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The United States on July 24, 1820

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President
Monroe
James Monroe DR · since Mar 4, 1817
Senate
36 R · 8 F
46 senators · 16th Congress
House
121 R · 22 F
147 representatives
Supreme Court
5 JR · 2 F
7 justices by appointing party
Union
23 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$91M
as of Jan 1, 1820
1820-07-24/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
1820-07-24/congress16th Congress
Senate · 36 R · 8 F · 1 A · 1 DR
Elijah Hunt Mills (Adams, MA)John Holmes (Democratic Republican, ME)Samuel Whittlesey Dana (Federalist, CT)Outerbridge Horsey (Federalist, DE)Nicholas Van Dyke (Federalist, DE)Harrison Gray Otis (Federalist, MA)Rufus King (Federalist, NY)William Hunter (Federalist, RI)James Burrill Jr. (Federalist, RI)Isaac Tichenor (Federalist, VT)John Williams Walker (Republican, AL)William Rufus de Vane King (Republican, AL)James Lanman (Republican, CT)Freeman Walker (Republican, GA)John Elliott (Republican, GA)Jesse Burgess Thomas (Republican, IL)Ninian Edwards (Republican, IL)James Noble (Republican, IN)Waller Taylor (Republican, IN)Isham Talbot (Republican, KY)Richard Mentor Johnson (Republican, KY)Henry Johnson (Republican, LA)James Brown (Republican, LA)William Pinkney (Republican, MD)Edward Lloyd (Republican, MD)John Chandler (Republican, ME)Walter Leake (Republican, MS)Thomas Hill Williams (Republican, MS)Montfort Stokes (Republican, NC)Nathaniel Macon (Republican, NC)David Lawrence Morril (Republican, NH)John Fabyan Parrott (Republican, NH)James Jefferson Wilson (Republican, NJ)Mahlon Dickerson (Republican, NJ)Nathan Sanford (Republican, NY)Benjamin Ruggles (Republican, OH)William Allen Trimble (Republican, OH)Jonathan Roberts (Republican, PA)Walter Lowrie (Republican, PA)William Smith (Republican, SC)John Gaillard (Republican, SC)John Williams (Republican, TN)John Henry Eaton (Republican, TN)James Barbour (Republican, VA)James Pleasants (Republican, VA)William Adams Palmer (Republican, VT)
House · 121 R · 22 F · 4 O
James Woodson Bates (?, AR-AL)Joseph Dane (?, ME-AL)Solomon Sibley (?, MI-AL)John Scott (?, MO-AL)Benjamin Adams (Federalist, MA-11)Jonas Kendall (Federalist, MA-12)Jonathan Mason (Federalist, MA-1)Ezekiel Whitman (Federalist, MA-15)Samuel Lathrop (Federalist, MA-5)Samuel Clesson Allen (Federalist, MA-6)Jeremiah Nelson (Federalist, MA-3)Thomas Bayly (Federalist, MD-8)Raphael Neale (Federalist, MD-1)Henry Ridgely Warfield (Federalist, MD-3)William Davidson (Federalist, NC-11)Jesse Slocumb (Federalist, NC-4)John Culpepper (Federalist, NC-7)Randall S. Street (Federalist, NY-4)Solomon Van Vechten Van Rensselaer (Federalist, NY-9)John Dean Dickinson (Federalist, NY-10)Henry Randolph Storrs (Federalist, NY-16)James Strong (Federalist, NY-5)Thomas Forrest (Federalist, PA-1)James Pindall (Federalist, VA-1)Thomas Van Swearingen (Federalist, VA-2)Charles Fenton Mercer (Federalist, VA-8)John Crowell (Republican, AL-1)Jonathan Ogden Moseley (Republican, CT-AL)Willard Hall (Republican, DE-AL)Joel Crawford (Republican, GA-AL)William Hendricks (Republican, IN-1)Richard Clough Anderson Jr. (Republican, KY-8)William Brown (Republican, KY-3)Alney McLean (Republican, KY-5)Tunstall Quarles (Republican, KY-9)David Walker (Republican, KY-6)George Robertson (Republican, KY-7)David Trimble (Republican, KY-1)Benjamin Hardin (Republican, KY-10)Thomas Metcalfe (Republican, KY-4)Henry Clay (Republican, KY-2)Thomas Butler (Republican, LA-1)Edward Dowse (Republican, MA-13)Walter Folger Jr. (Republican, MA-9)Martin Kinsley (Republican, MA-17)Marcus Morton (Republican, MA-10)James Parker (Republican, MA-18)Zabdiel Sampson (Republican, MA-8)Henry Shaw (Republican, MA-7)Mark Langdon Hill (Republican, MA-16)Joshua Cushman (Republican, MA-19)Timothy Fuller (Republican, MA-4)Enoch Lincoln (Republican, MA-20)Nathaniel Silsbee (Republican, MA-2)Stevenson Archer (Republican, MD-6)Thomas Culbreth (Republican, MD-7)Samuel Ringgold (Republican, MD-4)Peter Little (Republican, MD-5)Joseph Kent (Republican, MD-2)Christopher Rankin (Republican, MS-1)Thomas Settle (Republican, NC-9)James Strudwick Smith (Republican, NC-8)Felix Walker (Republican, NC-12)Hutchins Gordon Burton (Republican, NC-2)Charles Hooks (Republican, NC-5)Weldon Nathaniel Edwards (Republican, NC-6)Lemuel Sawyer (Republican, NC-1)Thomas H. Hall (Republican, NC-3)Charles Fisher (Republican, NC-10)Lewis Williams (Republican, NC-13)Joseph Buffum Jr. (Republican, NH-AL)Joseph Bloomfield (Republican, NJ-AL)Nathaniel Allen (Republican, NY-21)Caleb Baker (Republican, NY-20)Walter Case (Republican, NY-6)Robert Clark (Republican, NY-8)Jacob Hasbrouck De Witt (Republican, NY-7)John Fay (Republican, NY-14)William Donnison Ford (Republican, NY-18)Ezra Carter Gross (Republican, NY-12)James Guyon Jr. (Republican, NY-1)Aaron Hackley Jr. (Republican, NY-17)George Hall (Republican, NY-19)Joseph Stebbins Lyman (Republican, NY-15)Henry Meigs (Republican, NY-2)Harmanus Peek (Republican, NY-13)Ebenezer Sage (Republican, NY-AL)Caleb Tompkins (Republican, NY-3)John W. Taylor (Republican, NY-11)Henry Brush (Republican, OH-3)Samuel Herrick (Republican, OH-4)Thomas Randolph Ross (Republican, OH-1)John Wilson Campbell (Republican, OH-2)Philemon Beecher (Republican, OH-5)John Sloane (Republican, OH-6)Andrew Boden (Republican, PA-5)Jacob Hibshman (Republican, PA-3)Joseph Hiester (Republican, PA-7)Jacob Hostetter (Republican, PA-4)William Plunkett Maclay (Republican, PA-9)David Marchand (Republican, PA-11)Robert Moore (Republican, PA-15)John Murray (Republican, PA-10)Robert Philson (Republican, PA-8)Christian Tarr (Republican, PA-13)Henry Baldwin (Republican, PA-14)William Darlington (Republican, PA-2)Samuel Moore (Republican, PA-6)Thomas Patterson (Republican, PA-12)Nathaniel Hazard (Republican, RI-AL)Joseph Brevard (Republican, SC-9)Elias Earle (Republican, SC-7)James Ervin (Republican, SC-3)John McCreary (Republican, SC-8)Charles Pinckney (Republican, SC-1)Eldred Simkins (Republican, SC-6)William Lowndes (Republican, SC-2)James Overstreet (Republican, SC-4)Starling Tucker (Republican, SC-5)Henry Hunter Bryan (Republican, TN-6)Newton Cannon (Republican, TN-5)Francis Jones (Republican, TN-3)John Rhea (Republican, TN-1)Robert Allen (Republican, TN-4)John Cocke (Republican, TN-2)William Armisted Burwell (Republican, VA-14)John Cowper Gray (Republican, VA-20)Severn Eyre Parker (Republican, VA-13)Ballard Smith (Republican, VA-7)George French Strother (Republican, VA-10)James Jones (Republican, VA-19)Hugh Nelson (Republican, VA-22)William Lee Ball (Republican, VA-9)Arthur Smith (Republican, VA-AL)George Tucker (Republican, VA-15)Jared Williams (Republican, VA-3)Robert Selden Garnett (Republican, VA-12)John Floyd (Republican, VA-5)Philip Pendleton Barbour (Republican, VA-11)Alexander Smyth (Republican, VA-6)Mark Alexander (Republican, VA-18)William McCoy (Republican, VA-4)Thomas Newton Jr. (Republican, VA-21)John Randolph (Republican, VA-16)John Tyler (Republican, VA-23)William Segar Archer (Republican, VA-17)Orsamus Cook Merrill (Republican, VT-AL)
1820-07-24/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
1820-07-24/weekWithin a week · Jul 17, 1820 – Jul 31, 1820
Nothing recorded within a week of this date.

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