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Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

The Grant Cabinet
Office Name Term
President Ulysses S. Grant 1869–1877
Vice President Schuyler Colfax 1869–1873
Henry Wilson 1873–1875
None 1875–1877
Secretary of State Elihu B. Washburne 1869
Hamilton Fish 1869–1877
Secretary of Treasury George S. Boutwell 1869–1873
William A. Richardson 1873–1874
Benjamin H. Bristow 1874–1876
Lot M. Morrill 1876–1877
Secretary of War John A. Rawlins 1869
William W. Belknap 1869–1876
Alphonso Taft 1876
J. Donald Cameron 1876–1877
Attorney General Ebenezer R. Hoar 1869–1870
Amos T. Akerman 1870–1871
George H. Williams 1871–1875
Edwards Pierrepont 1875–1876
Alphonso Taft 1876–1877
Postmaster General John A. J. Creswell 1869–1874
James W. Marshall 1874
Marshall Jewell 1874–1876
James N. Tyner 1876–1877
Secretary of the Navy Adolph E. Borie 1869
George M. Robeson 1869–1877
Secretary of the Interior Jacob D. Cox 1869–1870
Columbus Delano 1870–1875
Zachariah Chandler 1875–1877

The presidency of Ulysses S. Grant began on March 4, 1869, when Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1877. A Republican, Grant took office as the 18th United States president after defeating Horatio Seymour in the 1868 presidential election. He was easily elected to a second four-year term in office in 1872. His decisive re-election was achieved in the face of a split within the Republican Party that resulted in a third party of Liberal Republicans nominating Horace Greeley to oppose him. This action prompted the Democratic Party to cancel its convention, support Greeley as well, and not nominate a candidate of its own. The first president elected after the end of the Civil War, Grant was the first since Andrew Jackson to serve two full terms. He was succeeded as president by Republican Rutherford B. Hayes after the contested 1876 presidential election. Rather than develop a cadre of trustworthy political advisers, Grant was self-reliant in choosing his Cabinet, while he relied heavily on former Army associates who had a thin understanding of politics and a weak sense of civilian ethics. There were repeated scandals and frauds perpetrated by administration officials as a result. Believing the culprits to be innocent, Grant often attacked their accusers. Defenders note Grant established the first Civil Service Commission and ended the moiety system.


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