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The United States on March 7, 1794

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
13 F · 7 R
29 senators · 3rd Congress
House
30 O · 22 R
70 representatives
Supreme Court
6 n
6 justices by appointing party
Union
15 states
10 amendments in force
Public debt
$78M
as of Jan 1, 1794
1794-03-07/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
Postmaster General Timothy Pickering F
since Aug 12, 1791
Secretary of State Edmund Randolph F
since Jan 2, 1794
Attorney General William Bradford F
since Jan 27, 1794
1794-03-07/congress3rd Congress
Senate · 13 F · 7 R · 5 PA · 2 AA · 1 DR · 1 O
Stephen Mix Mitchell (Pro-Administration, CT)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)Stephen Row Bradley (?, VT)Moses Robinson (Anti-Administration, VT)Oliver Ellsworth (Federalist, CT)John Vining (Federalist, DE)James Gunn (Federalist, GA)George Cabot (Federalist, MA)Caleb Strong (Federalist, MA)Richard Potts (Federalist, MD)Samuel Livermore (Federalist, NH)John Rutherfurd (Federalist, NJ)Frederick Frelinghuysen (Federalist, NJ)Rufus King (Federalist, NY)James Ross (Federalist, PA)Theodore Foster (Federalist, RI)William Bradford (Federalist, RI)James Jackson (Republican, GA)John Brown (Republican, KY)Alexander Martin (Republican, NC)Aaron Burr (Republican, NY)Pierce Butler (Republican, SC)Stevens Thomson Mason (Republican, VA)Henry Tazewell (Republican, VA)
House · 30 O · 22 R · 10 F · 5 DR · 3 AA
Amasa Learned (?, CT-AL)Thomas Petters Carnes (?, GA-AL)Shearjashub Bourne (?, MA-3)David Cobb (?, MA-AL)Samuel Holten (?, MA-1)Artemas Ward (?, MA-2)Benjamin Edwards (?, MD-3)John Francis Mercer (?, MD-2)Samuel Smith (Democratic Republican, MD-5)William Johnson Dawson (Anti-Administration, NC-8)Joseph McDowell (?, NC-1)Alexander Mebane (?, NC-4)Benjamin Williams (?, NC-10)James Gillespie (Anti-Administration, NC-6)Nathaniel Macon (Democratic Republican, NC-5)Paine Wingate (?, NH-AL)John Beatty (?, NJ-AL)James Gordon (?, NY-9)Silas Talbot (?, NY-10)Thomas Tredwell (?, NY-2)Peter Van Gaasbeck (?, NY-4)John Watts (?, NY-1)Theodorus Bailey (?, NY-5)James Armstrong (?, PA-AL)Alexander Gillon (?, SC-5)Andrew Pickens (?, SC-6)John Hunter (?, SC-2)James White (?, TN-AL)Samuel Griffin (?, VA-13)Richard Bland Lee (?, VA-17)Joseph Neville (?, VA-3)Francis Walker (?, VA-14)George Hancock (?, VA-5)Carter Bassett Harrison (Anti-Administration, VA-10)Abraham Bedford Venable (Democratic Republican, VA-7)Andrew Moore (Democratic Republican, VA-2)Nathaniel Niles (?, VT-2)Israel Smith (Democratic Republican, VT-1)William Vans Murray (Federalist, MD-8)George Dent (Federalist, MD-1)William Hindman (Federalist, MD-7)William Barry Grove (Federalist, NC-7)Ezekiel Gilbert (Federalist, NY-6)John Evert Van Alen (Federalist, NY-7)Henry Glen (Federalist, NY-8)Benjamin Bourne (Federalist, RI-AL)William Loughton Smith (Federalist, SC-1)Josiah Parker (Federalist, VA-11)John Patten (Republican, DE-AL)Christopher Greenup (Republican, KY-1)Alexander Dalrymple Orr (Republican, KY-2)Henry Dearborn (Republican, MA-4)Thomas Sprigg (Republican, MD-4)Gabriel Christie (Republican, MD-6)Matthew Locke (Republican, NC-2)Joseph Winston (Republican, NC-3)Thomas Blount (Republican, NC-9)Philip Van Cortlandt (Republican, NY-3)Lemuel Benton (Republican, SC-3)Richard Winn (Republican, SC-4)Isaac Coles (Republican, VA-6)John Heath (Republican, VA-19)John Page (Republican, VA-12)Francis Preston (Republican, VA-4)Robert Rutherford (Republican, VA-1)John Nicholas (Republican, VA-18)Thomas Claiborne (Republican, VA-8)James Madison (Republican, VA-15)William Branch Giles (Republican, VA-9)Anthony New (Republican, VA-16)
1794-03-07/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
1794-03-07/weekWithin a week · Feb 28, 1794 – Mar 14, 1794
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.