- President – Rutherford B. Hayes
- Vice President -William A. Wheeler
- Secretary of State – Hamilton Fish, William Maxwell Evarts
- Secretary of the Treasury – Lor M. Morrill, John Sherman, Henry F. French
- Secretary of War – James D. Cameron, George W. McCrary. Alexander Ramsey
- Attorney General – Charles Devans
- Postmaster General – James M. Tyner, David M. Key, Horace Maynard
- Secretary of the Navy – George M. Robeson, Richard W. Thompson, Alexander Ramsey, Nathan Goff Jr.
- Secretary of the Interior – Zachariah Chandler, Carl Schurz