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The United States on September 8, 1789

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President
Washington
George Washington np · since Apr 30, 1789
Senate
14 PA · 6 AA
24 senators · 1st Congress
House
29 O · 11 F
49 representatives
Supreme Court
—
0 justices by appointing party
Union
11 states
0 amendments in force
Troops abroad
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1789-09-08/executiveThe administration
President George Washington np
since Apr 30, 1789
Vice President John Adams F
Postmaster General Ebenezer Hazard
since Jan 28, 1782
Secretary of War Henry Knox
since Mar 8, 1785
1789-09-08/congress1st Congress
Senate · 14 PA · 6 AA · 2 DR · 2 F
Oliver Ellsworth (Pro-Administration, CT)William Samuel Johnson (Pro-Administration, CT)George Read (Pro-Administration, DE)Richard Bassett (Anti-Administration, DE)William Few (Anti-Administration, GA)Tristram Dalton (Pro-Administration, MA)Caleb Strong (Pro-Administration, MA)Charles Carroll (Pro-Administration, MD)John Henry (Pro-Administration, MD)Samuel Johnston (Pro-Administration, NC)Benjamin Hawkins (Pro-Administration, NC)Paine Wingate (Anti-Administration, NH)John Langdon (Democratic Republican, NH)Jonathan Elmer (Pro-Administration, NJ)William Paterson (Pro-Administration, NJ)Philip John Schuyler (Pro-Administration, NY)William Maclay (Anti-Administration, PA)Robert Morris (Pro-Administration, PA)Pierce Butler (Democratic Republican, SC)Ralph Izard (Pro-Administration, SC)William Grayson (Anti-Administration, VA)Richard Henry Lee (Anti-Administration, VA)James Gunn (Federalist, GA)Rufus King (Federalist, NY)
House · 29 O · 11 F · 6 R · 2 DR · 1 PA
Benjamin Huntington (?, CT-AL)John Vining (Pro-Administration, DE-AL)George Mathews (?, GA-3)Abraham Baldwin (Democratic Republican, GA-2)Jonathan Grout (?, MA-8)George Partridge (?, MA-5)Elbridge Gerry (?, MA-3)Daniel Carroll (?, MD-6)Benjamin Contee (?, MD-3)George Gale (?, MD-5)William Smith (?, MD-4)Michael Jenifer Stone (?, MD-1)Joshua Seney (?, MD-2)John Baptista Ashe (?, NC-1)John Steele (?, NC-4)Timothy Bloodworth (?, NC-3)Elias Boudinot (?, NJ-AL)William Floyd (?, NY-1)Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (?, NY-6)Peter Silvester (?, NY-5)John Laurance (?, NY-2)George Clymer (?, PA-AL)Aedanus Burke (?, SC-2)Daniel Huger (?, SC-3)Thomas Tudor Tucker (?, SC-5)Thomas Sumter (?, SC-4)Theodorick Bland (?, VA-9)Alexander White (?, VA-1)Samuel Griffin (?, VA-10)Richard Bland Lee (?, VA-4)John Brown (?, VA-AL)Andrew Moore (Democratic Republican, VA-3)Fisher Ames (Federalist, MA-1)George Leonard (Federalist, MA-7)Benjamin Goodhue (Federalist, MA-2)Theodore Sedgwick (Federalist, MA-4)George Thatcher (Federalist, MA-6)Hugh Williamson (Federalist, NC-2)Samuel Livermore (Federalist, NH-AL)Egbert Benson (Federalist, NY-3)Benjamin Bourne (Federalist, RI-1)William Loughton Smith (Federalist, SC-1)Josiah Parker (Federalist, VA-8)James Jackson (Republican, GA-1)John Sevier (Republican, NC-5)John Hathorn (Republican, NY-4)Isaac Coles (Republican, VA-6)John Page (Republican, VA-7)James Madison (Republican, VA-5)
1789-09-08/supreme-courtThe bench
1789-09-08/weekWithin a week · Sep 1, 1789 – Sep 15, 1789
Law An Act for Registering and Clearing Vessels, Regulating the Coasting Trade, and for other purposes.
Sep 1, 1789 · Ch. 11, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.
Agency + United States Department of the Treasury
Sep 2, 1789 · executive_department
Law An Act to establish the Treasury Department.
Sep 2, 1789 · Ch. 12, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.
Law An act for establishing the salaries of the executive officers of government, with their assistants and clerks.⁠
Sep 11, 1789 · Ch. 13, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.
Law An Act to provide for the safe-keeping of the Acts, Records and Seal of the United States, and for other purposes. (Records Act)
Sep 15, 1789 · Ch. 14, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.

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