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APPENDIX.

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CHIEF OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.



PRESIDENTS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

1774-1788.

Peyton Randolph,

Va.,

1774.

John Hanson,

Md.,

1781.

Henry Middleton,

S. C.,

1774.

Elias Boudinot,

N. J.,

1764.

Peyton Randolph,

Va.,

1775.

Thomas Mifflin,

Penn.,

1783.

John Hancock,

Mass.,

1775.

Richard Henry Lee,

Va.,

1784.

Henry Laurens,

S. C.,

1777.

Nathaniel Gorham,

Mass.,

1786.

John Jay,

N. Y.,

1778.

Arthur St. Clair,

Penn.,

1787.

Samuel Huntington,

Conn.,

1779.

Cyrus Griffin,

Va.,

1788.

Thomas McKean,

Del.,

1781.

NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIONS.
1789-1797.
Secretary of the Navy. ¥
President.

Benjamin Stoddert,

Md.,

1798.

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Va.,

1789.
Postmaster-General.
Vice-President.

Joseph Habersham,

Ga.,

*

JOHN ADAMS,

Mass.,

1789.
Attorney-General.
Secretaries of State.

Charles Lee,

Va.,

*

Thomas Jefferson,

Va.,

1789.

Edmund Randolph,

Va.,

1794.
Speakers of the House of Representatives.

Timothy Pickerin,

Penn,

1795.

Jonathan Dayton,

N.J.,

5th Cong.
Secretaries of the Treasury.

Theodore Sedgwick,

Mass.,

6th Cong.

Alexander Hamilton,

N. Y.,

1789.
        

Oliver Wolcott,

Conn.,

1795.

Secretaries of War.
1801-1809.

Henry Knox,

Mass.,

1789.

Timothy Pickering,

Penn.,

1795.

James McHenry,

Md.,

1796.
President.
Postmasters-General.

THOMAS JEFFERSON,

Va.,

1801.

Samuel Osgood,

Mass.,

1789.
Vice-Presidents.

Timothy Pickering,

Penn.,

1791.

AARON BURR,

N. Y.,

1801.

Joseph Habersham,

Ga.,

1795.

GEORGE CLINTON,

N. Y.,

1806.
Attorneys-General.
Secretary of State.

Edmund Randolph,

Va.,

1789.

James Madison,

Va.,

1801.

William Bradford,

Penn.,

1794.

Charles Lee,

Va.,

1795.
Secretaries of the Treasury.
Speakers of the House of Representatives.

Samuel Dexter,

Mass.,

*

Fred. A. Muhlenberg,

Penn.,

1st Cong.

Albert Gallatin,

Penn.,

1802.

Jonathan Trumbull,

Conn.,

2d Cong.
Secretary of War.

Fred. A. Muhlenberg,

Penn.,

3d Cong.

Henry Dearborn,

Mass.,

1801.

Jonathan Dayton,

N. J.,

4th Cong.
Secretaries of the Navy.
--------

Benjamin Stoddert,

Md.,

*
1797-1801

Robert Smith,

Md.,

1802.

Jacob Crowninshield,

Mass.,

1805.
President.

JOHN ADAMS,

Mass.,

1797.
Postmasters-General.
Vice-President.

Joseph Habersham,

Ga.,

*

THOMAS JEFFERSON,

Va.,

1797.

Gideon Granger,

Conn.,

1802.
Secretaries of State.
Attorneys-General.

Timothy Pickering,

Penn.,

*

Levi Lincoln,

Mass.,

1801.

John Marshall,

Va.,

1800.

Robert Smith,

Md.,

1805.
Secretaries of the Treasury.

John Breckinridge,

Ky.,

1805.

Oliver Wolcott,

Conn.,

*

Caesar A. Rodney,

Del.,

1807.

Samuel Dexter,

Mass.,

1800.
Speakers of the House of Representatives.
Secretaries of War.

Nathaniel Macon,

N. C.,

7th Cong.

James McHenry,

Md.,

*

Nathaniel Macon,

N. C.,

8th Cong.

Samuel Dexter,

Mass.,

1800.

Nathaniel Macon,

N. C.,

9th Cong.

Roger Griswold,

Conn.,

1801.

Joseph B. Varnum,

Mass.,

10th Cong.

   * Continued in office.
   ¥ The War Department had the superintendence of naval affairs till the Navy Department was established, in 1798.

 


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CHIEF OFFICERS.

1809-1817.
1825-1829.
President.
President.

JAMES MADISON,

Va.,

1800.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,

Mass.,

1825.
Vice-Presidents.
Vice-President.

GEORGE CLINTON,

N. Y.,

1809.

JOHN C. CALHOUN,

S. C.,

1825.

ELBRIDGE GERRY,

Mass.,

1813.

Secretaries of State.
Secretary of State.

Robert Smith ,

Md.,

1809.

Henry Clay,

Ky.,

1825.

James Monroe,

Va.,

1811.
Secretary of the Treasury.
Secretaries of the Treasury.

Richard Rush,

Pena.,

1825.

Albert Gallatin,

Penn.,

*
Secretaries of War.

George W. Campbell,

Tenn.,

1814.

James Barbour,

Va.,

1825.

Alexander J. Dallas,

Penn.,

1814.

Peter B. Porter,

N. Y.,

1828.
Secretaries of War.
Secretary of the Navy.

William Eustis,

Mass.,

1809.

Samuel L. Southard,

N. J.,

*

John Armstrong,

N. Y.,

1813.
Postmaster-General.

James Monroe,

Va.,

1814.

John McLean,

Ohio,

*

William H. Crawford,

Ga.,

1815.
Attorney-General.
Secretaries of the Navy.

William Wirt,

Va.,

*

Paul Hamilton,

S.C.,

1809.

William Jones,

Penn.,

1813.
Speakers of the House of Representatives.

Benj. W. Crowninshield,

Mass.,

1814.

John W. Taylor,

N. Y.,

19th Cong.
Postmasters-General.

Andrew Stevenson,

Va.,

20th Cong.

Gideon Granger,

Conn.,

*

Return J. Meigs,

Ohio,

1814.
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Attorneys-General.

1829-1837.

Caesar A. Rodney,

Del.,

*
President.

William Pinkney,

Md.,

1811.

ANDREW JACKSON,

Tenn.,

1829.

Richard Rush,

Penn.,

1814.
Vice-Presidents.
Speakers of the House of Representatives.

JOHN C. CALHOUN,

S. C.,

1829.

Joseph B. Varnum,

Mass.,

11th Cong.

MARTIN VAN BUREN,

N. Y.,

1833.

Henry Clay,

Ky.,

12th Cong.
Secretaries of State.

Henry Clay, ¥

Ky.,

13th Cong.

Martin Van Buren,

N. Y.,

1829.

Landon Cheves, ±

S. C.,

13th Cong.

Edward Livingston,

La.,

1831.

Henry Clay,

Ky.,

14th Cong.

Louis McLane,

Del.,

1833.
--------

John Forsyth,

Ga.,

1834.
1817-1825.
Secretaries of the Treasury.
President.

Samuel D. Ingham,

Penn.,

1829.

JAMES MONROE,

Va.,

1817.

Louis McLane,

Del.,

1831.
Vice-President.

William J. Duane,

Penn.,

1833.

DANIEL D. TOMPKINS,

N. Y.,

1817.

Roger B. Taney,

Md.,

1833.
Secretary of State.

Levi Woodbury,

N. H.,

1834.

John Q. Adams,

Mass.,

1817.
Secretaries of War.
Secretary of the Treasury.

John H. Eaton,

Tenn.,

1829.

William H. Crawford,

Ga.,

1817.

Lewis Cass,

Ohio,

1831.
Secretary of War.
Secretaries of the Navy.

John C. Calhoun,

S. C.,

1817.

John Branch,

N. C.,

1829.
Secretaries of the Navy.

Levi Woodbury,

N. H.,

1831.

Beni. W. Crowninshied,

Mass.,

*

Mahlon Dickerson,

N. J.,

1834.

Smith Thompson,

N. Y.,

1818.
Postmasters-General. ||

Samuel L. Southard,

N. J.,

1823.

William T. Barry,

Ky.,

1829.
Postmasters-General.

Amos Kendall,

Ky.,

1835.

Return J. Meigs,

Ohio,

*
Attorneys-General.

John McLean,

Ohio,

1823.

John M. Berrien,

Ga.,

1829.
Attorney-General.

Roger B. Taney,

Md.,

1831.

William Wirt,

Va.,

1817.

Benjamin F. Butler,

N. Y.,

1834.
Speakers of the House of Representatives.
Speakers of the House of Representatives.

Henry Clay,

Ky.,

15th Cong.

Andrew Stevenson,

Va.,

21st Cong.

Henry Clay, ¥

Ky.,

16th Cong.

Andrew Stevenson,

Va.,

22d Cong.

John W. Taylor, ±

N. Y.,

16th Cong.

Andrew Stevenson, ¥

Va.,

23d Cong.

Philip P. Barbour,

Va.,

17th Cong.

John Bell, ±

Tenn.,

23d Cong.

Henry Clay,

Ky.,

18th Cong.

James K. Polk,

Tenn.,

24th Cong.

   * Continued in office.      ¥ 1st session.
   § Appointed during the recess of congress, and negatived by the Senate.      ± 2d session.
   || The Postmaster-General was not a member of the Cabinet in 1829.

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