* 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

As a so-called " bleeding-heart conservative ", Kemp was a logical choice for Bush as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, whose job would be to foster public sector and private sector methods to meet the demands of public housing.

However, the scandals of Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel Pierce and the neglect of the president were obstacles from the start, and Kemp was unsuccessful at either of his major initiatives: enacting enterprise zones and promoting public housing tenant ownership.

He cited lingering effects from a knee injury as the reason he had to fly first class at government expense as the Housing Secretary.

Kemp gave public speeches for $ 35, 000 apiece between his time as Housing Secretary and his Vice Presidential nomination.

After stepping down from his $ 189, 000 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development job, Kemp personally earned $ 6. 9 million in the next three years, primarily for speaking on behalf of local Republican candidates.

His campaign was backed by a series of articles in the Daily Telegraph in which Kenneth Clarke ( the Secretary of Justice ) and Grant Shapps ( Minister of Housing ) were reported to be backing the move.

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp from New York for Vice President.

Former Congressman and Housing Secretary Jack Kemp was nominated by acclamation as Dole's running mate the following day.

* January 13 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member, by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

The United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is the head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, a member of the President's Cabinet, and thirteenth in the Presidential line of succession.

::( 1 ) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is no President pro tempore to act as President under subsection ( b ) of this section, then the officer of the United States who is highest on the following list, and who is not under disability to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President shall act as President: Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Homeland Security.

The Labour Party lost the General Election in 1970, but Callaghan returned to office as Foreign Secretary in March 1974, taking responsibility for renegotiating the terms of Britain's membership of the European Economic Community ( EEC or " Common Market "), and supporting a " Yes " vote in the 1975 referendum for the UK to remain in the EEC.

On October 4, 2007 acting Agriculture Secretary of the USDA Chuck Conner announced the selection of Wichita Online, Inc. as a recipient of a Community Connect grant in the amount of $ 371, 139.

Redevelopment was considered, but protests from the Covent Garden Community Association in 1973 prompted the Home Secretary, Robert Carr, to give dozens of buildings around the square listed-building status, preventing redevelopment.

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

Brown previously served as a member of the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees ( 1969 – 1971 ), Secretary of State of California ( 1971 – 1975 ), chairman of the California Democratic Party ( 1989 – 1991 ), Mayor of Oakland ( 1999 – 2007 ) and Attorney General of California ( 2007 – 2011 ).

Section 5119 ( b )( 2 ) of Title 31, United States Code, was amended by the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 ( Public Law 103-325 ) to read as follows: " The Secretary shall not be required to reissue United States currency notes upon redemption.

In 1989 he was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for the Environment and became responsible for the unpopular Community Charge ( or so-called " Poll Tax ").

Eves was a cabinet minister in the short-lived government of Frank Miller, serving as Provincial Secretary for Resources Development from February 8 to March 22, 1985, Minister of Skills Development from March 22 to May 17, 1985, and Minister of Community and Social Services from May 17 to June 26, 1985.

The successful candidate, John Major, appointed Heseltine to the post of Environment Secretary, responsible for replacing the Community Charge.

From 1981-7, he was Secretary of Stockport Community Health Council.

Chope was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Peter Brooke, the Minister of State at the Treasury in 1986, before being promoted by Margaret Thatcher to serve in her government as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment later in the same year, where he was responsible for steering through the poll tax, or " Community Charge ", legislation.

From 1989 – 1993, she was Head of the Faculty of Advanced Nursing at Queen Charlotte's College in Hammersmith ( now part of Thames Valley University ) and she also served as General Secretary of the Community and District Nursing Association.

* Robert L. Gordon III, U. S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy

In 1985 500, 000 participants joined in a Walk for Justice convened by Warith Deen Muhammad to protest the handling of the American Muslim Mission ( Nation of Islam ) Probate court case in Chicago, Ill. Also in 1985 he met in Geneva, Switzerland with Dr. Muhammad Ahmad Al-Sharif, Secretary General of the Islamic Call Society of Libya and Dr. Abdul Hakim Tabibi, an Afghan mujahid to discuss areas of future cooperation with the Islamic Call Society and the Muslim Community of America.

Anthony was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade 1998 – 99, Minister for Community Services 1999 – 2001 and Minister for Children and Youth Affairs from 2001 to 2004.

While a member of parliament, Cameron was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Family and Community Services from 2001 – 2003 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer ( Peter Costello ) 2003 – 2004.

This move has provoked widespread protest from functional community radio stations, advocacy bodies like Community Radio Forum, and even the Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcast has gone on record to say that his Ministry's views were not sought before the decision was taken.

As Assistant Secretary, Yeutter was in charge of negotiating an end to a trade war between the United States and the European Economic Community over cheese subsidizes.

* Press Conference with Samuel Insanally, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Guyana, and Chair of Caribbean Community Council for Foreign and Community Relations ( COFCOR ); Janet Bostwick, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth of the Bahamas ; and Edwin Carrington, Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, U. S. Department of State

In July 1996, Moco became the first Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, a new international organization which Portugal and most of its former colonies, including Angola, joined.

Because administration of the forest highway system is a responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce with maintenance provided by the States and counties, this Development Program for the National Forests does not include estimates of the funds needed to maintain the forest highway system nor to construct the additions to it that are needed.

To address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment, Michael Heseltine, formed the London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ) to redevelop the area.

Prominent politicians of the Sikh Diaspora include the first Asian American to be elected as a Member of United States Congress Dalip Singh Saund, the current UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Parmjit Dhanda MP and the first couple to ever sit together in any parliament in the history of Commonwealth countries Gurmant Grewal and Nina Grewal, who sought apology by the Canadian Government for the historical Komagata Maru incident, and the Canadian Shadow Social Development Minister Ruby Dhalla MP.

Since the 1996 reorganization, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ), while leading an independent agency, has also reported to the Secretary of State, as does the United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( also known as the Permanent Representative ).

In 1997, Congress asked the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ( NICHD ) at the National Institutes of Health, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to convene a national panel to assess the effectiveness of different approaches used to teach children to read.

# Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development

:" The Chief Financial Officer of the government, the Secretary serves as Chairman Pro Tempore of the President's Economic Policy Council, Chairman of the Boards and Managing Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, and as U. S. Governor of the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Under Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home he was President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Industry, Trade and Regional Development, and oversaw the abolition of retail price maintenance.

She became a U. S. Senator from New York in 2001 and is currently the Secretary of State in the Obama administration.

The viceregal household aids the governor in the execution of the royal constitutional and ceremonial duties and is managed by the Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor, currently held by Noel Campbell.

It is headed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, currently Tarcisio Bertone, and performs all the political and diplomatic functions of Vatican City and the Holy See.

It is currently composed by a president, nominated by the Council of MInisters, several ex officio councilors — former prime ministers of Spain, directors or presidents of the Royal Spanish Academy, the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, the Royal Academy of History, the Social and Economic Council, the Attorney General of the State, the Chief of Staff, the governor of the Bank of Spain, the Director of the Juridical Service of the State, and the presidents of the General Commission of Codification and Law — several permanent councilors, appointed by decree, and no more than ten elected councilors in addition to the Council's Secretary General.

Like virtually all governing institutions in mainland China, the politics of Shanghai is structured in a dual party-government system, in which the Communist Party Chief, officially termed the Communist Party of China Shanghai Municipal Committee Secretary ( currently Yu Zhengsheng ), outranks the Mayor ( currently Han Zheng ).

The Lord Chancellor's Department was replaced with a Ministry of Justice and the Lord Chancellor currently serves in the position of Secretary of State for Justice.

Poltava's government consists of the 50-member Poltava City Council () which is headed by the Secretary ( currently Oleksandr Kozub ).

Captain Lloyd Mustin II is currently serving as Commanding Officer of the Detachment supporting the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and America's Security Affairs.

Only the Secretary of Defense ( or the President ) can authorize the transfer of operational control of forces between the three Military Departments ( Departments of the Army, Navy & Air Force ) and the currently nine Combatant Commands ( Africa Command, Central Command, European Command, Northern Command, Pacific Command, Southern Command, Special Operations Command, Strategic Command, Transportation Command ), and between the Combatant Commands.

The head of the FCO is the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, commonly abbreviated to " Foreign Secretary " ( currently William Hague ).

She currently plays the lead role on USA Network's Political Animals as Elaine Barrish, a divorced former First Lady and Governor of Illinois, as well as the current Secretary of State.

Thomas James " Tom " Vilsack (; born December 13, 1950 ) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and currently the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture.

* Secretary of State, currently John P. McDonough, Esq.

* Secretary of Aging, currently Gloria G. Lawlah

* Secretary of Agriculture, currently Earl F. ( Buddy ) Hance

* Secretary of Budget and Management, currently T. Eloise Foster

* Secretary of Business and Economic Development, currently Christian S. Johansson

* Secretary of Disabilities, currently Catherine A. Raggio

* Secretary of Environment, currently Shari T. Wilson

* Secretary of General Services, currently Alvin C. Collins

* Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, currently John M. Colmers

* Secretary of Human Resources, currently Theodore Dallas