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Officer of the United States is a term used in the United States of America to describe an official or functionary of the executive or judicial branches of the United States government who is delegated some part of the sovereign power of the United States of America. The term "officer of the United States" is not a title, but a type of official.
With a limited number of exceptions, all officers of the United States are appointed by the President of the United States and are subject to the approval of the Senate of the United States unless it chooses not to require such approval. Civilian officers of the United States are entitled to preface their names with the honorific style "the Honorable" for life though, in practice, this rarely occurs. Officers of the United States should not be confused with employees of the United States; the latter are more numerous and lack the special legal authority of the former.