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The United States on May 19, 1790

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
15 PA · 6 AA
25 senators · 1st Congress
House
29 O · 11 F
49 representatives
Supreme Court
6 n
6 justices by appointing party
Union
12 states
0 amendments in force
Public debt
$71M
as of Jan 1, 1790
1790-05-19/executiveThe administration
President George Washington np
since Apr 30, 1789
Vice President John Adams F
Secretary of War Henry Knox
since Mar 8, 1785
Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton F
since Sep 11, 1789
Postmaster General Samuel Osgood F
since Sep 26, 1789
Attorney General Edmund Randolph F
since Sep 26, 1789
Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson DR
since Mar 22, 1790
1790-05-19/congress1st Congress
Senate · 15 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)Philemon Dickinson (Pro-Administration, NJ)Philip John Schuyler (Pro-Administration, NY)William Maclay (Anti-Administration, PA)Robert Morris (Pro-Administration, PA)Joseph Stanton Jr. (Anti-Administration, RI)Pierce Butler (Democratic Republican, SC)Ralph Izard (Pro-Administration, SC)John Walker (Pro-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)
1790-05-19/supreme-courtThe bench
John Rutledge
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 26, 1789
John Jay
Chief Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 26, 1789
William Cushing
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 27, 1789
James Wilson
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 29, 1789
John Blair, Jr.
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 30, 1789
James Iredell
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Feb 10, 1790
1790-05-19/weekWithin a week · May 12, 1790 – May 26, 1790
Law An Act for the Government of the Territory of the United States, south of the river Ohio. (Southwest Ordinance)
May 26, 1790 · Ch. 14, Sess. 2, 1st Cong.
Law An Act to prescribe the mode in which the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings in each State, shall be authenticated so as to take effect in every other State.
May 26, 1790 · Ch. 11, Sess. 2, 1st Cong.
Law An Act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures and penalties accruing under the revenue laws, in certain cases therein mentioned.
May 26, 1790 · Ch. 12, Sess. 2, 1st Cong.
Law An Act to continue in force an act passed at the last session of Congress, entitled “An act to regulate processes in the Courts of the United States.”
May 26, 1790 · Ch. 13, Sess. 2, 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.