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The United States on January 12, 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
1791-01-12/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
1791-01-12/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)
1791-01-12/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
1791-01-12/weekWithin a week · Jan 5, 1791 – Jan 19, 1791
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.
Law An Act to continue an act intituled “An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” so far as the same respects the States of Georgia and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Jan 10, 1791 · Ch. 3, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.

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