Andrew Johnson Cabinet

Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States

Andrew Johnson had held the office of Vice President of the United States for only a month when he was forced to take his place following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865. Originally a Democrat , he ran for the National Union Party in the presidential election alongside Republican Lincoln.

Of the ministers who initially remained in the cabinet , only John Palmer Usher , head of the interior department, resigned at his own request a month after Johnson took office. Secretary of State William H. Seward , Treasury Secretary Hugh McCulloch, and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles served in government until 1869.

During his tenure, which was determined by the beginning Reconstruction in the southern states , Johnson broke with the Republicans; an impeachment narrowly missed the necessary majority. Since the Democrats did not want to put him up again in 1868 , re-election was a hopeless undertaking.

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	Andrew Johnson	1865-1869
Vice President of the United States	vacant	1865-1869
United States Secretary of State	William Henry Seward	1865-1869
United States Secretary of the Treasury	Hugh McCulloch	1865-1869
United States Secretary of War	Edwin M. Stanton	1865-1868
	John McAllister Schofield	1868-1869
United States Secretary of the Navy	Gideon Welles	1865-1869
United States Attorney General	James Speed	1865-1866
	Henry Stanbery	1866-1868
	William Maxwell Evarts	1868-1869
United States Postal Secretary	William Dennison	1864-1866
	Alexander Williams Randall	1866-1869
United States Secretary of the Interior	John Palmer Usher	1865
	James Harlan	1865-1866
	Orville Hickman Browning	1866-1869