To help him and his vice president govern the nation he created three executive departments, all with different tasks and all with leaders that Washington appointed himself. He created the Department of State, Department of Treasury, and the Department of War; in which he chose Thomas Jefferson as Head of State, Alexander Hamilton as Head of Treasury, and Henry Knox as Head of War. He then appointed Edmund Rudolph as the attorney general, or lawyer for America. These department heads became presidential advisors and soon began to make up the president’s cabinet. Meetings would then be called to help Washington on matters of different aspects as these men were experts in their fields. This changed the way America was ruled. It allowed the president to have a group of people he trusted to come and advise him on topics that he might not know so much about or something he needs a second opinion on. This important practice of a cabinet of advisors is still used today in