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George Washington appointed people to fill the first four cabinet positions.
Secretary of Transportation Succession goes through the Cabinet in the order that the positions were created.
George Washington in 1789.
President Andrew Jackson's unofficial cabinet became known as the Kitchen Cabinet. This was a term created and used by his opponents.
The Cabinet was created by George Washington, the first President of the United States. He appointed four Cabinet members to help him in fulfill his responsibilities and give him advice.
The speaker of the house. Then if he or she dies the members of the presidents cabinet in order of when the cabinet position was created.
In the US System, Cabinet positions are in the Executive Branch. Holders of cabinet posts are nominated by the President (or electee president). Confirmation comes from congress. Not all nominees are approved. The Cabinet positions are partly determined by constitutional designation (secretary of state for example) and partly created by legistlation that creates new government departments (environmental protection). Some posts have been combined. Originally there were secretaries of war and Navy. These are now combined in Secretary of defense.
There is are no such positions universally. Cabinet positions are created if needed or as are politically correct or prudent.
The order of the Cabinet Members in the Presidential line of succession is the order in which the positions were created, with the Secretary of Defense in the position originally held by the Secretary of War. Therefore, the Postmaster General would be after the Attorney General and before the Secretary of the Interior.
President George Washington created a lot of institutions and traditions as the first president. One of the traditions he began was the presidential appointment of cabinet positions. Washington appointed four people to cabinet positions. His Secretary of the Treasury was Alexander Hamilton, the guy on the $10 bill.Rounding out the cabinet was Thomas Jefferson as the Secretary of State, Henry Knox as Secretary of War, and Edmond Randolph as the Attorney General.The modern cabinet now consists of 15 positions.
constitutional amendment that created separate ballots for the president and vice president
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president elected after the 22nd Amendment was ratified in 1951.