Chapter CXXIX: Reconstruction of Mr. Tyler's Cabinet

This was the second event of the kind during the administration of Mr. Tyler--the first induced by the resignation of _Messrs._ Ewing, Crittenden, Bell, and Badger, in 1841; the second, by the deaths of _Messrs._ Upshur and Gilmer by the explosion of the Princeton gun. Mr. Calhoun was appointed Secretary of State; John C. Spencer of New York, Secretary of the Treasury; William Wilkins of Pennsylvania, Secretary at War; John Y. Mason, of Virginia, Secretary of the Navy; Charles A. Wickliffe, of Kentucky, Postmaster General; John Nelson, of Maryland, Attorney General. The resignation of Mr. Spencer in a short time made a vacancy in the Treasury, which was filled by the appointment of George M. Bibb, of Kentucky.