How often do cabinet officers leave before the end of a president's second term?

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Also how often do they leave between a president's re-election and the mid-term election?

The US has had twenty-two elections in which the incumbent president has been returned for another term.  So for these administrations, how many of their cabinet officials have served the complete eight years.  Similarly, how many of the officers have left between the president's re-election and the mid-term elections.

For these questions:  1) I am only considering those Senate-confirmed officials that are cabinet-level by law (e.g. State, Treasury) and not those positions that are "cabinet-level" by whim of a particular administration (CIA director, EPA Administrator); 2) if the President dies and is succeeded by the Vice-President (e.g. Harding-Coolidge), I am treating it as one eight-year administration; 3) for the full-term, if the cabinet officer leaves in the last month or two of the term, I am treating it as serving the full-term; 4) there are two weird situations (McKinley-T. Roosevelt and F.D. Roosevelt-Truman) where the president died after being re-elected, but the VP also got re-elected, treat these as overlapping eight-year terms (1897-1905 for McKinley, 1901-09 for T. Roosevelt, 1933-41, 1937-46, and 1941-49 for F. D. Roosevelt, and 1945-54 for Truman).

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Actually it's quite common.  Not sure where Jack got his data but past presidents had quite a turnover...easy to google it.

Anonymous · Answer

In the case of Sebelius, She had to go before the Mid Terms.
She would have been pure cannon fodder. Matter of fact she
still will be. Obama had two choices. Both Bad.

Jack · Answer

Not as often as under obama...bush had a turn over in his second term....outside of that he had 13 resignations. ..obama has had 27..my only question would be why are those who support obama leaveing him to eat s@it by himself if he were so great...and generally it is not common...for instance Clinton had 4...usually the average is between 6-8! From what I have found but those numbers only go back to Nixon...so who can really say!

? · Answer

Working in the Obama regime is like the workers who had to clean up the Chernobyl disaster.

The radiation levels were so high that one person could work only a limited time, before they were exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.

You can work in that regime only so long, then you have to leave and let someone else take the next dose of lethal radiation.

? · Answer

I'm not going to dig into the research, but I know that cabinet-level resignations are fairly common.

Anonymous · Answer

Here, let me spend my Sunday on hours of research to answer your worthless question.

Anonymous · Answer

As and when the president chooses.

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How often do cabinet officers leave before the end of a president's second term?

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