State of things from July 1940. They all are Members of the Democrats, except where stated otherwise.
Not all of those have as much power as it seems - President FDR likes to govern without his cabinet members, as e.g. with Cordell Hull, to whom he doesn't give many important Informations, and prefers to send his Under Secretary Sumner Welles to important Missions to Europe instead.
Office | Name |
---|---|
President | Franklin D. Roosevelt
(*1882) |
Vice President | John Nance Garner
(*1868) |
Secretary of State | Cordell Hull
(*1881) |
Secretary of the Treasury | Henry Morgenthau
(*1883) |
Secretary of War | Harry Hines Woodring
(* 1887) |
Attorney General | Robert H. Jackson
(*1892) |
Postmaster General | James Farley
(*1888) |
Secretary of the Navy | Charles Edison
(* 1890) |
Secretary of the Interior | Harold LeClair Ickes
(*1874) |
Secretary of Agriculture | Henry A. Wallace
(*1888) |
Secretary of Commerce | Harry Hopkins
(*1890) |
Secretary of Labor | Frances Perkins
(*1880) |
Director of the Bureau of the Budget | Harold D. Smith
(*1898) |