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The United States on March 15, 1849

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

President
Taylor
Zachary Taylor W · since Mar 4, 1849
Senate
27 D · 16 W
44 senators · 31st Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
8 D · 1 W
9 justices by appointing party
Union
30 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$47M
as of Jul 1, 1848
1849-03-15/executiveThe administration
President Zachary Taylor W
since Mar 4, 1849
Vice President Millard Fillmore W
Attorney General Reverdy Johnson W
since Mar 8, 1849
Postmaster General Jacob Collamer R
since Mar 8, 1849
Secretary of State John M. Clayton W
since Mar 8, 1849
Secretary of the Interior Thomas Ewing W
since Mar 8, 1849
Secretary of the Navy William Ballard Preston W
since Mar 8, 1849
Secretary of the Treasury William M. Meredith W
since Mar 8, 1849
Secretary of War George W. Crawford W
since Mar 8, 1849
1849-03-15/congress31st Congress
Senate · 27 D · 16 W · 1 FS
Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Democrat, AL)William Rufus de Vane King (Democrat, AL)William King Sebastian (Democrat, AR)Solon Borland (Democrat, AR)David Levy Yulee (Democrat, FL)George Wallace Jones (Democrat, IA)Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democrat, IA)Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat, IL)Jesse David Bright (Democrat, IN)Solomon Weathersbee Downs (Democrat, LA)James Ware Bradbury (Democrat, ME)Hannibal Hamlin (Democrat, ME)Alpheus Felch (Democrat, MI)Thomas Fitzgerald (Democrat, MI)Thomas Hart Benton (Democrat, MO)Jefferson Davis (Democrat, MS)Henry Stuart Foote (Democrat, MS)Daniel Stevens Dickinson (Democrat, NY)Daniel Sturgeon (Democrat, PA)John Caldwell Calhoun (Democrat, SC)Hopkins Lacy Turney (Democrat, TN)Thomas Jefferson Rusk (Democrat, TX)Samuel Houston (Democrat, TX)James Murray Mason (Democrat, VA)Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Democrat, VA)Henry Dodge (Democrat, WI)Isaac Pigeon Walker (Democrat, WI)John Parker Hale (Free Soil, NH)Roger Sherman Baldwin (Whig, CT)John Middleton Clayton (Whig, DE)Presley Spruance (Whig, DE)John Macpherson Berrien (Whig, GA)Joseph Rogers Underwood (Whig, KY)Daniel Webster (Whig, MA)John Davis (Whig, MA)Reverdy Johnson (Whig, MD)Willie Person Mangum (Whig, NC)William Lewis Dayton (Whig, NJ)Jacob Welsh Miller (Whig, NJ)Thomas Corwin (Whig, OH)Albert Collins Greene (Whig, RI)John Hopkins Clarke (Whig, RI)John Bell (Whig, TN)Samuel Shethar Phelps (Whig, VT)
House ·
1849-03-15/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
Robert Cooper Grier D
Associate Justice · appointed by James K. Polk · since Aug 4, 1846
1849-03-15/weekWithin a week · Mar 8, 1849 – Mar 22, 1849
Ruling Hugg v. The Augusta Insurance and Banking Company of the City of Augusta
Mar 9, 1849 · 48 U.S. 595
Ruling Hardeman v. Harris
Mar 12, 1849 · 48 U.S. 726
Ruling Grant B. Udell and Jacob Miller v. Davidson
Mar 12, 1849 · 48 U.S. 769
Ruling Jeremiah Van Rensselaer v. Executors
Mar 12, 1849 · 48 U.S. 784
Ruling Missouri v. Iowa
Mar 13, 1849 · 48 U.S. 660
Ruling Jones v. United States
Mar 13, 1849 · 48 U.S. 681
Ruling Harris v. Wall
Mar 13, 1849 · 48 U.S. 693
Ruling Townsend v. Jemison
Mar 13, 1849 · 48 U.S. 706
Ruling W. and H. Massingill v. A.C. Downs
Mar 13, 1849 · 48 U.S. 760
Ruling Hall Neilson v. Wilson Lagow
Mar 13, 1849 · 48 U.S. 772
Ruling Lewis v. Lewis
Mar 13, 1849 · 48 U.S. 776

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.