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The Secretary of State for Air was a cabinet level British position, in charge of the Air Ministry. It was created on 10 January 1919 to manage the Royal Air Force. On 1 April 1964 the Air Ministry was incorporated into the Ministry of Defence and the position of Secretary of State for Air was abolished.
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Chairman of the Joint War Air Committee
- Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby (February 1916) (resigned)
President of the Air Board
- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (15 May 1916 – 3 January 1917)
- Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray (3 January 1917 - 26 November 1917)
President of the Air Council
- Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Baron Rothermere (26 November 1917 - 26 April 1918)
- William Douglas Weir, 1st Baron Weir (26 April 1918 - 10 January 1919)
- John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone (January 1919 - November 1919) (resigned)
Secretaries of State for Air
- Winston Churchill (10 January 1919 - 1 April 1921) (also Secretary of State for War)
- Frederick Edward Guest (1 April 1921 - 19 October 1922)
- Sir Samuel Hoare (31 October 1922 - 22 January 1924)
- Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson (22 January 1924 - 3 November 1924)
- Sir Samuel Hoare (6 November 1924 - 4 June 1929)
- Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson (7 June 1929 - 5 October 1930) (killed in the Airship R101 disaster)
- William Warrender Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree (14 October 1930 - 5 November 1931)
- Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (5 November 1931 - 7 June 1935)
- Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton (7 June 1935 - 16 May 1938) (resigned)
- Sir Kingsley Wood (16 May 1938 - 3 April 1940)
- Sir Samuel Hoare (3 April 1940 - 11 May 1940)
- Sir Archibald Sinclair (11 May 1940 - 23 May 1945)
- Harold Macmillan (25 May 1945 - 26 July 1945)
- William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate (3 August 1945 - 4 October 1946)
- Philip Noel-Baker (4 October 1946 - 7 October 1947)
- Arthur Henderson (7 October 1947 - 26 October 1951)
- William Sidney, Lord De L'Isle and Dudley (31 October 1951 - 20 December 1955)
- Nigel Birch (20 December 1955 - 16 January 1957)
- George Ward (16 January 1957 - 28 October 1960)
- Julian Amery (28 October 1960 - 16 July 1962)
- Hugh Fraser (16 July 1962 - 1 April 1964)
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