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The United States on April 16, 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 Mar 4, 1793
Senate
7 F · 5 PA
21 senators · 3rd Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
6 n
6 justices by appointing party
Union
15 states
10 amendments in force
Public debt
$80M
as of Jan 1, 1793
1793-04-16/executiveThe administration
President George Washington np
since Mar 4, 1793
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
1793-04-16/congress3rd Congress
Senate · 7 F · 5 PA · 3 AA · 3 O · 2 R · 1 DR
Roger Sherman (Pro-Administration, CT)George Read (?, DE)John Edwards (Anti-Administration, KY)John Henry (Pro-Administration, MD)Benjamin Hawkins (Pro-Administration, NC)John Langdon (Democratic Republican, NH)Robert Morris (Pro-Administration, PA)Ralph Izard (Pro-Administration, SC)James Monroe (Anti-Administration, VA)John Taylor (?, 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 ·
1793-04-16/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
William Paterson
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Mar 4, 1793
1793-04-16/weekWithin a week · Apr 9, 1793 – Apr 23, 1793
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.