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The United States on July 26, 1825

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

President
Adams
John Quincy Adams DR · since Mar 4, 1825
Senate
14 J · 12 A
31 senators · 19th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
5 JR · 2 F
7 justices by appointing party
Union
24 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$84M
as of Jan 1, 1825
1825-07-26/executiveThe administration
President John Quincy Adams DR
since Mar 4, 1825
Vice President John Caldwell Calhoun DR
Attorney General William Wirt DR
since Nov 13, 1817
Postmaster General John McLean D
since Jun 26, 1823
Secretary of State Henry Clay NRP
since Mar 7, 1825
Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush
since Mar 7, 1825
1825-07-26/congress19th Congress
Senate · 14 J · 12 A · 3 R · 2 DR
William Rufus de Vane King (Jackson, AL)Henry Waggaman Edwards (Jackson, CT)Nicholas Van Dyke (Adams, DE)Thomas Clayton (Adams, DE)Thomas Willis Cobb (Jackson, GA)Jesse Burgess Thomas (Adams, IL)James Noble (Adams, IN)Richard Mentor Johnson (Jackson, KY)Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny (Adams, LA)Elijah Hunt Mills (Adams, MA)James Lloyd (Adams, MA)Samuel Smith (Jackson, MD)John Holmes (Democratic Republican, ME)John Chandler (Jackson, ME)Thomas Hart Benton (Jackson, MO)Thomas Hill Williams (Jackson, MS)John Branch (Jackson, NC)Samuel Bell (Adams, NH)Joseph McIlvaine (Adams, NJ)Mahlon Dickerson (Jackson, NJ)Martin Van Buren (Jackson, NY)Benjamin Ruggles (Adams, OH)William Findlay (Jackson, PA)Nehemiah Rice Knight (Adams, RI)Robert Young Hayne (Jackson, SC)Andrew Jackson (Democratic Republican, TN)Littleton Waller Tazewell (Jackson, VA)Horatio Seymour (Adams, VT)David Holmes (Republican, MS)James De Wolf (Republican, RI)James Barbour (Republican, VA)
House ·
1825-07-26/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
Smith Thompson JR
Associate Justice · appointed by James Monroe · since Dec 9, 1823
1825-07-26/weekWithin a week · Jul 19, 1825 – Aug 2, 1825
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.