| Secretary of State | William M. Evarts, 1877 |
| Secretary of the Treasury | John Sherman, 1877 |
| Secretary of War | George W. McCrary, 1877 Alexander Ramsey, 1879 |
| Attorney General | Charles Devens, 1877 |
| Postmaster General | David M. Key, 1877 Horace Maynard, 1880 Richard W. Thompson, 1877 Nathan Goff, Jr., 1881 |
| Secretary of the Interior | Carl Schurz, 1877 |