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United States Deputy Secretary of Energy

{{Short description|United States government position}}

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| seat = Washington, D.C., United States

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The Deputy Secretary of Energy is a high-ranking position within the United States Department of Energy. The Deputy Secretary is the second-highest-ranking official of the Department and assists the secretary of energy in the supervision and direction of the Department. The Deputy Secretary succeeds the Secretary in their absence, sickness, or unavailability.

The Deputy Secretary is appointed by the President with the consent of the United States Senate to serve at the request of the President.

History

The position of deputy secretary of energy was formed on October 1, 1977, with the creation of the Department of Energy when President Jimmy Carter signed the Department of Energy Organization Act.{{cite web|url=https://www.energy.gov/about/origins.htm|title=Origins|publisher=U.S. Department of Energy|access-date=2007-07-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712133033/http://energy.gov/about/origins.htm|archive-date=2007-07-12|url-status=dead}}

Deputy secretaries of energy

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No.

!Image

!Name

!Took office

!Left office

1

|60px

|{{sortname|John F.|O'Leary}}{{citation|url=http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/Summary_History.pdf|title=Department of Energy 1997-1994, a summary history|author1=Terrence R. Fehner|author2=Jack M. Hall}}

|{{dts|1977|October|21}}

|{{dts|1979|September|30}}

2

|60px

|{{sortname|John C.|Sawhill}}

|{{dts|1979|October|4}}

|{{dts|1980|October|8}}

3

|60px

|Lynn Coleman

|{{dts|1980|December|23}}

|{{dts|1981|January|20}}

4

|60px

|W. Kenneth Davis

|{{dts|1981|May|14}}

|{{dts|1983|January|13}}

5

|60px

|{{sortname|Danny J.|Boggs}}

|{{dts|1983|November|3}}

|{{dts|1986|March|25}}

6

|60px

|William Flynn Martin

|{{dts|1986|June|6}}

|{{dts|1988|June|6}}

7

|60px

|Joseph F. Salgado

|{{dts|1988|May|21}}

|{{dts|1989|January|20}}

8

|60px

|{{sortname|W. Henson|Moore}}

|{{dts|1989|April|12}}

|{{dts|1992|January|31}}

9

|60px

|Linda Stuntz

|{{dts|1992|January|31}}

|{{dts|1993|January|22}}

10

|60px

|William H. White

|{{dts|1993|June|26}}

|{{dts|1995|January|20}}

11

|60px

|Charles B. Curtis

| August 1995

| May 1997

12

|60px

|Betsy Moler

|1997

|2001

13

|60px

|Frank Blake

|{{dts|2001|June|1}}

|{{dts|2002|April

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|-

|14

|60px

|Kyle E. McSlarrow

|{{dts|2002|November|27}}

|{{dts|2005|February}}

|-

|15

|60px

|Clay Sell

|{{dts|2005|March|17}}

|{{dts|2008|February|29}}

|-

| –

|60px

|Jeffrey Kupfer
Acting

|{{dts|2008|March|1}}

|{{dts|2009|January|20}}

|-

|17

|60px

|Daniel Poneman

|{{dts|2009|May|18}}

|{{dts|2014|October|5}}

|-

|18

|60px

|Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

|{{dts|2014|October|10}}

|{{dts|2017|January|20}}

|-

|19

|60px

|Dan Brouillette

|{{dts|2017|August|08}}

|{{dts|2019|December|04}}

|-

|rowspan=2 |20

|rowspan=2 |60px

|rowspan=2 |Mark Menezes

|{{dts|2019|December|04}} (Acting)

|{{dts|2020|August|04}} (Acting)

|-

|{{dts|2020|August|04}}

|{{dts|2021|January|20}}

|-

|21

|60px

|David Turk

|{{dts|2021|March|25}}

|January 20, 2025

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