United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs Totally Explained

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The United States Secretary of Veterans' Affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department concerned with veterans' benefits and related matters. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and second to last at 17th in the line of succession to the presidency (the position was last until the creation of the United States Department of Homeland Security in 2002). To date, all appointees and acting appointees to the post have been United States military veterans, but that isn't a requirement to fill the position.

Chronological lists

Secretaries

No.	Name	Term of Office	President(s) served under
1	Edward Joseph Derwinski	March 15, 1989–September 26, 1992	George H. W. Bush
2	Jesse Brown	January 22, 1993–July 03, 1997	Bill Clinton
3	Togo Dennis West, Jr.	May 05, 1998–July 10, 2000	Bill Clinton
4	Anthony Joseph Principi	January 23, 2001–January 26, 2005	George W. Bush
5	Robert James Nicholson	January 26, 2005–October 01, 2007
6	James Benjamin Peake	December 20, 2007–present

Acting Secretaries

When the post of Secretary is vacant, the United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs or any other person designated by the President serves as Acting Secretary | rowspan="3"| Bill Clinton |- | July 10, 2000 | January 20, 2001 |- | Togo Dennis West, Jr. | | January 2, 1998 and Encarta list Acting Secretary Gober's second time as Acting Secretary in 2000-01 ether as a member of President Clinton's cabinet or with the other Veterans Affairs secretaries. Other sources, such as Infoplease and the The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents do not.}}

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