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Definition of Interior secretary

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

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interior Secretary

Inquisition Inserts Inspector Maigret Intel Intelligence Community Intelnet Inter-Services Intelligence Interahamwe Interamerican Intereuropean

Interglossa Interior Department Interior Plains Interior Secretary Interix Interlaken Interlingua Interlingue Internal Revenue Code Internal Revenue Service

International Atomic Energy Agency International Bank for Reconstruction and Developm International Civil Aviation Organization

Literary usage of Interior secretary

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

1. Life in Washington: And Life Here and There by Mary Jane Windle (1859)
"DEPARTMENT OF THB INTERIOR—SECRETARY THOMPSON. WASHINGTON, OCTOBER, 1857. HAVING occasion a few days since to call with a friend at the Department of the ..."

2. Buchanan's Conspiracy, the Nicaragua Canal, and Reciprocity by Patrick Cudmore (1892)
"Secretary of Foreign Relations, Secretary of Finance, Secretary of War and Navy, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Justice and Public Instruction, ..."

3. Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States by United States, William Adams Richardson, George Anderson King, William Bruce King, Edwin Charles Brandenburg (1891)
"521 INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE (See Interior, Secretary of the; Indiana; Lands, public; Pensions), commissions of officers of, to be made out, recorded, ..."

4. Liberia: Description, History, Problems by Frederick Starr (1913)
"... Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of War and Navy, Postmaster- General, Attorney-General, Superintendent of the Department ..."

5. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1873)
"... in the Interior, Secretary of, annual report of the Papers accompanying the above : Annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land- Office Annual ..."

6. Bender's Lawyers' Diary and Directory ...: Reference Book for the State of by Irving Boardman (1920)
"Secretary of the interior secretary of Agriculture. Secretary of Commerce.. Secretary of Labor Carter Glass, of Virginia. Newton D. Baker, of Ohio. ..."

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