John A. Knebel

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John Knebel


19th United States Secretary of Agriculture
In office November 4, 1976 –January 20, 1977

Political offices
Preceded by Earl Butz	United States Secretary of Agriculture 1976–1977	Succeeded by Robert Bergland
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by F. David Mathews as Former U.S. Cabinet Member	Order of precedence of the United States as Former U.S. Cabinet Member	Succeeded by W. Michael Blumenthal as Former U.S. Cabinet Member

v t e United States secretaries of agriculture
Coleman Rusk Morton Wilson Houston Meredith H. C. Wallace Gore Jardine Hyde H. A. Wallace Wickard Anderson Brannan Benson Freeman Hardin Butz Knebel Bergland Block Lyng Yeutter Madigan Espy Glickman Veneman Johanns Schafer Vilsack Perdue Vilsack Rollins

Cabinet of President Gerald Ford (1974–1977)

Cabinet
Vice President	None (1974) Nelson Rockefeller (1974–1977)
Secretary of State	Henry Kissinger (1974–1977)
Secretary of the Treasury	William E. Simon (1974–1977)
Secretary of Defense	James R. Schlesinger (1974–1975) Donald Rumsfeld (1975–1977)
Attorney General	William B. Saxbe (1974–1975) Edward H. Levi (1975–1977)
Secretary of the Interior	Rogers Morton (1974–1975) Stanley K. Hathaway (1975) Thomas S. Kleppe (1975–1977)
Secretary of Agriculture	Earl Butz (1974–1976) John A. Knebel (1976–1977)
Secretary of Commerce	Frederick B. Dent (1974–1975) Rogers Morton (1975–1976) Elliot Richardson (1976–1977)
Secretary of Labor	Peter J. Brennan (1974–1975) John Thomas Dunlop (1975–1976) William Usery Jr. (1976–1977)
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	Caspar Weinberger (1974–1975) F. David Mathews (1975–1977)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	James Thomas Lynn (1974–1975) Carla Anderson Hills (1975–1977)
Secretary of Transportation	Claude Brinegar (1974–1975) William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. (1975–1977)

Cabinet-level
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Roy Ash (1974–1975) James Thomas Lynn (1975–1977)
Trade Representative	Frederick B. Dent (1975–1977)
Ambassador to the United Nations	John A. Scali (1974–1975) Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1975–1976) William Scranton (1976–1977)
White House Chief of Staff	Donald Rumsfeld (1974–1975) Dick Cheney (1975–1977)
Counselor to the President	Anne L. Armstrong (1974) Dean Burch (1974) Kenneth Rush (1974) Robert T. Hartmann (1974–1977) John Otho Marsh Jr. (1974–1977) Rogers Morton (1976)
White House Counsel	Philip W. Buchen (1974–1977)

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