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Commissioners of Reclamation

1894-1907	Charles D. Walcott	Director, U.S.G.S.
1902-1907	Frederick H. Newell	Chief Engineer
1907-1914	Frederick H. Newell	Director
1914-1923	Arthur Powell Davis	Director
1923-1924	David W. Davis	Commissioner
1924-1936	Elwood Mead	Commissioner
1930-1936	Mae A. Schnurr	Acting*
1936-1943	John C. Page	Commissioner
1943-1945	Harry W. Bashore	Commissioner
1945-1953	Michael W. Straus	Commissioner
1953	Goodrich W. Lineweaver	Acting
1953-1959	Wilbur A. Dexheimer	Commissioner
1959-1969	Floyd E. Dominy	Commissioner
1969-1973	Ellis L. Armstrong	Commissioner
1973-1977	Gilbert G. Stamm	Commissioner
1977	Donald D. Anderson	Acting
1977-1981	R. Keith Higginson	Commissioner
1981	Clifford I. Barrett	Acting
1981-1984	Robert N. Broadbent	Commissioner
December 1984-August 1985	Robert A. Olsen	Acting
1985	Clifford I. Barrett	Acting
1986-1989	C. Dale Duvall	Commissioner
1989	Joe D. Hall	Acting
1989-1993	Dennis B. Underwood	Commissioner
1993-1995	Daniel Beard	Commissioner
1995	Stephen P. Magnussen	Acting
1995-2001	Eluid L. Martinez	Commissioner
2001	J. William McDonald	Acting
2001-2006	John W. Keys III	Commissioner
2006 - Current	Robert (Bob) W. Johnson	Commissioner

*Mae Schnurr served as Acting Commissioner several times during the period from 1930 through 1936