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The United States on December 18, 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 · 7 AA
27 senators · 2nd Congress
House
30 O · 15 F
60 representatives
Supreme Court
6 n
6 justices by appointing party
Union
14 states
10 amendments in force
Public debt
$75M
as of Jan 1, 1791
1791-12-18/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
Attorney General Edmund Randolph F
since Sep 26, 1789
Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson DR
since Mar 22, 1790
Postmaster General Timothy Pickering F
since Aug 12, 1791
1791-12-18/congress2nd Congress
Senate · 8 PA · 7 AA · 6 F · 3 O · 2 DR · 1 R
Roger Sherman (Pro-Administration, CT)Richard Bassett (Anti-Administration, DE)George Read (?, DE)William Few (Anti-Administration, GA)Caleb Strong (Pro-Administration, MA)John Henry (Pro-Administration, MD)Charles Carroll (?, 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)Stephen Row Bradley (?, VT)Moses Robinson (Anti-Administration, VT)Oliver Ellsworth (Federalist, CT)James Gunn (Federalist, GA)George Cabot (Federalist, MA)John Rutherfurd (Federalist, NJ)Rufus King (Federalist, NY)Theodore Foster (Federalist, RI)Aaron Burr (Republican, NY)
House · 30 O · 15 F · 6 R · 6 DR · 1 PA · 1 Aa · 1 AA
Jonathan Sturges (?, CT-AL)John Vining (Pro-Administration, DE-AL)Anthony Wayne (?, GA-1)Francis Willis (?, GA-3)Abraham Baldwin (Democratic Republican, GA-2)Elbridge Gerry (?, MA-3)Shearjashub Bourne (?, MA-5)Artemas Ward (?, MA-7)Philip Key (?, MD-1)Joshua Seney (?, MD-2)Upton Sheredine (?, MD-6)Samuel Sterett (?, MD-4)John Francis Mercer (?, MD-3)John Baptista Ashe (?, NC-3)John Steele (?, NC-1)Nathaniel Macon (Democratic Republican, NC-2)Elias Boudinot (?, NJ-AL)Cornelius Corneliusen Schoonmaker (?, NY-4)Peter Silvester (?, NY-5)James Gordon (?, NY-6)Thomas Tredwell (?, NY-1)John Laurance (?, NY-2)Israel Jacobs (?, PA-3)Thomas Fitzsimons (?, PA-1)Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (Anti-administration, PA-2)Andrew Gregg (Democratic Republican, PA-6)William Findley (Anti-Administration, PA-8)Robert Barnwell (?, SC-2)Daniel Huger (?, SC-3)Thomas Tudor Tucker (?, SC-5)Thomas Sumter (?, SC-4)John Brown (?, VA-AL)Alexander White (?, VA-1)Samuel Griffin (?, VA-10)Richard Bland Lee (?, VA-4)Abraham Bedford Venable (Democratic Republican, VA-6)Andrew Moore (Democratic Republican, VA-3)Nathaniel Niles (?, VT-2)Israel Smith (Democratic Republican, VT-1)Fisher Ames (Federalist, MA-1)George Leonard (Federalist, MA-6)Benjamin Goodhue (Federalist, MA-2)Theodore Sedgwick (Federalist, MA-4)George Thatcher (Federalist, MA-8)William Vans Murray (Federalist, MD-5)Hugh Williamson (Federalist, NC-4)William Barry Grove (Federalist, NC-5)Jeremiah Smith (Federalist, NH-AL)Egbert Benson (Federalist, NY-3)Thomas Hartley (Federalist, PA-7)John Wilkes Kittera (Federalist, PA-5)Benjamin Bourne (Federalist, RI-1)William Loughton Smith (Federalist, SC-1)Josiah Parker (Federalist, VA-8)Christopher Greenup (Republican, KY-1)Alexander Dalrymple Orr (Republican, KY-2)Daniel Hiester (Republican, PA-4)John Page (Republican, VA-7)James Madison (Republican, VA-5)William Branch Giles (Republican, VA-9)
1791-12-18/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
Thomas Johnson
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Nov 7, 1791
1791-12-18/weekWithin a week · Dec 11, 1791 – Dec 25, 1791
Amendment Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition
Dec 15, 1791 · Amendment I
Amendment Right to keep and bear arms
Dec 15, 1791 · Amendment II
Amendment Quartering of soldiers
Dec 15, 1791 · Amendment III
Amendment Search and seizure
Dec 15, 1791 · Amendment IV
Amendment Due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, eminent domain
Dec 15, 1791 · Amendment V
Amendment Rights of the accused in criminal trials
Dec 15, 1791 · Amendment VI
Amendment Jury trial in civil cases
Dec 15, 1791 · Amendment VII
Amendment Excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment
Dec 15, 1791 · Amendment VIII
Amendment Rights retained by the people
Dec 15, 1791 · Amendment IX
Amendment Powers reserved to the states or the people
Dec 15, 1791 · Amendment X

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.