See also: Category:Defunct agencies of the United States government This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
- Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (in the Department of Agriculture) (ASCS)
- Replaced in 1994 with the Farm Service Agency.
- Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
- Formed 1933. Abolished 1942.
- Board of Economic Warfare (BEW)
- Formed 1940. Replaced in 1943 with the Office of Economic Warfare
- Board of Tea Appeals
- Abolished in 1996
- Bureau of Arms Control (in the Department of State)
- Replaced September 13, 2005, by the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
- Bureau of Nonproliferation (in the Department of State)
- Replaced September 13, 2005, by the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
- Bureau of Verification and Compliance (in the Department of State)
- Replaced February 1, 2000 by the Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
- Civil Aeronautics Board
- Formed 1938. Abolished 1985.
- Department of Commerce and Labor
- Formed 1903. Split in 1913 into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor.
- Committee on Public Information (CPI)
- Department of War existed from August 7, 1789, until September 18, 1947, and renamed the United States Department of the Army in 1949.
- Environmental Science Services Administration
- Formed 1965. Abolished 1970. Components merged with those of other agencies to form the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- Farmers Home Administration
- Replaced in 1994 with the Farm Service Agency.
- Farm Security Administration (FSA)
- Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie Mae)
- Fannie Mae was partially privatized in 1968; its government administered portion was renamed the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae); see Department of Housing and Urban Development, above
- Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
- Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA or Sallie Mae)
- Sallie Mae has been fully privatized and is no longer administered by the federal government.
- Foreign Economic Administration (FEA)
- Federal Theatre Project (FTP)
- General Accounting Office (GAO)
- Renamed "Government Accountability Office" in 2004; see #Legislative Branch, above.
- Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Formed in 1953. Split in 1979 into Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services.
- Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
- Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
- Now the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS)
- National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
- National Bureau of Standards
- Formed 1901. Renamed National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1988.
- National Ocean Survey
- Formed 1970. Renamed National Ocean Service in 1983.
- Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA)
- Office of Civil Defense
- renamed the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency on May 5, 1972, and was abolished on July 20, 1979.
- Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)
- Congress closed the OTA in 2004.
- Office of War Information (OWI)
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
- Resettlement Administration (RA)
- Turned into Farm Security Administration in 1937.
- Survey of the Coast
- Formed 1807. Renamed United States Coast Survey in 1836 and United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1878.
- United States Coast Survey
- Renamed United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1878.
- United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
- Abolished 1970 and components merged into new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Components assigned to NOAA's National Ocean Survey, Office of Coast Survey, U.S. National Geodetic Survey, and fleet
- United States Army Security Agency
- in 1977, the ASA was merged with the US Army's Military Intelligence component to create the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM).
- United States Bureau of Fisheries
- Abolished 1940. Components merged with those of other agencies to form the Fish and Wildlife Service, which became the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1956.
- United States Fish Commission
- Officially United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Formed 1871, became United States Bureau of Fisheries in 1903.
- United States Information Agency (USIA)
- United States Life-Saving Service
- Merged with the United States Revenue Cutter Service in 1915 to create the United States Coast Guard
- United States Lighthouse Service
- Merged into the United States Coast Guard in 1939
- United States Revenue Cutter Service
- Merged with the United States Life-Saving Service in 1915 to create the United States Coast Guard
- United States Revenue-Marine
- Renamed United States Revenue Cutter Service in 1894
- Veterans Administration (VA)
- Became a cabinet department in 1988; see United States Department of Veterans Affairs, above.
- War Production Board (WPB)
- Formed 1942. Abolished 1945.
- Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Formed 1935. Abolished 1943.
See also
List of United States federal agencies
External links
- U.S. Government Manual, official online version of the United States Government Manual, continually updated.
- U.S. Government Manual, official freely downloadable PDFs of annual printed versions, 1995–present. Edition printed November 2013 includes appendix, "History of Agency Organizational Changes" (pp. 547–608) and "Commonly Used Agency Acronyms"(pp. 539–545).
- CyberCemetery, online document archive of defunct U.S. Federal Agencies, maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries in partnership with the Federal Depository Library Program of the GPO