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Administration and Cabinet

BEP engraved portrait of Johnson as President

The Andrew Johnson cabinetOfficeNameTermPresidentAndrew Johnson1865–1869Vice Presidentnone1865–1869Secretary of StateWilliam H. Seward1865–1869Secretary of the TreasuryHugh McCulloch1865–1869Secretary of WarEdwin Stanton1865–1868[e]John Schofield1868–1869Attorney GeneralJames Speed1865–1866Henry Stanbery1866–1868William M. Evarts1868–1869Postmaster GeneralWilliam Dennison Jr.1865–1866Alexander Randall1866–1869Secretary of the NavyGideon Welles1865–1869Secretary of the InteriorJohn Palmer Usher1865James Harlan1865–1866Orville Hickman Browning1866–1869
Judicial appointments
Main article: List of federal judges appointed by Andrew Johnson
Johnson appointed nine Article III federal judges during his presidency, all to United States district courts; he did not appoint a justice to serve on the Supreme Court. In April 1866, he nominated Henry Stanbery to fill the vacancy left with the death of John Catron, but Congress eliminated the seat to prevent the appointment, and to ensure that he did not get to make any appointments eliminated the next vacancy as well, providing that the court would shrink by one justice when one next departed from office.[183] Johnson appointed his Greeneville crony, Samuel Milligan, to the United States Court of Claims, where he served from 1868 until his death in 1874.[184][185]

Reforms initiated
In June 1866, Johnson signed the Southern Homestead Act into law, believing that the legislation would assist poor whites. 