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The United States on February 24, 1800

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President
Adams
John Adams F · since Mar 4, 1797
Senate
21 F · 11 R
32 senators · 6th Congress
House
48 F · 45 R
95 representatives
Supreme Court
4 n · 2 F
6 justices by appointing party
Union
16 states
11 amendments in force
Public debt
$83M
as of Jan 1, 1800
1800-02-24/executiveThe administration
President John Adams F
since Mar 4, 1797
Vice President Thomas Jefferson DR
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
Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert F
since Jun 18, 1798
1800-02-24/congress6th Congress
Senate · 21 F · 11 R
Uriah Tracy (Federalist, CT)James Hillhouse (Federalist, CT)Henry Latimer (Federalist, DE)William Hill Wells (Federalist, DE)James Gunn (Federalist, GA)Humphrey Marshall (Federalist, KY)Jonathan Mason (Federalist, MA)Dwight Foster (Federalist, MA)John Eager Howard (Federalist, MD)William Hindman (Federalist, MD)Samuel Livermore (Federalist, NH)James Schureman (Federalist, NJ)Jonathan Dayton (Federalist, NJ)John Laurance (Federalist, NY)Gouverneur Morris (Federalist, NY)William Bingham (Federalist, PA)James Ross (Federalist, PA)Ray Greene (Federalist, RI)Jacob Read (Federalist, SC)Elijah Paine (Federalist, VT)Nathaniel Chipman (Federalist, VT)Abraham Baldwin (Republican, GA)John Brown (Republican, KY)Timothy Bloodworth (Republican, NC)Jesse Franklin (Republican, NC)John Langdon (Republican, NH)Theodore Foster (Republican, RI)Charles Pinckney (Republican, SC)Joseph Anderson (Republican, TN)William Cocke (Republican, TN)Stevens Thomson Mason (Republican, VA)Wilson Cary Nicholas (Republican, VA)
House · 48 F · 45 R · 1 O · 1 DR
Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democratic Republican, MA-9)William McMillan (?, OH-AL)Jonathan Brace (Federalist, CT-AL)James Asheton Bayard Sr. (Federalist, DE-AL)James Jones (Federalist, GA-AL)Bailey Bartlett (Federalist, MA-11)Samuel Lyman (Federalist, MA-3)John Reed (Federalist, MA-6)Theodore Sedgwick (Federalist, MA-1)Samuel Sewall (Federalist, MA-10)George Thatcher (Federalist, MA-14)Silas Lee (Federalist, MA-12)William Shepard (Federalist, MA-2)Lemuel Williams (Federalist, MA-5)Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist, MA-13)Harrison Gray Otis (Federalist, MA-8)William Craik (Federalist, MD-3)George Dent (Federalist, MD-1)John Chew Thomas (Federalist, MD-2)John Dennis (Federalist, MD-8)George Baer Jr. (Federalist, MD-4)Joseph Dickson (Federalist, NC-1)William Barry Grove (Federalist, NC-7)Archibald Henderson (Federalist, NC-2)William Henry Hill (Federalist, NC-6)Jonathan Freeman (Federalist, NH-AL)Franklin Davenport (Federalist, NJ-5)James Henderson Imlay (Federalist, NJ-4)William Cooper (Federalist, NY-10)Henry Glen (Federalist, NY-8)Jonas Platt (Federalist, NY-9)John Bird (Federalist, NY-6)Thomas Hartley (Federalist, PA-8)John Wilkes Kittera (Federalist, PA-7)Richard Thomas (Federalist, PA-3)Robert Waln (Federalist, PA-1)Henry Woods (Federalist, PA-10)John Brown (Federalist, RI-AL)Abraham Nott (Federalist, SC-6)Thomas Pinckney (Federalist, SC-1)John Rutledge Jr. (Federalist, SC-2)Benjamin Huger (Federalist, SC-3)Robert Goodloe Harper (Federalist, SC-5)Thomas Evans (Federalist, VA-12)Henry Lee (Federalist, VA-19)John Marshall (Federalist, VA-13)Robert Page (Federalist, VA-1)Josiah Parker (Federalist, VA-11)Leven Powell (Federalist, VA-17)Lewis Richard Morris (Federalist, VT-2)Thomas Terry Davis (Republican, KY-1)John Fowler (Republican, KY-2)Levi Lincoln (Republican, MA-4)Phanuel Bishop (Republican, MA-7)Gabriel Christie (Republican, MD-6)Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Republican, MD-7)Samuel Smith (Republican, MD-5)Richard Dobbs Spaight (Republican, NC-10)Robert Williams (Republican, NC-3)David Stone (Republican, NC-8)Richard Stanford (Republican, NC-4)Nathaniel Macon (Republican, NC-5)Willis Alston (Republican, NC-9)James Linn (Republican, NJ-3)Aaron Kitchell (Republican, NJ-2)John Condit (Republican, NJ-1)Jonathan Nicoll Havens (Republican, NY-2)Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (Republican, NY-4)Theodorus Bailey (Republican, NY-5)John Smith (Republican, NY-1)Philip Van Cortlandt (Republican, NY-3)John Thompson (Republican, NY-7)Albert Gallatin (Republican, PA-12)John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (Republican, PA-4)John Andre Hanna (Republican, PA-6)Andrew Gregg (Republican, PA-9)Michael Leib (Republican, PA-2)John Smilie (Republican, PA-11)Joseph Hiester (Republican, PA-5)Thomas Sumter (Republican, SC-4)William Charles Cole Claiborne (Republican, TN-1)Joseph Eggleston (Republican, VA-9)Samuel Goode (Republican, VA-8)John Nicholas (Republican, VA-18)Samuel Jordan Cabell (Republican, VA-14)George Jackson (Republican, VA-3)John Johns Trigg (Republican, VA-5)Abram Trigg (Republican, VA-4)Edwin Gray (Republican, VA-10)John Dawson (Republican, VA-15)Matthew Clay (Republican, VA-6)David Holmes (Republican, VA-2)Anthony New (Republican, VA-16)John Randolph (Republican, VA-7)Matthew Lyon (Republican, VT-1)
1800-02-24/supreme-courtThe bench
William Cushing
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 27, 1789
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
Bushrod Washington F
Associate Justice · appointed by John Adams · since Dec 20, 1798
Alfred Moore F
Associate Justice · appointed by John Adams · since Dec 10, 1799
1800-02-24/weekWithin a week · Feb 17, 1800 – Mar 3, 1800
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.