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The United States on July 4, 1857

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

President
Buchanan
James Buchanan D · since Mar 4, 1857
Senate
24 D · 10 R
39 senators · 35th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 D · 2 W
9 justices by appointing party
Union
31 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$29M
as of Jul 1, 1857
1857-07-04/executiveThe administration
President James Buchanan D
since Mar 4, 1857
Vice President John Cabell Breckinridge D
Secretary of State Lewis Cass D
since Mar 6, 1857
Attorney General Jeremiah S. Black D
since Mar 6, 1857
Secretary of the Treasury Howell Cobb D
since Mar 7, 1857
Secretary of the Navy Isaac Toucey D
since Mar 7, 1857
1857-07-04/congress35th Congress
Senate · 24 D · 10 R · 4 A · 1 IRD
Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. (Democrat, AL)Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Democrat, AL)William King Sebastian (Democrat, AR)Robert Ward Johnson (Democrat, AR)David Colbreth Broderick (Democrat, CA)David Levy Yulee (Democrat, FL)Robert Augustus Toombs (Democrat, GA)Alfred Iverson Sr. (Democrat, GA)George Wallace Jones (Democrat, IA)Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat, IL)Judah Philip Benjamin (Democrat, LA)John Slidell (Democrat, LA)James Alfred Pearce (Democrat, MD)Charles Edward Stuart (Democrat, MI)Albert Gallatin Brown (Democrat, MS)David Settle Reid (Democrat, NC)Asa Biggs (Democrat, NC)William Wright (Democrat, NJ)George Ellis Pugh (Democrat, OH)William Bigler (Democrat, PA)Philip Allen (Democrat, RI)Josiah James Evans (Democrat, SC)Andrew Pickens Butler (Democrat, SC)Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Democrat, VA)Joseph Parsons Comegys (Ind. Republican-Democrat, DE)John Burton Thompson (American, KY)John Jordan Crittenden (American, KY)John Bell (American, TN)Samuel Houston (American, TX)Lafayette Sabine Foster (Republican, CT)James Harlan (Republican, IA)Lyman Trumbull (Republican, IL)Henry Wilson (Republican, MA)William Pitt Fessenden (Republican, ME)James Bell (Republican, NH)John Parker Hale (Republican, NH)William Henry Seward (Republican, NY)Jacob Collamer (Republican, VT)Charles Durkee (Republican, WI)
House ·
1857-07-04/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
1857-07-04/weekWithin a week · Jun 27, 1857 – Jul 11, 1857
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.