President Lincoln's Cabinet
On the day after his first inauguration
(March 5, 1861), President Lincoln nominated the following gentlemen as
his constitutional advisers:
William H. Seward, of New York, Secretary of State;
Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury; Simon Cameron,
of Pennsylvania, Secretary of War; Gideon Welles, of Connecticut,
Secretary of the Navy; Caleb Smith, of Indiana, Secretary of the
Interior; Montgomery Blair, of Maryland Postmaster - General; and Edward
Pates, of Missouri, Attorney-General. These were immediately confirmed
by the Senate. At the beginning of his second administration he retained
his cabinet—namely, W. H. Seward, Secretary of State; Hugh McCulloch,
Secretary of the Treasury;
Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; Gideon Welles, Secretary of the
Navy; William Dennison, Postmaster-General; J. P. Usher, Secretary of
the Interior; James Speed, Attorney-General. There had been previously
some changes in his cabinet. At the request of the President, Montgomery
Blair had resigned the office of Postmaster-General, and was succeeded
by Mr. Dennison, of Ohio. On the death of Chief-Justice Taney, Salmon P.
Chase had been made his successor, and the place of the latter in the
cabinet had been filled by Hugh McCulloch. |