Monroe's cabinet

James Monroe, fifth President of the United States

James Monroe was elected as the last President of the United States to date with no actual opponent. Since his victory was in fact certain before the election in 1820 , there was no election campaign. In the Electoral College , Monroe did not receive all of the votes: William Plumer elected John Quincy Adams , who was foreign minister at the time and who was to succeed Monroe in office in 1824 . Four years earlier , Monroe, previously Secretary of State in Madison's cabinet , had defeated the federalist Rufus King .

Treasury Secretary William Harris Crawford , Navy Secretary Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, and Postal Secretary Return Jonathan Meigs , who had served with Monroe under President Madison , remained in the Cabinet ; only Crawford retained his post until the end of Monroe's presidency.

War Minister John C. Calhoun took office not in March 1817, but in October of the same year . Until then, George Graham acted in his place, who had already done this under President Madison since October 1816, when William Harris Crawford moved to the Treasury.

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	James Monroe	1817-1825
Vice President of the United States	Daniel Decius Tompkins	1817-1825
United States Secretary of State	John Quincy Adams	1817-1825
United States Secretary of the Treasury	William Harris Crawford	1817-1825
United States Secretary of War	George Graham	1817
	John Caldwell Calhoun	1817-1825
United States Secretary of the Navy	Benjamin Williams Crowninshield	1817-1818
	Smith Thompson	1819-1823
	Samuel Lewis Southard	1823-1825
United States Attorney General	Richard Rush	1817
	William host	1817-1825
United States Postal Secretary	Return Jonathan Meigs	1817-1823
	John McLean	1823-1825