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Background 

Establishment. The Office of the OMB Director is established under 31 U.S.C. §502. Officers. 

History. The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 originally established OMB  as the “Bureau of the Budget”, as a part of the Department of the Treasury.  The Bureau was moved to the Executive Office of the President in 1939, then headed by Harold D. Smith while World War Two caused a vast expansion in Federal Government spending. The Bureau of the Budget was renamed the Office of Management and Budget and moved to the Executive Office of the President in 1970 during the Nixon administration. 

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List of Directors

Name	Dates served	President	Notes
Charles G. Dawes	June 23, 1921 – June 30, 1922	Warren G. Harding	Dawes would later become Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge and the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom under Herbert Hoover
Herbert M. Lord	July 1, 1922 – May 31, 1929	Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover
J. Clawson Roop	August 15, 1929 – March 3, 1933	Herbert Hoover
Lewis W. Douglas	March 7, 1933 – August 31, 1934	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Daniel W. Bell	September 1, 1934 – April 14, 1939
Harold D. Smith	April 15, 1939 – June 19, 1946	Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman
James E. Webb	July 13, 1946 – January 27, 1949	Harry S. Truman	Webb later became the second administrator of NASA under presidents Kennedy and Johnson
Frank Pace, Jr.	February 1, 1949 – April 12, 1950
Frederick J. Lawton	April 13, 1950 – January 21, 1953
Joseph M. Dodge	January 22, 1953 – April 15, 1954	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rowland R. Hughes	April 16, 1954 – April 1, 1956
Percival F. Brundage	April 2, 1956 – March 17, 1958
Maurice H. Stans	March 18, 1958 – January 21, 1961
David E. Bell	January 22, 1961 – December 20, 1962	John F. Kennedy
Kermit Gordon	December 28, 1962 – June 1, 1965	John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
Charles L. Schultze	June 1, 1965 – January 28, 1968	Lyndon B. Johnson	Schultze later served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under president Jimmy Carter.
Charles J. Zwick	January 29, 1968 – January 21, 1969
Robert P. Mayo	January 22, 1969 – June 30, 1970	Richard Nixon
George P. Shultz	July 1, 1970 – June 11, 1972		Shultz had previously served president Nixon as Secretary of Labor and would later serve under him as Secretary of the Treasury and under Ronald Reagan as Secretary of State.
Caspar W. Weinberger	June 12, 1972 – February 1, 1973		Weinberger later served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfareunder presidents Nixon and Ford, and as Secretary of Defense under president Reagan
Roy L. Ash	February 2, 1973 – February 3, 1975	Richard Nixon Gerald Ford
James T. Lynn	February 10, 1975 – January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford	Lynn left to head Aetna Insurance
Bert Lance	January 21, 1977 – September 23, 1977	Jimmy Carter	Lance resigned amid a corruption scandal
James T. McIntyre	September 24, 1977 – January 20, 1981
David A. Stockman	January 21, 1981 – August 1, 1985	Ronald Reagan
James C. Miller III	October 8, 1985 – October 15, 1988
Joseph R. Wright, Jr.	October 16, 1988 – January 20, 1989
Richard G. Darman	January 25, 1989 – January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
Leon E. Panetta	January 21, 1993 – October 1994	Bill Clinton	Panetta became president Clinton’s Chief of Staff and served under president Obama as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and later as Secretary of Defense
Alice M. Rivlin	October 17, 1994 – April 26, 1996		Rivlin became a governor of the Federal Reserveafter leaving OMB
Franklin D. Raines	September 13, 1996 – May 21, 1998		Raines became CEO of Fannie Mae
Jack Lew	May 21, 1998 – January 19, 2001		Jacob Lew served as deputy director of OMB from 1995 to 1998 and would serve as director again under Obama from 2010 to 2012
Mitch Daniels	January 23, 2001 – June 6, 2003	George W. Bush	Daniels left and successfully ran for governor of Indiana
Joshua B. Bolten	June 26, 2003 – April 15, 2006		Bolten became president Bush’s Chief of Staff
Rob Portman	May 26, 2006 – June 19, 2007		Portman had previously served president Bush as United States Trade Representative and was elected to the U.S. Senate from Ohio in 2010.
Jim Nussle	September 4, 2007 – January 20, 2009
Peter R. Orszag	January 20, 2009 – July 30, 2010	Barack Obama	Orszag became Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking and Chairman of the Financial Strategy and Solutions Group at Citigroup
Jeffrey Zients	July 30, 2010 – November 18, 2010		Acting Director during remainder of Orszag’s term
Jack Lew	November 18, 2010 – January 27, 2012		Previously served under Clinton from 1998 to 2001. Resigned to become Chief of Staff, and later Secretary of the Treasury
Jeffrey Zients	January 27, 2012 – April 24, 2013		Acting Director during remainder of Lew’s term
Sylvia Mathews Burwell	April 24, 2013 – June 9, 2014		Former deputy director of OMB under president Clinton. Resigned to become the Secretary of Health and Human Services
Brian Deese	June 9, 2014 – July 28, 2014		Acting Director after Burwell resigned.
Shaun Donovan	July 28, 2014 – January 20, 2017		Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Obama.
Mark Sandy	January 20, 2017 – February 16, 2017	Donald Trump
Mick Mulvaney	February 16, 2017 – present		Previously served as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district from 2011 to 2017.