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The United States on July 17, 1815

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

President
Madison
James Madison DR · since Mar 4, 1813
Senate
14 R · 6 F
22 senators · 14th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
5 JR · 2 F
7 justices by appointing party
Union
18 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$100M
as of Jan 1, 1815
1815-07-17/executiveThe administration
President James Madison DR
since Mar 4, 1813
Vice President vacant
Attorney General Richard Rush
since Feb 10, 1814
Postmaster General Return J. Meigs Jr. DR
since Mar 17, 1814
Secretary of State James Monroe DR
since Oct 1, 1814
Secretary of the Treasury Alexander J. Dallas DR
since Oct 6, 1814
1815-07-17/congress14th Congress
Senate · 14 R · 6 F · 1 DR · 1 U
Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democratic Republican, MA)Francis Locke (Unknown, NC)David Daggett (Federalist, CT)William Hill Wells (Federalist, DE)Robert Henry Goldsborough (Federalist, MD)Jeremiah Mason (Federalist, NH)Thomas Weston Thompson (Federalist, NH)Rufus King (Federalist, NY)Charles Tait (Republican, GA)William Wyatt Bibb (Republican, GA)William Taylor Barry (Republican, KY)James Brown (Republican, LA)Eligius Fromentin (Republican, LA)James Turner (Republican, NC)John Condit (Republican, NJ)Jeremiah Morrow (Republican, OH)Abner Lacock (Republican, PA)Jeremiah Brown Howell (Republican, RI)John Taylor (Republican, SC)John Gaillard (Republican, SC)Jesse Wharton (Republican, TN)Dudley Chase (Republican, VT)
House ·
1815-07-17/supreme-courtThe bench
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
Thomas Todd JR
Associate Justice · appointed by Thomas Jefferson · since Mar 3, 1807
Gabriel Duvall JR
Associate Justice · appointed by James Madison · since Nov 18, 1811
Joseph Story JR
Associate Justice · appointed by James Madison · since Nov 18, 1811
1815-07-17/weekWithin a week · Jul 10, 1815 – Jul 24, 1815
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.