John W. Taylor.........

A. Stephenson..
John Bell.....

James K. Polk....

29 John W. Davis.....

30

31

..............

Robert C. Winthrop......

Howell Cobb...

Lynn Boyd...

32 & 33

34

N. P. Banks.....

Term of Office.

3, 1827, to June

April 3, 1789, to March
3, 1791
October 24, 1791, to March 3, 1793
December 2, 1793, to March 3, 1795
December 9, 1795, to March 3, 1799
December 2, 1799, to March
December 7, 1801, to March
October 26, 1807, to March
November 4, 1811, to March
December 3, 1821, to March
December 1, 1823, to March
December 5, 1825, to March
December

3, 1801

3, 1807

3, 1811

3, 1821

3, 1823

3, 1825

3, 1827

3, 1854

3, 1835

3, 1839

3, 1841

June 4, 1834, to March
December 7, 1835, to March
December 16, 1839, to March
May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843
December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845
December 4, 1845, to March 3, 1847
December 16, 1847, to March 3, 1849
December 24, 1849, to March 3, 1851
December 4, 1851, to March 3, 1855
February 2, 1856, to March 3, 1857
December 5, 1857, to March 3, 1859
February 1, 1860, to March 3, 1861
July
4, 1861, to March 3, 1863
December 7, 1863, to March 2, 1869
March 2, 1869, to March 3, 1869
March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875
December 6, 1875, to August 20, 1876
December 4, 1876, to March 3, 1881
December 5, 1881, to March 3, 1883
[December 3, 1883, to March 3, 1889
October 1, 1890, to March 3, 1891
[December 7, 1891, to

SECRETARY OF TREASURY.

SECRETARY OF STATE.

James Madison...................Mar. 5, 1801 J. Crowninshield.................Mar. 3, 1805

Albert Gallatin...........

POSTMASTER-General.

.May 14, 1801 Joseph Habersham..........

Gideon Granger.....

.Mar. 4, 1801 ..Nov. 28, 1801

SECRETARY OF WAR.

Henry Dearborn.........

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

..Mar. 5, 1801

Levi Lincoln.....

.Mar. 5, 1801

*The postmaster-general was not counted a calinet officer until in Jackson's first

administration.

A newly created department.

B. W. Crowninshield...........Mar. 4, 1817 | William Wirt...

Richard Rush.........

SECRETARY OF STATE.

UNDER JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

APPOINTED.

SECRETARY OF NAVY.

APPOINTED.

Henry Clay................ .......Mar. 7, 1825 Samuel L. Southard............Mar. 4, 1825

......Mar. 26, 1828 William Wirt.......................Mar. 4, 1825

......

SECRETARY OF TREASURY.

UNDER ANDREW JACKSON.

APPOINTED.

.Mar. 6, 1829
May 24, 1831
.May 29, 1833
..June 27, 1834

John Branch.......
Levi Woodbury..

Mahlon Dickerson..

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

John M. Berrien......
Roger B. Taney..
B. F. Butler......

UNDER MARTIN VAN BUREN.

APPOINTED.

SECRETARY OF NAVY.

May 1, 1835

.Mar. 9, 1829 July 20, 1831 ...Nov. 15, 1833

APPOINTED.

.Mar. 4, 1837 James K. Paulding...............June 25, 1838

POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

Levi Woodbury...................Mar. 4, 1837 Amos Kendall.....

SECRETARY OF WAR.

Joel R. Poinsett.........

SECRETARY OF NAVY.

John M. Niles...

Mahlon Dickerson...............Mar. 4, 1837 Henry D. Gilpin......

.Mar. 4, 1837
May 25, 1840

.Mar.
4, 1837
July 5, 1838
..Jan. 11, 1840

UNDER WILLIAM H. HARRISON.

SECRETARY OF STATE.

APPOINTED.

SECRETARY OF NAVY.

APPOINTED.

Daniel Webster.......... .........Mar. 5, 1841 George E. Badger...........

* The office was first tendered to Isaac Shelby of Kentucky, who declined.

SECRETARY OF STATE.

James Buchanan.......

SECRETARY OF TREASURY.

.April 6, 1841
.Sep 13, 1841
.Mar. 3, 1843
..June 15, 1844

April 6, 1841
..Oct. 12, 1841

SECRETARY OF WAR.
William Wilkins.......

SECRETARY OF NAVY.

Abel P. Upshur...
George E. Badger...

David Henshaw.
Thomas W. Gilmer..

APPOINTED.

.Feb. 15, 1844

April 6, 1841 .Sep. 13, 1841 July 24, 1843

.............

.Feb. 15, 1844

..April 6, 1841 ...Sep. 13, 1841

POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

Francis Granger...
Charles A. Wickliffe......

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

John J. Crittenden...
Hugh S. Legare......
..Mar. 8, 1843 | John Nelson.....

UNDER JAMES K. POLK.

APPOINTED.

.Mar. 6, 1845 John Y. Mason.......

.April 6, 1841 .....Sep. 13, 1841 ..July 1, 1843

SECRETARY OF NAVY.

POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

Robert J. Walker................................ .Mar. 6, 1845 Cave Johnson.........................

SECRETARY OF WAR.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

W. L. Marcy.................

.Mar. 6, 1845

SECRETARY OF NAVY.

George Bancroft................Mar. 10, 1845 | Isaac Toucey......

UNDER ZACHARY TAYLOR.

SECRETARY OF STATE.

APPOINTED.

SECRETARY OF INTERIOR.*

APPOINTED.

John M. Clayton................Mar. 7, 1849 Thomas Ewing.......

William B. Preston..............Mar. 8, 1849 Reverdy Johnson.................Mar. 8, 1849

UNDER MILLARD FILLMORE.

APPOINTED.

SECRETARY OF NAVY.

APPOINTED.

July 22, 1850 John P. Kennedy................July 22, 1852
..Nov. 6, 1852

SECRETARY OF INTERIOR.

SECRETARY OF STATE.

Daniel Webster.......

Edward Everett......

SECRETARY OF TREASURY.

Thomas Corwin..................July 23, 1850

POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

SECRETARY OF WAR.

Nathan R. Hall......

Alexander H. H. Stuart.......Sep. 12, 1850

..July 23, 1850

Charles M. Conrad.............Aug. 15, 1850 Samuel D. Hubbard.............Aug. 31, 1852

SECRETARY OF NAVY.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

William A. Graham............July 22, 1850 John J. Crittenden.......

....July 22, 1850

* At the beginning of this administration the department of the interior, first called the home department, was given a position in the cabinet.

SECRETARY OF STATE.

W. L. Marcy............

SECRETARY OF TREASURY.

UNDER FRANKLIN PIERCE.

APPOINTED.

SECRETARY OF INTERIOR.

APPOINTED. ..Mar. 7, 1853 Robert McClelland..............Mar. 7, 1853

James C. Dobbin.................Mar. 7, 1853 Caleb Cushing.....................Mar. 7, 1853

William H. Seward..............Mar. 5, 1861 Caleb B. Smith............

William H. Seward..............April 15, 1865 John P. Usher.....

SECRETARY OF TREASURY.

Hugh McCulloch..................April 15, 1865

SECRETARY OF WAR.*

Edwin M. Stanton.....

U. S. Grant.....

Lorenzo Thomas....

John M. Schofield...

SECRETARY OF NAVY.

.Mar. 6, 1857 ...Dec. 20, 1860

APPOINTED. ..Mar. 5, 1861 ....Jan.

.....

8, 1863

.Mar. 5, 1861 ....Sep. 24, 1864

.Mar. 5, 1861
..June 22, 1864
..Dec.
2, 1863

APPOINTED.

SECRETARY OF INTERIOR.

April 15, 1865

William Dennison..............

.Aug. 12, 1867 Alexander W. Randall.........July 25, 1866

Gideon Welles...................... April 15, 1865 William Evarts....

* The trouble connected with Mr. Stanton's term of office under President Johnson, and the appointment of Grant and Thomas as secretary ad interim, will be found in full in the history of Johnson's administration already given.