United States Secretary of Commerce | |
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United States Department of Commerce | |
Style | Mr. Secretary (informal) The Honorable (formal) |
Member of | Cabinet |
Reports to | President of the United States |
Seat | Herbert C. Hoover Building, Washington, D.C. |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Term length | No fixed term |
Constituting instrument | 15 U.S.C. § 1501 |
Precursor | Secretary of Commerce and Labor |
Formation | March 15, 1913 |
First holder | William Cox Redfield |
Succession | Tenth[1] |
Deputy | Deputy Secretary of Commerce |
Salary | Executive Schedule, level I |
Website | Commerce.gov |
The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce."[2] Until 1913 there was one Secretary of Commerce and Labor, uniting this department with the Department of Labor, which is now headed by a separate Secretary of Labor.[3]