Howell Cobb | Ga. | March 6, 1857.

THE SECRETARIES OF WAR.

Department created by Act of Congress, August 7, 1789.

NAME. STATE. FROM -----------------------+----------+----------------------------- Isaac Shelby | Ky. | March 5, 1817.

George Graham | Va. | April 7, 1817, _ad int._ John C. Calhoun | S. C. | October 8, 1817.

James Barbour | Va. | March 7, 1825.

Samuel L. Southard | N. J. | May 26, 1828, _ad int._ Peter B. Porter | N. Y. | May 26, 1828.

John H. Eaton | Tenn. | March 9, 1829.

Philip G. Randolph | Va. | June 18, 1831, _ad int._ Roger B. Taney | Md. | July 21, 1831, _ad int._ Lewis Ca.s.s | Ohio | August 1, 1831.

Benjamin F. Butler | N. Y. | October 25, 1836, _ad int._ Joel R. Poinsett | S. C. | March 7, 1837.

John Bell | Tenn. | March 5, 1841.

John McLean | Ohio | September 13, 1841.

John C. Spencer | N. Y. | October 12, 1841.

James M. Porter | Penna. | March 8, 1843.

William Wilkins | Penna. | February 15, 1844.

William L. Marcy | N. Y. | March 5, 1845.

George W. Crawford | Ga. | March 8, 1849.

Winfield Scott | Va. | July 23, 1850, _ad int._ Charles M. Conrad | La. | August 15, 1850.

Jefferson Davis | Miss. | March 7, 1853.

Samuel Cooper | N. Y. | March 3, 1857, _ad int._ John B. Floyd | Va. | March 6, 1857.

THE SECRETARIES OF THE NAVY.

Department created by Act of Congress, April 30, 1798.

NAME. STATE. FROM --------------------------+---------+------------------------------ Benjamin W. Crowninshield | Ma.s.s. | December 19, 1814.

Smith Thompson | N. Y. | November 9, 1818.

John Rodgers | Md. | September 1, 1823, _ad int._ Samuel L. Southard | N. J. | September 16, 1823.

John Branch | N. C. | March 9, 1829.

Levi Woodbury | N. H. | May 23, 1831.

Mahlon d.i.c.kerson | N. J. | June 30, 1834.

James K. Paulding | N. Y. | June 25, 1838.

George E. Badger | N. C. | March 5, 1841.

Abel P. Upshur | Va. | September 13, 1841.

David Henshaw | Ma.s.s. | July 24, 1843.

Thomas W. Gilmer | Va. | February 15, 1844.

John Y. Mason | Va. | March 14, 1844.

George Bancroft | Ma.s.s. | March 10, 1845.

John Y. Mason | Va. | September 9, 1846.

William B. Preston | Va. | March 8, 1849.

William A. Graham | N.C. | July 22, 1850.

John P. Kennedy | Md. | July 22, 1852.

James C. Dobbin | N. C. | March 7, 1853.

Isaac Toucey | Conn. | March 6, 1857.

THE SECRETARIES OF THE INTERIOR.

Department created by Act of Congress, March 3, 1849.

NAME. STATE. FROM -----------------------+----------+--------------------- Thomas Ewing | Ohio | March 8, 1849.

Thomas M. T. McKennan | Penna. | August 15, 1850.

Alexander H. H. Stuart | Va. | September 12, 1850.

Robert McClelland | Mich. | March 7, 1853.

Jacob Thompson | Miss. | March 6, 1857.

THE ATTORNEYS-GENERAL.

Duties prescribed by the Judiciary Act of September 24, 1789.

Department reorganized in 1870.

NAME. STATE. FROM --------------------+----------+--------------------- Richard Rush | Penna. | February 10, 1814.

William Wirt | Va. | November 3, 1817.

John M. Berrien | Ga. | March 9, 1829.

Roger B. Taney | Md. | July 20, 1831.

Benjamin F. Butler | N. Y. | November 15, 1833.

Felix Grundy | Tenn. | July 5, 1838.

Henry D. Gilpin | Penna. | July 11, 1840.

John J. Crittenden | Ky. | March 5, 1841.

Hugh S. Legare | S. C. | September 13, 1841.

John Nelson | Md. | July 1, 1843.

John Y. Mason | Va. | March 6, 1845.

Nathan Clifford | Me. | October 17, 1846.

Isaac Toucey | Conn. | June 21, 1848.

Reverdy Johnson | Md. | March 8, 1849.

John J. Crittenden | Ky. | July 22, 1850.

Caleb Cushing | Ma.s.s. | March 7, 1853.

Jeremiah S. Black | Penna. | March 6, 1857.

THE POSTMASTERS-GENERAL.

A Bureau of the Treasury until 1829. Made a Cabinet office in that year.

NAME. STATE. FROM ----------------------+----------+--------------------- Return J. Meigs, Jr. | Ohio | March 17, 1814.

John McLean | Ohio | June 26, 1823.

William T. Barry | Ky. | March 9, 1829.

Amos Kendall | Ky. | March 1, 1835.

John M. Niles | Conn. | May 19, 1840.