John Quincy Adams cabinet

John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States

John Quincy Adams is the only president in the history of United States which is not by the Electoral College , but by the US House of Representatives was elected. In the actual election in 1824 , Andrew Jackson received a simple, but not an absolute, majority of the vote. Another special feature of this election was that four candidates from the Democratic Republican Party ran against each other; there were no other parties at the time. Four years later , Adams, who had since joined the National Republicans, faced Jackson again and was defeated. Like his father, John Adams , he was voted out of office in 1800 .

During the four years of his presidency, Adams made only one change in his cabinet : Secretary of War James Barbour was replaced by Peter Buell Porter . Adams reappointed William Wirt as attorney general, who had held the post under Adams' predecessor James Monroe . Wirt was Attorney General for a total of twelve years; no predecessor or successor reached this period.

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	John Quincy Adams	1825-1829
Vice President of the United States	John Caldwell Calhoun	1825-1829
United States Secretary of State	Henry Clay	1825-1829
United States Secretary of the Treasury	Richard Rush	1825-1829
United States Secretary of War	James Barbour	1825-1828
	Peter Buell Porter	1828-1829
United States Secretary of the Navy	Samuel Lewis Southard	1825-1829
United States Attorney General	William host	1825-1829
United States Postal Secretary	John McLean	1825-1829