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The United States on April 27, 1796

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
20 F · 11 R
31 senators · 4th Congress
House
55 R · 34 F
91 representatives
Supreme Court
6 n
6 justices by appointing party
Union
15 states
11 amendments in force
Public debt
$84M
as of Jan 1, 1796
1796-04-27/executiveThe administration
President George Washington np
since Mar 4, 1793
Vice President John Adams F
Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott F
since Feb 3, 1795
Postmaster General Joseph Habersham I
since Feb 25, 1795
Secretary of State Timothy Pickering F
since Aug 20, 1795
Attorney General Charles Lee F
since Dec 10, 1795
Secretary of War James McHenry F
since Jan 27, 1796
1796-04-27/congress4th Congress
Senate · 20 F · 11 R
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. (Federalist, CT)John Vining (Federalist, DE)Henry Latimer (Federalist, DE)James Gunn (Federalist, GA)Humphrey Marshall (Federalist, KY)George Cabot (Federalist, MA)Theodore Sedgwick (Federalist, MA)Richard Potts (Federalist, MD)John Henry (Federalist, MD)Samuel Livermore (Federalist, NH)John Rutherfurd (Federalist, NJ)Richard Stockton (Federalist, NJ)John Laurance (Federalist, NY)James Ross (Federalist, PA)William Bingham (Federalist, PA)Theodore Foster (Federalist, RI)William Bradford (Federalist, RI)Jacob Read (Federalist, SC)Isaac Tichenor (Federalist, VT)Elijah Paine (Federalist, VT)Josiah Tattnall (Republican, GA)John Brown (Republican, KY)Alexander Martin (Republican, NC)Timothy Bloodworth (Republican, NC)John Langdon (Republican, NH)Aaron Burr (Republican, NY)John Hunter (Republican, SC)William Cocke (Republican, TN)William Blount (Republican, TN)Stevens Thomson Mason (Republican, VA)Henry Tazewell (Republican, VA)
House · 55 R · 34 F · 1 O · 1 DR
Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democratic Republican, MA-9)James White (?, TN-AL)James Hillhouse (Federalist, CT-AL)Benjamin Goodhue (Federalist, MA-1)Fisher Ames (Federalist, MA-8)George Leonard (Federalist, MA-7)Theophilus Bradbury (Federalist, MA-11)Nathaniel Freeman Jr. (Federalist, MA-5)Samuel Lyman (Federalist, MA-3)John Reed (Federalist, MA-6)Samuel Sewall (Federalist, MA-10)George Thatcher (Federalist, MA-14)Dwight Foster (Federalist, MA-4)Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist, MA-13)Jeremiah Crabb (Federalist, MD-3)William Vans Murray (Federalist, MD-8)George Dent (Federalist, MD-1)William Hindman (Federalist, MD-7)William Francis Strudwick (Federalist, NC-4)William Barry Grove (Federalist, NC-7)Thomas Henderson (Federalist, NJ-AL)Ezekiel Gilbert (Federalist, NY-6)John Evert Van Alen (Federalist, NY-7)John Williams (Federalist, NY-9)William Cooper (Federalist, NY-10)Henry Glen (Federalist, NY-8)George Ege (Federalist, PA-5)Thomas Hartley (Federalist, PA-8)John Wilkes Kittera (Federalist, PA-7)Richard Thomas (Federalist, PA-3)Benjamin Bourne (Federalist, RI-AL)William Loughton Smith (Federalist, SC-1)Robert Goodloe Harper (Federalist, SC-5)George Hancock (Federalist, VA-5)Josiah Parker (Federalist, VA-11)Daniel Buck (Federalist, VT-2)John Patten (Republican, DE-AL)Abraham Baldwin (Republican, GA-AL)Christopher Greenup (Republican, KY-1)Alexander Dalrymple Orr (Republican, KY-2)Henry Dearborn (Republican, MA-12)William Lyman (Republican, MA-2)Gabriel Duvall (Republican, MD-2)Thomas Sprigg (Republican, MD-4)Gabriel Christie (Republican, MD-6)Samuel Smith (Republican, MD-5)Nathan Bryan (Republican, NC-10)Dempsey Burges (Republican, NC-8)Matthew Locke (Republican, NC-2)James Gillespie (Republican, NC-6)Jesse Franklin (Republican, NC-3)James Holland (Republican, NC-1)Thomas Blount (Republican, NC-9)Nathaniel Macon (Republican, NC-5)John Samuel Sherburne (Republican, NH-AL)John Hathorn (Republican, NY-4)Jonathan Nicoll Havens (Republican, NY-2)Theodorus Bailey (Republican, NY-5)Philip Van Cortlandt (Republican, NY-3)Edward Livingston (Republican, NY-1)Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (Republican, PA-2)John Richards (Republican, PA-4)John Swanwick (Republican, PA-1)Albert Gallatin (Republican, PA-12)Samuel Maclay (Republican, PA-6)Andrew Gregg (Republican, PA-9)David Bard (Republican, PA-10)William Findley (Republican, PA-11)Samuel Earle (Republican, SC-6)Lemuel Benton (Republican, SC-3)Wade Hampton (Republican, SC-2)Richard Winn (Republican, SC-4)Andrew Jackson (Republican, TN-1)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)Carter Bassett Harrison (Republican, VA-10)John Nicholas (Republican, VA-18)Samuel Jordan Cabell (Republican, VA-14)George Jackson (Republican, VA-3)Thomas Claiborne (Republican, VA-8)Abraham Bedford Venable (Republican, VA-7)Andrew Moore (Republican, VA-2)James Madison (Republican, VA-15)Richard Brent (Republican, VA-17)William Branch Giles (Republican, VA-9)John Clopton (Republican, VA-13)Anthony New (Republican, VA-16)Israel Smith (Republican, VT-1)
1796-04-27/supreme-courtThe bench
William Cushing
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 27, 1789
James Wilson
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 29, 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
Samuel Chase
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Jan 27, 1796
Oliver Ellsworth
Chief Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Mar 4, 1796
1796-04-27/weekWithin a week · Apr 20, 1796 – May 4, 1796
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.