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The United States on July 14, 1835

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
8 J · 7 W
30 senators · 24th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
3 D · 2 JR
5 justices by appointing party
Union
24 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$30,000
as of Jan 1, 1835
1835-07-14/executiveThe administration
President Andrew Jackson D
since Mar 4, 1833
Vice President Martin Van Buren D
Secretary of War Lewis Cass D
since Aug 1, 1831
Attorney General Benjamin Franklin Butler D
since Nov 15, 1833
Secretary of State John Forsyth D
since Jul 1, 1834
Secretary of the Treasury Levi Woodbury D
since Jul 1, 1834
1835-07-14/congress24th Congress
Senate · 8 J · 7 W · 6 D · 5 AJ · 2 O · 1 A · 1 N
John Tipton (Democrat, IN)Thomas Hart Benton (Democrat, MO)Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge (Democrat, NY)Thomas Morris (Democrat, OH)Samuel McKean (Democrat, PA)Felix Grundy (Democrat, TN)Gabriel Moore (Jackson, AL)Gideon Tomlinson (Anti-Jacksonian, CT)Nathan Smith (Anti-Jacksonian, CT)Arnold Naudain (?, DE)Elias Kent Kane (Jackson, IL)William Hendricks (Adams, IN)Alexander Porter (Anti-Jacksonian, LA)Ether Shepley (Jackson, ME)Lewis Fields Linn (Jackson, MO)Willie Person Mangum (Jackson, NC)Isaac Hill (Jackson, NH)Silas Wright Jr. (Jackson, NY)Thomas Ewing (Anti-Jacksonian, OH)James Buchanan (Jackson, PA)William Campbell Preston (Nullifier, SC)John Tyler (?, VA)Samuel Prentiss (Anti-Jacksonian, VT)Henry Clay (Whig, KY)Daniel Webster (Whig, MA)Joseph Kent (Whig, MD)John Black (Whig, MS)Samuel Lewis Southard (Whig, NJ)Asher Robbins (Whig, RI)Benjamin Swift (Whig, VT)
House ·
1835-07-14/supreme-courtThe bench
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
James Moore Wayne D
Associate Justice · appointed by Andrew Jackson · since Jan 9, 1835
1835-07-14/weekWithin a week · Jul 7, 1835 – Jul 21, 1835
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.