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The United States on July 9, 1818

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President
Monroe
James Monroe DR · since Mar 4, 1817
Senate
29 R · 12 F
41 senators · 15th Congress
House
114 R · 27 F
146 representatives
Supreme Court
5 JR · 2 F
7 justices by appointing party
Union
20 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$103M
as of Jan 1, 1818
1818-07-09/executiveThe administration
President James Monroe DR
since Mar 4, 1817
Vice President Daniel D. Tompkins DR
Postmaster General Return J. Meigs Jr. DR
since Mar 17, 1814
Secretary of the Treasury William H. Crawford DR
since Oct 22, 1816
Secretary of State John Quincy Adams W
since Sep 22, 1817
Attorney General William Wirt DR
since Nov 13, 1817
Secretary of War John C. Calhoun DR
since Dec 8, 1817
1818-07-09/congress15th Congress
Senate · 29 R · 12 F
David Daggett (Federalist, CT)Samuel Whittlesey Dana (Federalist, CT)Outerbridge Horsey (Federalist, DE)Nicholas Van Dyke (Federalist, DE)Prentiss Mellen (Federalist, MA)Harrison Gray Otis (Federalist, MA)Robert Henry Goldsborough (Federalist, MD)Alexander Contee Hanson (Federalist, MD)Rufus King (Federalist, NY)William Hunter (Federalist, RI)James Burrill Jr. (Federalist, RI)Isaac Tichenor (Federalist, VT)Charles Tait (Republican, GA)George Michael Troup (Republican, GA)Jesse Burgess Thomas (Republican, IL)Waller Taylor (Republican, IN)James Noble (Republican, IN)Isham Talbot (Republican, KY)John Jordan Crittenden (Republican, KY)Eligius Fromentin (Republican, LA)Henry Johnson (Republican, LA)Walter Leake (Republican, MS)Thomas Hill Williams (Republican, MS)Nathaniel Macon (Republican, NC)Montfort Stokes (Republican, NC)Clement Storer (Republican, NH)David Lawrence Morril (Republican, NH)James Jefferson Wilson (Republican, NJ)Mahlon Dickerson (Republican, NJ)Nathan Sanford (Republican, NY)Jeremiah Morrow (Republican, OH)Benjamin Ruggles (Republican, OH)Abner Lacock (Republican, PA)Jonathan Roberts (Republican, PA)John Gaillard (Republican, SC)William Smith (Republican, SC)George Washington Campbell (Republican, TN)John Williams (Republican, TN)James Barbour (Republican, VA)John Wayles Eppes (Republican, VA)James Fisk (Republican, VT)
House · 114 R · 27 F · 3 O · 2 DR
John Crowell (?, AL-AL)Nathaniel Pope (?, IL-AL)John Holmes (Democratic Republican, MA-14)John Scott (?, MO-AL)John Caldwell Calhoun (Democratic Republican, SC-AL)Benjamin Orr (Federalist, MA-16)Thomas Rice (Federalist, MA-18)Nathaniel Ruggles (Federalist, MA-13)Solomon Strong (Federalist, MA-12)John Wilson (Federalist, MA-17)Benjamin Adams (Federalist, MA-11)Jonathan Mason (Federalist, MA-1)Elijah Hunt Mills (Federalist, MA-5)Ezekiel Whitman (Federalist, MA-15)Samuel Clesson Allen (Federalist, MA-6)Jeremiah Nelson (Federalist, MA-3)John Carlyle Herbert (Federalist, MD-2)Philip Stuart (Federalist, MD-1)Thomas Bayly (Federalist, MD-8)George Peter (Federalist, MD-3)James Stewart (Federalist, NC-7)Jesse Slocumb (Federalist, NC-4)John Paine Cushman (Federalist, NY-10)David A. Ogden (Federalist, NY-18)Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (Federalist, NY-5)Rensselaer Westerlo (Federalist, NY-9)Henry Randolph Storrs (Federalist, NY-16)Isaac Darlington (Federalist, PA-2)John Linscom Boss Jr. (Federalist, RI-AL)Edward Colston (Federalist, VA-2)James Pindall (Federalist, VA-1)Charles Fenton Mercer (Federalist, VA-8)Sylvester Gilbert (Republican, CT-AL)Willard Hall (Republican, DE-AL)John Forsyth (Republican, GA-AL)John McLean (Republican, IL-1)William Hendricks (Republican, IN-1)Joseph Desha (Republican, KY-4)Thomas Speed (Republican, KY-10)Richard Clough Anderson Jr. (Republican, KY-8)Tunstall Quarles (Republican, KY-9)David Walker (Republican, KY-6)Anthony New (Republican, KY-5)George Robertson (Republican, KY-7)David Trimble (Republican, KY-1)Richard Mentor Johnson (Republican, KY-3)Henry Clay (Republican, KY-2)Thomas Bolling Robertson (Republican, LA-1)Joshua Gage (Republican, MA-19)Walter Folger Jr. (Republican, MA-9)Marcus Morton (Republican, MA-10)Zabdiel Sampson (Republican, MA-8)Henry Shaw (Republican, MA-7)Timothy Fuller (Republican, MA-4)Enoch Lincoln (Republican, MA-20)Nathaniel Silsbee (Republican, MA-2)Thomas Culbreth (Republican, MD-7)Samuel Ringgold (Republican, MD-4)Philip Reed (Republican, MD-6)Peter Little (Republican, MD-5)George Poindexter (Republican, MS-1)Joseph Hunter Bryan (Republican, NC-2)Daniel Munroe Forney (Republican, NC-11)George Mumford (Republican, NC-10)James Owen (Republican, NC-5)Thomas Settle (Republican, NC-9)James Strudwick Smith (Republican, NC-8)Felix Walker (Republican, NC-12)Weldon Nathaniel Edwards (Republican, NC-6)Lemuel Sawyer (Republican, NC-1)Thomas H. Hall (Republican, NC-3)Lewis Williams (Republican, NC-13)Salma Hale (Republican, NH-AL)Benjamin Bennet (Republican, NJ-AL)Oliver Cromwell Comstock (Republican, NY-20)John Reuben Drake (Republican, NY-15)Benjamin Ellicott (Republican, NY-21)Josiah Hasbrouck (Republican, NY-7)William Irving (Republican, NY-2)Dorrance Kirtland (Republican, NY-8)Thomas Lawyer (Republican, NY-13)James Porter (Republican, NY-19)John Savage (Republican, NY-12)Tredwell Scudder (Republican, NY-1)James Tallmadge Jr. (Republican, NY-4)James Whitney Wilkin (Republican, NY-6)Caleb Tompkins (Republican, NY-3)Thomas Hill Hubbard (Republican, NY-17)John Herkimer (Republican, NY-14)John W. Taylor (Republican, NY-11)Peter Hitchcock (Republican, OH-6)Samuel Herrick (Republican, OH-4)Levi Barber (Republican, OH-3)John Wilson Campbell (Republican, OH-2)Philemon Beecher (Republican, OH-5)William Henry Harrison (Republican, OH-1)William Anderson (Republican, PA-1)William Maclay (Republican, PA-5)Alexander Ogle (Republican, PA-8)John Ross (Republican, PA-6)Jacob Spangler (Republican, PA-4)John Whiteside (Republican, PA-3)William Wilson (Republican, PA-10)Joseph Hiester (Republican, PA-7)William Plunkett Maclay (Republican, PA-9)David Marchand (Republican, PA-11)Robert Moore (Republican, PA-15)Christian Tarr (Republican, PA-13)Henry Baldwin (Republican, PA-14)Thomas Patterson (Republican, PA-12)Joseph Bellinger (Republican, SC-4)Henry Middleton (Republican, SC-1)Wilson Nesbitt (Republican, SC-8)Elias Earle (Republican, SC-7)James Ervin (Republican, SC-3)Eldred Simkins (Republican, SC-6)William Lowndes (Republican, SC-2)Starling Tucker (Republican, SC-5)Stephen Decatur Miller (Republican, SC-9)William Grainger Blount (Republican, TN-2)Thomas Claiborne (Republican, TN-5)Samuel Hogg (Republican, TN-4)George Washington Lent Marr (Republican, TN-6)Francis Jones (Republican, TN-3)John Rhea (Republican, TN-1)Archibald Austin (Republican, VA-16)Peterson Goodwyn (Republican, VA-19)William J. Lewis (Republican, VA-15)Thomas Maduit Nelson (Republican, VA-18)Henry St. George Tucker (Republican, VA-3)William Armisted Burwell (Republican, VA-14)James Johnson (Republican, VA-20)James Pleasants (Republican, VA-17)Ballard Smith (Republican, VA-7)George French Strother (Republican, VA-10)Hugh Nelson (Republican, VA-22)William Lee Ball (Republican, VA-9)Robert Selden Garnett (Republican, VA-12)Burwell Bassett (Republican, VA-13)John Floyd (Republican, VA-5)Philip Pendleton Barbour (Republican, VA-11)Alexander Smyth (Republican, VA-6)William McCoy (Republican, VA-4)Thomas Newton Jr. (Republican, VA-21)John Tyler (Republican, VA-23)Heman Allen (Republican, VT-AL)
1818-07-09/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
1818-07-09/weekWithin a week · Jul 2, 1818 – Jul 16, 1818
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.