United States Under Secretary of the Army

For other people named Patrick Murphy, see Patrick Murphy (disambiguation).

Under Secretary of the United States Army
Flag of the Under Secretary of the Army
Incumbent Patrick Murphy since January 4, 2016
Department of the Army
Style	Mister (informal) Senior Official (formal address in writing)
Reports to	Secretary of the Army
Appointer	The President with Senate advice and consent
Term length	No fixed term
Inaugural holder	William H. Draper, Jr.
Formation	September 18, 1947
Salary	Level III of the Executive Schedule
Website	Official Website

The United States Under Secretary of the Army is the second-highest ranking civilian official of the United States Department of the Army, serving directly under the United States Secretary of the Army. The Secretary and Under Secretary, together with two military officers, the Chief of Staff of the United States Army and the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, constitute the senior leaders of the United States Army.

The following officials report to the Under Secretary of the Army: the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations, Energy and Environment), the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), and the General Counsel of the Army. There are also two Deputy Under Secretaries of the Army who assist the Under Secretary in his tasks.

The current Under Secretary of the Army is Patrick J. Murphy.

History

The office was created in 1947 as part of the general reorganization of the United States Armed Forces occasioned by the National Security Act of 1947. The office was initially styled "Under Secretary of War" and was created by Department of War General Order 67, dated July 25, 1947.^[1] Three weeks later, on August 16, 1947, Department of War Circular 225 redesignated the position as "Under Secretary of the Army".^[2]

List of Under Secretaries of the Army

The following men have held the post:^[3]

Name	Tenure start	Tenure end
William Henry Draper, Jr.	000000001947-09-01-0000September 1947	000000001949-02-01-0000February 1949
Gordon Gray	000000001949-05-01-0000May 1949	000000001949-06-01-0000June 1949
Tracy Voorhees	000000001949-08-01-0000August 1949	000000001950-04-01-0000April 1950
Archibald S. Alexander	000000001950-05-01-0000May 1950	000000001952-04-01-0000April 1952
Karl R. Bendesten	000000001952-05-01-0000May 1952	000000001952-10-01-0000October 1952
Earl D. Johnson	000000001952-10-01-0000October 1952	000000001954-01-01-0000January 1954
John Slezak	000000001954-02-01-0000February 1954	000000001955-01-01-0000January 1955
Charles C. Finucane	000000001955-02-01-0000February 1955	000000001958-04-01-0000April 1958
Hugh M. Milton II	000000001958-08-01-0000August 1958	000000001961-01-01-0000January 1961
Stephen Ailes	000000001961-02-01-0000February 1961	000000001964-01-01-0000January 1964
Paul Robert Ignatius	000000001964-02-01-0000February 1964	000000001964-12-01-0000December 1964
Stanley Rogers Resor	000000001965-04-01-0000April 1965	000000001965-07-01-0000July 1965
David E. McGiffert	000000001965-11-01-0000November 1965	000000001969-02-01-0000February 1969
Thaddeus Beal	000000001969-03-01-0000March 1969	000000001971-09-01-0000September 1971
Kenneth E. BeLieu	000000001971-09-01-0000September 1971	000000001973-06-01-0000June 1973
Herman R. Staudt	000000001973-10-01-0000October 1973	000000001975-05-01-0000May 1975
Norman Ralph Augustine	000000001975-05-01-0000May 1975	000000001977-07-01-0000July 1977
Walter B. LaBerge	000000001977-07-01-0000July 1977	000000001980-02-01-0000February 1980
Harry Spiro, Jr.^[4]	000000001980-01-01-00001980	000000001981-01-01-00001981
James R. Ambrose	000000001981-10-01-0000October 1981	000000001988-02-01-0000February 1988
Michael P. W. Stone	000000001988-05-01-0000May 1988	000000001989-08-01-0000August 1989
John W. Shannon	000000001989-08-01-0000August 1989	000000001993-11-01-0000November 1993
Joe R. Reeder	000000001993-11-01-0000November 1993	000000001997-11-01-0000November 1997
Robert M. Walker	000000001997-11-01-0000November 1997	000000001998-10-01-0000October 1998
Bernard D. Rostker	000000001998-11-01-0000November 1998	000000002000-05-01-0000May 2000
Gregory R. Dahlberg	000000002000-05-01-0000May 2000	000000002001-03-01-0000March 2001
Les Brownlee	000000002001-11-01-0000November 2001	000000002004-12-01-0000December 2004
Raymond F. DuBois	000000002005-02-01-0000February 2005	000000002006-02-01-0000February 2006
Pete Geren	000000002006-02-01-0000February 2006	000000002007-07-01-0000July 2007
Nelson M. Ford	000000002007-07-01-0000July 2007	000000002009-01-01-0000January 2009
Joseph W. Westphal	000000002009-09-01-0000September 2009	000000002014-03-01-0000March 2014
Brad Carson	000000002014-03-01-0000March 2014	000000002015-06-01-0000June 2015
Eric Fanning	000000002015-06-01-0000June 2015	November 2015
Thomas E. Hawley^[5]	000000002015-11-01-0000November 2015	December 2015
Patrick J. Murphy^[6]	January 4, 2016	Present

References

↑ Records of the Under Secretary of the Army at the National Archives
↑ Records of the Under Secretary of the Army at the National Archives
↑ "Former Under Secretaries". United States Army. Archived from the original on 9 January 2008. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
↑ President Carter's Nomination of Spiro; President Reagan's Nomination of Ambrose, Which Identifies Spiro As the Outgoing Under Secretary
↑ Thomas E. Hawley, a Senior Official, is performing the duties of the Under Secretary of the Army.
↑ "Under Secretary of the Army | The United States Army". www.army.mil. Retrieved 2016-01-05.

External links

Official website

U.S. Secretaries of War and the Army

U.S. Department
of War
(1789–1949)

Secretaries of War	B. Lincoln Knox Pickering McHenry Dexter Dearborn Eustis Armstrong Monroe W. Crawford Calhoun Barbour P. Porter Eaton Cass Poinsett Bell Spencer J. Porter Wilkins Marcy G. Crawford Conrad J. Davis Floyd Holt S. Cameron Stanton Schofield Rawlins Belknap A. Taft J. Cameron McCrary Ramsey R. Lincoln Endicott Proctor Elkins Lamont Alger Root W. Taft Wright Dickinson Stimson Garrison Baker Weeks D. Davis Good Hurley Dern Woodring Stimson Patterson Royall

Assistant Secretaries of War	Scott Watson Tucker Wolcott Dana Eckert Grant Doe Meiklejohn Sanger Oliver Breckinridge Ingraham Crowell Williams Wainwright D. Davis MacNider Hurley Payne Woodring L. Johnson Patterson McCloy Petersen

U.S. Department
of the Army
(1949–present)

Secretaries of the Army	Royall Gray Pace Stevens Brucker Stahr Vance Ailes Resor Froehlke Callaway Hoffmann C. Alexander Marsh Stone West Caldera White Harvey Geren McHugh

Under Secretaries of the Army	Draper Gray Voorhees A. Alexander Bendetsen E. Johnson Slezak Finucane Milton Ailes Ignatius Resor McGiffert Beal BeLieu Staudt Augustine LaBerge Ambrose Stone Shannon Reeder Walker Rostker Dahlberg Brownlee Geren Ford Westphal Carson Murphy

Senior officials in the United States Department of Defense

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work Secretaries of the Military Departments Secretary of the Army: Patrick Murphy (acting) Secretary of the Navy: Ray Mabus Secretary of the Air Force: Deborah James Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford, USMC Under Secretaries of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics: Frank Kendall Policy: James Miller Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer: Robert Hale Personnel and Readiness: Jessica Wright (Acting) Intelligence: Michael Vickers Deputy Chief Management Officer Elizabeth McGrath Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Paul Selva, USAF Chiefs of the Military Services Chief of Staff of the Army: Mark Milley Commandant of the Marine Corps: Robert Neller Chief of Naval Operations: John Richardson Chief of Staff of the Air Force: Mark Welsh Chief of the National Guard Bureau Frank Grass

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