Arthur's cabinet

Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States

Chester A. Arthur was elected Vice President of the United States in 1880 , alongside Republican presidential candidate James A. Garfield . He was promoted to president on September 20, 1881 , after Garfield succumbed to injuries sustained in an assassination attempt two months earlier. In 1884 he no longer ran for election; Former Secretary of State James G. Blaine , who was defeated by Grover Cleveland , ran in his place .

Arthur, who was the last president in US history to serve his entire term without a deputy, made personnel changes in almost all departments. Four cabinet members left the government that same year. Only Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln , son of Abraham Lincoln , remained in office at Arthur's side until 1885.

Contemporary caricature representation of the Arthur cabinet, which only existed in this form for a short time

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	Chester Alan Arthur	1881-1885
Vice President of the United States	vacant	1881-1885
United States Secretary of State	James Gillespie Blaine	1881
	Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen	1881-1885
United States Secretary of the Treasury	William Windom	1881
	Charles James Folger	1881-1884
	Walter Quintin Gresham	1884
	Hugh McCulloch	1884-1885
United States Secretary of War	Robert Todd Lincoln	1881-1885
United States Secretary of the Navy	William Henry Hunt	1881-1882
	William Eaton Chandler	1882-1885
United States Attorney General	Isaac Wayne MacVeagh	1881
	Benjamin Harris Brewster	1881-1885
United States Postal Secretary	Thomas Lemuel James	1881
	Timothy Otis Howe	1881-1883
	Walter Quintin Gresham	1883-1884
	Frank Hatton	1884-1885
United States Secretary of the Interior	Samuel Jordan Kirkwood	1881-1882
	Henry Moore Teller	1882-1885