John Adams office

John Adams was vice president under President Washington , but Washington actually suspended him from participating in the Cabinet. Cabinet meetings Adams attended during the years of Washington's presidency can be counted on the fingers. Adams himself commented on the post of vice president as follows: " The smallest position of all ever created by the human imagination ." ^[1] However, despite this, Adams won the presidential election in 1796 and became president of the United States, only 3 votes less than Thomas Jefferson, who became vice president of the United States, thus for the first time in US history, the president and vice president belonged to different political camps. Adams was a federalist , and Jefferson a Republican Democrat . ^[2]

March 4, 1797 the inauguration of Adams and Jefferson took place. All ministers who held office at the time of Washington's resignation as president of the United States retained their posts in Adams’s office:

• Timothy Pickering - US Secretary of State ;
• Oliver Walcott - US Treasury Secretary ;
• James McHenry - US Secretary of War ;
• Charles Lee - US Attorney General ;
• Joseph Habersham - US Postmaster General .

On June 18, 1798 , another member of the Cabinet appeared, the post of the United States Navy was established, and Benjamin Stoddert became one.

Adams’s cabinet was relatively stable, only in the last year of Adams’s presidency did major rearrangements take place in the cabinet. On May 12, 1800, Timothy Pickering is resigning from the post of US Secretary of State; on May 13, interim acting Charles Lee, US Attorney General, who was until June 5, was appointed Secretary of State. And on June 13, 1800, John Marshall was appointed Secretary of State.

On June 1, 1800, Minister of War James McHenry resigned; Samuel Dexter , who held this post until January 31, 1801 , succeeded him. And on January 1, 1801, Samuel Dexter took over as Treasury Secretary.