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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)
Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Day Lewis
Mary Lincoln
Sally Field
Robert Lincoln
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Tad Lincoln
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
Bilbo’s signature
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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