Head of a former executive department; combined with the Navy Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947.
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Examples for "Secretary of War"
Examples for "Secretary of War"
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The next moment he joined the Secretary of War in the telegraph-room.
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The President and the Secretary of War still had faith in him.
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In a letter to the Secretary of War, written the next day:
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That body referred the petition to the Secretary of War-theGeneral's executioner.
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In honor of the Secretary of War we called it Dearborn's River.
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Stanton is making the most efficient War Secretary we have ever had.
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I want my planners and my officers and my War Secretary to hear this.
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Benjamin became Secretary of War , in succession to the first War Secretary, Leroy P. Walker.
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In September he became War Secretary, with a seat in the Whig Cabinet under Lord Melbourne.
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Next day I talked to the War Secretary.
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In 1840 he was made War Secretary.
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Grantline whispered, "That's the War Secretary from Greater London."
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In room six we stood before the War Secretary, who had arrived there a moment ahead of us.
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I have failed the War Secretary.
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It is as Secretary of the Navy, and particularly as a War Secretary, that you very definitely don't.
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The next day Murphree himself pleaded with War Secretary Davis for supplies and tents to be sent to Greenville.
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Lord Derby, War Secretary.
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Mr. Lincoln's War Secretary, Edwin M. Stanton, who had succeeded Simon Cameron, was a man of wonderful personality and iron will.
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The Peninsular Campaign was scarcely under way when Canning and Castlereagh, the War Secretary, quarreled and the former resigned from the cabinet.
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A quiet smile lingered on the large-featured face, with some humorous appreciation of the War Secretary's evident annoyance at this abrupt visit.
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The ex-Scrag Amazon gave the war secretary a cool smile in return.