Taylor cabinet

Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States

Zachary Taylor was the second and final Whig Party candidate to be elected President of the United States . In the presidential election in 1848 he won against the Democratic candidate Lewis Cass and ex-President Martin Van Buren , who ran for the Free Soil Party .

Like the first Whig President-elect, William Henry Harrison , Zachary Taylor did not see the end of his presidency. He died after 16 months in office on July 9, 1850. Vice President Millard Fillmore succeeded him.

Taylor made no changes to his cabinet during his tenure as president . After his death, all of the ministers he had appointed resigned from their posts within a short period of time, including Thomas Ewing , whom he had appointed as the first minister of the newly created interior department .

The Taylor cabinet

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period
President of the United States	Zachary Taylor	1849-1850
Vice President of the United States	Millard Fillmore	1849-1850

United States Secretary of State	John Middleton Clayton	1849-1850
United States Secretary of the Treasury	William Morris Meredith	1849-1850
United States Secretary of War	George Walker Crawford	1849-1850
United States Secretary of the Navy	William Ballard Preston	1849-1850
United States Attorney General	Reverdy Johnson	1849-1850
United States Postal Secretary	Jacob Collamer	1849-1850
United States Secretary of the Interior	Thomas Ewing	1849-1850