James Monroe served as Secretary of War, as well as Secretary of State for James Madison. (Confederate President Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War for Franklin Pierce)
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.
Davis served President Franklin Pierce as Secretary of War
James Monroe was a Secretary of War in the James Madison cabinet.Williiam Howard Taft was a Secretary of War under Theodore Roosevelt.(Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate states, was Secretary of War for Franklin Pierce. )
Davis was Secretary of War in the administration of President Franklin Pierce
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James Monroe served as Secretary of State and as Secretary of War under Madison. For some of the time, he held both positions at once.
he was a member of the Mississippi state legislature a two-term u.s. senator from Mississippi and u.s. secretary of war.
Davis was Secretary of War for President Franklin Pierce
Davis served as Secretary of War in the administration of President Franklin Pierce
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