John Quincy Adams cabinet
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 |
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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 |