Carter Administration

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 Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) was renamed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1979, when its education functions were transferred to the newly created Department of Education under the Department of Education Organization Act (1979).

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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