Adams’s Cabinet
Officials who served during Adams’s elected term, 1797–1801. Years show full tenure in each office, including service outside the term; holdovers and identified acting service are included. The Postmaster General is listed as a senior administration office; it did not formally join the Cabinet until Jackson’s presidency. Interior was not established until 1849; Agriculture did not become a Cabinet department until 1889; Commerce and Labor had not yet been established.
President: John Adams (1797–1801)
Vice President: Thomas Jefferson (1797–1801)
Secretary of State: Timothy Pickering (1795–1800), Charles Lee (acting) (1800–1800), John Marshall (including acting service) (1800–1801)
Secretary of the Treasury: Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1795–1800), Samuel Dexter (1801–1801)
Secretary of War: James McHenry (1796–1800), Benjamin Stoddert (acting) (1800–1800), Samuel Dexter (including acting service) (1800–1801)
Attorney General: Charles Lee (1795–1801)
Postmaster General: Joseph Habersham (1795–1801)
Secretary of the Navy: Benjamin Stoddert (1798–1801)