This section is from the book "Bepler's Handy Manual of Knowledge And Useful Infomation", by David Bepler. Also available from Amazon: Bepler's Handy Manual of Knowledge and Useful Information.
The Interior Department" was created by Act of
Congress, 1849.
Name | From State of | In whose Cabinet | Appointed |
Thomas Ewing | Ohio | Zachary Taylor | 1849 |
T. McKenna (declined) | Pennsylvania | Millard Fillmore | 1850 |
Alex. H. H. Stuart | Virginia | Millard Fillmore | 1850 |
Robert McClelland | Michigan | Franklin Pierce | 1853 |
Jacob Thompson | Mississippi | James Buchanan | 1S57 |
Caleb B. Smith | Indiana | Abraham Lincoln | 1861 |
John P. Usher | Indiana | Abraham Lincoln | 1863 |
James Harlan | Iowa | Andrew Johnson | 1865 |
0. H. Browning | Illinois | Andrew Johnson | 1866 |
Jacob B. Cox | Ohio | Ulysses S. Grant | 1869 |
Columbus Delano | Ohio | Ulysses S. Grant | 1870 |
Zachariah Chandler | Michigan | Ulysses S. Grant | 1875 |
*Carl Schurz | Missouri | Rutherford B. Hayes | 1877 |
Samuel J. Kirkwood | Iowa | James A. Garfield | 1881 |
Henry M. Teller | Colorado | Chester A. Arthur | 1882 |
L. Q. C. Lamar | Mississippi | Grover Cleveland | 1885 |
William F. Vilas | Wisconsin | Grover Cleveland | 1887 |
John M. Noble | Missouri | Benjamin Harrison | 1889 |
* Carl Schurz was a native of Prussia.
 
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