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The United States on May 14, 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
1791-05-14/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
1791-05-14/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)
1791-05-14/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
1791-05-14/weekWithin a week · May 7, 1791 – May 21, 1791
Nothing recorded within a week of this date.

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.