Cupboard of Sam Logan

The Cupboard of Samuel Logan was the official executive advisory and enforcement panel of the second President of the United States of Quentin, Samuel Logan. Logan served four terms, and his Cupboard changed in each of the four terms, adding three secretaries and their departments to the Cupboard in his second term, adding the Secretary of Nature, the Secretary of Monuments and the Secretary of Infrastructure. This along with the three original positions and his GTNEC Max Wagner brought the total number of positions up to seven.

The Cupboard is laid out by the Constitution of the United States of Quentin, which was ratified in 1834, giving the President in Article III, Section IV the power to directly appoint all members. Due to some ambiguity in the document as to who would create the departments and appoint the secretaries, President Logan initiated the Supreme Council case Logan v. Bureaucrats to create the new departments. The secretaries he appointed did, however, have to be confirmed by the House of Bureaucrats.

Cupboard

The table below shows the Cupboard of President Logan. Positions listed multiple times are positions whose secretary has changed, and those will be listed with their tenure and a label of which terms they served. In bold font are the positions which were part of the original four positions.

Position	Name	Tenure	Date Inaugurated	Political Party
GTNEC	Max Wagner	1842-1858	January 1st, 1842	Mild RePublican Party
Secretary of Foreign Affairs	Jefferson Diversiton	1842-1858	May 1st, 1835	Mild RePublican Party
Secretary of State	Felicity Jones	1842-1854	May 1st, 1835	Fundamentalist Party
Secretary of State (4th Term)	Chip Rodriguez	1854-1858	May 1st, 1854	Mild RePublican Party
Secretary of Infrastructure	John Haldeman	1847-1858	May 1st, 1847	Fundamentalist Party
Secretary of Professions and Labor	David Ellison	1842-1850	May 1st, 1842	Mild RePublican Party
Secretary of Professions and Labor (3rd/4th Terms)	Kelce Tomsjekx	1850-1858	May 1st, 1854	Mild RePublican Party
Secretary of Nature	Prathum Arikeri	1847-1858	May 1st, 1847	Mild RePublican Party
Secretary of Monuments	D.J. Rowling	1847-1858	May 1st, 1847	Environmentalist Party

Confirmation Processes

The confirmation processes of the secretaries was much less stringent and detailed as it is today, with the Constitution being vague on the necessity of confirmation. While the Firedawn Administration had established the precedent of going to the House of Bureaucrats for its consent, President Logan felt the executive branch needed more power, and did not always take heed of the advice of the House. In fact, for three appointments, bureaucratic confirmation did not even take place. This was for D.J. Rowling, Prathum Arikeri, and Felicity Jones.

Incumbent Officials' Confirmation Processes

All three of the Cupboard members during the Firedawn Administration were kept on by the Logan Administration, and their confirmation processes were unsurprisingly short. As the House was still a Mild RePublican majority, President Logan opted not to submit incumbent Felicity Jones for confirmation, wanted to avoid the partisan examination that had been done eight years ago. For incumbent Jefferson Diversiton, President Logan appointed him on March 1st, and the House sent an official notice to the President notifying him of their unanimous approval the day after, without in-person proceedings. Finally, David Ellison was appointed on March 1st, and walked over to the Capitol Building nearly 3 hours later, walking in on an evening session of the House, reportedly saying, "Hi there, I just wanted to come by and see how it's going." He then reportedly sat down in the observance section, and after many moments of silence, Head Bureaucrat Cockington Ravenclaw brought the matter up to vote, and in a unanimous vote confirmed Ellison as secretary.

Chip Rodriguez

The confirmation process of Chip Rodriguez was a relatively easy one, and he was appointed by President Logan after the retirement of Secretary Jones on March 1st, 1854. He was submitted for confirmation on March 7th, and in the first recorded vote, was approved by the House of Bureaucrats on March 18th by a vote of 22-4.

Other Confirmations

Position	Name	Date Submitted	Date Confirmed	Vote
Secretary of Infrastructure	John Haldeman	March 7th, 1847	March 23rd, 1847	17-9
Secretary of Professions and Labor	Kelce Tomsjekx	March 7th, 1850	April 3rd, 1850	25-1

Other Nominees

Other possible nominees to the positions of the Cupboard at the time included among others George Bigafeet to the Nature position, Samuel A. Lincoln to the Infrastructure and Professions and Labor positions, Rain Garfield to the State position, and others. These preliminary candidates are recognized by modern historians to be the choices of many of President Logan's advisers and friends, recognizing these options as the safer options and the more traditional ones. For example, Kelce Tomsjekx was a Fayetino, a race generally excluded from Quentinian politics to that time, although not discriminated against, and the option of Samuel Lincoln to the position was the more traditional choice of a white, founding member of the nation.