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… in Chicago, which nominated Grover Cleveland for President. Only a week before Cleveland's inauguration in 1885, Vilas received word that the President had selected him for a cabinet position. Although …

James N. Tyner (1876–1877)

… term and ultimately served in the House until 1875, when President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him second assistant … general. When Rutherford B. Hayes was inaugurated as President in 1877, he appointed his own postmaster general …

Togo D. West, Jr. (1998–2000)

… branch of the federal government. In the administration of President Bill Clinton, he served as Secretary of the Army … with the end of the Cold War and the first Gulf War. President Clinton then appointed him Secretary of Veterans …

Hillary Rodham Clinton (2009-2013)

… Before her husband ran for president in 1992, Hillary Clinton had become an accomplished … away. Even as Hillary Clinton worked to save her husband's presidency and his legacy, she was carving out a future for … duties and obligations associated with being the president's wife. Although she had never lived in New York, …

Walter Forward (1841–1843)

… Convention in 1837. When William Henry Harrison became President of the United States, Forward became first … his return to the United States in 1851, he became the presiding judge of a Pennsylvania District Court, a position …

David M. Kennedy (1969–1971)

… moved on to the bank Continental Illinois, where he became president and director (1956) as well as the chairman of its … of directors and chief executive officer (1959). In 1962, President John F. Kennedy selected him to take part in a …

Alexander Haig Jr. (1981–1982)

… (SACEUR), commanding all NATO forces from 1974 to 1979. President Ronald Reagan named Haig secretary of state, and … in May 1982. He ran unsuccessfully against Vice President George Bush for the Republican nomination for …

Bill Richardson (1998–2001)

… Mexico Democratic Party (1978). From 1978 to 1982, he was president of the Richardson Trade Group. He served as a …

Les Aspin (1993–1994)

… Les Aspin served as President Clinton's secretary of defense from 1993 until his …

Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson

… ideally, the First Lady should work in tandem with the President to promote his policies. But she also maintained … we're going to get it for her." Whether it was due to the President's activism or that of the First Lady, the Highway …

Frederick A. Seaton (1956–1961)

… Frederick Andrew Seaton was secretary of the interior under President Eisenhower from June 8, 1956, until January 20, … In 1937, he became publisher of the Daily Tribune and president of his father's company. He was twice elected to …

William L. Wilson (1895–1897)

… active member of the Democratic Party. In 1882, he became president of West Virginia University in Morgantown, but had … of the Ways and Means Committee. On February 24, 1895, President Grover Cleveland called Wilson to the White House …

Charles F. Adams (1929–1933)

… 1866. He was the grandson of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President, and the great-grandson of John Adams, the second President. Adams received his Bachelor's degree from Harvard …

Richard E. Lyng (1986–1989)

… colonel, Lyng returned to Modesto and served as the president of his family’s company (1949-1967) and as a president of the California Seed Association (1953).In 1966, …

Edward H. Levi (1975–1977)

… Law School in 1950, provost of the University (1962), and president of the University of Chicago from 1968 to 1975. He … During the Richard Nixon administration, Levi was on the President's Task Force on Priorities in Higher Education from …

Richard W. Thompson (1877–1880)

… years in the House. Declining political appointments from Presidents Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, Thompson … that time, and it was as a Republican that he served as President Andrew Johnson’s appointment to the fifth Indiana …

Philander C. Knox (1901–1904)

… He filled the post of Attorney General in the cabinets of Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt from 1901 … nomination in 1908. He was the beneficiary of incoming President William Howard Taft's desire to get "the best men" …

Philander C. Knox (1909–1913)

… He filled the post of attorney general in the cabinets of Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt from … nomination in 1908. He was the beneficiary of incoming President William Howard Taft's desire to get "the best men" …

Henry D. Gilpin (1840–1841)

… States (1833) and solicitor of the U.S. Treasury (1837). President Martin Van Buren appointed Gilpin attorney general … Following his tenure in Van Buren's cabinet, Gilpin became president of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and …

Rogers C. B. Morton (1971–1974)

… at Ballard and Ballard Company (1939-1951), serving as president from 1947 to 1951. Later, Morton became involved in … and secretary of commerce, serving in the cabinet of President Gerald R. Ford from 1975 to 1976. He also became a …