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Cabinet
The Adams cabinetOfficeNameTermPresidentJohn Adams1797–1801Vice PresidentThomas Jefferson1797–1801Secretary of StateTimothy Pickering1797–1800John Marshall1800–1801Secretary of the TreasuryOliver Wolcott Jr.1797–1800Samuel Dexter1801Secretary of WarJames McHenry1797–1800Samuel Dexter1800–1801Attorney GeneralCharles Lee1797–1801Secretary of the NavyBenjamin Stoddert1798–1801
Judicial appointments
Main article: List of federal judges appointed by John Adams
John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and one of Adams's few dependable allies
Supreme Court appointments by President AdamsPositionNameTermChief JusticeJohn Marshall1801–1835Associate JusticeBushrod Washington1799–1829Alfred Moore1800–1804
Adams appointed two U.S. Supreme Court associate justices during his term in office: Bushrod Washington, the nephew of American founding father and President George Washington, and Alfred Moore.[271] After the retirement of Ellsworth due to ill health in 1800, it fell to Adams to appoint the Court's fourth Chief Justice. At the time, it was not yet certain whether Jefferson or Burr would win the election. Regardless, Adams believed that the choice should be someone "in the full vigor of middle age" who could counter what might be a long line of successive Republican presidents. Adams chose his Secretary of State John Marshall.[272] He, along with Stoddert, was one of Adams's few trusted cabinet members, and was among the first to greet him when he arrived at the White House.