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Each country has a different number of cabinet officials.
394
In the US, senators and other elected officials have to resign (give up their offices) to serve as Cabinet officials under the President. This is because the executive branch is not derived from the legislative branch as in parliamentary democracies (i.e. Prime Minister and cabinet). Many secretaries have been former senators, such as Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.
Lincoln had a cabinet of seven members - 13 different men served at one time or another.
The Cabinet.
Cabinet members, the white house chief of staff, supreme court justices
The term "Kitchen Cabinet" is what the critics of President Andrew Jackson used to describe his informal advisers. They felt Jackson relied more on these advisers than he did his official cabinet.
There are 14 departments of the us cabinet
The people are known as the president's cabinet and they are the cabinet secretaries .
In the 1824 presidential election, there were four main candidates, all of whom had served as cabinet officials at some point in their careers. These candidates were John Quincy Adams, who was Secretary of State; Henry Clay, who was the Secretary of State and later the Speaker of the House; William H. Crawford, who served as Secretary of the Treasury; and Andrew Jackson, who had not held a cabinet position but was a prominent military leader. Therefore, three of the four candidates were cabinet officials during that election year.
The Cabinet
The Secretary of State is generally considered to be the top ranking cabinet member.