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The United States on July 13, 1846

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President
Polk
James Knox Polk D · since Mar 4, 1845
Senate
30 D · 25 W
56 senators · 29th Congress
House
135 D · 78 W
219 representatives
Supreme Court
7 D · 1 W
8 justices by appointing party
Union
28 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$16M
as of Jul 1, 1846
1846-07-13/executiveThe administration
President James Knox Polk D
since Mar 4, 1845
Vice President George Mifflin Dallas D
Attorney General John Y. Mason D
since Mar 5, 1845
Postmaster General Cave Johnson D
since Mar 6, 1845
Secretary of War William L. Marcy D
since Mar 6, 1845
Secretary of the Treasury Robert J. Walker D
since Mar 8, 1845
Secretary of State James Buchanan D
since Mar 10, 1845
Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft D
since Mar 11, 1845
1846-07-13/congress29th Congress
Senate · 30 D · 25 W · 1 L
Arthur Pendleton Bagby (Democrat, AL)Dixon Hall Lewis (Democrat, AL)Ambrose Hundley Sevier (Democrat, AR)Chester Ashley (Democrat, AR)John Milton Niles (Democrat, CT)James Diament Westcott Jr. (Democrat, FL)David Levy Yulee (Democrat, FL)Walter Terry Colquitt (Democrat, GA)James Semple (Democrat, IL)Sidney Breese (Democrat, IL)Edward Allen Hannegan (Democrat, IN)Jesse David Bright (Democrat, IN)John Fairfield (Democrat, ME)Lewis Cass (Democrat, MI)David Rice Atchison (Democrat, MO)Thomas Hart Benton (Democrat, MO)Joseph Williams Chalmers (Democrat, MS)Jesse Speight (Democrat, MS)Charles Gordon Atherton (Democrat, NH)Daniel Stevens Dickinson (Democrat, NY)John Adams Dix (Democrat, NY)William Allen (Democrat, OH)Simon Cameron (Democrat, PA)Daniel Sturgeon (Democrat, PA)Andrew Pickens Butler (Democrat, SC)John Caldwell Calhoun (Democrat, SC)Hopkins Lacy Turney (Democrat, TN)Thomas Jefferson Rusk (Democrat, TX)Samuel Houston (Democrat, TX)Isaac Samuels Pennybacker (Democrat, VA)Joseph Cilley (Liberty, NH)Jabez Williams Huntington (Whig, CT)Thomas Clayton (Whig, DE)John Middleton Clayton (Whig, DE)John Macpherson Berrien (Whig, GA)James Turner Morehead (Whig, KY)John Jordan Crittenden (Whig, KY)Alexander Barrow (Whig, LA)Henry Johnson (Whig, LA)John Davis (Whig, MA)Daniel Webster (Whig, MA)James Alfred Pearce (Whig, MD)Reverdy Johnson (Whig, MD)George Evans (Whig, ME)William Woodbridge (Whig, MI)Willie Person Mangum (Whig, NC)George Edmund Badger (Whig, NC)Jacob Welsh Miller (Whig, NJ)William Lewis Dayton (Whig, NJ)Thomas Corwin (Whig, OH)James Fowler Simmons (Whig, RI)Albert Collins Greene (Whig, RI)Spencer Jarnagin (Whig, TN)William Segar Archer (Whig, VA)William Upham (Whig, VT)Samuel Shethar Phelps (Whig, VT)
House · 135 D · 78 W · 6 A
Reuben Chapman (Democrat, AL-6)James La Fayette Cottrell (Democrat, AL-3)Edmund Strother Dargan (Democrat, AL-1)Felix Grundy McConnell (Democrat, AL-7)William Winter Payne (Democrat, AL-4)George Smith Houston (Democrat, AL-5)William Henry Brockenbrough (Democrat, FL-1)Seaborn Jones (Democrat, GA-2)George Washington Bonaparte Towns (Democrat, GA-3)Hugh Anderson Haralson (Democrat, GA-4)Howell Cobb (Democrat, GA-6)John Henry Lumpkin (Democrat, GA-5)Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democrat, IA-AL)Joseph Pendleton Hoge (Democrat, IL-6)Orlando Bell Ficklin (Democrat, IL-3)Robert Smith (Democrat, IL-1)Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat, IL-5)John Alexander McClernand (Democrat, IL-2)John Wentworth (Democrat, IL-4)John Wesley Davis (Democrat, IN-6)Andrew Kennedy (Democrat, IN-10)Robert Dale Owen (Democrat, IN-1)Thomas Smith (Democrat, IN-3)Thomas Jefferson Henley (Democrat, IN-2)William Watson Wick (Democrat, IN-5)Charles William Cathcart (Democrat, IN-9)John Pettit (Democrat, IN-8)John Preston Martin (Democrat, KY-6)John Wooleston Tibbatts (Democrat, KY-10)Linn Boyd (Democrat, KY-1)John Bennett Dawson (Democrat, LA-AL)John Henry Harmanson (Democrat, LA-3)Emile La Sére (Democrat, LA-1)Isaac Edward Morse (Democrat, LA-4)Albert Constable (Democrat, MD-5)William Fell Giles (Democrat, MD-4)Thomas Johns Perry (Democrat, MD-2)Thomas Watkins Ligon (Democrat, MD-3)Robert Pinckney Dunlap (Democrat, ME-2)John Dennis McCrate (Democrat, ME-4)John Fairfield Scamman (Democrat, ME-1)Hezekiah Williams (Democrat, ME-7)Cullen Sawtelle (Democrat, ME-5)Hannibal Hamlin (Democrat, ME-6)John Smith Chipman (Democrat, MI-2)James Bennett Hunt (Democrat, MI-3)Robert McClelland (Democrat, MI-1)William McDaniel (Democrat, MO-AL)Henry Thomas Ellett (Democrat, MS-AL)Henry Selby Clark (Democrat, NC-8)James Cochrane Dobbin (Democrat, NC-5)James Iver McKay (Democrat, NC-6)John Reeves Jones Daniel (Democrat, NC-7)David Settle Reid (Democrat, NC-3)Asa Biggs (Democrat, NC-9)Mace Moulton (Democrat, NH-AL)George Sykes (Democrat, NJ-2)Joseph E. Edsall (Democrat, NJ-4)Joseph Halstead Anderson (Democrat, NY-7)Charles Swan Benton (Democrat, NY-17)John Francis Collin (Democrat, NY-11)John De Mott (Democrat, NY-27)Samuel Stewart Ellsworth (Democrat, NY-26)Samuel Gordon (Democrat, NY-10)Martin Grover (Democrat, NY-30)William Jervis Hough (Democrat, NY-23)Orville Hungerford (Democrat, NY-19)John Watson Lawrence (Democrat, NY-1)Archibald Campbell Niven (Democrat, NY-9)George Oscar Rathbun (Democrat, NY-25)Stephen Strong (Democrat, NY-22)Horace Wheaton (Democrat, NY-24)Bradford Ripley Wood (Democrat, NY-13)William W. Woodworth (Democrat, NY-8)Timothy Jenkins (Democrat, NY-20)Joseph Russell (Democrat, NY-15)Preston King (Democrat, NY-18)William Brown Maclay (Democrat, NY-4)Charles Goodyear (Democrat, NY-21)Jacob Brinkerhoff (Democrat, OH-11)Francis Alanson Cunningham (Democrat, OH-2)Joseph Jefferson McDowell (Democrat, OH-7)Joseph Morris (Democrat, OH-15)Isaac Parrish (Democrat, OH-13)Augustus Leonard Perrill (Democrat, OH-9)Henry St. John (Democrat, OH-6)David Austin Starkweather (Democrat, OH-18)John D. Cummins (Democrat, OH-16)James John Faran (Democrat, OH-1)George Fries (Democrat, OH-17)William Sawyer (Democrat, OH-5)Allen Granberry Thurman (Democrat, OH-8)James Black (Democrat, PA-16)Jacob Erdman (Democrat, PA-6)William Swan Garvin (Democrat, PA-22)Owen D. Leib (Democrat, PA-11)Moses McClean (Democrat, PA-15)John Ritter (Democrat, PA-9)Jacob Senewell Yost (Democrat, PA-5)Charles Jared Ingersoll (Democrat, PA-4)James Thompson (Democrat, PA-23)Richard Brodhead (Democrat, PA-10)David Wilmot (Democrat, PA-12)Henry Donnel Foster (Democrat, PA-19)James Augustus Black (Democrat, SC-1)Richard Franklin Simpson (Democrat, SC-2)Alexander Dromgoole Sims (Democrat, SC-4)Isaac Edward Holmes (Democrat, SC-6)Robert Barnwell Rhett (Democrat, SC-7)Armistead Burt (Democrat, SC-5)Joseph Addison Woodward (Democrat, SC-3)Alvan Cullom (Democrat, TN-4)Barclay Martin (Democrat, TN-6)Lucien Bonaparte Chase (Democrat, TN-9)Frederick Perry Stanton (Democrat, TN-10)George Washington Jones (Democrat, TN-5)Andrew Johnson (Democrat, TN-1)Timothy Pilsbury (Democrat, TX-2)David Spangler Kaufman (Democrat, TX-1)Augustus Alexandria Chapman (Democrat, VA-12)Edmund Wilcox Hubard (Democrat, VA-4)Joseph Johnson (Democrat, VA-14)William Taylor (Democrat, VA-11)William Marshall Tredway (Democrat, VA-3)Archibald Atkinson (Democrat, VA-1)Henry Bedinger (Democrat, VA-10)George Coke Dromgoole (Democrat, VA-2)James Alexander Seddon (Democrat, VA-6)Thomas Henry Bayly (Democrat, VA-7)George Washington Hopkins (Democrat, VA-13)Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Democrat, VA-8)Shelton Farrar Leake (Democrat, VA-5)William Gay Brown (Democrat, VA-15)Paul Dillingham Jr. (Democrat, VT-4)Morgan Lewis Martin (Democrat, WI-AL)William W. Campbell (American, NY-6)William Starr Miller (American, NY-3)Henry John Seaman (American, NY-2)Thomas M. Woodruff (American, NY-5)John Hull Campbell (American, PA-3)Lewis Charles Levin (American, PA-1)Henry Washington Hilliard (Whig, AL-2)Thomas Willoughby Newton (Whig, AR-1)Samuel Dickinson Hubbard (Whig, CT-2)John Arnold Rockwell (Whig, CT-3)Truman Smith (Whig, CT-4)James Dixon (Whig, CT-1)John Wallace Houston (Whig, DE-AL)Thomas Butler King (Whig, GA-1)Robert Augustus Toombs (Whig, GA-8)Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Whig, GA-7)John Henry (Whig, IL-7)Caleb Blood Smith (Whig, IN-4)Edward Wilson McGaughey (Whig, IN-7)Joshua Fry Bell (Whig, KY-4)John Hardin McHenry (Whig, KY-2)William Poindexter Thomasson (Whig, KY-7)Andrew Alkire Trumbo (Whig, KY-9)Bryan Rust Young (Whig, KY-5)Henry Grider (Whig, KY-3)Garrett Davis (Whig, KY-8)Bannon Goforth Thibodeaux (Whig, LA-2)Amos Abbott (Whig, MA-3)John Quincy Adams (Whig, MA-8)Artemas Hale (Whig, MA-9)Charles Hudson (Whig, MA-5)George Ashmun (Whig, MA-6)Joseph Grinnell (Whig, MA-10)Daniel Putnam King (Whig, MA-2)Robert Charles Winthrop (Whig, MA-1)Benjamin Thompson (Whig, MA-4)Julius Rockwell (Whig, MA-7)Edward Henry Carroll Long (Whig, MD-6)John Grant Chapman (Whig, MD-1)Luther Severance (Whig, ME-3)James Graham (Whig, NC-1)Daniel Moreau Barringer (Whig, NC-2)Alfred Dockery (Whig, NC-4)John Runk (Whig, NJ-3)James Giles Hampton (Whig, NJ-1)William Wright (Whig, NJ-5)Charles Holker Carroll (Whig, NY-29)Erastus Dean Culver (Whig, NY-14)Richard Platt Herrick (Whig, NY-12)Abner Lewis (Whig, NY-31)William Abbott Moseley (Whig, NY-32)Albert Smith (Whig, NY-33)Elias Bellows Holmes (Whig, NY-28)Washington Hunt (Whig, NY-34)Hugh White (Whig, NY-16)Daniel Rose Tilden (Whig, OH-19)Joseph Vance (Whig, OH-4)Joseph Mosley Root (Whig, OH-21)Samuel Finley Vinton (Whig, OH-12)Alexander Harper (Whig, OH-14)Joshua Reed Giddings (Whig, OH-20)Columbus Delano (Whig, OH-10)Robert Cumming Schenck (Whig, OH-3)Joseph Buffington (Whig, PA-24)Cornelius Darragh (Whig, PA-21)John Hoge Ewing (Whig, PA-20)John Blanchard (Whig, PA-17)Joseph Reed Ingersoll (Whig, PA-2)Abraham Robinson McIlvaine (Whig, PA-7)James Pollock (Whig, PA-13)Andrew Stewart (Whig, PA-18)John Strohm (Whig, PA-8)Alexander Ramsey (Whig, PA-14)Lemuel Hastings Arnold (Whig, RI-2)Henry Young Cranston (Whig, RI-1)Milton Brown (Whig, TN-11)Edwin Hickman Ewing (Whig, TN-8)William Michael Cocke (Whig, TN-2)John Hervey Crozier (Whig, TN-3)Meredith Poindexter Gentry (Whig, TN-7)John Strother Pendleton (Whig, VA-9)George Perkins Marsh (Whig, VT-3)Jacob Collamer (Whig, VT-2)Solomon Foot (Whig, VT-1)
1846-07-13/supreme-courtThe bench
John McLean D
Associate Justice · appointed by Andrew Jackson · since Mar 7, 1829
James Moore Wayne D
Associate Justice · appointed by Andrew Jackson · since Jan 9, 1835
Roger Brooke Taney D
Chief Justice · appointed by Andrew Jackson · since Mar 15, 1836
John Catron D
Associate Justice · appointed by Andrew Jackson · since Mar 8, 1837
John McKinley D
Associate Justice · appointed by Martin Van Buren · since Sep 25, 1837
Peter Vivian Daniel D
Associate Justice · appointed by Martin Van Buren · since Mar 3, 1841
Samuel Nelson W
Associate Justice · appointed by John Tyler · since Feb 13, 1845
Levi Woodbury D
Associate Justice · appointed by James K. Polk · since Jan 3, 1846
1846-07-13/weekWithin a week · Jul 6, 1846 – Jul 20, 1846
Law District of Columbia retrocession
Jul 9, 1846 · Ch. 35, Sess. 1, 29th Cong.

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.