The Footprints of Time / And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological Order

by Charles Bancroft

CABINET.

• William H. Seward, N. Y., Secretary of State.
• Salmon P. Chase, Ohio, William P. Fessenden, Me., Hugh McCulloch, Ind., Secretaries of the Treasury.
• Simon Cameron, Pa., Edwin M. Stanton, Pa., Secretaries of War.
• Gideon Welles, Conn., Secretary of the Navy.
• John P. Usher, Ind., Secretary of the Interior.
• Montgomery Blair, Md., William Dennison, O., Postmasters General.
• Edward Bates, Mo., James Speed, Ky., Attorneys General.

Seventeenth Administration, April 15, 1865, to March 4, 1869.

• Andrew Johnson, acting President.
• No Vice-President.

CABINET.

• William H. Seward, N. Y., Secretary of State.
• Hugh McCulloch, Ind., Secretary of the Treasury.
• Edwin M. Stanton, Pa., Ulysses S. Grant, Ill., and J. M. Schofield, Secretaries of War.
• Gideon Welles, Conn., Secretary of the Navy.
• James Harlan, Iowa, Orville H. Browning, Ill., Secretaries of the Interior.
• James Speed, Ky., Henry Stanbery, Ohio, William M. Evarts, N. Y., Attorneys General.
• William Dennison, Ohio, Alexander W. Randall, Wis., Postmasters General.

Eighteenth Administration, March 4, 1869, to March 4, 1873.

• Ulysses S. Grant, Ill., President.
• Schuyler Colfax, Ind., Vice-President.

CABINET.

• Elihu B. Washburne, Ill., Secretary of State.
• Hamilton Fish, N. Y., ” ”
• George S. Boutwell, Mass., Secretary of the Treasury.
• John A. Rawlins, Secretary of War.
• William T. Sherman, ” ”
• William W. Belknap, ” ”
• Adolph E. Borie, Pa., Secretary of the Navy.
• George M. Robeson, N. J., ” ”
• Jacob D. Cox, Ohio, Secretary of the Interior.
• Columbus Delano, O., ” ”
• J. A. J. Creswell, Md., Postmaster General.
• Eben Rockwood Hoar, Mass., Attorney General.
• Amos T. Akerman, Ga., ” ”