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10th Arizona Territorial Legislature

Finally, the session authorized US$2000 for Governor Frémont and Judge Charles Silent to travel to Washington, D.C., and lobby to have an order by Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz extending boundaries of the Gila River Indian Reservation into the Salt River Valley.

Carlos María Abascal Carranza

Carlos María Abascal Carranza (born Mexico City, June 14, 1949 - Mexico City, December 2, 2008) was a Mexican lawyer and the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Vicente Fox.

In 2005, following Santiago Creel's resignation, Abascal was appointed Secretary of the Interior.

Delano Peak

The mountain is named for Columbus Delano (1809–1896), Secretary of the Interior during the Grant administration.

Frank P. Briggs

He resumed the newspaper publishing business and was chairman of the Missouri State Conservation Commission in 1955-1956; from 1961 to 1965 he was Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife.

George Griswold

On March 8, 1853, Michigan Governor Robert McClelland resigned to become Secretary of the Interior under Franklin Pierce.

George H. Bender

Bender then worked as special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior from June 1957 to May 1958, during which time he campaigned for the incorporation of Alaska as the 49th state.

George Washington Woodruff

His political posts included Finance Clerk in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Attorney General, federal judge for the territory of Hawaii, chief law officer of the US Forest Service under friend and fellow Yale alumni Gifford Pinchot, Acting Secretary of the Interior under President Theodore Roosevelt.

Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

When Supreme Court Associate Justice Byron White retired in 1993, Merritt was considered a potential nominee, along with Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt and Stephen Breyer of the First Circuit, who was eventually nominated by President Bill Clinton and subsequently joined the Court.

Great Sioux War of 1876

They met with Grant, Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Edward Smith.

Italia Federici

Federici was also a political aide to Secretary of the Interior and CREA co-founder Gale Norton.

James W. McDill

In March 1881, he was appointed by Governor John H. Gear to fill the U.S. Senate vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel J. Kirkwood, whom President James A. Garfield had appointed Secretary of the Interior.

John Coit Spooner

A popular figure in Republican politics, he turned down three cabinet posts during his political career: Secretary of the Interior in President William McKinley's administration in 1898, Attorney General under President McKinley in 1901, and Secretary of State in President William Howard Taft's administration in 1909.

Mandate for Leadership

In particular, the Reagan administration hired key Mandate contributors Bill Bennett as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (and later as Secretary of Education) and James G. Watt as Secretary of the Interior.

Morris Thompson

When President Nixon named Hickel to serve as Secretary of the Interior in 1969, Thompson went to Washington, D.C., as special assistant for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

My First Days in the White House

Secretary of the Interior: Lytle Brown

Robert L. Geddes

Later, Geddes was acting lieutenant governor again in May and June, 2006 after Lieutenant Governor Jim Risch became governor upon the resignation of Governor Dirk Kempthorne to become Secretary of the Interior until Mark Ricks, whom Governor Risch appointed to fill the vacancy in the office he left, was confirmed by the Senate.

Saxbe fix

Senator Ken Salazar, the Secretary of the Interior, also required a Saxbe Fix by the 111th United States Congress.

Schurz, Nevada

The town was named after Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz.

Tamarack Resort

They came to Idaho as guests of Dirk Kempthorne, the state's governor and former U.S. Senator who later became a member of Bush's cabinet as Secretary of the Interior.

United States v. Dion

The Eagle Protection Act, by its express terms, made it a federal offense to hunt bald or golden eagles anywhere within the United States unless provided a permit by the Secretary of the Interior.

William Tod Otto

Lincoln appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Interior after the previous man in the position, John Palmer Usher, was promoted to Secretary of the Interior.


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1879 Michigan Wolverines football team

Shortly after the crowd arrived from Ann Arbor, word was received that Zachariah Chandler, the former mayor of Detroit, U.S. Senator from Michigan, Secretary of the Interior, and U.S. Presidential candidate, had died.

34th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Carl Schurz, who was later U.S. general, secretary of the Interior and U.S. senator, had been his adjunct officer during that campaign, and his wife Mathilde Franziska Anneke, the famous abolitionist and feminist activist, served as ordnance officer in that campaign.

89th Indiana Infantry Regiment

The houses of some prominent official rebels were also burned, such as that of Jacob Thompson, Confederate Secretary of the Interior.

Alaska Cooperative Extension Service

In a 1956 report to the Secretary of the Interior, Governor Mike Stepovich noted that Extension was "guided by local producer and consumer committees where representatives of rural and urban groups have an opportunity to make their needs known."

Alaska Land Transfer Acceleration Act

The act required the Secretary of the Interior, to deliver to Congress a report within three years of the bill’s passage.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement

On May 11, 2010, in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that MMS would be restructured so that the safety and environmental functions are carried out by a unit with full independence from MMS in order to ensure that federal inspectors will have more tools, resources, and greater authority to enforce laws and regulations that apply to oil and gas companies operating on the Outer Continental Shelf.

Coos Bay Wagon Road Lands

In 2011, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar endorsed a demonstration timber sale pilot project on federal forest lands along Coos Bay Wagon Road in coordination with two professors.

Dennis Thomas Flynn

He was considered for the position of Secretary of the Interior under President William Howard Taft.

Designated landmark

U.S. National Historic Landmarks are buildings, sites, districts, structures, and objects that have been determined by the Secretary of the Interior to be nationally significant in American history and culture.

Endangered Species Act

More changes were made in the 1990s in an attempt by Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to shield the ESA from a Congress hostile to the law.

Harold Ickes

Harold L. Ickes (1874–1952), U.S. Secretary of the Interior in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration

Harrison County, Ohio

Benjamin Cowen - Assistant Secretary of the Interior, who was principal political facilitator in establishing Yellowstone National Park and the idea that the use of national parks is for all Americans

J. Robinson West

Before founding PFC Energy in 1984, Robin served in the Reagan Administration as assistant secretary of the interior for policy, budget and administration (1981-83), with responsibility for U.S. offshore oil policy.

James G. Scrugham

He became a special adviser to the Secretary of the Interior on Colorado River development projects in 1927.

John Willock Noble

Under his watch as Secretary of the Interior, the Cherokee Commission negotiated eleven agreements that removed nineteen indigenous tribes to small allotments in the Oklahoma Territory, while opening the land to homesteaders.

Lamar River

During that survey, Geologist Arnold Hague named the river for L.Q.C. (Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus) Lamar, then Secretary of the Interior (March 1885 - January 1888).

Mary A. Bomar

Following Senate confirmation, she was sworn into office on October 17, 2006 by United States Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne at Independence Square in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

National Biological Information Infrastructure

In conjunction with this, but without a presidential order, former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt renamed the national biotic resource information system as the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII).

New Waddell Dam

On November 6, 1981, the Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt recommended Plan 6.

NNL

National Natural Landmark - a natural history conservation program of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior

Orange Heritage Trailway

The designation was handed down by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne.

Piceance Basin

"For the first time in 20 years, we have an updated assessment of in-place oil shale in the Piceance Basin of Colorado," said US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.

Ponciano Arriaga International Airport

On November 4, 2008, former Secretary of the interior Juan Camilo Mouriño was killed when the SEGOB-owned Learjet he was travelling on his way back from San Luis Potosí crashed at Mexico City before reaching the airport.

Sigurd F. Olson

Sigurd also was a consultant to the Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall on wilderness and national park issues.

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

This announcement came as part of a signing ceremony for the project attended by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.

United States General Services Administration Building

Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, oversaw construction of dams, fully developed the National Park Service to provide recreational needs, and served as the first Federal Administrator of Public Works.

United States v. Dion

Before hearings on an amendment to extend protection to the golden eagle, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Frank P. Briggs wrote a letter to the subcommittee acknowledging the religious significance of the golden eagle to many Indian tribes of the southwest.

Walter Fisher

Walter L. Fisher (1862–1935), United States Secretary of the Interior

William Clark, Jr.

William P. Clark, Jr. (born 1931) U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1983 to 1985