matching Cleveland

The imminence of the second occasion in US history that a former president has returned for a second, non-consecutive term sends me thinking to the first occasion, Grover Cleveland in 1893. The question of appointees makes me wonder: did Cleveland reappoint in his second term anyone who'd served in his first term?

And the answer is, not in his Cabinet. He made a deliberate decision not to do so. One of his former cabinet officers did reappear in his administration. First-term Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard was second-term Ambassador to the UK. Also note that William F. Vilas, who'd been Postmaster General and Secretary of the Interior in the first term, was during Cleveland's second term a US Senator, from Wisconsin, where he was a major spokesman for the administration. Some of Cleveland's other cabinet members were active in politics in a non-office-holding capacity, but their principal occupations were in private life.

Flipping the other way, of his second term major officers, Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson had been the assistant Postmaster General in the first term, and Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont had served on the president's staff. Some others were office-holders outside of the executive branch: Secretary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle, for instance, had been Speaker of the House.