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The United States on February 27, 1805

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President
Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson DR · since Mar 4, 1801
Senate
25 R · 9 F
34 senators · 8th Congress
House
82 R · 30 F
114 representatives
Supreme Court
3 n · 2 F · 1 JR
6 justices by appointing party
Union
17 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$82M
as of Jan 1, 1805
1805-02-27/executiveThe administration
President Thomas Jefferson DR
since Mar 4, 1801
Vice President Aaron Burr Jr. DR
Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith DR
since Jan 1, 1801
Attorney General Levi Lincoln Sr. DR
since Mar 5, 1801
Secretary of War Henry Dearborn DR
since Mar 5, 1801
Secretary of State James Madison DR
since May 2, 1801
Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin DR
since May 14, 1801
Postmaster General Gideon Granger DR
since Nov 28, 1801
1805-02-27/congress8th Congress
Senate · 25 R · 9 F
Uriah Tracy (Federalist, CT)James Hillhouse (Federalist, CT)James Asheton Bayard Sr. (Federalist, DE)Samuel White (Federalist, DE)Timothy Pickering (Federalist, MA)John Quincy Adams (Federalist, MA)Simeon Olcott (Federalist, NH)William Plumer (Federalist, NH)Jonathan Dayton (Federalist, NJ)Abraham Baldwin (Republican, GA)James Jackson (Republican, GA)John Brown (Republican, KY)John Breckinridge (Republican, KY)Robert Wright (Republican, MD)Samuel Smith (Republican, MD)Jesse Franklin (Republican, NC)David Stone (Republican, NC)John Condit (Republican, NJ)Samuel Latham Mitchill (Republican, NY)John Smith (Republican, NY)Thomas Worthington (Republican, OH)John Smith (Republican, OH)George Logan (Republican, PA)Samuel Maclay (Republican, PA)Christopher Ellery (Republican, RI)Benjamin Howland (Republican, RI)Thomas Sumter (Republican, SC)John Gaillard (Republican, SC)William Cocke (Republican, TN)Joseph Anderson (Republican, TN)William Branch Giles (Republican, VA)Andrew Moore (Republican, VA)Stephen Row Bradley (Republican, VT)Israel Smith (Republican, VT)
House · 82 R · 30 F · 1 DR · 1 O
Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democratic Republican, MA-4)William Lattimore (?, MS-AL)Simeon Baldwin (Federalist, CT-AL)Phineas Bruce (Federalist, MA-17)Manasseh Cutler (Federalist, MA-3)Thomas Dwight (Federalist, MA-5)Nahum Mitchell (Federalist, MA-7)Samuel Thatcher (Federalist, MA-16)Lemuel Williams (Federalist, MA-8)Seth Hastings (Federalist, MA-10)Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist, MA-15)William Stedman (Federalist, MA-11)Samuel Taggart (Federalist, MA-6)John Dennis (Federalist, MD-8)Thomas Plater (Federalist, MD-3)John Campbell (Federalist, MD-1)Samuel Dinsmore Purviance (Federalist, NC-7)Samuel Hunt (Federalist, NH-AL)Gaylord Griswold (Federalist, NY-15)George Tibbits (Federalist, NY-10)Henry Walter Livingston (Federalist, NY-8)Killian Killian Van Rensselaer (Federalist, NY-9)Joshua Sands (Federalist, NY-2)Thomas Lowndes (Federalist, SC-1)Benjamin Huger (Federalist, SC-3)Thomas Griffin (Federalist, VA-12)Thomas Lewis (Federalist, VA-5)Joseph Lewis Jr. (Federalist, VA-7)James Stephenson (Federalist, VA-2)James Elliott (Federalist, VT-2)William Chamberlain (Federalist, VT-3)Martin Chittenden (Federalist, VT-4)Caesar Augustus Rodney (Republican, DE-AL)Samuel Hammond (Republican, GA-AL)George Michael Bedinger (Republican, KY-6)John Fowler (Republican, KY-5)Thomas Sandford (Republican, KY-4)Matthew Walton (Republican, KY-3)John Boyle (Republican, KY-2)Matthew Lyon (Republican, KY-1)Simon Larned (Republican, MA-12)Phanuel Bishop (Republican, MA-9)Jacob Crowninshield (Republican, MA-2)Richard Cutts (Republican, MA-14)Ebenezer Seaver (Republican, MA-13)William Eustis (Republican, MA-1)Walter Bowie (Republican, MD-2)Daniel Hiester (Republican, MD-4)John Archer (Republican, MD-6)Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Republican, MD-7)William McCreery (Republican, MD-5)Nathaniel Alexander (Republican, NC-10)James Gillespie (Republican, NC-5)Joseph Winston (Republican, NC-12)Thomas Wynns (Republican, NC-1)Marmaduke Williams (Republican, NC-9)James Holland (Republican, NC-11)William Blackledge (Republican, NC-4)William Kennedy (Republican, NC-3)Richard Stanford (Republican, NC-8)Nathaniel Macon (Republican, NC-6)Willis Alston (Republican, NC-2)James Mott (Republican, NJ-AL)Andrew McCord (Republican, NY-5)Beriah Palmer (Republican, NY-11)John Paterson (Republican, NY-16)Oliver Phelps (Republican, NY-17)Samuel Riker (Republican, NY-1)David Thomas (Republican, NY-12)Philip Van Cortlandt (Republican, NY-4)Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (Republican, NY-6)Thomas Sammons (Republican, NY-13)Josiah Hasbrouck (Republican, NY-7)Erastus Root (Republican, NY-14)George Clinton (Republican, NY-3)Jeremiah Morrow (Republican, OH-1)John Hoge (Republican, PA-10)John Stewart (Republican, PA-6)Isaac Van Horne (Republican, PA-2)Isaac Anderson (Republican, PA-3)John Andre Hanna (Republican, PA-4)John Baptiste Charles Lucas (Republican, PA-11)Joseph Clay (Republican, PA-1)Andrew Gregg (Republican, PA-5)John Smilie (Republican, PA-9)John Rea (Republican, PA-7)William Findley (Republican, PA-8)Joseph Stanton Jr. (Republican, RI-AL)John Baylis Earle (Republican, SC-8)Wade Hampton (Republican, SC-4)Levi Casey (Republican, SC-6)William Butler (Republican, SC-2)Richard Winn (Republican, SC-5)Thomas Moore (Republican, SC-7)William Dickson (Republican, TN-AL)Thomas Claiborne (Republican, VA-17)John Johns Trigg (Republican, VA-13)Thomas Mann Randolph (Republican, VA-21)Philip Rootes Thompson (Republican, VA-9)Abram Trigg (Republican, VA-6)Walter Jones (Republican, VA-8)Edwin Gray (Republican, VA-19)John Dawson (Republican, VA-10)John Smith (Republican, VA-3)Matthew Clay (Republican, VA-14)John Clopton (Republican, VA-22)John George Jackson (Republican, VA-1)John Wayles Eppes (Republican, VA-16)Peterson Goodwyn (Republican, VA-18)David Holmes (Republican, VA-4)Anthony New (Republican, VA-11)Thomas Newton Jr. (Republican, VA-20)John Randolph (Republican, VA-15)Gideon Olin (Republican, VT-1)
1805-02-27/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
Bushrod Washington F
Associate Justice · appointed by John Adams · since Dec 20, 1798
John Marshall F
Chief Justice · appointed by John Adams · since Jan 31, 1801
William Johnson, Jr. JR
Associate Justice · appointed by Thomas Jefferson · since Mar 26, 1804
1805-02-27/weekWithin a week · Feb 20, 1805 – Mar 6, 1805
Thomas Jefferson takes office · Mar 4, 1805
Ruling United States v. Fisher Assignees of Blight
Feb 21, 1805 · 6 U.S. 358
Ruling Telfair Executors of Rae & Sommerville v. Stead's Executors
Feb 25, 1805 · 6 U.S. 407
Ruling Graves and Barnewall v. Boston Marine Insurance Company
Feb 25, 1805 · 6 U.S. 419
Ruling Hepburn and Dundas v. Ellzey
Feb 25, 1805 · 6 U.S. 445
Ruling Huidekoper's Lessee v. Douglass
Feb 27, 1805 · 7 U.S. 1
Ruling United States v. Hooe
Feb 27, 1805 · 7 U.S. 73
Ruling Peyton v. Brooke
Feb 27, 1805 · 7 U.S. 92
Ruling Lambert's Lessee v. Paine
Mar 1, 1805 · 7 U.S. 97
Ruling Hodgson v. Butts
Mar 2, 1805 · 7 U.S. 140
Ruling United States v. More
Mar 2, 1805 · 7 U.S. 159
Ruling Faw v. Roberdeau's Executor
Mar 2, 1805 · 7 U.S. 174
Ruling Winchester v. Hackley
Mar 4, 1805 · 6 U.S. 342
Ruling Levy v. Gadsby
Mar 4, 1805 · 7 U.S. 180
Ruling Ray v. Law
Mar 5, 1805 · 7 U.S. 179
Ruling The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria v. Wilson
Mar 5, 1805 · 7 U.S. 187
Ruling McIlvaine v. Coxe's Lessee
Mar 6, 1805 · 6 U.S. 280
Ruling Wilson v. Codman's Executor
Mar 6, 1805 · 7 U.S. 193
Ruling Hallet and Bowne v. Jenks
Mar 6, 1805 · 7 U.S. 210
Ruling Milligan v. Milledge & Wife
Mar 6, 1805 · 7 U.S. 220
Ruling Cooke v. Graham's Administrator
Mar 6, 1805 · 7 U.S. 229

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.