Full List of Major Positions Held by Former Members of the Committee on Ways and Means
President of the United States:
George H. W. Bush, Texas
Millard Fillmore, New York*
James A. Garfield, Ohio
Andrew Jackson, Tennessee
James Madison, Virginia
William McKinley, Jr., Ohio*
James K. Polk, Tennessee*
John Tyler, Virginia
Vice President of the United States:
John C. Breckinridge, Kentucky
George H. W. Bush, Texas
Charles Curtis, Kansas
Millard Fillmore, New York*
John N. Garner, Texas
Elbridge Gerry, Massachusetts
Richard M. Johnson, Kentucky
John Tyler, Virginia
Justice of the Supreme Court:
Philip P. Barbour, Virginia
Joseph McKenna, California
John McKinley, Alabama
Fred M. Vinson, Kentucky (Chief Justice)
Speaker of the House of Representatives:
Paul Ryan, Wisconsin*
Nathaniel P. Banks, Massachusetts
Philip P. Barbour, Virginia
James G. Blaine, Maine
John G. Carlisle, Kentucky
Langdon Cheves, South Carolina*
James B. (Champ) Clark, Missouri
Howell Cobb, Georgia
Charles F. Crisp, Georgia
John N. Garner, Texas
John W. Jones, Virginia*
Michael C. Kerr, Indiana
Nicholas Longworth, Ohio
John W. McCormack, Massachusetts
James K. Polk, Tennessee
Henry T. Rainey, Illinois
Samuel J. Randall, Pennsylvania
Thomas B. Reed, Maine
Theodore Sedgwick, Massachusetts
Andrew Stevenson, Virginia
John W. Taylor, New York
Robert C. Winthrop, Massachusetts
Cabinet Members
Secretary of State:
James G. Blaine, Maine
William J. Bryan, Nebraska
Cordell Hull, Tennessee
Louis McLean, Delaware
John Sherman, Ohio*
Secretary of the Treasury:
George W. Campbell, Tennessee*
John G. Carlisle, Kentucky
Howell Cobb, Georgia
Thomas Corwin, Ohio
Charles Foster, Ohio
Alert Gallatin, Pennsylvania
Samuel D. Ingham, Pennsylvania
Louis McLean, Delaware*
Ogden L. Mills, New York
John Sherman, Ohio*
Philip F. Thomas, Maryland
Fred M. Vinson, Kentucky
Attorney General:
James P. McGranery, Pennsylvania
Joseph McKenna, California
A. Mitchell Palmer, Pennsylvania
Caesar A. Rodney, Delaware
Postmaster General:
Samuel D. Hubbard, Connecticut
Cave Johnson, Tennessee
Horace Maynard, Tennessee
William L. Wilson, West Virginia*
Secretary of the Navy:
Thomas W. Gilder, Virginia
Hilary A. Herbert, Alabama
Victor H. Metcalf, California
Claude A. Swanson, Virginia
Secretary of the Interior:
Rogers C.B. Morton, Maryland
Jacob Thompson, Mississippi
Secretary of Commerce and Labor:
Victor H. Metcalf, California
Secretary of Commerce:
Rogers C.B. Morton, Maryland
Secretary of Agriculture:
Clinton P. Anderson, New Mexico
*Denotes Chairman