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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Roger Tribbey
The secretary of agriculture. At a Cabinet meeting the president jokingly accused him of never having eaten a vegetable in his life. [1.8] He was chosen to remain in the White House during President Bartlet's second State of the Union Address. [1.12]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Lesley Cryer *
Bartlet's recess nominee for assistant secretary of commerce for economic development. [2.8]

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Capt. Morris Tolliver
A Naval officer and physician who treated President Bartlet four or five times. He had a wife named Angela and newborn baby daughter named Corrie. He was killed en route to a teaching hospital in Amman when his plane was shot down by the Syrians. [1.2]; Terry Wyatt *
The president's physician prior to Morris Tolliver. He was a higher ranking Naval officer than Tolliver, presumably an admiral of some grade. [1.2]; Baker * A Pentagon official. [1.2]; Lennox *
A Pentagon official. [1.2]; Adm. Percy Fitzwallace
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he goes by the nickname "Fitz." He offered some sage advice to the president and Leo McGarry after an American jet was shot down by the Syrians. [1.3] He informed the president of the conflict between India and Pakistan. [1.11] He stopped by Sam Seaborn's meeting on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to put in his two cents. [1.19] He was one of only 14 people—along with the vice president—who were told of Bartlet's MS prior to the assassination attempt. [2.1] He trained with a Haitian general named Francis St. Jacques at Annapolis and was sent to Haiti to help with the coup. [2.22]; Bill Hutchinson *
A secretary (or assistant/deputy secretary) on the national security team. He was present when the president received the briefing on the Phoenix in his study the night before the Syrian air strike. [1.3] He worked with Nancy McNally and the White House counsel to determine who was in charge while the president was under anesthesia after the shooting at Rosslyn. [2.2] Leo McGarry conferred with him and Secretary Berryhill about the foreign tanker suspected of smuggling illegal oil. [2.7] He was also present when the president brokered a solution to the situation in Kashmir. [2.18] He is a potential Democratic presidential candidate. [2.22]; Berryhill *
He met with the president, Toby, Fitzwallace, Cashmen and the secretary of state about the American jet shot down by the Syrians. He and Cashmen were responsible for revising the retaliatory scenario in order to speak to State Department concerns and the president accused them of dragging their feet. [1.3] He is a secretary (or assistant/deputy secretary). Leo McGarry conferred with him and Secretary Hutchinson about the foreign tanker suspected of smuggling illegal oil. [2.7] He was also present when the president brokered a solution to the situation in Kashmir. [2.18]; Cashmen *
He met with the president, Toby, Fitzwallace, Berryhill and the secretary of state about the American jet shot down by the Syrians. He and Berryhill were responsible for revising the retaliatory scenario in order to speak to State Department concerns and the president accused them of dragging their feet. He is a member of the national security team, but not a secretary or officer. (Fitzwallace called him "Mr. Cashmen.") [1.3] He was also present when the president brokered a solution to the situation in Kashmir. [2.18]; Adamley *
A Pentagon official. [1.3]; Bob
A civilian who works for U.S. Space Command and was concerned the White House wasn't spending enough time on UFOs. He was one of Sam Seaborn's "cheese" appointments. [1.5]; Jaworski
A military officer in the Situation Room who advised the president during the India/Pakistan conflict. [1.11]; Mike
A military officer in the Situation Room who advised the president during the India/Pakistan conflict. [1.11]; Adm. Hacket
President Bartlet's physician at the time he collapsed in the Oval Office during an MS attack. [1.12]; Lt. Emily Lowenbrau
A Coast Guard officer who provides Sam Seaborn with dubiously accurate weather reports. Sam refers to her as a "first lieutenant," although there is no such rank in the Coast Guard. Presumably she is a lieutenant junior grade, the equivalent of a first lieutenant. [1.19]; Maj. Tate
A relatively junior Department of Defense staffer who met with Sam Seaborn about the administration's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. He is opposed to gays serving in the military. [1.19]; Maj. Thompson
A relatively junior Department of Defense staffer who met with Sam Seaborn about the administration's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. He is opposed to gays serving in the military. [1.19]; Rodney
A Marine stationed at the White House. Leo McGarry called him "great." [1.21]; Jack
A general in the Situation Room. [2.1]; Bobby
A civilian advisor in the Situation Room. [2.1]; Judy
Works in the Department of Defense press office. [2.5]; Gen. Ed Barrie
A three-star general and former Army chief of staff. He planned to appear on Meet the Press upon his retirement and rail against President Bartlet for what he felt was an egregious lack of preparedness in the U.S. Armed Forces. He received the Distinguished Combat Service Medal while doing temporary duty on the U.S.S. Brook, even though the Brook was never fired upon and never fired its guns. C.J. Cregg used this fact as leverage to prevent him from going to the press, but Bartlet said to let him go ahead and do it because he'd earned it. [2.5]; Lt. Buckley
A staff aide to Gen. Barrie. [2.5]; Col. Mark Chase
An Air Force officer in the Situation Room. [2.7]; Cmdr. Cale
A Coast Guard officer in San Diego. [2.8]; Adm. Leonard Morrow *
The president's current physician. [2.20]; Capt. Robert Cano *
An Air Force pilot in the 27th Fighter Wing out of Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico. He received the Purple Heart after being shot down over Bosnia. He later flew his F-16 into a mountain, sending the radio transmission, "It wasn't the plane." He had the same birthday as Josh Lyman. [2.10]

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Gerald Wegland *
An assistant secretary of energy. [2.7]; Gary Saunders *
A deputy spokesperson at the Department of Energy. He applied for White House deputy press secretary but C.J. chose Simon Glazer instead. [2.9]; Bill Trotter *
The secretary of energy. According to Vice President Hoynes, the secretary's rants against the oil industry are too familiar to hold much weight. [2.17]

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Dr. Millicent Griffith
The Surgeon General and a Bartlet family friend. She came under fire for her controversial stance on marijuana. She is a former general practitioner and member of the Stanford Faculty Club. She's not a politician, but she's lived in D.C. for two years. She is Eleanor Bartlet's godmother. [2.15]

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT: Deborah O’Leary
The secretary of housing and urban development, she is also the highest-ranking African-American woman in the Bartlet Administration. She was forced to apologize for calling Rep. Jack Wooden a racist. [1.15] She must have been forced to resign for the issue the Jack Wooden. [???]; Bill Fisher
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. [#61]; Donald Morales *
A spokesman for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. [1.15]

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: Dan Larsen
The U.S. attorney general. [1.21]; Jeff Breckenridge
Bartlet's nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights. He is a civil rights lawyer from Athens, Ga., who favors slavery reparations. He was a second-year summer intern at Debevoise & Plimpton while Josh Lyman's father was a partner there. [1.18]; Martin Connelly
An assistant attorney general in the Civil Division at the Justice Department, working on the lawsuit against the tobacco companies. [2.20]; Mac Sheridan *
Someone at the Justice Department, working on the lawsuit against the tobacco companies. [2.20]

FBI; Tom Connolly *
The director of the FBI. [1.3]; Michael Casper
An FBI special agent who is a friend of Josh Lyman's. He met with Sam Seaborn about Daniel Gault. [2.16]

Drug Enforcement Administration; Agent McGrath *
One of five DEA agents abducted by the CRF in Colombia, on a road between Bogotá and Putumayo. They had been assisting police in evidence gathering at cocaine lab in Bogotá. He and the other hostages were returned home safely after President Bartlet secretly arranged for President Santos to release Juan Aguilar from prison. [2.13]; Agent Nun *
One of five DEA agents abducted by the CRF in Colombia, on a road between Bogotá and Putumayo. They had been assisting police in evidence gathering at cocaine lab in Bogotá. He and the other hostages were returned home safely after President Bartlet secretly arranged for President Santos to release Juan Aguilar from prison. [2.13]

Immigration and Naturalization Service; Joseph Russo
An INS agent on the scene in San Diego when a boatload of persecuted Chinese evangelical Christians arrived seeking asylum. [2.8]; Betram
An INS agent in Washington, D.C. He met with Josh Lyman about the boatload of persecuted Chinese evangelical Christians who were seeking asylum. [2.8]; Gardner
An INS agent in Washington, D.C. She met with Josh Lyman about the boatload of persecuted Chinese evangelical Christians who were seeking asylum. [2.8]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Beech *
A State Department official who was coordinating information about the retaliatory strike against Syria. [1.3]; Hutchinson *
A State Department spokesperson. [1.3]; Steffi Graf *
Famous tennis player whom Bartlet claimed worked for the U.S. Consulate in Vienna so she could be his partner in a game of mixed doubles against C.J. and Toby once in Florida [1.5]; Minaldi
A State Department translator who speaks Portuguese and Javanese, but not Batak. [1.7]; Ross Kassenbach
The ambassador to the Federated States of Microneesia. Formerly an FEC commissioner who was opposed to campaign finance reform. [1.21]; Ken Cochran
A former ambassador to Bulgaria who was fired by Bartlet for having an affair with the prime minister's daughter. His wife is a friend of Bartlet's. He was offered a position on the board of directors at Ted Mitchel's company. He used to be a member of the Gramercy Club, an all-white club where Charlie Young once worked. [1.21]; Tad Whitney
A spokesman at the Department of State. He and C.J. dated for six weeks, five years ago. Their affair ended when he stopped calling her. He applied for White House deputy press secretary but C.J. chose Simon Glazer instead. [2.9]; Tom
The chief of protocol for the Department of State. [2.12]; Mickey Troop
The assistant secretary of state for South America. [2.13]; Earl Lydecker *
A low-level State Department staffer in the 1950s who confessed to FBI counterintelligence officers that he and Daniel Gault had conspired to send U.S. economic analysis documents to Soviet agents at the Russian embassy. He confessed for no particular reason and it was subsequently demonstrated that Lydecker was a clinically diagnosed manic-depressive with a history of institutionalization. He was the chief witness for the prosecution against Gault. [2.16]; Shaba Demsky *
A translator in the Hungarian trade mission who was murdered in 1952. She was about to reveal the name of a Soviet agent called Blackwater. [2.16]

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: Steve Adamley
An official who was discussing transportation issues with the president on Air Force One. [2.7]; Mike
Steve Adamley's aide. [2.7]; James Elkins *
Bartlet's recess nominee for assistant secretary of transportation for aviation. [2.8]; Hal Garreth *
The head of the FAA. [2.18]

DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY: Secretary Kenneth Kato
The secretary of treasury. [1.21]; Carol Villenuevo *
The assistant secretary for legislative affairs at the Treasury Department. [2.19]

U.S. Secret Service; Mike
A uniformed Secret Service agent who works at the guard desk in the North Lobby of the White House. [1.1]; Donnie
A Secret Service agent assigned to the president's detail. [1.2]; Mitch
A Secret Service agent assigned to the president's detail. [1.3]; Ron Butterfield
The head of the president's Secret Service detail. [1.6] He sustained a gunshot wound to his right hand during the assassination attempt. [2.1]; Gina Toscano
A Secret Service agent assigned to Zoey Bartlet's detail. She was in Army ROTC at the University of Virginia where she received a degree in Criminology. After graduation she was commissioned a second lieutenant with the military police. She was the first one to sign up for the assignment on Zoey's detail and she trained for a year and a half. She is 27 years old. [1.16]; Mike
A Secret Service agent assigned to Zoey Bartlet's detail. [1.18]; Kelly
A Secret Service agent assigned to Zoey Bartlet's detail. [1.18]; Fred *
A Secret Service agent who was in the car with Zoey Bartlet after the assassination attempt. [2.1]; Coop *
The Secret Service agent driving the president's limo after the assassination attempt. [2.1]; Tommy Cho
The Secret Service ID agent on the scene after the shooting in Rosslyn. [2.1]

CIA: Rob Konrad
The director of central intelligence. [1.21]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY: Umberto Sepio *
Bartlet's recess nominee for deputy administrator of the EPA. [2.8]; Carl Taub *
He works for the EPA. [2.12]

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION: John Branford Bacon *
A Bartlet nominee to the FEC, he favors strong campaign finance reform. [1.19]; Patricia Calhoun *
A Bartlet nominee to the FEC who favors strong campaign finance reform. She served as director of the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation. [1.19]; Barry Haskel
An FEC commissioner was outed by Leo as a supporter of campaign finance reform. He is married and has served on the FEC for nine years. [1.21]

FEDERAL RESERVE: Bernard Dahl *
A former chairman of the Federal Reserve, he was considered the chief architect of the longest peacetime economic expansion in history and was twice appointed to his position. He died after suffering his fifth heart attack. [1.17]; Ron Ehrlich *
Bartlet's appointee for chairman of the Federal Reserve to replace Bernie Dahl after his death. He dated Abigail Bartlet for six months, approximately thirty years ago. The president still harbors feelings of jealousy and was reluctant to name him Fed chair because of it. [1.17]

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS and SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA): Dr. Peter Jobson *
He was the mission commander for David Ziegler's space shuttle flight. [1.22] He is also a NASA chief administrator who was scheduled to appear with the president at the Galileo V televised classroom. [2.9]; Scott Tate
A member of the NASA public affairs office who was sent to the White House for the Galileo V televised classroom. He is not a very good writer. [2.9]; David Narakawa *
A NASA flight operations manager who was scheduled to appear with the president at the Galileo V televised classroom. [2.9]; Dr. Samuel Thurmon *
A member of the Johnson Space Center's Meteorite Analysis Team who was to appear with the president at the Galileo V televised classroom. [2.9]; Bryan Talmadge *
The associate administrator for NASA's Office of Space Flight (OSF) who sent fax to the White House Press Office about a Chinese satellite falling to Earth. [2.20]