Front row, left to right: Thomas F. Bayard, Cleveland, Daniel Manning, Lucius Q. C. Lamar  Back row, left to right: William F. Vilas, William C. Whitney, William C. Endicott, Augustus H. Garland
The First Cleveland cabinetOfficeNameTermPresidentGrover Cleveland1885–1889Vice PresidentThomas A. Hendricks1885None1885–1889Secretary of StateThomas F. Bayard1885–1889Secretary of the TreasuryDaniel Manning1885–1887Charles S. Fairchild1887–1889Secretary of WarWilliam Crowninshield Endicott1885–1889Attorney GeneralAugustus Hill Garland1885–1889Postmaster GeneralWilliam Freeman Vilas1885–1888Donald M. Dickinson1888–1889Secretary of the NavyWilliam Collins Whitney1885–1889Secretary of the InteriorLucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar1885–1888William Freeman Vilas1888–1889Secretary of AgricultureNorman Jay Coleman1889
Judicial appointments
Main article: List of federal judges appointed by Grover Cleveland
Chief Justice Melville Fuller
During his first term, Cleveland successfully nominated two justices to the Supreme Court of the United States. The first, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, was a former Mississippi senator who served in Cleveland's Cabinet as Interior Secretary. When William Burnham Woods died, Cleveland nominated Lamar to his seat in late 1887. While Lamar had been well-liked as a senator, his service under the Confederacy two decades earlier caused many Republicans to vote against him. Lamar's nomination was confirmed by the narrow margin of 32 to 28.