Monroe’s Cabinet
Officials who served during Monroe’s first elected term, 1817–1821. 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: James Monroe (1817–1825)
Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins (1817–1825)
Secretary of State: John Graham (acting) (1817–1817), Richard Rush (acting) (1817–1817), John Quincy Adams (1817–1825)
Secretary of the Treasury: William H. Crawford (1816–1825)
Secretary of War: George Graham (acting) (1816–1817), John C. Calhoun (1817–1825)
Attorney General: Richard Rush (1814–1817), William Wirt (1817–1829)
Postmaster General: Return J. Meigs Jr. (1814–1823)
Secretary of the Navy: Benjamin W. Crowninshield (1815–1818), John C. Calhoun (acting) (1818–1818), Smith Thompson (1819–1823)
