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The United States on March 2, 1807

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President
Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson DR · since Mar 4, 1805
Senate
27 R · 7 F
34 senators · 9th Congress
House
97 R · 18 F
118 representatives
Supreme Court
2 n · 2 F · 2 JR
6 justices by appointing party
Union
17 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$69M
as of Jan 1, 1807
1807-03-02/executiveThe administration
President Thomas Jefferson DR
since Mar 4, 1805
Vice President George Clinton DR
Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith DR
since Jan 1, 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
Attorney General Caesar Augustus Rodney DR
since Jan 20, 1807
1807-03-02/congress9th Congress
Senate · 27 R · 7 F
Uriah Tracy (Federalist, CT)James Hillhouse (Federalist, CT)Samuel White (Federalist, DE)James Asheton Bayard Sr. (Federalist, DE)John Quincy Adams (Federalist, MA)Timothy Pickering (Federalist, MA)William Plumer (Federalist, NH)John Milledge (Republican, GA)Abraham Baldwin (Republican, GA)Henry Clay (Republican, KY)Buckner Thruston (Republican, KY)Philip Reed (Republican, MD)Samuel Smith (Republican, MD)David Stone (Republican, NC)James Turner (Republican, NC)Nicholas Gilman (Republican, NH)John Condit (Republican, NJ)Aaron Kitchell (Republican, NJ)John Smith (Republican, NY)Samuel Latham Mitchill (Republican, NY)Thomas Worthington (Republican, OH)John Smith (Republican, OH)George Logan (Republican, PA)Samuel Maclay (Republican, PA)Benjamin Howland (Republican, RI)James Fenner (Republican, RI)John Gaillard (Republican, SC)Thomas Sumter (Republican, SC)Joseph Anderson (Republican, TN)Daniel Smith (Republican, TN)Andrew Moore (Republican, VA)William Branch Giles (Republican, VA)Stephen Row Bradley (Republican, VT)Israel Smith (Republican, VT)
House · 97 R · 18 F · 2 O · 1 DR
Benjamin Parke (?, IN-AL)Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democratic Republican, MA-4)William Lattimore (?, MS-AL)Theodore Dwight (Federalist, CT-AL)James Madison Broom (Federalist, DE-AL)Seth Hastings (Federalist, MA-10)Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist, MA-15)William Stedman (Federalist, MA-11)Josiah Quincy (Federalist, MA-1)William Ely (Federalist, MA-5)Samuel Taggart (Federalist, MA-6)Jeremiah Nelson (Federalist, MA-3)John Campbell (Federalist, MD-1)Charles Goldsborough (Federalist, MD-8)Silas Betton (Federalist, NH-AL)Henry Walter Livingston (Federalist, NY-8)Killian Killian Van Rensselaer (Federalist, NY-9)James Kelly (Federalist, PA-6)Joseph Lewis Jr. (Federalist, VA-7)James Elliott (Federalist, VT-2)Martin Chittenden (Federalist, VT-4)William Wyatt Bibb (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)Phanuel Bishop (Republican, MA-9)Joseph Barker (Republican, MA-7)Barnabas Bidwell (Republican, MA-12)Jacob Crowninshield (Republican, MA-2)Orchard Cook (Republican, MA-16)Richard Cutts (Republican, MA-14)Isaiah Lewis Green (Republican, MA-8)Ebenezer Seaver (Republican, MA-13)John Chandler (Republican, MA-17)John Archer (Republican, MD-6)Leonard Covington (Republican, MD-2)Patrick Magruder (Republican, MD-3)Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Republican, MD-7)William McCreery (Republican, MD-5)Roger Nelson (Republican, MD-4)Duncan McFarlan (Republican, NC-7)Joseph Winston (Republican, NC-12)Thomas Wynns (Republican, NC-1)Marmaduke Williams (Republican, NC-9)James Holland (Republican, NC-11)Thomas Kenan (Republican, NC-5)William Blackledge (Republican, NC-4)Thomas Blount (Republican, NC-3)Richard Stanford (Republican, NC-8)Nathaniel Macon (Republican, NC-6)Willis Alston (Republican, NC-2)Evan Shelby Alexander (Republican, NC-10)Ebenezer Elmer (Republican, NJ-AL)Silas Halsey (Republican, NY-17)Peter Sailly (Republican, NY-11)Martin Gerretsen Schuneman (Republican, NY-7)Eliphalet Wickes (Republican, NY-1)Nathan Williams (Republican, NY-15)John Blake Jr. (Republican, NY-5)George Clinton (Republican, NY-2)Josiah Masters (Republican, NY-10)John Russell (Republican, NY-14)David Thomas (Republican, NY-12)Philip Van Cortlandt (Republican, NY-4)Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (Republican, NY-6)Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford (Republican, NY-3)Thomas Sammons (Republican, NY-13)Uri Tracy (Republican, NY-16)Jeremiah Morrow (Republican, OH-1)Isaac Anderson (Republican, PA-3)Frederick Conrad (Republican, PA-2)John Hamilton (Republican, PA-10)John Andre Hanna (Republican, PA-AL)Joseph Clay (Republican, PA-1)Andrew Gregg (Republican, PA-5)Samuel Smith (Republican, PA-11)John Smilie (Republican, PA-9)John Rea (Republican, PA-7)Robert Whitehill (Republican, PA-4)William Findley (Republican, PA-8)Joseph Stanton Jr. (Republican, RI-AL)Levi Casey (Republican, SC-6)O’Brien Smith (Republican, SC-4)Robert Marion (Republican, SC-1)William Butler (Republican, SC-2)David Rogerson Williams (Republican, SC-3)Richard Winn (Republican, SC-5)Thomas Moore (Republican, SC-7)Elias Earle (Republican, SC-8)William Dickson (Republican, TN-3)George Washington Campbell (Republican, TN-2)John Rhea (Republican, TN-1)Christopher Henderson Clark (Republican, VA-13)Thomas Mann Randolph (Republican, VA-21)Philip Rootes Thompson (Republican, VA-9)John Claiborne (Republican, VA-17)James Mercer Garnett (Republican, VA-11)John Morrow (Republican, VA-2)Abram Trigg (Republican, VA-6)Alexander Wilson (Republican, VA-5)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)Burwell Bassett (Republican, VA-12)Thomas Newton Jr. (Republican, VA-20)John Randolph (Republican, VA-15)Gideon Olin (Republican, VT-1)James Fisk (Republican, VT-3)
1807-03-02/supreme-courtThe bench
William Cushing
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 27, 1789
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
Henry Brockholst Livingston JR
Associate Justice · appointed by Thomas Jefferson · since Jan 16, 1807
1807-03-02/weekWithin a week · Feb 23, 1807 – Mar 9, 1807
Ruling French's Executrix v. The Bank of Columbia
Feb 23, 1807 · 8 U.S. 141
Law Seventh Circuit Act of 1807
Feb 24, 1807 · Ch. 16, Sess. 2, 9th Cong.
Ruling Skillern's Executors v. May's Executors
Feb 26, 1807 · 8 U.S. 137
Ruling Pendleton and Webb v. Wambersie
Feb 27, 1807 · 8 U.S. 73
Ruling Hopkirk v. Bell
Feb 28, 1807 · 8 U.S. 164
Ruling Hicks v. Rogers
Feb 28, 1807 · 8 U.S. 165
Ruling United States v. Zebulon Cantril
Feb 28, 1807 · 8 U.S. 167
Ruling Sthreshley and Obannon v. United States
Feb 28, 1807 · 8 U.S. 169
Ruling Humphrey Marshall and Wife v. Currie
Feb 28, 1807 · 8 U.S. 172
Ruling Diggs and Keith v. Wolcott
Feb 28, 1807 · 8 U.S. 179
Law Slave Trade Prohibition Act
Mar 2, 1807 · Ch. 22, Sess. 2, 9th Cong.
Justice Thomas Todd — Associate Justice
Mar 3, 1807 · Associate Justice
Law Insurrection Act of 1807
Mar 3, 1807 · Ch. 39, Sess. 2, 9th Cong.

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.