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The United States on March 24, 1831

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

President
Jackson
Andrew Jackson D · since Mar 4, 1829
Senate
17 J · 8 A
32 senators · 22nd Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
4 JR · 2 D · 1 F
7 justices by appointing party
Union
24 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$39M
as of Jan 1, 1831
1831-03-24/executiveThe administration
President Andrew Jackson D
since Mar 4, 1829
Vice President John Caldwell Calhoun D
Secretary of the Treasury Samuel D. Ingham DR
since Mar 6, 1829
Secretary of the Navy John Branch D
since Mar 9, 1829
Secretary of War John Eaton D
since Mar 9, 1829
Attorney General John M. Berrien W
since Mar 9, 1829
Postmaster General William T. Barry DR
since Mar 9, 1829
Secretary of State Martin Van Buren DR
since Mar 28, 1829
1831-03-24/congress22nd Congress
Senate · 17 J · 8 A · 3 AJ · 2 O · 1 N · 1 W
William Rufus de Vane King (Jackson, AL)Samuel Augustus Foot (Adams, CT)John Middleton Clayton (?, DE)Arnold Naudain (Anti-Jacksonian, DE)George Michael Troup (Jackson, GA)John McCracken Robinson (Jackson, IL)James Noble (Adams, IN)George Mortimer Bibb (Jackson, KY)Edward Livingston (Jackson, LA)Daniel Webster (Adams, MA)Nathaniel Silsbee (Adams, MA)Samuel Smith (Jackson, MD)John Holmes (Adams, ME)Peleg Sprague (Anti-Jacksonian, ME)Thomas Hart Benton (Jackson, MO)Powhatan Ellis (Jackson, MS)George Poindexter (Jackson, MS)Bedford Brown (Jackson, NC)Samuel Bell (?, NH)Mahlon Dickerson (Jackson, NJ)Theodore Frelinghuysen (Anti-Jacksonian, NJ)Charles Edward Dudley (Jackson, NY)Benjamin Ruggles (Adams, OH)Isaac Dutton Barnard (Jackson, PA)Asher Robbins (Adams, RI)Robert Young Hayne (Nullifier, SC)Felix Grundy (Jackson, TN)Hugh Lawson White (Jackson, TN)John Tyler (Jackson, VA)Littleton Waller Tazewell (Jackson, VA)Horatio Seymour (Adams, VT)Nehemiah Rice Knight (Whig, RI)
House ·
1831-03-24/supreme-courtThe bench
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
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
John McLean D
Associate Justice · appointed by Andrew Jackson · since Mar 7, 1829
Henry Baldwin D
Associate Justice · appointed by Andrew Jackson · since Jan 6, 1830
1831-03-24/weekWithin a week · Mar 17, 1831 – Mar 31, 1831
Ruling The Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Mar 18, 1831 · 30 U.S. 1
Ruling Elisha R. Potter v. Hannah Gardner
Mar 18, 1831 · 30 U.S. 718

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.