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Definition of Secretary of the Interior

1. Noun. The position of the head of the Department of the Interior. "The position of Interior Secretary was created in 1849"

2. Noun. The person who holds the secretaryship of the Interior Department. "President Taylor appointed Thomas Ewing as the first Secretary of the Interior"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Secretary Of The Interior

Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of Commerce Secretary of Commerce and Labor Secretary of Defense Secretary of Education Secretary of Energy Secretary of Health Education and Welfare Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Secretary of Labor

Secretary of State Secretary of State for the Home Department Secretary of Transportation Secretary of Veterans Affairs Secretary of War Secretary of the Interior (current term) Secretary of the Navy Secretary of the Treasury Section Eight Sectral

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Literary usage of Secretary of the Interior

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"No communication was had, it seems, with the Secretary of the Interior, informing him of the result of this professed attempt to get the seed, ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"A suit by a railroad company to restrain the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of the General Land Office from canceling a selection of ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"In deference to that opinion and the action of the honorable, the Secretary of the Interior, in the case under consideration, your respondent rf u*ed and ..."

4. Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising by United States Attorney-General (1858)
"On the face of this enactment, it appears to be a direction to the Secretary of the Interior to do certain ..."

5. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1859)
"A Resolution to authorize the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior Jan. 17,1867* to settle the daim of William Carey Jones, ..."

6. Report by Indians Rights Association (1904)
"I know Senator so and so—or the President, or the Secretary of the Interior— and I can get him to recommend whatever I ask him to." The Indian, ignorant of ..."

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