Cabinet Hayes
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 .
The Cabinet
Department / Office | Official | Period | image |
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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 |