UNDER ULYSSES S. GRANT. SECRETARY OF STATE. APPOINTED. SECRETARY OF NAVY. E. B. Washburne...............................................Mar. 5, 1869 George M. Robeson................. .. Adolph E. Borie...................Mar. 5, 1869 Alphonso Taft....... SECRETARY OF STATE. UNDER RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. APPOINTED. SECRETARY OF NAVY. APPOINTED. William M. Evarts..............Mar. 12, 1877 Nathan Goff.........................Jan. 6, 1881 R. W. Thompson.................Mar. 19, 1877 Charles Devens......................Mar. 12, 1877 UNDER JAMES A. GARFIELD. SECRETARY OF STATE. APPOINTED. SECRETARY OF INTERIOR. APPOINTED. James G. Blaine...................Mar. 5, 1881 S. J. Kirkwood.....................Mar. 5, 1881 William M. Hunt.................Mar. 5, 1881 Wayne McVeagh.................Mar. 5, 1881 Secretary Belknap was the first member of an American cabinet ever compelled to leave that office because of malfeasance and crooked practices. On the first of March, 1876, a committee of the house of representatives came into the possession of evidence implicating him as guilty of gross malfeasance, in the sale of the right to sell goods on the western frontier and other criminal acts, to which he had confessed before the committee. On the second of the same month he tendered his resignation, which Grant promptly accepted. Articles of impeachment were at once prepared. ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Wayne McVeagh. William M. Hunt................ Sep. 19, 1881 | B. H. Brewster. .Sep. 19, 1881 ..Dec. 20, 1881 .April 3, 1883 .Oct. 14, 1884 .Sep. 19, 1881 .Dec. 19, 1881 SECRETARY OF STATE. James G. Blaine........ SECRETARY OF TREASURY. William Windom............. Charles Foster......... SECRETARY OF WAR. Redfield Proctor. Stephen B. Elkins. ATTORNEY-GENERAL. W. H. H. Miller..... SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.† Norman J. Coleman.............Feb. 12, 1889 UNDER BENJAMIN HARRISON. APPOINTED. POSTMASTER-GENERAL. APPOINTED. .Mar. 5, 1889 John Wanamaker................Mar. 5, 1889 .Mar. 5, 1889 .Mar. 5, 1889 *The officers are here arranged in the order of succession as provided in the act of January 19, 1886. This department was made part of the cabinet, by act of congress, in February, 1889. Addenda. The twenty-third President of the United States was Benjamin Harrison, whose term of office began in 1889. Levi P. Morton was vice-president during the same term (see pages 673-674). The Speakers of the House of Representatives who have succeeded Mr. Carlisle have been Thomas B. Reed and Charles F. Crisp. John W. Foster succeeded James G. Blaine as Secretary of State, June, 1892. SECRETARY OF STATE. James G. Blaine........ UNDER CHESTER A. ARTHUR. APPOINTED. SECRETARY OF NAVY. APPOINTED. .Sep. 19, 1881 William E. Chandler...........April 1, 1882 F. T. Frelinghuysen...... SECRETARY OF TREASURY. William Windom.................Sep. 19, 1881 SECRETARY OF INTerior. S. J. Kirkwood........... ..Sep. 19, 1881 POSTMASTER-GENERAL. Thomas L. James....... ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Wayne McVeagh.. William M. Hunt................ Sep. 19, 1881, B. H. Brewster........... ...... .Sep. 19, 1881 .Dec. 20, 1881 .April 3, 1883 ..Oct. 14, 1884 .Sep. 19, 1881 ....Dec. 19, 1881 *The officers are here arranged in the order of succession as provided in the act of January 19, 1886. †This department was made part of the cabinet, by act of congress, in February, 1889. Addenda. The twenty-third President of the United States was Benjamin Harrison, whose term of office began in 1889. Levi P. Morton was vice-president during the same term (see pages 673-674). The Speakers of the House of Representatives who have succeeded Mr. Carlisle have been Thomas B. Reed and Charles F. Crisp. John W. Foster succeeded James G. Blaine as Secretary of State, June, 1892. |