Lincoln Cabinet

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States in 1860 , the first member of the Republican Party in that office. His first term of office was marked by the civil war , the outbreak of which had also led to his election as an opponent of slavery . On April 15, 1865, six days after the southern surrender , he was murdered in Washington by John Wilkes Booth ; Vice President Andrew Johnson , elected to succeed Hannibal Hamlin at Lincoln's side only the previous year , ended the term.

During the four-year term of office there were personnel changes in most of the ministries. Only Secretary of State William H. Seward and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles kept their posts; both remained in office until the end of Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, in 1869.

The Lincoln Cabinet writing the Emancipation Proclamation .

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865
Vice President of the United States	Hannibal Hamlin	1861-1865
	Andrew Johnson	1865
United States Secretary of State	William Henry Seward	1861-1865
United States Secretary of the Treasury	Salmon Portland Chase	1861-1864
	William Pitt Fessenden	1864-1865
	Hugh McCulloch	1865
United States Secretary of War	Simon Cameron	1861-1862
	Edwin M. Stanton	1862-1865
United States Secretary of the Navy	Gideon Welles	1861-1865
United States Attorney General	Edward Bates	1861-1864
	James Speed	1864-1865
United States Postal Secretary	Montgomery Blair	1861-1864
	William Dennison	1864-1865
United States Secretary of the Interior	Caleb Blood Smith	1861-1862
	John Palmer Usher	1863-1865