Chester A. Arthur - Administration
| First Lady | Mary McElroy |
| Vice President | none |
| Secretary of State | James G. Blaine (1881) |
| Secretary of State | Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (1881–1885) |
| Secretary of the Interior | Samuel J. Kirkwood (1881–1882) |
| Secretary of the Interior | Henry M. Teller (1882–1885) |
| Attorney General | Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (1881) |
| Attorney General | Benjamin H. Brewster (1882–1885) |
| Postmaster General | Walter Q. Gresham (1883–1884) |
| Postmaster General | Frank Hatton (1884–1885) |
| Postmaster General | Thomas L. James (1881) |
| Postmaster General | Timothy O. Howe (1881–1883) |
| Secretary of the Treasury | William Windom (1881) |
| Secretary of the Treasury | Charles J. Folger (1881–1884) |
| Secretary of the Treasury | Walter Q. Gresham (1884) |
| Secretary of the Treasury | Hugh McCulloch (1884–1885) |
| Secretary of the Navy | William H. Hunt (1881–1882) |
| Secretary of the Navy | William E. Chandler (1882–1885) |
| Secretary of War | Robert Todd Lincoln (1881–1885) |