The Cabinet of Nelson Rockefeller was established on the 20th of January 1957 following the election of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and California Senator Richard Nixon. In the 1960 half of his cabinet ran for positions of their own which lead to only 5 people served the 2 full terms.
Position | Name | Term | Party | Experience |
---|---|---|---|---|
Secretary of State | Cecil H. Underwood |
January 20, 1957
- January 20, 1965 |
Republican | Governor of West Virginia (1949-1957) |
Secretary of the Treasury | Paul Laxalt |
January 20, 1957
- January 20, 1965 |
Republican | Governor of Nevada (1951-1957) |
Secretary of Defense | Mark W. Clark |
January 20, 1957
- January 20, 1965 |
Republican | Chief of the Army (1949-1957) |
Attorney General | Potter Stewart |
January 20, 1957
- January 20, 1961 |
Independent | Chief Justice of Michigan (1948-1957) |
Dwight Willard Burney |
January 20, 1961
- January 20, 1965 |
Republican | Governor of Nebraska (1951-1959) | |
Postmaster General | Fred Hall |
January 20, 1957
- January 20, 1961 |
Republican | Governor of Kansas (1955-1957) |
Robert Taft Jr |
January 20, 1961
- January 20, 1965 |
Republican | Congressman from Connecticut’s 3rd District (1949-1961) | |
Secretary of the Interior | Winton M. Blount |
January 20, 1957
- January 3, 1961 |
Republican | Governor of Alabama (1955-1957) |
Theodore Roosevelt IV |
January 3, 1961
- January 20, 1965 |
Republican | Under Secretary of the Interior (1957-1961) | |
Secretary of Agriculture | Elliot Roosevelt |
January 20, 1957
- January 20, 1965 |
Labor | Mayor of Miami, Florida (1953-1957) |
Secretary of Labor | Herbert Hoover Jr. | January 20, 1957
- January 20, 1961 |
Republican | Under Secretary of State (1950-1957) |
Philip Wilkie |
January 20, 1961
- January 20, 1965 |
Republican | Congressman from Indiana (1955-1961) | |
Secretary of H.E.D. | Robert Finch |
January 20, 1957
- January 20, 1961 |
Republican | Mayor of San Francisco (1955-1957) |
Clare Boothe Luce |
January 20, 1961
- January 20, 1965 |
Republican | Governor of Connecticut (1959-1961) | |
Diplomat to the United Nations | Henry Cabot Lodge Jr |
January 20, 1957
- January 20, 1965 |
Republican | Diplomat to the United Kingdom (1947-1955) |