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… to 1896, Richardson worked on issuing his Supplements of U.S. congressional legislation. At the request of Treasury Secretary George S. Boutwell, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Richardson assistant secretary of the …

Amos T. Akerman (1870–1871)

… began to oppose slavery. Akerman was a member to Georgia’s 1868 state constitutional convention and began serving as … attorney for Georgia in 1869. One year later, President Ulysses S. Grant tapped Akerman to become his second attorney general, …

Alphonso Taft (1876)

… which time he resumed his law practice. In 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant nominated Taft to become his secretary of war, a post …

Edwards Pierrepont (1875–1876)

… from seceding and supporting Republican Abraham Lincoln’s reelection as President and President Johnson’s policies of … left the party and backed the Republican candidate, Ulysses S. Grant. Following his election, President Grant appointed …

George H. Williams (1871–1875)

… Williams served on a special commission for President Ulysses S. Grant in 1871 before becoming Grant’s third attorney general. …

Marshall Jewell (1874–1876)

… telegraph lines. In 1850, Jewell took over his father’s tanning business in Connecticut and accrued substantial … and again in both 1871 and 1872. Jewell accepted President Ulysses S. Grant’s offer to become U.S. minister to Russia, where he …

Hamilton Fish (1869–1877)

… government. After an initial refusal to join President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet in 1869, Fish soon accepted Grant’s offer of …

Elihu B. Washburne (1869)

… a Whig and then as Republican, before becoming President Ulysses S. Grant’s secretary of state, a post he held for less than two …

John A. J. Creswell (1869–1874)

… John Angel James Creswell was born in 1828 at Creswell’s Ferry (now Fort Deposit), Maryland. He graduated first in … Senate, though he declined to serve. In 1868, President Ulysses S. Grant tapped Creswell to become his postmaster general, a …

George M. Robeson (1869–1877)

… for Camden County. During the Civil War, New Jersey’s governor appointed Robeson a brigadier general, but Robeson … general in 1867; two years later, he became President Ulysses S. Grant’s secretary of the Navy, a post he held until the end …

Lot M. Morrill (1876–1877)

… left the Democratic party in 1856 because of the party’s stance on slavery, so it was as a Republican that he was … filling a vacancy. He served until 1876, when President Ulysses S. Grant tapped him to become secretary of the treasury. Though …

Zachariah Chandler (1875–1877)

… 1851 to 1852, and made a failed bid to become the state’s governor in 1852. A dissatisfied Whig, Chandler led … D.C., soon thereafter, having accepted President Ulysses S. Grant’s offer to become secretary of the interior in 1875. …

James N. Tyner (1876–1877)

… 1826 in Brookville, Indiana. After working in his father’s store, he turned his attention to the law. He ran for a … ultimately served in the House until 1875, when President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him second assistant postmaster general. …

Columbus Delano (1870–1875)

… National Convention in 1860, supported Abraham Lincoln's nomination as President of the United States, and, during … he served from 1865 to 1869 before becoming President Ulysses S. Grant's commissioner of internal revenue. Delano remained as …

Schuyler Colfax (1869–1873)

… losing his first election in 1851, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1854. The next election, he … candidate for the Republicans to run with General Ulysses S. Grant who was the presidential candidate. The pair easily won …

Henry Wilson (1873–1875)

… the same year the state legislature appointed him to the U.S. Senate. In Washington, D.C, he served in the Senate until … the Republican Party chose Wilson to run with President Ulysses S. Grant, after Vice President Schuyler Colfax announced his …

William W. Belknap (1869–1876)

… closely with General William Tecumseh Sherman. At war’s end, Belknap headed home to Iowa, where he served as the … collector of internal revenue (1865-1869). President Ulysses S. Grant tapped Belknap to become his secretary of war in 1869. …

James D. Cameron (1876–1877)

… the Civil War, Cameron became president of his father’s railroad, the Northern Central, and used it to transport … 1868 and 1880 Republican National Conventions; by 1876, Ulysses S. Grant had tapped him to take over the War Department for the …

Jacob D. Cox, Jr. (1869–1870)

… (now Oberlin College), where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1851 and a master’s degree in 1854. Beginning in … commissioner of internal revenue, Cox did accept President Ulysses S. Grant’s offer to become secretary of the interior, a post he …

Benjamin H. Bristow (1874–1876)

… He resigned after two years and was appointed assistant U.S. attorney for the district of Kentucky before assuming the … the Texas and Pacific Railway Company. By 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant had tapped Bristow to be his secretary of the treasury. …