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The Cabinet of the United States, which is the principal advisory body to the President of the United States, has had 47 Jewish American members altogether. Of that number, 27 different Jewish American individuals held a total of 27 permanent cabinet posts, having served as the heads of the federal executive departments; 20 different Jewish Americans have held 21 cabinet-level positions, which ...
Name Party Assumed office Left office Notes Georgia: David Emanuel [1] Democratic-Republican: March 3, 1801: November 7, 1801: Emanuel may not have been an openly practicing Jew. As an adult he became a Presbyterian, but modern historians accept he was Jewish. [2] Wisconsin: Edward Salomon [3] Republican: April 19, 1862: January 4, 1864 ...
Pages in category "Jewish American members of the Cabinet of the United States" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
President-elect Trump has assembled his Cabinet, and senior staff positions are filling up for his second term in the White House before taking office in January. Trump has nominated leaders for ...
Jewish American members of the Cabinet of the United States (48 P) Pages in category "Jewish American government officials" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total.
Judah Philip Benjamin QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to Britain at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in ...
List of female United States Cabinet members; List of foreign-born United States Cabinet members; List of Hispanic and Latino American United States Cabinet members; List of people who have held multiple United States Cabinet-level positions; List of United States Cabinet members who have served more than eight years
Schmidt served in Hitler's Wehrmacht, while managing to hide his Jewish roots from the Nazi regime. [107] Árpád Göncz, a former president of Hungary from 1990 to 2000, had a Jewish maternal grandfather. [108] Although most head of states with Jewish ancestry come from Europe and Latin America, some are from other regions of the World.