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Pages in category "Buchanan administration cabinet members" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The presidency of James Buchanan began on March 4, 1857, when James Buchanan was inaugurated as the 15th President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1861.Buchanan, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, took office after defeating John C. Frémont of the Republican Party and former President Millard Fillmore of the American Party in the 1856 presidential election.
Buchanan replaced the departed Southern cabinet members with John Adams Dix, Edwin M. Stanton, and Joseph Holt, all of whom were committed to preserving the Union. When Buchanan considered surrendering Fort Sumter , the new cabinet members threatened to resign, and Buchanan relented.
The Buchanan Cabinet, c. 1859: (From left to right) Jacob Thompson, Lewis Cass, John B. Floyd, James Buchanan, Howell Cobb, Isaac Toucey, Joseph Holt, and Jeremiah Black President Buchanan's 1861 letter nominating Black to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1857, he joined the administration of James Buchanan as the Attorney General.
President Buchanan and his Cabinet, c. 1859 (left to right: Jacob Thompson, Lewis Cass, John B. Floyd, James Buchanan, Howell Cobb, Isaac Toucey, Joseph Holt and Jeremiah S. Black) Following Mary's death, Holt remarried, to Margaret Wickliffe. In 1857, Holt was appointed Commissioner of Patents by President Buchanan and moved to Washington D.C.
James Buchanan: John C. Calhoun: Secretary of War: December 8, 1817: March 4, 1825: 8 years, 66 days: James Monroe Secretary of State April 1, 1844 March 10, 1845 John Tyler and James K. Polk: Elihu Root: Secretary of War August 1, 1899 January 31, 1904 8 years, 13 days William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Secretary of State July 19, 1905 ...
Thompson lost the 1855 senate election to Jefferson Davis, but in 1857, newly elected President James Buchanan appointed Thompson United States Secretary of the Interior from 1857 to 1861. [2] [3] In the later years of the Buchanan administration, the cabinet members argued with one another on issues of slavery and secession.
James A. Garfield was elected senator for Ohio in 1880, but he did not take up the office due to being elected president later that year. Seven former senators (Monroe, Adams, Jackson, W.H. Harrison, Pierce, Buchanan, and B. Harrison) were elected to the presidency without ever serving as the vice president between their departure from the ...