List of defunct or renamed United States federal agencies
- Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (in the Department of Agriculture) (ASCS)
- Replaced in 1994 with the Farm Service Agency.
- Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
- Board of Economic Warfare (BEW)
- 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 was an agency of the federal government of the United States, formed in 1938 and abolished in 1985.
- 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.
- 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.
- Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
- Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
- Now the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS)
- National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
- U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
- Renamed U.S. National Geodetic Survey
- Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA)
- 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.
- United States Information Agency (USIA)
- United States Life-Saving Service
- Merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to create the United States Coast Guard
- Veterans Administration (VA)
- Became a cabinet department in 1988; see United States Department of Veterans Affairs, above.
- War Production Board (WPB)
- Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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
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