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The United States on March 4, 1855

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

President
Pierce
Franklin Pierce D · since Mar 4, 1853
Senate
27 D · 8 IRD
40 senators · 34th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 D · 2 W
9 justices by appointing party
Union
31 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$42M
as of Jul 1, 1854
1855-03-04/executiveThe administration
President Franklin Pierce D
since Mar 4, 1853
Vice President vacant
Secretary of the Navy James C. Dobbin D
since Jan 1, 1853
Attorney General Caleb Cushing W
since Mar 7, 1853
Postmaster General James Campbell D
since Mar 7, 1853
Secretary of War Jefferson Davis D
since Mar 7, 1853
Secretary of State William L. Marcy D
since Mar 7, 1853
Secretary of the Treasury James Guthrie D
since Mar 7, 1853
Secretary of the Interior Robert McClelland D
since Mar 8, 1853
1855-03-04/congress34th Congress
Senate · 27 D · 8 IRD · 3 A · 1 W · 1 R
Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. (Democrat, AL)William King Sebastian (Democrat, AR)John B. Weller (Democrat, CA)Isaac Toucey (Democrat, CT)James Asheton Bayard Jr. (Democrat, DE)Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat, FL)Robert Augustus Toombs (Democrat, GA)George Wallace Jones (Democrat, IA)Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat, IL)Jesse David Bright (Democrat, IN)Judah Philip Benjamin (Democrat, LA)Hannibal Hamlin (Democrat, ME)Lewis Cass (Democrat, MI)Charles Edward Stuart (Democrat, MI)Stephen Adams (Democrat, MS)Albert Gallatin Brown (Democrat, MS)David Settle Reid (Democrat, NC)John Renshaw Thomson (Democrat, NJ)William Wright (Democrat, NJ)Richard Brodhead (Democrat, PA)Charles Tillinghast James (Democrat, RI)Philip Allen (Democrat, RI)Josiah James Evans (Democrat, SC)Thomas Jefferson Rusk (Democrat, TX)James Murray Mason (Democrat, VA)Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Democrat, VA)Henry Dodge (Democrat, WI)John Middleton Clayton (Ind. Republican-Democrat, DE)John Burton Thompson (American, KY)Charles Sumner (Ind. Republican-Democrat, MA)Thomas George Pratt (Ind. Republican-Democrat, MD)Henry Sheffie Geyer (Ind. Republican-Democrat, MO)Hamilton Fish (Ind. Republican-Democrat, NY)Benjamin Franklin Wade (Ind. Republican-Democrat, OH)James Chamberlain Jones (Ind. Republican-Democrat, TN)John Bell (American, TN)Samuel Houston (American, TX)Solomon Foot (Ind. Republican-Democrat, VT)Julius Rockwell (Whig, MA)William Pitt Fessenden (Republican, ME)
House ·
1855-03-04/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
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
Robert Cooper Grier D
Associate Justice · appointed by James K. Polk · since Aug 4, 1846
Benjamin Robbins Curtis W
Associate Justice · appointed by Millard Fillmore · since Dec 20, 1851
John Archibald Campbell D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin Pierce · since Mar 22, 1853
1855-03-04/weekWithin a week · Feb 25, 1855 – Mar 11, 1855
Ruling Booth v. Ferdinand Clark
Mar 1, 1855 · 58 U.S. 322
Ruling Boone v. The Missouri Iron Company
Mar 1, 1855 · 58 U.S. 340
Law The U.S. Congress appropriates $30
Mar 3, 1855
Ruling Florida v. Georgia
Mar 6, 1855 · 58 U.S. 478
Ruling Lewis v. Bell
Mar 6, 1855 · 58 U.S. 616
Ruling Peck v. Sanderson
Mar 8, 1855 · 58 U.S. 178
Ruling Iasigi v. Brown
Mar 8, 1855 · 58 U.S. 183
Ruling United States v. Lindsey Nickerson
Mar 8, 1855 · 58 U.S. 204
Ruling Henshaw v. Miller
Mar 8, 1855 · 58 U.S. 212
Ruling United States v. A. G. Seaman
Mar 8, 1855 · 58 U.S. 225
Ruling Morgan B. Hinkle v. Wanzer
Mar 8, 1855 · 58 U.S. 353
Ruling Wanzer v. Bennett R. and J. H. Truly
Mar 8, 1855 · 58 U.S. 584
Ruling Ayres v. Carver
Mar 8, 1855 · 58 U.S. 591
Ruling Dennistoun v. Stewart
Mar 8, 1855 · 58 U.S. 606
Ruling Griffin v. Reynolds
Mar 8, 1855 · 58 U.S. 609
Ruling Judson v. Corcoran
Mar 8, 1855 · 58 U.S. 612
Ruling Hays v. The Pacific Mail Steam-Ship Company
Mar 10, 1855 · 58 U.S. 596
Ruling The Schooner Catharine v. Noah Dickinson
Mar 10, 1855 · 58 U.S. 170
Ruling Minturn v. Lafayette Maynard
Mar 10, 1855 · 58 U.S. 477
Ruling United States v. Archibald A. Ritchie
Mar 10, 1855 · 58 U.S. 525
Ruling Fremont v. United States
Mar 10, 1855 · 58 U.S. 542
Ruling Christy v. Lodovick P. Alford
Mar 10, 1855 · 58 U.S. 601

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.