Garfield Cabinet

James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States

James A. Garfield , who was elected President of the United States in 1880 , served the second-shortest term in US history. 199 days after he was sworn in, he succumbed to injuries inflicted by Charles J. Guiteau in an assassination attempt in Washington on July 2, 1881 .

In his brief tenure, Garfield made no changes to the composition of his cabinet . He was succeeded by Vice President Chester A. Arthur .

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period
President of the United States	James Abrams Garfield	1881
Vice President of the United States	Chester Alan Arthur	1881

United States Secretary of State	James Gillespie Blaine	1881
United States Secretary of the Treasury	William Windom	1881
United States Secretary of War	Robert Todd Lincoln	1881
United States Secretary of the Navy	William Henry Hunt	1881
United States Attorney General	Isaac Wayne MacVeagh	1881
United States Postal Secretary	Thomas Lemuel James	1881
United States Secretary of the Interior	Samuel Jordan Kirkwood	1881