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)

  Formed 1933. Abolished 1942.

• 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

  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)

  Renamed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; see Department of Health and Human Services, above

• 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 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 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[edit]

List of United States federal agencies

External links[edit]

• 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