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) | |
| 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) |
| Edwin McMasters Stanton (1862-1865) | (HU) Steubenville Lodge #45, Ohio | |
| Attorney General | Edward Bates (1861-1864) | |
| James Speed (1841-1865) | ||
| Postmaster General | Montgomery Blair (1861-1864) | |
| 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 |
| John Palmer Usher (1863-1865) | ||
| Summary | 16 men were in Lincoln’s cabinet – 5, or 31%, were Freemasons | |