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The United States on July 4, 1863

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 R · 6 D
31 senators · 38th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
5 D · 4 R · 1 W
10 justices by appointing party
Union
35 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.1B
as of Jul 1, 1863
1863-07-04/executiveThe administration
President Abraham Lincoln R
since Mar 4, 1861
Vice President Hannibal Hamlin R
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
Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton D
since Jan 20, 1862
Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher R
since Jan 1, 1863
1863-07-04/congress38th Congress
Senate · 22 R · 6 D · 2 U · 1 UU
James Alexander McDougall (Democrat, CA)Willard Saulsbury Sr. (Democrat, DE)Lazarus Whitehead Powell (Democrat, KY)Garrett Davis (Democrat, KY)James Willis Nesmith (Democrat, OR)Benjamin Franklin Harding (Democrat, OR)Thomas Holliday Hicks (Unconditional Unionist, MD)Robert Wilson (Unionist, MO)John Snyder Carlile (Unionist, VA)Lafayette Sabine Foster (Republican, CT)James Wilson Grimes (Republican, IA)James Harlan (Republican, IA)Orville Hickman Browning (Republican, IL)Lyman Trumbull (Republican, IL)Henry Smith Lane (Republican, IN)James Henry Lane (Republican, KS)Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (Republican, KS)Henry Wilson (Republican, MA)William Pitt Fessenden (Republican, ME)Jacob Merritt Howard (Republican, MI)Morton Smith Wilkinson (Republican, MN)John Brooks Henderson (Republican, MO)John Parker Hale (Republican, NH)Daniel Clark (Republican, NH)John Conover Ten Eyck (Republican, NJ)Ira Harris (Republican, NY)John Sherman (Republican, OH)Edgar Cowan (Republican, PA)Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican, RI)Jacob Collamer (Republican, VT)Timothy Otis Howe (Republican, WI)
House ·
1863-07-04/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
Noah Haynes Swayne R
Associate Justice · appointed by Abraham Lincoln · since Jan 24, 1862
Samuel Freeman Miller R
Associate Justice · appointed by Abraham Lincoln · since Jul 16, 1862
David Davis R
Associate Justice · appointed by Abraham Lincoln · since Dec 8, 1862
Stephen Johnson Field R
Associate Justice · appointed by Abraham Lincoln · since Mar 10, 1863
1863-07-04/weekWithin a week · Jun 27, 1863 – Jul 11, 1863
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.