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Anna Ella Carroll In the fall of 1861, Carroll traveled to St. Louis to work with secret agent, Judge Lemuel Dale Evans, who had been appointed by Secretary of State William H. Seward, to assess the feasibility of an invasion of Texas.
Joseph HoltIn 1857, Holt was appointed Commissioner of Patents by President Buchanan, and moved to Washington.
Jules BrulatourIt is believed that his sudden high profile in Washington, D. C. determined him to legitimize his relationship with Dorothy Gibson, whom he finally married on July 6, 1917, a week before his first conference with President Woodrow Wilson and United States Treasury Department Secretary McAdoo.
Peter Percival ElderIn 1861 he was appointed agent for the Osage and Seneca Indian tribes at Fort Scott, and he helped keep those tribes friendly during the Civil War, even raising Osage recruits for the Union army.
Gail BordenHouston's successor to the presidency, Mirabeau B. Lamar, removed Borden from office in December 1838 and replaced Borden with a lifelong friend from Mobile, Alabama, the honorable Dr. Willis Roberts, a new arrival to the Republic.
William A. WortonA little more than a year later, Worton resigned on August 9, 1950 and was replaced by his chief of Internal Affairs, William H. Parker, whom he had groomed for the office.
Sylvester MowryIn 1856, Mowry was elected to be a delegate in the 35th Congress for the creation of Arizona Territory but because the bill did not pass, Mowry never took his seat.
P. G. T. BeauregardEmploying the political influence of his brother-in-law, John Slidell, Beauregard obtained an appointment as superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy on January 23, 1861.
John Hancock (Texas politician)After the secession of Texas in March 1861, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate States of America and was expelled from the legislature.
Robley Dunglison Evans In 1859 Utah Territory delegate William Henry Hooper offered Evans the territory's nomination to the United States Naval Academy.
Theodore RooseveltPresident Harrison appointed Roosevelt to the United States Civil Service Commission, where he served until 1895.
Norman J. HallOn March 19, 1854, Hall was appointed to the United States Military Academy by Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War (and the future President of the Confederate States of America).
John Coburn (politician) Coburn was appointed as the first secretary of the Territory of Montana in March 1865 but resigned at once.
Zachariah ChandlerIn 1875, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Chandler Secretary of Interior in order to clean up corruption left behind by previous Grant appointee Secretary Columbus Delano.
Moses Wright HannonHannon stated that he was a colonel in his pardon application but he was signing letters as a former brigadier general in the Confederate service by 1876 and'' general'' appears on his tombstone.
Bill ZenderIn 1979, Zender completed Peace Officer training at the Nevada P. O. S. T as a requirement of his position with the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Mark HannaOn January 4, 1897, McKinley offered Sherman the office of Secretary of State ; he immediately accepted.
William Gilpin (governor)The resolution came too late for Gilpin, however, who was removed from the governorship of the territory by Lincoln in April 1862 and replaced by John Evans.
W. Claude JonesPresident Franklin Pierce acted upon Jones' request for federal appointment in August 1854, nominating him to become United States Attorney for New Mexico Territory.
Asa Bird GardinerIn 1884, Gardiner was selected for another high-profile prosecution, that of his superior, Brigadier General David G. Swaim, the Judge Advocate General of the Army.
John J. TigertPresident Warren G. Harding appointed Tigert as the U. S. Commissioner of Education in 1921, and he served for seven years during the administrations of Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
Eugene SchuylerIn 1889, the Administration of President Benjamin Harrison nominated him as First Assistant Secretary of State.
Edward S. SalomonOn March 4, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Salomon governor of Washington Territory.
Timothy Thomas FortuneIn 1874 he was mail route agent and then he was promoted to customs inspector for the eastern district of Delaware but only held this position for a few months before resigning in order to attend Howard University.
Martin Russell ThayerIn 1873 he was appointed on the board of visitors to West Point, and wrote the report.
James LongstreetHe endorsed Grant for president in 1868, attended his inauguration ceremonies, and six days later received an appointment as surveyor of customs in New Orleans.
John Hancock (Texas politician)After the end of the war he returned to Texas and took part in the restoration of order, including serving as a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1866.
Henry Clay CaldwellHe was nominated for promotion to general officer, but the territory required his judicial expertise more than his military ability and he resigned his commission June 4, 1864.
Edward Thornton (diplomat)Thornton served in 1873 as an arbitrator in the commission on the Mexican and United States Claims.
Thomas L. RosserOn June 10, 1898, President William McKinley appointed Rosser a brigadier general of United States volunteers during the Spanish-American War.
Lewis B. Schwellenbach In 1945, Schwellenbach was named Secretary of Labor, replacing Frances Perkins, by then-President Harry S. Truman, who wanted a more politically aware secretary.
Edwin Taylor Pollock On November 30, 1921, Pollock was transferred from command of the Oklahoma to become the Military Governor of American Samoa.
John George NicolayIn 1861, Lincoln appointed Nicolay as his private secretary, which was the first official act of his new administration.
Henry F. FrenchIn 1876 he was appointed, by President General Grant, 2nd assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury.
Fred MatherWhen the U. S. Fish Commission was formed in 1872 he was sent for by Professor Spencer F. Baird to hatch shad for the Potomac River.
Franklin S. RichardsIn 1889 Richards sought to convince President Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine to appoint non-vindictive officers in Utah Territory.
William C. OckerIn 1915, Ocker (while on leave from the Army) piloted a Curtiss biplane from Pennsylvania to Washington, D. C. carrying newly elected Representative Orrin Dubbs Bleakley.
Raphael SemmesIn April 1861 Semmes was accepted into the Confederate Navy as a commander and was sent to New Orleans, Louisiana to convert the steamer Habana into the cruiser / commerce raider CSS'' Sumter''.
William Henry Smith (American politician)In 1877, President Hayes appointed him Collector of the Port of Chicago.
Daniel M. FrostHe stayed involved with the army by serving on the Board of Visitors for West Point, and was appointed as a brigadier general in the Missouri Volunteer Militia in 1858 by the Governor of Missouri, Robert Marcellus Stewart.
Richard Cunningham McCormickAfter Governor Goodwin was elected Territorial Delegate and left for Washington in late 1865, Secretary McCormick became Acting Governor of Arizona Territory.
Lloyd FredendallAs a result of his father's connections in the service and with local and state politicians, Fredendall secured an appointment from Wyoming Senator Francis E. Warren to enter the class of 1905 at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.
Benjamin FlandersPresident Ulysses S. Grant appointed Flanders Assistant Treasurer of the United States in 1873.
Moe Sihota In 1991 Sihota helped his friend Dhaliwal become appointed to the board of B. C. Hydro in 1991, after Dhaliwal provided Sihota with a substantial mortgage guarantee.
Elihu RootIn 1922, when Root was 77, President Warren G. Harding appointed him as a delegate of an American team headed by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes.
Louis A. JohnsonIn 1942, Johnson briefly served as the president's personal representative in India, until an intestinal illness caused him to resign his post and return to the United States.
William GurneyIn 1862 he was appointed Assistant Inspector-General and Examining Officer on the staff of Gov. Morgan, in which position he was required to pass upon the qualifications of persons applying for commissions in the regiments of the State of New York.
Lewis Blaine HersheyIn October 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt promoted him to brigadier general and named him executive officer of the Selective Service System.
William Lowndes Yancey Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Yancey met on February 18, 1861, as Davis was starting to put together the executive branch of the government.
Louis W. TrumanGeneral Truman was cousin to 33rd President, Harry S. Truman, and served as his Aide-de-Camp during President Truman's inauguration in 1948.
William W. BelknapWhile stationed in Oregon, in 1874, Major General Howard candidly expressed his opinion of Sec.
John F. KinneyHe was directly involved in the events leading up to the Morrisite War of 1862, and allowed a condemnation of Territorial Governor Stephen S. Harding to be read into the public record after Harding issued a blanket pardon for all Morrisites convicted in connection with the war.
William GrosePresident Andrew Johnson appointed him as the collector of internal revenue taxes for his region, a post he held until 1874.
Stephen Gardner ChamplinWhile resting in Washington, D. C., he wrote to Michigan Governor Austin Blair on January 3, 1863, formally resigning his command of the 3rd due to his promotion.
Jouett ShouseAt the Treasury Department he was in charge of customs, internal revenue and reorganized the War Risk Insurance division until November 15, 1920 when he resigned'' in order to adjust his personal affairs.''
Elisha M. PeaseAfter the war, he became a leader in the state Republican Party and was appointed as the civilian governor of Texas in 1867 by General Philip H. Sheridan who was the military head of the Reconstruction government.
Josiah DentIn July 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed Dent as the Democratic commissioner on that board.
Robert Kingston Scott Between 1865 -- 68, General Scott was assistant commissioner of the South Carolina Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau.
Andrew JohnsonIn 1862, Lincoln appointed him as military governor of Tennessee after it had been retaken.
Enoch CrowderImpressed with the ability Crowder had demonstrated in the Philippines, Judge Advocate General Davis in 1901 called him to Washington to serve as Deputy Judge Advocate General.
George Washington Jones (Tennessee politician)Friend and former political ally President Andrew Johnson pardoned Jones for his Civil War activities in June 1865.
Elmer RobinsonIn 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Robinson to direct adjustment of claims of World War I veterans, at the request of the Disabled American Veterans.
John Wesley Snyder (US Cabinet Secretary)Snyder was appointed the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury in 1946, by his close personal friend President Harry S. Truman, with whom he had served in World War I.
Joseph HookerLincoln wrote a letter to the newly appointed general, part of which stated, During the spring of 1863, Hooker established a reputation as an outstanding administrator and restored the morale of his soldiers, which had plummeted to a new low under Burnside.
Thomas Jefferson RuskPresident James Buchanan offered him the position of United States Postmaster General in 1857, but had turned it down.
David Dixon Porter When Porter's friend Ulysses S. Grant became president in 1869, he appointed Philadelphia businessman Adolph E. Borie as Secretary of the Navy.
John Pope (military officer)President Andrew Johnson removed him from command December 28, 1867, replacing him with George G. Meade.
Craig Campbell (politician)In 2003, he was selected by then-Alaska governor Frank Murkowski to serve as the state's adjutant general -- the commander of the Alaska National Guard -- and commissioner of the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
James Miller McKimAs the American Civil War dragged on, and, after President Lincoln announced the emancipation of the slaves in the South in 1863, McKim joined the Freedmen's Aid Commission and provided valuable services to that body.
George Proctor KaneHis position as Marshall of Police and his Southern sympathies were two of many factors in Abraham Lincoln's decision in February 1861 to pass through Baltimore surreptitiously on his way to Washington to be inaugurated, in order to avoid a possible assassination attempt.
John Bannon (priest)After being released by Union forces he went to Richmond in August 1863, where Jefferson Davis and Judah Benjamin (Secretary of State) asked him to go to Ireland to discourage recruitment for the Federal forces and try and get international help for the Confederacy.
Samuel Barron (1809?1888)he was appointed chief of the Bureau of Detail in 1860, and thus held considerable influence within the US Navy, Following Lincoln's inauguration the following year, he was suspected of attempting to gain control over the Department of the Navy.
David HunterHe achieved fame by his unauthorized 1862 order (immediately rescinded) emancipating slaves in three Southern states and as the president of the military commission trying the conspirators involved with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Joseph Henry Kibbey Governor Alexander Oswald Brodie appointed Kibbey Attorney General for Arizona Territory on November 19, 1904.
John P. Sanderson When Cameron was named Secretary of War in President Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, Sanderson was appointed chief clerk of the War Department on March 4, 1861.
Newton EdmundsOn October 17, 1863, Edmunds was appointed Governor of Dakota Territory by President Abraham Lincoln after receiving strong support from former Governor William Jayne.
Thomas H. RynningHowever, in 1902, his friend and fellow Rough Rider, Alexander Oswald Brodie, was elected governor of Arizona and one of his first appointments was making Rynning the new captain of the Arizona Rangers.
Francis Amasa Walker Walker accepted a re-appointment as the superintendent of the 1880 Census because a new law, spearheaded by Congressman James A. Garfield, had been passed to allow him to appoint trained census enumerators free from political influence.
Ebenezer J. OrmsbeeAt the end of 1891 Ormsbee was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison to serve on a commission to treat with the Paiute Indians at the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, in Nevada, to get the tribe to relinquish a claim to part of their reservation.
John Albion AndrewWhen Andrew took office on January 2, 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, the Albany Argus called him'' a lawyer of a low type and a brutal fanatic'' who'' proposes to maintain the condemned [ personal liberty ] statutes of -LSB- Massachusetts -RSB-, and to force upon the South by arms, an allegiance to the Constitution thus violated.''
George MeadeIn a telegram to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton on May 13, 1864, Grant stated that'' Meade has more than met my most sanguine expectations.
Alfred B. MeachamUnder Grant's Peace Policy (also called the Quaker Policy) to appoint clergy rather than military to administer U. S. Indian affairs, Meacham was appointed in 1869 as U. S. Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon.
Wesley PomeroyUnder Warren Christopher, who was the Deputy Attorney General, he managed the Federal Command Post at the Conrad Hilton hotel overlooking Grant Park in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention.
John Archibald Campbell Campbell was one of the three Confederate Peace Commissioners (along with Alexander H. Stephens and Robert M. T. Hunter), who met with Abraham Lincoln and William H. Seward at the Hampton Roads Conference (1865) in an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate an end to the Civil War.
William McKinleyMcKinley appointed several black postmasters ; however, when whites protested the appointment of Justin W. Lyons as postmaster of Augusta, Georgia, McKinley asked Lyons to withdraw (he was subsequently given the post of Treasury register after Bruce's death in 1898).
William H. WhartonShortly thereafter, he was appointed as one of three commissioners to the United States to secure aid for the Texian s. After the revolution resulted in the formation of the Republic of Texas in 1836, Wharton supported Austin's unsuccessful candidacy for president, losing to Sam Houston.
Basil W. DukeIn 1904 he was appointed commissioner of Shiloh National Military Park by President Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he had become friendly after their having been introduced to each other at the Filson Club.
Lot M. MorrillUpon his retirement from the Treasury Department, President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed Morrill to the Collector of Customs in Portland, Maine, where he held this position until his death in 1883.
Leon GuintoHe was elected governor of Tayabas province in 1931 but his term was cut short when he was appointed as Commissioner of Public Safety by then American Governor-General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr..
Joab Houghton Houghton's service as Chief Justice ended March 1, 1851 ; the incoming governor of the newly formed Territory, James S. Calhoun, believed the provisional court to have been abolished by Congress.
Eugene MeyerAfter Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration in 1933, he resigned his government posts.
Frank White (governor)His career in politics was not finished, though, for in 1921 White was named United States Treasurer at the request of President Warren G. Harding.
William Benning Webbhtml In 1885, upon the vacancy of Joseph Rodman West from his seat on the D. C. Board of Commissioners, President Grover Cleveland surprised the city establishment by offering the appointment to the popular and respected Webb, who accepted and joined the commission for its sixth session in July, 1885.
Laurence WildPresident of the United States Franklin Roosevelt recommended Wild for the rank of Captain in 1939.
Nathaniel P. Banks As the Civil War became imminent, President Abraham Lincoln considered Banks for a cabinet post, and eventually chose him as one of the first major general s of volunteers, appointing him on May 16, 1861.
Moses Wright HannonIn August 1864, he was assigned to duty as an acting brigadier general by General John Bell Hood, subject to appointment by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and confirmation by the Confederate Senate.
J. Edgar HooverOn May 10, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Hoover as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation, following President Warren Harding's death and in response to allegations that the prior director, William J. Burns, was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal.
Hugh Lennox BondDuring the Civil War, Bond's letter of August 15, 1863, to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton was published in newspapers.
Henry Eustace McCulloch A few days after the convention voted for secession from the union on February 1, 1861 (though before the necessary referendum), the Texas Committee of Public Safety established a Provisional Army, in which McCulloch received a commission as colonel.
Daniel S. DickinsonIn 1853, President Franklin Pierce appointed him as Collector of the Port of New York, but he declined to take office.