UNITED STATES.

I. ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
For the Seventeenth Presidential Term, commencing March 4th, 1853.

1,590,490 1,378,589 157,296 296 254

The above table is taken chiefly from the Whig Almanac for 1853. In addition to the above, between ten and fifteen thousand scattering votes were thrown: of these, Georgia cast 5,324, and Massachusetts nearly 1,200, for Mr. Webster; and Alabama 2,174 for Mr. Troup, the Southern Rights candidate.

↑ Incomplete.

II. PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION.

III. EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT.

THE 17th Presidential term of four years, since the establishment of the government of the United States under the Constitution, began on the 4th of March, 1853; and it will expire on the 3d of March, 1857.

FRANKLIN PIERCE, of New Hampshire, President,

Vacancy,†

Vice-President,

THE CABINET.

Salary. $25,000

-8,000

The following are the principal officers in the executive department of the government, who form the Cabinet, and who hold their offices at the will

ROBERT MCCLELLAND, Michigan, Secretary of the Interior,

8,000

† Hon. William R. King, of Alabama, the Vice-President of the United States, died on the

18th of April, 1853.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

William L. Marcy, Secretary.

A. Dudley Mann, Assistant Secretary, salary, $3,000.

Salary.

William Hunter, Chief Clerk, $2,000 William C. Reddall, Clerk,

Salary.

$1,400

Abel French, Claims Clerk,

2,000 George Chipman,

do.

1,400

Francis Markoe, Princ'l Clerk, 2,000 Edmund Flagg,

Treasurer's Office.

3,000

Auditors.

W. B. Randolph, Chief Clerk,

2,000

John R. Brodhead, 2d Comp., 3,000

Tobias Purrington, Chief Clerk, 2,000 Samuel Casey, Treasurer,

Thos. L. Smith, 1st Auditor,
David W. Mahon, Chief Clerk,
Philip Clayton, 2d Auditor,
William Mechlen, Chief Clerk,
Francis Burt, 3d Auditor,
Samuel S. Rind, Chief Clerk,
Aaron O. Dayton, 4th Auditor,
A. J. O'Bannon, Chief Clerk,
Steph. Pleasanton, 5th Auditor,
Thomas Mustin, Chief Clerk,
Wm. F. Phillips, Auditor of
Treasury for P. O. Depart.,
Thos. J. Johnston, Chief Clerk,

Commissioner of Customs.

Hugh J. Anderson,

Thomas Feran, Chief Clerk,

3,000
2,000 Isaac Davis,
3,000 John A. Dix,
2,000 Daniel Sturgeon,
3,000 B. C. Pressly,
2,000 John M. Bell,
3,000 Isaac H. Sturgeon, St. Louis,
2,000 Jacob R. Snyder, California.
3,000
Register's Office.
2,000 Finley Bigger, Register,

New York,
Philadelphia, 2,500
Charleston, 2,500
New Orleans, 2,500

2,500

3,000

Charles T. Jones, Chief Clerk, 2,000 3,000 Solicitor's Office. 2,000 Ferris B. Struter, Solicitor, B. F. Pleasants, Chief Clerk, 2,000 Coast Survey.

3,500

3,000
2,000 Alex. D. Bache, Superintendent, 6,000

* For the classification, &c. of clerks, see "Titles and Abstracts of the Public Laws,"

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