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Barack Obama administration

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The Obama Cabinet
Office Name Term
President Barack Obama 2009–2017
Vice President Joe Biden 2009–2017
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 2009–2013
John Kerry 2013–2017
Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner 2009–2013
Jack Lew 2013–2017
Secretary of Defense Bob Gates* 2006–2011
Leon Panetta 2011–2013
Chuck Hagel 2013–2015
Ash Carter 2015–2017
Attorney General Eric Holder 2009–2015
Loretta Lynch 2015–2017
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar 2009–2013
Sally Jewell 2013–2017
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack 2009–2017
Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke 2009–2011
John Bryson 2011–2012
Penny Pritzker 2013–2017
Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis 2009–2013
Thomas Perez 2013–2017
Secretary of Health and
Human Services
Kathleen Sebelius 2009–2014
Sylvia Burwell 2014–2017
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan 2009–2016
John King 2016–2017
Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development
Shaun Donovan 2009–2014
Julian Castro 2014–2017
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood 2009–2013
Anthony Foxx 2013–2017
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu 2009–2013
Ernest Moniz 2013–2017
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki 2009–2014
Bob McDonald 2014–2017
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano 2009–2013
Jeh Johnson 2013–2017
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel 2009–2010
William Daley 2011–2012
Jack Lew 2012–2013
Denis McDonough 2013–2017
Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency
Lisa Jackson 2009–2013
Gina McCarthy 2013–2017
Director of the Office of
Management and Budget
Peter Orszag 2009–2010
Jack Lew 2010–2012
Sylvia Burwell 2013–2014
Shaun Donovan 2014–2017
Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice 2009–2013
Samantha Power 2013–2017
United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk 2009–2013
Michael Froman 2013–2017
Chair of the
Council of Economic Advisers
Christina Romer 2009–2010
Austan Goolsbee 2010–2011
Alan Krueger 2011–2013
Jason Furman 2013–2017
Administrator of the
Small Business Administration
Karen Mills** 2009–2013
Maria Contreras-Sweet 2014–2017
*Retained from previous administration
**Elevated to cabinet-level in January 2012

The presidency of Barack Obama began at noon EST on January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2017. Obama, a Democrat, took office as the 44th United States president following a decisive victory over Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Four years later, in the 2012 election, he defeated Mitt Romney to win re-election. He was the first African American president, the first multiracial president, the first non-white president, and the first president to have been born in Hawaii. Obama was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump, who won the 2016 presidential election.

Obama's first-term actions addressed the global financial crisis and included a major stimulus package, a partial extension of the Bush tax cuts, legislation to reform health care, a major financial regulation reform bill, and the end of a major US military presence in Iraq. Obama also appointed Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, the latter of whom became the first Hispanic American on the Supreme Court. Democrats controlled both houses of Congress until Republicans won a majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 elections. Following the elections, Obama and Congressional Republicans engaged in a protracted stand-off over government spending levels and the debt ceiling.


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