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The United States on July 15, 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
4 JR · 2 F
6 justices by appointing party
Union
24 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$91M
as of Jan 1, 1823
1823-07-15/executiveThe administration
President James Monroe DR
since Mar 5, 1821
Vice President Daniel D. Tompkins DR
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
Postmaster General John McLean D
since Jun 26, 1823
1823-07-15/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 ·
1823-07-15/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
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
1823-07-15/weekWithin a week · Jul 8, 1823 – Jul 22, 1823
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.