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Presidency of Jimmy Carter

The Carter Cabinet
Office Name Term
President Jimmy Carter 1977–1981
Vice President Walter Mondale 1977–1981
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance 1977–1980
Edmund Muskie 1980–1981
Secretary of Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal 1977–1979
G. William Miller 1979–1981
Secretary of Defense Harold Brown 1977–1981
Attorney General Griffin Bell 1977–1979
Benjamin R. Civiletti 1979–1981
Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus 1977–1981
Secretary of Agriculture Robert Bergland 1977–1981
Secretary of Commerce Juanita M. Kreps 1977–1979
Philip M. Klutznick 1979–1981
Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall 1977–1981
Secretary of Health,
Education, and Welfare
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.* 1977–1979
Secretary of Health and
Human Services
Patricia R. Harris* 1979–1981
Secretary of Education Shirley M. Hufstedler* 1979–1981
Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development
Patricia R. Harris 1977–1979
Maurice "Moon" Landrieu 1979–1981
Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams 1977–1979
Neil E. Goldschmidt 1979–1981
Secretary of Energy James R. Schlesinger 1977–1979
Charles W. Duncan 1979–1981
Chief of Staff none 1977–1979
Hamilton Jordan 1979–1980
Jack H. Watson 1980–1981
Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency
Douglas M. Costle 1977–1981
Director of the Office of
Management and Budget
Bert Lance 1977
James T. McIntyre 1977–1981
United States Trade Representative Robert S. Strauss 1977–1979
Reubin Askew 1979–1981

The presidency of Jimmy Carter began on January 20, 1977 at noon Eastern Standard Time, when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1981. A Democrat, he took office after defeating Republican incumbent President Gerald Ford in the 1976 presidential election.

Carter, the 39th United States president, sought to make the government "competent and compassionate" but, in the midst of an economic crisis produced by rising energy prices and stagflation, met with difficulty in achieving its objectives. At the end of his administration, Carter had seen a substantial decrease in unemployment and a partial reduction of the deficit, but the recession ultimately continued. Carter created the United States Department of Education and United States Department of Energy, established a national energy policy and pursued civil service and social security reform. In foreign affairs, Carter strongly emphasized human rights throughout his career. He initiated the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II). The final year of his presidential tenure was marked by several major crises, including the 1979 takeover of the American embassy in Iran and holding of hostages by Iranian students, an unsuccessful rescue attempt of the hostages, serious fuel shortages, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.


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