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The United States on February 25, 1793

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
29 senators · 2nd Congress
House
29 O · 15 F
59 representatives
Supreme Court
5 n
5 justices by appointing party
Union
15 states
10 amendments in force
Public debt
$80M
as of Jan 1, 1793
1793-02-25/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
1793-02-25/congress2nd Congress
Senate · 8 PA · 7 AA · 7 F · 3 O · 2 DR · 2 R
Roger Sherman (Pro-Administration, CT)Richard Bassett (Anti-Administration, DE)George Read (?, DE)William Few (Anti-Administration, GA)John Edwards (Anti-Administration, KY)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)John Taylor (?, 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)Richard Potts (Federalist, MD)John Rutherfurd (Federalist, NJ)Rufus King (Federalist, NY)Theodore Foster (Federalist, RI)John Brown (Republican, KY)Aaron Burr (Republican, NY)
House · 29 O · 15 F · 6 R · 6 DR · 1 PA · 1 Aa · 1 AA
Jonathan Sturges (?, CT-AL)John Vining (Pro-Administration, DE-AL)Francis Willis (?, GA-3)Abraham Baldwin (Democratic Republican, GA-2)John Milledge (?, GA-1)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)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)
1793-02-25/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
1793-02-25/weekWithin a week · Feb 18, 1793 – Mar 4, 1793
George Washington takes office · Mar 4, 1793
Law An Act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same
Feb 18, 1793 · Ch. 8, Sess. 2, 2nd Cong.
Ruling Chisholm v. Georgia
Feb 19, 1793 · 2 U.S. 419
Ruling Georgia v. Brailsford
Feb 20, 1793 · 2 U.S. 415
Law Judiciary Act of 1793
Mar 2, 1793 · Ch. 22, Sess. 2, 2nd Cong.
Justice William Paterson — Associate Justice
Mar 4, 1793 · Associate Justice

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.