NOUN
- head of a former executive department; combined with the Navy Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947
How To Use Secretary of War In A Sentence
- She immediately contacted the British secretary of war and volunteered her time and skills.
- In the mid-1850s, Scott's squabbles with Secretary of War Jefferson Davis were legendary.
- An old upright Yankee patrician, a very gentle man in the office of secretary of war, one Henry Stimson, told the president of his good fortune in having for the job a soldier of such towering eminence.
- The third was a secretary of war who knew nothing about military matters and defense.
- Here is what the Secretary of War said last month, Some comment has been made on the relatively small amount of defence articles which thus far have been transferred under the Lease-Lend Act. I think this comment loses sight of the primary purpose of the Act and some of its greatest benefits to the countries concerned. Men Money and Materiel
- As secretary of war in the Taft administration, he visited the army posts of the Old West in the last years of their existence.
- Radicals in the House of Representatives brought eleven charges against President Johnson. Most of the charges were based on Johnson's removal from office of his secretary of war.
- In 1864, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signed an order establishing a military burial ground, which became Arlington National Cemetery.
- The rather unimposing, bespectacled, owlish-looking cabinet officer thus gave President Wilson a strong hand at the peace table and achieved recognition as a successful secretary of war.
- Davis was secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce when the bridge was started and therefore was entitled to have his name chiseled on it. More about the history and name of Cabin John Bridge
