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=== Administration and Cabinet === {{CSS image crop|Image= JOHNSON, Andrew-President (BEP engraved portrait).jpg |bSize= 325|cWidth= 230|cHeight= 270|oTop= 45|oLeft= 45|Location= right|Description= [[Bureau of Engraving and Printing|BEP]] engraved portrait of Johnson as President}} {{Infobox U.S. Cabinet | align = none | Name = Andrew Johnson | President = Andrew Johnson | President start = 1865 | President end = 1869 | Vice President = none | Vice President start = 1865 | Vice President end = 1869 | State = [[William H. Seward]] | State start = 1865 | State end = 1869 | Treasury = [[Hugh McCulloch]] | Treasury start = 1865 | Treasury end = 1869 | War = [[Edwin Stanton]] | War start = 1865 | War end = 1868{{Efn|Replaced ''ad interim'' by [[Ulysses S. Grant]] in August 1867 before being reinstated by Congress in January 1868}} | War 2 = [[John Schofield]] | War start 2 = 1868 | War end 2 = 1869 | Justice = [[James Speed]] | Justice start = 1865 | Justice end = 1866 | Justice 2 = [[Henry Stanbery]] | Justice start 2 = 1866 | Justice end 2 = 1868 | Justice 3 = [[William M. Evarts]] | Justice start 3 = 1868 | Justice end 3 = 1869 | Post = [[William Dennison Jr.]] | Post start = 1865 | Post end = 1866 | Post 2 = [[Alexander Randall (Wisconsin politician)|Alexander Randall]] | Post start 2 = 1866 | Post end 2 = 1869 | Navy = [[Gideon Welles]] | Navy start = 1865 | Navy end = 1869 | Interior = [[John Palmer Usher]] | Interior date = 1865 | Interior 2 = [[James Harlan (Iowa politician)|James Harlan]] | Interior start 2 = 1865 | Interior end 2 = 1866 | Interior 3 = [[Orville Hickman Browning]] | Interior start 3 = 1866 | Interior end 3 = 1869 }} ==== Judicial appointments ==== {{Main|List of federal judges appointed by Andrew Johnson}} Johnson appointed nine Article III federal judges during his presidency, all to [[United States district court]]s; he did not appoint a justice to serve on the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]]. In April 1866, he nominated [[Henry Stanbery]] to fill the vacancy left with the death of [[John Catron]], but Congress eliminated the seat to prevent the appointment, and to ensure that he did not get to make any appointments eliminated the next vacancy as well, providing that the court would shrink by one justice when one next departed from office.{{Sfn|Stewart|p=54}} Johnson appointed his Greeneville crony, [[Samuel Milligan]], to the [[United States Court of Claims]], where he served from 1868 until his death in 1874.{{Sfn|Trefousse|p=363}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Milligan, Samuel |website=Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges, 1789-present |publisher=Federal Judiciary Center |url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/milligan-samuel}}</ref>
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