First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln — Shown from left to right are: Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war (seated); Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury (standing); Abraham Lincoln; Gideon Welles, secretary of the navy (seated); Caleb Blood Smith, secretary of the interior (standing); William H. Seward, secretary of state (seated); Montgomery Blair, postmaster general (standing); Edward Bates, attorney general (seated). Also shown are: Andrew Jackson, former president (painting centre); Simon Cameron, former secretary of war (painting left).
Photo Credit: By Francis Bicknell Carpenter - U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=507821