McKinley Cabinet

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William McKinley, 25th President of the United States

William McKinley is one of two presidents in the history of the United States who won their two elections against the same opponent; in his case he won in 1896 and 1900 as a Republican against the Democrat William Jennings Bryan . In addition to McKinley, this also applied to Dwight D. Eisenhower , who twice served Adlai Stevenson jr. conquered.

The only member of his cabinet who had any previous experience in government at the federal level was John Sherman . He had served as Treasury Secretary under President Hayes between 1877 and 1881. McKinley appointed him Secretary of State, but replaced him after a year by William R. Day , who in turn was replaced by John Hay after less than five months .

McKinley took the oath of office for the second time in March 1901; on September 5 of the same year he was critically injured in an assassination attempt by Leon Czolgosz . The president died nine days later, and he was succeeded by Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt, who had only been in office since March . The office of vice president had previously been vacant since Garret Hobart's death in 1899.

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	William McKinley	1897-1901
Vice President of the United States	Garret Augustus Hobart	1897-1899
	vacant	1899-1901
	Theodore Roosevelt	1901
United States Secretary of State	John Sherman	1897-1898
	William Rufus Day	1898
	John Milton Hay	1898-1901
United States Secretary of the Treasury	Lyman Judson Gage	1897-1901
United States Secretary of War	Russell Alexander Alger	1897-1899
	Elihu Root	1899-1901
United States Secretary of the Navy	John Davis Long	1897-1901
United States Attorney General	Joseph McKenna	1897-1898
	John William Griggs	1898-1901
	Philander Chase Knox	1901
United States Postal Secretary	James Albert Gary	1897-1898
	Charles Emory Smith	1898-1901
United States Secretary of the Interior	Cornelius Newton Bliss	1897-1898
	Ethan Allen Hitchcock	1898-1901
United States Secretary of Agriculture	James Wilson	1897-1901