Adams’s Cabinet
Officials who served during John Quincy Adams’s elected term, 1825–1829. Years show full tenure in each office, including service outside the term; holdovers and 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 Quincy Adams (1825–1829)
Vice President: John C. Calhoun (1825–1832)
Secretary of State: Daniel Brent (acting) (1825–1825), Henry Clay (1825–1829)
Secretary of the Treasury: Samuel L. Southard (acting) (1825–1825), Richard Rush (1825–1829)
Secretary of War: John C. Calhoun (1817–1825), James Barbour (1825–1828), Samuel L. Southard (acting) (1828–1828), Peter B. Porter (1828–1829)
Attorney General: William Wirt (1817–1829)
Postmaster General: John McLean (1823–1829)
Secretary of the Navy: Samuel L. Southard (1823–1829)
