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The United States on September 16, 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
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0 justices by appointing party
Union
11 states
0 amendments in force
Troops abroad
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1789-09-16/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
Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton F
since Sep 11, 1789
Secretary of State John Jay F (acting)
since Sep 15, 1789
1789-09-16/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)
1789-09-16/supreme-courtThe bench
1789-09-16/weekWithin a week · Sep 9, 1789 – Sep 23, 1789
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.
Law An Act to suspend part of an Act, intituled “An Act to regulate the collection of the Duties imposed by Law on the Tonnage of Ships or Vessels, and on Goods, Wares, and Merchandises, imported into the United States,” and for other purposes.
Sep 16, 1789 · Ch. 15, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.
Law An Act for the temporary establishment of the Post-Office.
Sep 22, 1789 · Ch. 16, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.
Law An Act for allowing Compensation to the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, and to the Officers of both Houses.
Sep 22, 1789 · Ch. 17, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.
Law An Act for allowing certain Compensation to the Judges of the Supreme and other Courts, and to the Attorney General of the United States.
Sep 23, 1789 · Ch. 18, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.

Each office is shown as it stood at the end of the day. Cabinet records come from Wikidata and have gaps for some historical offices.