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The United States on May 3, 1795

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
11 F · 7 R
19 senators · 4th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
6 n
6 justices by appointing party
Union
15 states
11 amendments in force
Public debt
$81M
as of Jan 1, 1795
1795-05-03/executiveThe administration
President George Washington np
since Mar 4, 1793
Vice President John Adams F
Secretary of State Edmund Randolph F
since Jan 2, 1794
Attorney General William Bradford F
since Jan 27, 1794
Secretary of War Timothy Pickering F
since Jan 2, 1795
Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott F
since Feb 3, 1795
Postmaster General Joseph Habersham I
since Feb 25, 1795
1795-05-03/congress4th Congress
Senate · 11 F · 7 R · 1 AA
Moses Robinson (Anti-Administration, VT)Oliver Ellsworth (Federalist, CT)John Vining (Federalist, DE)George Cabot (Federalist, MA)Caleb Strong (Federalist, MA)Richard Potts (Federalist, MD)Samuel Livermore (Federalist, NH)John Rutherfurd (Federalist, NJ)Frederick Frelinghuysen (Federalist, NJ)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 ·
1795-05-03/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
1795-05-03/weekWithin a week · Apr 26, 1795 – May 10, 1795
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.