • Robert P. Patterson (1940) • John J. McCloy (c. 1941–1945) • Howard C. Petersen (c. 1945–1947) ==Assistant Secretary of War for Air==

The Air Corps Act of 1926 (44 Stat. 780), passed on July 2 of that year, created a second assistant secretary position in the War Department variously called "Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation," "Assistant Secretary of War for Air," or "Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics." Those holding the office, with an eigh-–year vacancy between 1933 and 1941, were F. Trubee Davison (1926–1933), Robert A. Lovett (1941–1945), and Stuart Symington (1946–1947), who became the first United States Secretary of the Air Force. ==See also==