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… failed to secure a Republican renomination for governor, President Abraham Lincoln tapped him in 1864 to serve as … and into the first year of the administration of President Andrew Johnson. After resigning his office in 1866, …

Benjamin Stoddert (1801)

… to facilitate his financial dealings; he would become president of the bank within the next few years. Following … the creation of the Department of the Navy in 1798, President John Adams found himself with another cabinet …

Smith Thompson (1819–1823)

… as a regent of the State University of New York (1813). President James Monroe made Thompson his secretary of the … from 1819 to 1823. After Thompson's time in the cabinet, President Monroe appointed him to the U.S. Supreme Court, …

Joshua W. Alexander (1919–1921)

… After working in public administration and serving as president of the Gallatin Board of Education, Alexander … to the International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea. President Woodrow Wilson appointed Alexander secretary of …

Donald Regan (1981–1985)

… the firm’s chairman and chief executive officer. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan tapped Regan to become his secretary … until 1985. During his tenure, Regan helped implement the President’s economic policies, which included tax cuts, …

Robert P. Patterson (1945–1947)

… 1930s, he held judicial posts on various levels. In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him assistant … with Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal. In 1945, President Harry S. Truman appointed Patterson secretary of …

Francis B. Biddle (1945)

… from 1941 to 1945, handing in his resignation when Vice President Harry S. Truman assumed the presidency. He then became a member of the Nuremberg war …

Charles Emory Smith (1898–1901)

… his appointment to postmaster general by his close friend President McKinley. Of his time as postmaster general, postal … Emory Smith would serve until the end of McKinley's presidency, dying in January of 1908. …

David R. Francis (1896–1897)

… of Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith in 1895, President Grover Cleveland nominated Francis for the post. … contest in a Senate primary against James Reed. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson selected Francis to be the American …

Amos T. Akerman (1870–1871)

… district attorney for Georgia in 1869. One year later, President Ulysses S. Grant tapped Akerman to become his … active opposition to the KKK that led advisors to pressure President Grant into asking for Akerman’s resignation. …

Marshall Jewell (1874–1876)

… a share of the Hartford Evening Post, and served as president of the Jewell Pin Company and the Southern New … in 1870 and again in both 1871 and 1872. Jewell accepted President Ulysses S. Grant’s offer to become U.S. minister to …

John Branch (1829–1831)

… Senate in 1823, where he remained for one term. In 1829, President Andrew Jackson tapped him as his secretary of the … an unsuccessful bid to become governor in 1838. In 1844, President John Tyler appointed Branch governor of Florida, a …

Nathan Clifford (1846–1848)

… but came back to Washington, D.C., in 1846 to serve as President James K. Polk’s attorney general. Clifford held … until the end of the Polk administration in 1849. In 1857, President James Buchanan nominated Clifford to fill a vacancy …

Ethan A. Hitchcock (1901–1907)

… the company in 1872 with a remarkable fortune. Becoming a president of several railway, mining, and manufacturing … Hitchcock was then appointed secretary of the interior by President McKinley on December 21, 1898, though he would not …

Charles E. Smith (1901–1902)

James J. Davis (1929–1930)

… and recorder of Madison County, Indiana (1903-1907).President Warren G. Harding appointed Davis secretary of labor, and, following Harding's death, President Calvin Coolidge reappointed him to that post. Davis …

James A. Farley (1933–1940)

… a year later (1925-1933).Farley served in the cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt as postmaster general from … from the cabinet in August 1940, due to a row with the President over Roosevelt's decision to seek a third term in …

Nicholas Katzenbach (1965–1967)

… general because of Mr. Hoover's obvious resentment of me." President Johnson then appointed him undersecretary of state … use of funds. Following the commission's report, President Johnson prohibited the use of covert government aid …

Frances Perkins (1945)

… of Labor from 1929 to 1933. When Roosevelt became President, he tapped Perkins to become secretary of labor, … a member of the Federal Civil Service Commission under President Harry S. Truman (1946-1952).After leaving …

Samuel Osgood (1789–1791)

… (1785-1789).In recognition of Osgood's national service, President George Washington named him the nation's first … Revenue for the District of New York by appointment of President Thomas Jefferson (1800-1803). In 1803, Jefferson …