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The United States on March 5, 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
8 PA · 6 AA
19 senators · 2nd Congress
House
1 O
1 representatives
Supreme Court
5 n
5 justices by appointing party
Union
14 states
0 amendments in force
Public debt
$75M
as of Jan 1, 1791
1791-03-05/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
1791-03-05/congress2nd Congress
Senate · 8 PA · 6 AA · 3 F · 2 DR
William Samuel Johnson (Pro-Administration, CT)Richard Bassett (Anti-Administration, DE)William Few (Anti-Administration, GA)Caleb Strong (Pro-Administration, MA)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)Philemon Dickinson (Pro-Administration, NJ)Robert Morris (Pro-Administration, PA)Joseph Stanton Jr. (Anti-Administration, RI)Pierce Butler (Democratic Republican, SC)Ralph Izard (Pro-Administration, SC)Richard Henry Lee (Anti-Administration, VA)James Monroe (Anti-Administration, VA)James Gunn (Federalist, GA)Rufus King (Federalist, NY)Theodore Foster (Federalist, RI)
House · 1 O
John Brown (?, VA-AL)
1791-03-05/supreme-courtThe bench
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
1791-03-05/weekWithin a week · Feb 26, 1791 – Mar 12, 1791
Law An Act supplementary to the act intituled “An act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States.”
Mar 2, 1791 · Ch. 11, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act giving effect to the laws of the United States within the state of Vermont.
Mar 2, 1791 · Ch. 12, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act to explain and amend an act intituled “An act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States.”
Mar 2, 1791 · Ch. 13, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act fixing the time for the next annual meeting of Congress.
Mar 2, 1791 · Ch. 14, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon Distilled Spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead; and also upon Spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same. (Whiskey Act)
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 15, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act making an appropriation for the purpose therein mentioned.
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 16, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act to amend “An act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States.”
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 17, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act supplemental to the act “establishing the Treasury Department,” and for a farther compensation to certain officers.
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 18, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act relative to the Rix-Dollar of Denmark.
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 19, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act in addition to an act intituled “An act for establishing the salaries of the Executive officers of Government, with their assistants and clerks.”
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 20, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act for making compensation to the Commissioners of Loans, for extraordinary expenses.
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 21, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act providing compensations for the officers of the Judicial Courts of the United States, and for Jurors and Witnesses, and for other purposes.
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 22, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act to continue in force for a limited time, an act intituled "An act for the temporary establishment of the Post-Office."
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 23, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act to continue in force the act therein mentioned, and to make further provision for the payment of Pensions to Invalids, and for the support of lighthouses, buoys, and public piers.
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 24, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act supplementary to the act making provision for the reduction of the Public Debt.
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 25, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act making farther provision for the collection of the duties by law imposed on Teas, and to prolong the term for the payment of the Duties on Wines.
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 26, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act for granting lands to the Inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes and the Illinois country, in the territory northwest of the Ohio, and for confirming them in their possessions.
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 27, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
Law An Act for raising and adding another Regiment to the Military Establishment of the United States, and for making farther provision for the protection of the frontiers.
Mar 3, 1791 · Ch. 28, Sess. 3, 1st Cong.
State Vermont
Mar 4, 1791 · VT

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.