Series X: Secretaries of War
Scope and Contents note
Portraits are arranged in chronological order by term served; term starting date appears in far right column. Print/portrait dates are not necessarily contemporary with term dates.
Henry Knox, 1789
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 325 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Timothy Pickering, 1795
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 326 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
James McHenry, 1796
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 326 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
John Marshall (appointed but did not serve), 1800
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 326 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Samuel Dexter, 1800
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 326 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Henry Dearborn, 1801
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 326 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
William Eustis, 1809
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 327 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
John Armstrong, 1813
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 327 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Isaac Shelby (decline appointment), 1817
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 327 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
John C. Calhoun, 1817
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 327 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
James Barbour, 1825
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 327 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Peter B. Porter, 1828
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 327 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
John H. Eaton, 1829
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 328 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lewis Cass, 1831
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 328 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Benjamin F. Butler, 1837
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 328 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Joel R. Poinsett, 1837
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 328 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
John Bell, 1841
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 329 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
John McLean (declined appointment)
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 329 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
John C. Spencer, 1841
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 330 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
William Wilkins, 1844
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 330 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
William L. Marcy, 1845
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 330 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
George W. Crawford, 1849
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 330 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Edward C. Bates (declined appointment), 1850
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 330 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Jefferson Davis, 1853
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 331-333 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
John B. Floyd, 1857
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 333 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Joseph Holt, 1861
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 333 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Simon Cameron, 1861
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 333-334 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Edwin M. Stanton, 1862
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 334-335 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ulysses S. Grant (ad interim replacement for Stanton), 1867
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 335 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lorenzo Thomas (follows Stanton in office), 1868
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 335 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
John M. Schofield, 1868
Offsite-Box: 32, Folder: 335 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
John A. Rawlins, 1869
Offsite-Box: 33, Folder: 336 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
William T. Sherman, 1869
Offsite-Box: 33, Folder: 336 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
William W. Belknap, 1869
Offsite-Box: 33, Folder: 337 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Alphonso Taft, 1876
Offsite-Box: 33, Folder: 337 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
George W. McCrary, 1877
Offsite-Box: 33, Folder: 337 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Alexander Ransey, 1879
Offsite-Box: 33, Folder: 338 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Robert T. Lincoln, 1881
Offsite-Box: 33, Folder: 338 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Redfield Proctor, 1889
Offsite-Box: 33, Folder: 338 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Stephen B. Elkins, 1891
Offsite-Box: 33, Folder: 338 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Russel A. Alger, 1897
Offsite-Box: 33, Folder: 338 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
William H. Taft, 1904
Offsite-Box: 33, Folder: 338 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)