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Pages in category "Grant administration cabinet members" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Despite the scandals, by the end of Grant's second term the corruption in the Departments of Interior (1875), Treasury (1874), and Justice (1875) were cleaned up by his new cabinet members. [227] Grant's generous treatment of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox helped give him popularity in the South. Although he kept civil rights on the political ...
During Ulysses S. Grant's two terms as president of the United States (1869–1877) there were several executive branch investigations, prosecutions, and reforms carried-out by President Grant, Congress, and several members of his cabinet, in the wake of several revelations of fraudulent activities within the administration.
In fairness, Grant did appoint cabinet reformers and special prosecutors who were able to clean up the Treasury, Interior, War, and Justice departments. Grant, himself, personally participated in reforming the Department of Indian Affairs, by firing all the corrupt clerks. No reforming cabinet member, however, was installed in the Department of ...
William Worth Belknap (September 22, 1829 – October 12, 1890) was a lawyer, Union Army officer, government administrator in Iowa, and the 30th United States Secretary of War, serving under President Ulysses S. Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [a] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. In 1865, as commanding general , Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War .
John Aaron Rawlins (February 13, 1831 – September 6, 1869) was a general officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a cabinet officer in the Grant administration.
The Grant cabinet; Office Name Term; President: Ulysses S. Grant: 1869–1877: Vice President: Schuyler Colfax: 1869–1873: Henry Wilson: 1873–1875: None: 1875–1877