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The United States on March 18, 1833

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, 1833
Senate
16 J · 7 AJ
33 senators · 23rd 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
$7M
as of Jan 1, 1833
1833-03-18/executiveThe administration
President Andrew Jackson D
since Mar 4, 1833
Vice President Martin Van Buren D
Postmaster General William T. Barry DR
since Mar 9, 1829
Secretary of the Navy Levi Woodbury D
since May 23, 1831
Secretary of State Edward Livingston D
since May 24, 1831
Attorney General Roger B. Taney D
since Jul 20, 1831
Secretary of War Lewis Cass D
since Aug 1, 1831
Secretary of the Treasury Louis McLane D
since Aug 8, 1831
1833-03-18/congress23rd Congress
Senate · 16 J · 7 AJ · 3 O · 3 A · 2 W · 2 N
William Rufus de Vane King (Jackson, AL)Gabriel Moore (Jackson, AL)Gideon Tomlinson (Anti-Jacksonian, CT)Nathan Smith (Anti-Jacksonian, CT)John Middleton Clayton (?, DE)George Michael Troup (Jackson, GA)John Forsyth (Jackson, GA)John McCracken Robinson (Jackson, IL)Elias Kent Kane (Jackson, IL)William Hendricks (Adams, IN)George Mortimer Bibb (Jackson, KY)Josiah Stoddard Johnston (?, LA)George Augustus Waggaman (Anti-Jacksonian, LA)Nathaniel Silsbee (Adams, MA)Ezekiel Forman Chambers (Adams, MD)Peleg Sprague (Anti-Jacksonian, ME)Alexander Buckner (Jackson, MO)George Poindexter (Jackson, MS)Bedford Brown (Jackson, NC)Willie Person Mangum (Jackson, NC)Samuel Bell (?, NH)Isaac Hill (Jackson, NH)Theodore Frelinghuysen (Anti-Jacksonian, NJ)William Learned Marcy (Jackson, NY)Thomas Ewing (Anti-Jacksonian, OH)William Wilkins (Jackson, PA)Stephen Decatur Miller (Nullifier, SC)John Caldwell Calhoun (Nullifier, SC)Hugh Lawson White (Jackson, TN)William Cabell Rives (Jackson, VA)Samuel Prentiss (Anti-Jacksonian, VT)Henry Clay (Whig, KY)Nehemiah Rice Knight (Whig, RI)
House ·
1833-03-18/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
1833-03-18/weekWithin a week · Mar 11, 1833 – Mar 25, 1833
Ruling Douglass v. Reynolds, Byrne and Company
Mar 11, 1833 · 32 U.S. 113
Ruling Nichols v. Fearson
Mar 12, 1833 · 32 U.S. 103
Ruling United States v. Abel Turner
Mar 12, 1833 · 32 U.S. 132
Ruling United States v. John B. Mills
Mar 12, 1833 · 32 U.S. 138
Ruling Shaw v. Cooper
Mar 12, 1833 · 32 U.S. 292
Ruling Minor v. Shurbal Tillotson
Mar 13, 1833 · 32 U.S. 99
Ruling United States v. Brewster
Mar 13, 1833 · 32 U.S. 164
Ruling Farmers Bank of Alexandria v. Hooff
Mar 13, 1833 · 32 U.S. 168
Ruling Ex parte Martha Bradstreet
Mar 13, 1833 · 32 U.S. 634

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.