Cabinet Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States

Rutherford B. Hayes was sworn in as US President on March 4, 1877 , after one of the most controversial elections in United States history . The election last year was a head-to-head race of the Republican Hayes with the Democratic presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden accompanied and was designed by numerous irregularities. The struggle for the decisive electoral vote dragged on for weeks before the compromise of 1877 , according to which the Democrats recognized Hayes as president, but at the same time received concessions for the political situation in the southern states .

Hayes did not run for re-election in 1880. None of his ministers belonged to Garfield's subsequent cabinet ; Treasury Secretary John Sherman returned a few years later as Secretary of State in the McKinley Cabinet .

Graphic representation of a cabinet meeting

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	Rutherford Birchard Hayes	1877-1881
Vice President of the United States	William Almon Wheeler	1877-1881
United States Secretary of State	William Maxwell Evarts	1877-1881
United States Secretary of the Treasury	John Sherman	1877-1881
United States Secretary of War	George Washington McCrary	1877-1879
	Alexander Ramsey	1879-1881
United States Secretary of the Navy	Richard Wigginton Thompson	1877-1880
	Nathan Goff	1881
United States Attorney General	Charles Devens	1877-1881
United States Postal Secretary	David McKendree Key	1877-1880
	Horace Maynard	1880-1881
United States Secretary of the Interior	Carl Schurz	1877-1881