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1809 (March 4)
James V. Forrestal
The first Secretary of Defense of the United States was James Forrestal. He was previously Secretary of the Navy before the creation of a consolidated Department of Defense.
James V. Forrestal was the first Secretary of Defense. Forrestal was previously the Secretary of the Navy until the Department of Defense came in to being when president Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947. On September 18, 1947, the Department of War was divided into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force, both of which joined the Department of the Navy as part of the new National Military Establishment (NME)--changed to Department of Defense in 1949, in part because the acronmy sounds like the word "enemy."
James O. Wickline has written: 'Teledesic's capabilities to meet future Department of Defense wideband communications requirements'
The U. S. Vice Presidents under James Madison were George Clinton (March 1805 - April 1812) and Elbridge Gerry (March 1813 - November 1814).
No U.S. Defense Secretary has been a U.S. President to date, but one, Dick Cheney, has been a U.S. Vice President. Two U.S. Presidents had been U.S. Secretary of War. The War Department became part of the Defense Department in 1947. The two were James Monroe and William Howard Taft.
James Madison believed that a large diverse republic would be the best for the common good because diverse interests could check one another.