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The shortest-serving secretary of defense is Elliot Richardson, who served 114 days and then was appointed U.S. attorney general amid the resignations of the Watergate Scandal. (This is not counting deputy secretaries of defense William P. Clements and William Howard Taft IV, who each served a few weeks as temporary/acting secretary of defense).
The Pentagon on Monday swore in Robert G. Salesses as the acting secretary of Defense while President Trump’s nominee Pete Hegseth awaits Senate confirmation. Salesses was sworn in just after ...
Christopher Charles Miller (born October 15, 1965) is an American retired United States Army Special Forces colonel who served as acting United States secretary of defense from November 9, 2020, to January 20, 2021. [1]
Robert G. Salesses is Deputy Director of Washington Headquarters Services in the U.S. Department of Defense, who served as Acting Secretary of Defense in the Trump Administration from January 20, 2025 to January 25, 2025. [1] He was formerly a U.S. Marine Corps officer and has served in multiple positions in the Department of Defense.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Robert Salesses will serve as acting defense secretary until President Donald Trump's choice for the position, Pete Hegseth, is confirmed by the Senate, two U.S. officials ...
On Monday, Trump maned Robert Salesses as acting secretary of Defense. Salesses, a former Pentagon official, is a retired Marine Corps officer.
Shanahan withdrew from consideration for Secretary of Defense. [54] Deputy Secretary of Defense: July 19, 2017 January 1, 2019 Became Acting Secretary of Defense. Robert O. Work: May 1, 2014 July 14, 2017 Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense Kevin M. Sweeney January 23, 2017 January 5, 2019 [55] Eric Chewning: January 6, 2019 January 31 ...
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said he was "proud to vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense." "He is the change agent that the DOD desperately needs," Cruz said. Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne ...