Ethan A. Hitchcock

Ethan Allen Hitchcock
22nd United States Secretary of the Interior
In office February 20, 1899 – March 4, 1907
Preceded by	Cornelius Newton Bliss
Succeeded by	James Rudolph Garfield
Born	September 19, 1835(1835-09-19) Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
Died	April 9, 1909 (aged 73) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Republican
Profession	Politician

Ethan Allen Hitchcock (September 19, 1835 – April 9, 1909) served under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt as U.S. Secretary of the Interior.

Early life

Born on September 19, 1835, in Mobile, Alabama, Hitchcock was in his sixties when first appointed by President McKinley to be U.S. minister to Russia in 1897.

Government career

He was recalled in the following year to serve in first McKinley's and then his successor, Roosevelt's, Cabinet. As Secretary of the Interior, Hitchcock pursued a vigorous program for the conservation of natural resources and reorganized the administration of Native American affairs. Hitchcock died April 9, 1909, in Washington, D.C.^[1]

References

External links

• Ethan Allen Hitchcock at Find A Grave
• New York Times article on Hitchcock's appointment as Interior Secretary December 22, 1898.

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v • d • e Cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) Vice President None (1901-1905) • Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-1909) Secretary of State John M. Hay (1901-1905) • Elihu Root (1905-1909) • Robert Bacon (1909) Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage (1901-1902) • Leslie M. Shaw (1902-1907) • George B. Cortelyou (1907-1909) Secretary of War Elihu Root (1901-1904) • William H. Taft (1904-1908) • Luke E. Wright (1908-1909) Attorney General Philander C. Knox (1901-1904) • William H. Moody (1904-1906) • Charles J. Bonaparte (1906-1909) Postmaster General Charles E. Smith (1901-1902) • Henry C. Payne (1902-1904) • Robert J. Wynne (1904-1905) • George B. Cortelyou (1905-1907) • George von L. Meyer (1907-1909) Secretary of the Navy John D. Long (1901-1902) • William H. Moody (1902-1904) • Paul Morton (1904-1905) • Charles J. Bonaparte (1905-1906) • Victor H. Metcalf (1906-1908) • Truman H. Newberry (1908-1909) Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock (1901-1907) • James R. Garfield (1907-1909) Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson (1901-1909) Secretary of Commerce and Labor George B. Cortelyou (1903-1904) • Victor H. Metcalf (1904-1906) • Oscar S. Straus (1906-1909)