page_title: Unsuccessful nominations to the Cabinet of the United States
section_title: Caleb Cushing
hierarchical_section_title: Unsuccessful nominations to the Cabinet of the United States / Rejected by the Senate / John Tyler / Caleb Cushing
caption_attribution_description: English: Three-quarters length photographic portrait of American statesman and diplomat Caleb Cushing (1800-1879) by Mathew B. Brady (1823-1896). From a Mathew Brady negative. Courtesy of the Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
context_page_description: Members of the Cabinet of the United States are nominated by the president and are then confirmed or rejected by the Senate. Listed below are unsuccessful cabinet nominees—that is, individuals who were nominated and who either declined their own nomination, failed the confirmation vote in the Senate, or whose nomination was withdrawn by the president. The latter category includes near nominations, meaning presumptive choices made by a president or president-elect that never progressed to formal nomination stage.
  To date, nine nominations to the cabinet have been rejected by the Senate. In addition, 15 nominations or near nominations have been withdrawn, either by the president or by the person chosen. President John Tyler holds the record for most cabinet nominees rejected by the Senate; four of his nominees failed to win confirmation.
context_section_description: President John Tyler nominated Caleb Cushing for Secretary of the Treasury. Tyler had a contentious relationship with the Senate over his vetos of legislation, and the Senate refused to confirm Cushing for this office on March 3, 1843. Tyler renominated Cushing twice more that day, and both times the Senate rejected his nomination.
caption: Caleb Cushing's Cabinet nomination was rejected three times in one day.
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