Fillmore Cabinet
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 |
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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 |