Joan Crawford as Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal

Robert Taylor as 'Bow' Timberlake

Lionel Barrymore as Andrew Jackson

Franchot Tone as John H. Eaton

Melvyn Douglas as John Randolph

James Stewart as Roderick "Rowdy" Dow

Beulah Bondi as Rachel Jackson

Alison Skipworth as Mrs. Beall

Louis Calhern as Leroy Sunderland

Melville Cooper as Cuthbert

Sidney Toler as Daniel Webster

Gene Lockhart as Maj. William O'Neal

Clara Blandick as Louisa Abbott

Frank Conroy as John C. Calhoun

Nydia Westman as Maybelle

Willard Robertson as Secretary Ingham

Charles Trowbridge as Martin Van Buren

Rubye De Remer as Mrs. Bellamy

Betty Blythe as Mrs. Wainwright

Zeffie Tilbury as Mrs. Daniel Beall

Harry C. Bradley as President's Secretary (uncredited)

Allen 'Farina' Hoskins as Pageboy at Ball (uncredited)

William Orlamond as Herr Joab Oxenrider (uncredited)

Frank Reicher as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Horatius (uncredited)

Bess Flowers as Guest at the ball