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The United States on January 2, 1791

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 · 7 AA
26 senators · 1st Congress
House
28 O · 11 F
49 representatives
Supreme Court
6 n
6 justices by appointing party
Union
13 states
0 amendments in force
Public debt
$75M
as of Jan 1, 1791
1791-01-02/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
1791-01-02/congress1st Congress
Senate · 14 PA · 7 AA · 3 F · 2 DR
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)James Monroe (Anti-Administration, VA)Richard Henry Lee (Anti-Administration, VA)James Gunn (Federalist, GA)Rufus King (Federalist, NY)Theodore Foster (Federalist, RI)
House · 28 O · 11 F · 7 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)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)William Branch Giles (Republican, VA-9)
1791-01-02/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
1791-01-02/weekWithin a week · Dec 26, 1790 – Jan 9, 1791
Law An Act supplementary to the act intitled “An act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States.”
Dec 27, 1790 · Ch. 1, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Agency + United States Park Police
Jan 1, 1791 · sub_agency
Law An Act to provide for the unlading of ships or vessels, in cases of obstruction by Ice.
Jan 7, 1791 · Ch. 2, Sess. 3, 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.