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Feb. 28, 1856

March 3, 1857

Nathaniel P. Banks, Mass.

Appointed

POSTMASTERS-GENERAL.

Sept. 26, 1789, S. Osgood, Massachusetts.
Aug. 12, 1791, T. Pickering, Massachusetts.
Feb. 25, 1795, J. Habersham, Georgia.
Nov. 28, 1801, G. Granger, Connecticut.
March 17, 1814, R. J. Meigs, Ohio.
June 25, 1823, John McLean, Ohio.
March 9, 1829, W. T. Barry, Kentucky.
May 1, 1835, A. Kendall, Kentucky.
May 18, 1840, J. M. Niles, Connecticut.
March 6, 1841, F. Granger, New York.
Sept. 13, 1841, C. A. Wickliffe, Kentucky.
March 5, 1845, C. Johnson, Tennessee.
March 7, 1849, J. Collamer, Vermont.
July 20, 1850, N. K. Hall, New York.

Aug. 31, 1852, S. D. Hubbard, Connecticut.

March 5, 1853, J. Campbell, Pennsylvania.

Sectionalism does not seem to have had much to do with this Department or with that of the Interior, created in 1848-'49.

SECRETARIES OF THE INTERIOR.

Appointed-

March 7, 1849, T. Ewing, Ohio.

July 20, 1850, J. A. Pearce, Maryland.

Aug. 15, 1850, T. M. T. McKennon, Pennsylvania.
Sept. 12, 1850, A. H. H. Stuart, Virginia.
March 5, 1853, R. McClelland, Michigan.

ATTORNEYS-GENERAL.

Appointed

Sept. 26, 1789, E. Randolph, Virginia.
June 27, 1794, W. Bradford, Pennsylvania.
Dec. 10, 1795, C. Lee, Virginia.

Feb. 20, 1801, T. Parsons, Massachusetts.
March 5, 1800, L. Lincoln, Massachusetts.
March 2, 1805, R. Smith, Maryland.
Dec. 23, 1805, J. Breckinridge, Kentucky.
Jan. 20, 1807, C. A. Rodney, Pennsylvania.
Dec. 11, 1811, W. Pinkney, Maryland.
Feb. 10, 1814, R. Rush, Pennsylvania.
Nov. 13, 1817, W. Wirt, Virginia.

March 9, 1829, J. McPherson Berrien, Georgia.
July 20, 1831, Roger B. Taney, Maryland.
Nov. 15, 1833, B. F. Butler, New York.
July 7, 1838, F. Grundy, Tennessee.
Jan. 10, 1840, H. D. Gilpin, Pennsylvania.
March 5, 1841, J. J. Crittenden, Kentucky.
Sept. 13, 1841, H. S. Legare, South Carolina.
July 1, 1843, John Nelson, Maryland.
March 5, 1845, J. Y. Mason, Virginia.
Oct. 17, 1846, N. Clifford, Maine.
June 21, 1848, Isaac Toucey, Connecticut.
March 7, 1849, R. Johnson, Maryland.
July 20, 1850, J. J. Crittenden, Kentucky.
March 5, 1853, C. Cushing, Massachusetts.

SECRETARIES OF THE TREASURY.

the post of Secretary of the Treasury, although one of great portance, requires financial abilities of a high order, which are more frequently found in the North than in the South, and affords little opportunity for influencing general politics, or the questions springing out of Slavery. We need not therefore be surprised to learn that Northern men have been allowed to discharge its drties some forty-eight years out of sixty-seven, as follows:

Sept. 11, 1789, A. Hamilton, New York.
Feb. 3, 1795, O. Wolcott, Connecticut.
Dec. 31, 1800, S. Dexter, Massachusetts.
May 14, 1801, A. Gallatin, Pennsylvania.
Feb. 9, 1814, G. W. Campbell, Tennessee.
Oct. 6, 1814, A. J. Dallas, Pennsylvvania.
Oct. 22, 1816, W. H. Crawford, Georgia.
March 7, 1825, R. Rush, Pennsylvania.
March 6, 1829, S. D. Ingham, Pennsylvania.
Aug. 8, 1831, L. McLane, Delaware.
May 29, 1833, W. J. Duane, Pennsylvania.
Sept. 23, 1833, Roger B. Taney, Maryland.
June 27, 1834, L. Woodbury, New Hampshire.
March 5, 1841, Thomas Ewing, Ohio.
Sept. 13, 1841, W. Forward, Pennsylvania.
March 3, 1843, J. C. Spencer, New York.

June 15, 1844, G. M. Bibb, Kentucky.
March 5, 1845, R. J. Walker, Mississippi.
March 7, 1849, W. M. Meredith, Pennsylvania.
June 20, 1850, Thomas Corwin, Ohio.
March 5, 1843, James Guthrie, Kentucky.

SECRETARIES OF WAR AND THE NAVY.

The Slaveholders, since March 8th, 1841, a period of nearly sixteen years, have taken almost exclusive supervision of the Navy, Northern men having occupied the Secretaryship only two

years. Nor has any Northern man been Secretary of War since 1849. Considering that nearly all the shipping belongs to the free States, which also supply the seamen, it does seem remarkable that Slaveholders should have monopolized for the last sixteen years the control of the Navy.

SECRETARIES OF WAR.

Appointed

Sept. 12, 1789, Henry Knox, Massachusetts.
Jan. 2, 1795, T. Pickering, Massachusetts.
Jan. 27, 1796, J. McHenry, Maryland.
May 7, 1800. J. Marshall, Virginia.
May 13, 1800, S. Dexter, Massachusetts.
Feb. 3, 1801, R. Griswold, Connecticut.
March 5, 1801, II. Dearborn, Massachusetts.
March 7, 1802, W. Eustis, Massachusetts.
Jan. 13, 1813, J. Armstrong, New York.
Sept. 27, 1814, James Monroe, Virginia.
March 3, 1815, W. H. Crawford, Georgia.
April 7, 1817, G. Graham, Virginia.
March 5, 1817, J. Shelby, Kentucky.

Oct. 8, 1817, J. C. Calhoun, South Carolina.
March 7, 1825, J. Barbour, Virginia.
May 26, 1828, P. B. Porter, Pennsylvania.
March 9, 1829, J. H. Eaton, Tennessee.

Aug. 1, 1831, Lewis Cass, Ohio.

March 3, 1837, B. F. Butler, New York.

March 7, 1837, J. R. Poinsett, South Carolina.

March 5, 1841, James Bell, Tennessee.

Sept. 13, 1841, John McLean, Ohio.

Oct. 12, 1841, J. C. Spencer, New York.
March 8, 1843, J. W. Porter, Pennsylvania.
Feb. 15, 1844, W. Wilkins, Pennsylvania.
March 5, 1845, William L. Marcy, New York.
March 7, 1849, G. W. Crawford, Georgia.
July 20, 1850, E. Bates, Missouri.
Aug. 15, 1850, C. M. Conrad, Louisiana.
March 5, 1853, Jefferson Davis Mississippi.

SECRETARIES OF THE NAVY.

Appointed

May 3, 1798, G. Cabot, Massachusetts.
May 21, 1798, B. Stoddart, Massachusetts.
July 15, 1801, R. Smith, Maryland.

May 3, 1805, J. Crowninshield, Massachusetts.
March 7, 1809, P. Hamilton, South Carolina.
Jan. 12, 1813, W. Jones, Pennsylvania.

Dec. 17, 1814, B. W. Crowninshield, Massachusetta.
Nov. 9, 1818, Smith Thompson, New York.
Sept. 1, 1823, John Rogers, Massachusetts.
Sept. 16, 1823, S. L. Southard, New Jersey.
March 9, 1819, John Branch, North Carolina.
May 23, 1831, L. Woodbury, New Hampshire.
June 30, 1834, M. Dickerson, New Jersey.
June 20, 1838, J. K. Paulding, New York.
March 5, 1841, G. F. Badger, North Carolina.
Sept. 13, 1841, A. P. Upshur, Virginia.
July 24, 1843, D. Henshaw, Massachusetts.
Feb. 12, 1844, T. W. Gilmer, Virginia.
March 14, 1844, James Y. Mason, Virginia.
March 10, 1845, G. Bancroft, Massachusetts.
Sept. 9, 1846, James Y. Mason, Virginia.
March 7, 1849, W. B. Preston, Virginia.
July 20, 1850, W. A. Graham, N. Carolina.
July 22, 1852, J. P. Kennedy, Maryland.
March 3, 1853, J. C. Dobbin, N. Carolina.

RECAPITULATION.

Presidency. Southern men and Slaveholders, 48 vears 3 months; Northern men, 23 years 9 months.

Pro. Tem. Presidency of the Senate.-Since 1809, held by Southern men and Slaveholders, except for three or four sessions by Northern men.

Speakership of the House.-Filled by Southern men and Slaveholders forty-three years, Northern men, twenty-five.