Fillmore Cabinet

Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States

Millard Fillmore was the last President of the United States to be nominated by the Whig Party . Like John Tyler , also a Whig, a few years earlier , he took the place of his late predecessor. In 1848 , Fillmore had been elected Vice President alongside Zachary Taylor . Taylor died on July 9, 1850 after 16 months in office. His Secretary of State Daniel Webster had also served under Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler, but died in office in October 1852.

Fillmore wanted to run for re-election in 1852 , but lost to Winfield Scott at the Whigs' nomination convention , who then lost to Democrat Franklin Pierce . In 1856 he ran again unsuccessfully for the presidency of the Know-Nothing Party .

The Cabinet of Millard Fillmore initially belonged to the ministers of his predecessor, but consistently receded very quickly. In the majority of the departments there was even more than one change; the new interior minister Thomas McKennan resigned from office after eleven days.

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	Millard Fillmore	1850-1853
Vice President of the United States	vacant	1850-1853
United States Secretary of State	John Middleton Clayton	1850
	Daniel Webster	1850-1852
	Edward Everett	1852-1853
United States Secretary of the Treasury	William Morris Meredith	1850
	Thomas Corwin	1850-1853
United States Secretary of War	George Walker Crawford	1850
	Charles Magill Conrad	1850-1853
United States Secretary of the Navy	William Ballard Preston	1850
	William Alexander Graham	1850-1852
	John Pendleton Kennedy	1852-1853
United States Attorney General	Reverdy Johnson	1850
	John Jordan Crittenden	1850-1853
United States Postal Secretary	Jacob Collamer	1850
	Nathan Kelsey Hall	1850-1852
	Samuel Dickinson Hubbard	1852-1853
United States Secretary of the Interior	Thomas Ewing	1850
	Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan	1850
	Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart	1850-1853