Union Cabinet

Civil War Cabinet - Union - and Freemasonry

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HU = information is from the Appendix B of House Undivided: The Story of Freemasonry and the Civil War, by Allen E. Roberts, published by Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co., Richmond, Virginia, 1961.

Position	Names of all Civil War Union Cabinet Members (that I know about)	Masonic information for those who appear to have been involved with Freemasonry
President	Abraham Lincoln
Vice President	Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865)
Vice President	Andrew Johnson (1865)	(HU) Greeneville Lodge #119, Tennessee
Secretary of State	William Henry Seward (1861-1865)
Secretary of the Treasury	Salmon Portland Chase (1861-1864)
	William Pitt Fessenden (1864-1865)
	Hugh McCulloch (1865)
Secretary of War	Simon Cameron (1861-1862)	(HU) Perseverance Lodge #21 Pennsylvania (Past Master)
Secretary of War	Edwin McMasters Stanton (1862-1865)	(HU) Steubenville Lodge #45, Ohio
Attorney General	Edward Bates (1861-1864)
Attorney General	James Speed (1841-1865)
Postmaster General	Montgomery Blair (1861-1864)
Postmaster General	William Dennison (1864-1865)
Secretary of the Navy	Gideon Welles (1861-1865)	(HU) St. John's Lodge #4, Connecticut
Secretary of the Interior	Caleb Blood Smith (1861-1863)	(HU) Warren Lodge #15, Indiana
Secretary of the Interior	John Palmer Usher (1863-1865)
Summary	16 men were in Lincoln's cabinet - 5, or 31%, were Freemasons

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