United States presidents typically fill their Cabinets and other appointive positions with people from their own political party.
[2] Also presidents often appoint members of a different party because they need Senate confirmation for many of these positions, and at the time of appointment the Senate was controlled by the opposition party of the president.
[2] This is a list of people appointed to high-level positions in the United States federal government by a president whose political party affiliation was different from that of the appointee.
Independent or nonpartisan appointees, nominally apolitical appointments (such as Article III judges and military officers), and members of explicitly bipartisan commissions are not included.
‡ Person was an appointee of the previous administration and was reappointed or retained by the President.