Lincoln Cabinet
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 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 |