Cleveland I Cabinet
Grover Cleveland was the first Democratic Party -appointed President of the United States since the start of the Civil War , when he was elected in 1884 . Although he did not succeed in being confirmed in office four years later , Cleveland faced again in 1892 against his successor Benjamin Harrison and this time prevailed. The cabinet list for his second term is under Cabinet Cleveland II .
One of the final acts before Cleveland left the White House for the first time was the creation of the Department of Agriculture . The first minister, Norman Jay Colman , took up his post in February 1889, so there was not even enough to confirm his appointment by the Senate .
Grover Cleveland served most of his first term without a deputy. Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks died in November 1885; the nomination of a successor before the next regular presidential election was not yet possible at this time.
The Cabinet
Department / Office | Official | Period | image |
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President of the United States | Stephen Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889 | |
Vice President of the United States | Thomas Andrews Hendricks | 1885 | |
vacant | 1885-1889 | ||
United States Secretary of State | Thomas Francis Bayard | 1885-1889 | |
United States Secretary of the Treasury | Daniel Manning | 1885-1887 | |
Charles Stebbins Fairchild | 1887-1889 | ||
United States Secretary of War | William Crowninshield Endicott | 1885-1889 | |
United States Secretary of the Navy | William Collins Whitney | 1885-1889 | |
United States Attorney General | Augustus Hill Garland | 1885-1889 | |
United States Postal Secretary | William Freeman Vilas | 1885-1888 | |
Donald McDonald Dickinson | 1888-1889 | ||
United States Secretary of the Interior | Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar | 1885-1888 | |
William Freeman Vilas | 1888-1889 | ||
United States Secretary of Agriculture | Norman Jay Colman | 1889 |