This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Secretary at War" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(October 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
The Hon. Henry Pelham, who served as Secretary at War between 1724 and 1730
The Secretary at War was a political position in the English and later British government, with some responsibility over the administration and organization of the Army, but not over military policy. The Secretary at War ran the War Office. After 1794 it was occasionally a Cabinet-level position, although it was considered of subordinate rank to the Secretaries of State. The position was combined with that of Secretary of State for War in 1854 and abolished in 1863.[1]
Notable holders of the position include Robert Walpole, the Hon. Henry Pelham, Henry Fox, Lord Palmerston and Lord Macaulay.
^"Senior Cabinet posts". The National Archives. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
The SecretaryatWar was a political position in the English and later British government, with some responsibility over the administration and organization...
Washington's administration. A similar position, called either "SecretaryatWar" or "Secretary of War", had been appointed to serve the Congress of the Confederation...
The Secretary of State for War, commonly called WarSecretary, was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, which existed from 1794...
The Secretary of State for War and the Colonies was a British cabinet-level position responsible for the army and the British colonies (other than India)...
the SecretaryatWar, and the twin Secretaries of State; most of whose military responsibilities were passed to a new Secretary of State for War in 1794...
The Secretary of War, a civilian with such responsibilities as finance and purchases and a minor role in directing military affairs, headed the War Department...
politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War. Stanton's management helped organize...
Confederate States secretary of war was a member of President Jefferson Davis's cabinet during the American Civil War. The Secretary of War was head of the...
subordinate to the secretary of Defense. This position was created on September 18, 1947, replacing the secretary of war, when the Department of War was split...
The secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, also known as the foreign secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government...
from 1785 to 1789. Washington, at the start of his first administration, appointed Knox the nation's first Secretary of War, a position he held from 1789...
member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War. He was the United States Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857. Davis, the youngest of ten children...
1775, in concurrence with the American Revolution. The War Department, headed by the secretary of war, was created by Act of Congress in 1789 and was responsible...
answerable to the President. Before 1937, the position was called the Secretary of War and Navy (Secretaría de Guerra y Marina). The agency has its headquarters...
that studied the lessons of the Iraq War. Gates was nominated by Republican president George W. Bush as secretary of defense in 2006, replacing Donald...
The Under Secretary of War was a position created by an act of 16 December 1940 (54 Stat. 1224). At the same time, section 5a of the National Defense...
(or Her) Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, known for short as the India secretary or the Indian secretary, was the British Cabinet minister...
Timeline of the War of 1812 is a chronology of the War of 1812. List of War of 1812 Battles Bibliography of the War of 1812 Timeline of the American Revolution...
Next in importance to the Commander-in-Chief was the SecretaryatWar, who served as head of the War Office, and was bidden "to observe and follow such...
Lincoln served from 1781 to 1783 as the first United States Secretary of War. While Secretary of War, Lincoln became an original member of The Society of the...
France and Britain, the seventh secretary of state, and the eighth secretary of war. During the American Revolutionary War, he served in the Continental...
Global Information
