Van Buren cabinet

Martin Van Buren, eighth President of the United States

Martin Van Buren , Vice President of the United States in the second term of President Andrew Jackson , was elected to succeed him in 1836 . For 152 years he was the last Vice President to succeed; only George Bush won another election as acting deputy.

Van Buren maintained great continuity with the cabinet of his predecessor Jackson. With Secretary of State John Forsyth , Secretary of the Treasury Levi Woodbury , Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Dickerson , Secretary of Justice Benjamin Franklin Butler and Secretary of State Amos Kendall , five members of the government remained in office, Forsyth and Woodbury even until the end of Van Buren's presidency in 1841. He was the third president the year before in US history after John Adams and John Quincy Adams were elected from office; he was succeeded by Whig William Henry Harrison .

Van Buren ran again as a presidential candidate for the Free Soil Party in 1848 , but had no chance.

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	Martin Van Buren	1837-1841
Vice President of the United States	Richard mentor Johnson	1837-1841
United States Secretary of State	John Forsyth	1837-1841
United States Secretary of the Treasury	Levi Woodbury	1837-1841
United States Secretary of War	Joel Roberts Poinsett	1837-1841
United States Secretary of the Navy	Mahlon Dickerson	1837-1838
	James Kirke Paulding	1838-1841
United States Attorney General	Benjamin Franklin Butler	1837-1838
	Felix Grundy	1838-1840
	Henry Dilworth Gilpin	1840-1841
United States Postal Secretary	Amos Kendall	1837-1840
	John Milton Niles	1840-1841