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The United States on March 14, 1823

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

President
Monroe
James Monroe DR · since Mar 5, 1821
Senate
19 R · 4 A
30 senators · 18th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
5 JR · 2 F
7 justices by appointing party
Union
24 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$91M
as of Jan 1, 1823
1823-03-14/executiveThe administration
President James Monroe DR
since Mar 5, 1821
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
1823-03-14/congress18th Congress
Senate · 19 R · 4 A · 4 J · 1 F · 1 DR · 1 O
James Noble (Adams, IN)Elijah Hunt Mills (Adams, MA)Samuel Smith (Jackson, MD)John Holmes (Democratic Republican, ME)Thomas Hart Benton (Jackson, MO)Martin Van Buren (Jackson, NY)Benjamin Ruggles (Adams, OH)William Findlay (Jackson, PA)John Henry Eaton (?, TN)Horatio Seymour (Adams, VT)Rufus King (Federalist, NY)William Kelly (Republican, AL)James Lanman (Republican, CT)Elijah Boardman (Republican, CT)John Elliott (Republican, GA)Ninian Edwards (Republican, IL)Waller Taylor (Republican, IN)Isham Talbot (Republican, KY)James Brown (Republican, LA)Edward Lloyd (Republican, MD)David Barton (Republican, MO)David Holmes (Republican, MS)Nathaniel Macon (Republican, NC)John Fabyan Parrott (Republican, NH)Ethan Allen Brown (Republican, OH)Walter Lowrie (Republican, PA)James De Wolf (Republican, RI)John Gaillard (Republican, SC)James Barbour (Republican, VA)William Adams Palmer (Republican, VT)
House ·
1823-03-14/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
1823-03-14/weekWithin a week · Mar 7, 1823 – Mar 21, 1823
Ruling The Frances and Eliza. Coates
Mar 7, 1823 · 21 U.S. 398
Ruling The Luminary. L'Amoureaux
Mar 7, 1823 · 21 U.S. 407
Ruling Wormley v. Wormley
Mar 12, 1823 · 21 U.S. 421
Ruling The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. The Town of New-Haven
Mar 12, 1823 · 21 U.S. 464
Ruling Daly's Lessee v. James
Mar 13, 1823 · 21 U.S. 495
Ruling Hunt v. Rousmanier's Administrators
Mar 14, 1823 · 21 U.S. 174
Ruling Archibald Gracie v. Palmer
Mar 14, 1823 · 21 U.S. 605
Ruling Anderson Childress v. Emory and McCleur
Mar 14, 1823 · 21 U.S. 642
Ruling Hugh v. Higgs and Wife
Mar 14, 1823 · 21 U.S. 697
Ruling Gracie v. Palmer
Mar 14, 1823 · 21 U.S. 699
Ruling La Nereyda. the Spanish Consul
Mar 15, 1823 · 21 U.S. 108
Ruling The Corporation of the City of Washington v. Pratt
Mar 15, 1823 · 21 U.S. 681
Ruling Sneed v. Wister
Mar 15, 1823 · 21 U.S. 690

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.