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The President and First Family
Abraham Lincoln, President (Daniel Day-Lewis)
Mary Lincoln, First Lady (Sally Field)
Robert Lincoln, oldest son (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
Tad Lincoln, youngest son (Gulliver McGrath)
White House staff and servants
John Hay, aide (Joseph Cross)
John Nicolay, aide (Jeremy Strong)
Tom Pendel, doorkeeper (Ford Flannagan)
Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker (Gloria Reuben)
William Slade, servant (Stephen Henderson)

John Hay

Joseph Cross

John G. Nicolay

Jeremy Strong

Elizabeth Keckley

Gloria Reuben

William Slade

Stephen Henderson
Presidential Cabinet
William Seward, Secy State (David Strathairn
Edwin Stanton, Secy War (Bruce McGill)
Gideon Welles, Secy Navy (Grainger Hines)
John P. Usher, Secy Interior (Dakin Matthews)
James Speed, Atty General (Richard Topol)
William Fessenden, Treasury (Walt Smith)

William Henry Seward

David Strathairn

Edwin Stanton

Bruce McGill
Seward’s lobbyists
Richard Schell (Tim Blake Nelson)
Robert Latham (John Hawkes)
W.N. Bilbo (James Spader)

Richard Schell

Tim Blake Nelson

James Spader
Conservative Republicans
Preston Blair, Aging party leader (Hal Holbrook)
Montgomery Blair, Ex-Cabinet member (Byron Jennings)
Elizabeth Blair Lee, hostess (Julie White)
Rep. Aaron Haddam, (R-KY) (Gannon McHale)

Preston Blair

Hal Holbrook
Radical Republicans
Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, (R-PA), committee chair (Tommy Lee Jones)
Rep. James Ashley, (R-OH), amendment sponsor (David Costabile)
Rep. Schuyler Colfax, (R-IN), Speaker (Bill Raymond)
Rep. Hiram Price, (R-IA) (Michael S. Kennedy)
Sen. “Bluff” Wade, (R-OH) (listed in script as R, MA) (Wayne Duvall)
Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA) (John Hutton)
Asa Vintner Litton, Republican congressman (Stephen Spinella)

Thaddeus Stevens

Tommy Lee Jones

James Ashley

David Costabile
Democratic congressmen
Rep. Fernando Wood (D-NY) (Lee Pace)
Rep. George Pendleton (D-OH) (Peter McRobbie)
Rep. Alexander Coffroth (D-PA) (Boris McGiver)
Rep. George Yeaman (D-KY) (Michael Stuhlbarg)
Rep. Jacob Graylor, (D-PA) (Robert Peters)
Rep. Charles Hanson, (D-NY) (Kevin L. O’Donnell)
Rep. Clay Hawkins, (D-OH) (Walton Goggins)
Rep. Giles Stuart, (D-NY) (Jamie Horton)
Rep. Homer Benson, (D-NY) (Richard Warner)
Rep. Nelson Merrick, (N-NY) (Joe Dellinger)
Rep. William Hutton, (D-IN) (David Warshofsky)
Rep. Edwin F. LeClerk, (D-OH) (John Moon)
Rep. Beanpole Burton, (D-MO) (Raynor Scheine)

Fernando Wood

Lee Pace

George Pendleton

Peter McRobbie

Alexander Coffroth

Boris McGiver

George Yeaman

Michael Stuhlbarg
Confederate envoys
Alexander Stephens, Vice President (Jackie Earle Haley)
John Campbell, Assistant Secy of War (Gregory Itzin)
Robert M.T. Hunter, Senator (VA) (Mike Shiflett)

Alexander Stephens\

Jackie Earle Haley
Miscellaneous figures
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA (Jared Harris)
Lydia Smith, Stevens’ housekeeper and lover (S. Epatha Merkerson)
Harold Green, free black soldier (Colman Domingo)
Ira Clark, free black soldier (David Oyelowo)
Mr. & Mrs. Jolly from Jefferson City, Missouri (Bill Camp & Elizabeth Marvel)

Ulysses S. Grant

Jared Harris

Lydia Smith

S. Epatha Merkerson
(Fictional characters are in italics)
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