No. |
Name |
Portrait |
Took Office |
Left Office |
President served under |
Notable for |
1 |
Harvey Washington Wiley, M.D. |
 |
January 1, 1907 |
March 15, 1912 |
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft |
Chemist; advocacy of the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906; subsequent work at Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories |
2 |
Carl L. Alsberg M.D. |
|
December 16, 1912 |
July 15, 1921 |
William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding |
|
3 |
Walter Gilbert Campbell |
|
7/16/1921 |
6/30/1924 |
Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge |
|
4 |
Charles Albert Browne, Jr. |
|
7/1/1924 |
6/30/1927 |
Calvin Coolidge |
|
3[1] |
Walter Gilbert Campbell |
|
7/1/1927 |
4/30/1944 |
Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt |
|
5 |
Paul B. Dunbar, Ph.D. |
|
5/6/1944 |
5/31/1951 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman |
|
6 |
Charles W. Crawford |
|
6/1/1951 |
7/31/1954 |
Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower |
|
7 |
George P. Larrick |
|
8/12/1954 |
12/27/1965 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson |
|
8 |
James Lee Goddard, M.D. |
|
1/17/1966 |
7/1/1968 |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
|
9 |
Herbert Leonard Ley, Jr., M.D. |
|
7/1/1968 |
12/12/1969 |
Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon |
|
10 |
Charles C. Edwards, M.D. |
|
12/13/1969 |
3/15/1973 |
Richard M. Nixon |
|
11 |
Alexander Mackay Schmidt, M.D. |
|
7/20/1973 |
11/30/1976 |
Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford |
|
12 |
Donald Kennedy, Ph.D. |
 |
4/4/1977 |
6/30/1979 |
Jimmy Carter |
|
13 |
Jere Edwin Goyan, Ph.D. |
|
10/21/1979 |
1/20/1981 |
Jimmy Carter |
|
14 |
Arthur Hull Hayes Jr., M.D. |
|
4/13/1981 |
9/11/1983 |
Ronald Reagan |
|
15 |
Frank Edward Young, M.D., Ph.D. |
|
7/15/1984 |
12/17/1989 |
Ronald Reagan |
|
16 |
David Aaron Kessler, M.D. |
|
11/8/1990 |
2/28/1997 |
George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
|
|
17 |
Jane Ellen Henney, M.D. |
|
1/17/99 |
1/19/2001 |
Bill Clinton |
|
18 |
Mark Barr McClellan, M.D., Ph.D |
 |
11/14/2002 |
3/26/2004 |
George W. Bush |
|
19 |
Lester Mills Crawford, D.V.M., Ph.D. |
 |
7/18/2005 |
9/23/2005 |
George W. Bush |
Charged with conflict of interest and lying about stock he and his wife owned in companies regulated by FDA.[2] |
20 |
Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D. |
 |
12/13/2006 |
1/20/2009 |
George W. Bush |
Member of the board of directors of BioTime (NYSE MKT: BTX), a biotechnology and regenerative medicine company. |
21 |
Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. |
 |
5/22/2009 |
present |
Barack Obama |
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