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The United States on July 2, 1861

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

President
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln R · since Mar 4, 1861
Senate
22 D · 19 R
42 senators · 37th Congress
House
1 U
1 representatives
Supreme Court
5 D · 1 W
6 justices by appointing party
Union
34 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$91M
as of Jul 1, 1861
1861-07-02/executiveThe administration
President Abraham Lincoln R
since Mar 4, 1861
Vice President Hannibal Hamlin R
Secretary of War Simon Cameron R
since Mar 5, 1861
Postmaster General Montgomery Blair R
since Mar 5, 1861
Attorney General Edward Bates DR
since Mar 5, 1861
Secretary of State William H. Seward R
since Mar 5, 1861
Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase D
since Mar 7, 1861
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles D
since Mar 7, 1861
1861-07-02/congress37th Congress
Senate · 22 D · 19 R · 1 U
Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. (Democrat, AL)William King Sebastian (Democrat, AR)Milton Slocum Latham (Democrat, CA)James Asheton Bayard Jr. (Democrat, DE)Willard Saulsbury Sr. (Democrat, DE)Robert Augustus Toombs (Democrat, GA)Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat, IL)Jesse David Bright (Democrat, IN)Lazarus Whitehead Powell (Democrat, KY)Judah Philip Benjamin (Democrat, LA)Henry Mower Rice (Democrat, MN)Trusten Polk (Democrat, MO)Jefferson Davis (Democrat, MS)Albert Gallatin Brown (Democrat, MS)Thomas Bragg (Democrat, NC)John Renshaw Thomson (Democrat, NJ)Andrew Johnson (Democrat, TN)Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson (Democrat, TN)John Hemphill (Democrat, TX)Louis Trezevant Wigfall (Democrat, TX)James Murray Mason (Democrat, VA)Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Democrat, VA)Anthony Kennedy (Unionist, MD)James Dixon (Republican, CT)James Wilson Grimes (Republican, IA)Charles Sumner (Republican, MA)Henry Wilson (Republican, MA)Hannibal Hamlin (Republican, ME)William Pitt Fessenden (Republican, ME)Zachariah Chandler (Republican, MI)Kinsley Scott Bingham (Republican, MI)Morton Smith Wilkinson (Republican, MN)John Parker Hale (Republican, NH)John Conover Ten Eyck (Republican, NJ)Preston King (Republican, NY)Benjamin Franklin Wade (Republican, OH)Edward Dickinson Baker (Republican, OR)Simon Cameron (Republican, PA)James Fowler Simmons (Republican, RI)Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican, RI)Solomon Foot (Republican, VT)James Rood Doolittle (Republican, WI)
House · 1 U
John Snyder Carlile (Unionist, VA-11)
1861-07-02/supreme-courtThe bench
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
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
Nathan Clifford D
Associate Justice · appointed by James Buchanan · since Jan 12, 1858
1861-07-02/weekWithin a week · Jun 25, 1861 – Jul 9, 1861
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.