List of United States political appointments that crossed party lines

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This is an incomplete list of Political appointees in the United States Government whose party was different from that of the President who made the appointment.

[edit] Standards for inclusion

This list includes only:

• executive branch appointees, appointed by the President
• independent agency appointees

This list does not include:

• independent or non-partisan appointees
• nominally-apolitical appointments (such as Article III judges and military officers)
• members of explicitly bipartisan commissions

[edit] List of appointees

Appointee		Position	Term ↑	President
Name	Party			Name	Party
James Monroe	Anti-Administration	Minister to France	1794–1796	George Washington	Pro-Administration
Joseph Habersham	Federalist	United States Postmaster General	1795-1801	Jefferson from Washington	Democratic-Republican
Rufus King	Federalist	Minister to Britain	1796-1803	Jefferson from Adams	Democratic-Republican
John Quincy Adams	Federalist	Minister to Berlin	1797-1801
James A. Bayard	Federalist	Treaty of Ghent peace commissioner	1814	James Madison	Democratic-Republican
John Randolph	Tertium quids	Minister to Russia	1830	Andrew Jackson	Democratic
William Hunter	Federalist	United States Representative to Brazil	1836-1845
Edwin M. Stanton	Democratic	United States Secretary of War	1862-1868	Abraham Lincoln	Republican
Daniel Sickles	Democratic	Special Minister to the South American Republics	1865
		Minister to Spain	1869-1873	Ulysses S. Grant	Republican
Caleb Cushing	Democratic	Minister to Spain	1874-1877
David S. Walker	Conservative	Governor of Florida (appointed)	1865-1868	Andrew Johnson	National Union Party
David M. Key	Democratic	U.S. Postmaster General	1877-1880	Rutherford B. Hayes	Republican
Theodore Roosevelt	Republican	U.S. Civil Service Commissioner	1889-1895	Cleveland from Harrison (reappointed)	Democratic
Frank Knox	Republican	U.S. Secretary of the Navy	1940 – 1944	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Democratic
Henry L. Stimson	Republican	U.S. Secretary of War	1940 – 1945
Fiorello H. La Guardia	Republican	Office of Civilian Defense	1941
Warren Austin	Republican	United States Ambassador to the United Nations	1947–1953	Harry S. Truman	Democratic
Martin Patrick Durkin	Democratic	Secretary of Labor	1953	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Republican
James P. Mitchell	Democratic	Secretary of Labor	1953-1961
C. Douglas Dillon	Republican	U.S. Secretary of the Treasury	1961–1965	John Kennedy	Democratic
				Lyndon Johnson
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.	Republican	United States Ambassador to South Vietnam	1963–1964	John Kennedy	Democratic
				Lyndon Johnson
			1965–1967
		United States Ambassador at Large	1967–1968
		United States Ambassador to West Germany	1968–1969
Edward Brooke	Republican	Kerner Commission	1967
Sargent Shriver	Democratic	United States Ambassador to France	1968-1970	Nixon from Johnson	Republican
John Connally	Democratic	United States Secretary of the Treasury	1971–1972	Richard Nixon	Republican
Daniel Patrick Moynihan	Democratic	Urban affairs advisor	1968
		United States Ambassador to India	1973 – 1975
				Gerald Ford	Republican
		United States Ambassador to the United Nations	1975 – 1976
James Schlesinger	Republican	United States Secretary of Energy	1977–1979	Jimmy Carter	Democratic
Mike Mansfield	Democratic	United States Ambassador to Japan	1977–1988	Reagan from Carter	Republican
Jeane Kirkpatrick	Democratic until 1985	United States Ambassador to the United Nations	1981–1985	Ronald Reagan	Republican
Edmund Muskie	Democratic	Tower Commission member	1987
Griffin Bell	Democratic	Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform	1989	George H. W. Bush	Republican
Robert Strauss	Democratic	United States Ambassador to Soviet Union/Russia	1991-1992
David Gergen	Republican	Counselor to the President and Special Adviser to the President and the Secretary of State	1993-1995	Bill Clinton	Democratic
Alan Greenspan	Republican	Chairman of the Federal Reserve	1987-2006	Clinton (twice reappointed) from Reagan and G.H.W. Bush	Democratic
William Cohen	Republican	U.S. Secretary of Defense	1997 – 2001	Bill Clinton	Democratic
Warren Rudman	Republican	Member of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact Finding Committee	2000
John DiIulio	Democratic [1]	Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives	2001	George W. Bush	Republican
Norman Mineta	Democratic	U.S. Secretary of Transportation	2001 – 2006
Paul Wolfowitz	Democratic	U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense	2001 – 2006
Tony P. Hall	Democratic	U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture	2002 – present
Paul F. McHale, Jr.	Democratic	Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense	2003 – present
Lanny Davis	Democratic	Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board	2006 – 2007
Diane Farrell	Democratic	Board of Directors of the Export Import Bank of the U.S	2007 – 2011

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[edit] References

1. ^ Salon

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