Harrison’s Cabinet
Officials who served during the 1889–1893 elected term, including brief holdovers from the preceding administration. Years show full tenure in office, including service outside the term; acting service is identified where included. William F. Wharton acted in two separate periods, in 1892 and 1893. Agriculture became a Cabinet department in February 1889, before Harrison took office. Commerce and Labor had not yet been established.
President: Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)
Vice President: Levi P. Morton (1889–1893)
Secretary of State: Thomas F. Bayard (1885–1889), James G. Blaine (1889–1892), William F. Wharton (acting) (1892–1892), John W. Foster (1892–1893), William F. Wharton (acting) (1893–1893)
Secretary of the Treasury: Charles S. Fairchild (1887–1889), William Windom (1889–1891), Allured B. Nettleton (acting) (1891–1891), Charles Foster (1891–1893)
Secretary of War: William C. Endicott (1885–1889), Redfield Proctor (1889–1891), Lewis A. Grant (acting) (1891–1891), Stephen B. Elkins (1891–1893)
Attorney General: Augustus H. Garland (1885–1889), William H. H. Miller (1889–1893)
Postmaster General: Don M. Dickinson (1888–1889), John Wanamaker (1889–1893)
Secretary of the Navy: William C. Whitney (1885–1889), Benjamin F. Tracy (1889–1893)
Secretary of the Interior: William F. Vilas (1888–1889), John W. Noble (1889–1893)
Secretary of Agriculture: Norman J. Colman (1889–1889), Jeremiah M. Rusk (1889–1893)
