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)
 * 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)
 * 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 .
 * 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.