Since the year 1809, every President pro tem. of the Senate of the United States has been a Southern man and slaveholder, with the exception of Samuel L. Southard, of New Jersey, who held the office for a very short time, and Mr. Bright, of Indiana, who has held it for one or two sessions, we believe, having been elected, however, as a known adherent of the slave interest, believed to be interested in slave “property.”

SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

April, 1789
March 3, 1791		}F. A. Muhlenberg, Penn.
Oct. 24, 1791
March 2, 1793		}J. Trumbull, Connecticut.
Dec. 2, 1793
March 3, 1795		}F. A. Muhlenberg, Penn.
Dec. 7, 1795
March 3, 1797		}Jonathan Dayton, New Jersey.
May 15, 1797
March 3, 1799		}"""
Dec. 2, 1799
March 3, 1801		}Theodore Sedgwick, Mass.
Dec. 7, 1801
March 3, 1807		}Nathaniel Macon, N. Car.
Oct. 26, 1807
March 3, 1811		}J. B. Varnum, Massachusetts.
March 4, 1811
Jan. 19, 1814		}Henry Clay, Kentucky.
Jan. 19, 1814
March 2, 1815		}Laugdon Cheves, S. Car.
Dec. 4, 1815
Nov. 13, 1820		}Henry Clay, Kentucky.
Nov. 15, 1820
March 3, 1821		}J. W. Taylor, New-York.
Dec. 3, 1821
March 3, 1823		}P. B. Barbour, Virginia.
Dec. 1, 1823
March 3, 1825		}Henry Clay, Kentucky.
Dec. 5, 1825
March 3, 1827		}J. W. Taylor, New-York.
Dec. 3, 1827
June 2, 1834		}A. Stevenson, Virginia.
June 2, 1834
March 3, 1835		}John Bell, Tennessee.
Dec. 7, 1835
March 3, 1839		}James K. Polk, Tennessee.
Dec. 16, 1839
March 3, 1841		}R. M. T. Hunter, Virginia.
May 31, 1841
March 3, 1843		}John White, Tennessee.
Dec. 4, 1843
March 3, 1845		}J. W. Jones, Virginia.
Dec. 1, 1845
March 3, 1847		}J. W. Davis, Indiana.
Dec. 6, 1847
March 3, 1849		}R. C. Winthrop, Mass.
Dec. 22, 1849
March 3, 1851		}Howell Cobb, Georgia.
Dec. 1, 1851
March 3, 1853		}Linn Boyd, Kentucky.
Dec. 1 1853
March 3, 1855		}"""
Feb. 28, 1856
March 3, 1857		}Nathaniel P. Banks, Mass.

POSTMASTERS-GENERAL.

Appointed—
Sept. 26, 1789, S. Osgood, Massachusetts.
Aug. 12, 1791, T. Pickering, Massachusetts.
Feb. 25, 1795, J. Habersham, Georgia.
Nov. 28, 1801, G. Granger, Connecticut.
March 17, 1814, R. J. Meigs, Ohio.
June 25, 1823, John McLean, Ohio.
March 9, 1829, W. T. Barry, Kentucky.
May 1, 1835, A. Kendall, Kentucky.
May 18, 1840, J. M. Niles, Connecticut.
March 6, 1841, F. Granger, New York.
Sept. 13, 1841, C. A. Wickliffe, Kentucky.
March 5, 1845, C. Johnson, Tennessee.
March 7, 1849, J. Collamer, Vermont.
July 20, 1850, N. K. Hall, New York.
Aug. 31, 1852, S. D. Hubbard, Connecticut.
March 5, 1853, J. Campbell, Pennsylvania.

Sectionalism does not seem to have had much to do with this Department or with that of the Interior, created in 1848-’49.

SECRETARIES OF THE INTERIOR.

Appointed—
March 7, 1849, T. Ewing, Ohio.
July 20, 1850, J. A. Pearce, Maryland.
Aug. 15, 1850, T. M. T. McKennon, Pennsylvania.
Sept. 12, 1850, A. H. H. Stuart, Virginia.
March 5, 1853, R. McClelland, Michigan.

ATTORNEYS-GENERAL.