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The United States on June 22, 1865

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

President
Johnson
Andrew Johnson D · since Apr 15, 1865
Senate
27 R · 8 D
36 senators · 39th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
5 R · 3 D · 1 W
9 justices by appointing party
Union
36 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.8B
as of Jul 1, 1864
1865-06-22/executiveThe administration
President Andrew Johnson D
since Apr 15, 1865
Vice President vacant
Secretary of State William H. Seward R
since Mar 5, 1861
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles D
since Mar 7, 1861
Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton D
since Jan 20, 1862
Postmaster General William Dennison Jr. R
since Sep 24, 1864
Attorney General James Speed R
since Dec 2, 1864
Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch R
since Mar 9, 1865
Secretary of the Interior James Harlan W
since May 16, 1865
1865-06-22/congress39th Congress
Senate · 27 R · 8 D · 1 UU
James Alexander McDougall (Democrat, CA)George Read Riddle (Democrat, DE)Thomas Andrews Hendricks (Democrat, IN)Garrett Davis (Democrat, KY)Reverdy Johnson (Democrat, MD)William Wright (Democrat, NJ)James Willis Nesmith (Democrat, OR)Charles Rollin Buckalew (Democrat, PA)Thomas Holliday Hicks (Unconditional Unionist, MD)John Conness (Republican, CA)Lafayette Sabine Foster (Republican, CT)James Dixon (Republican, CT)James Harlan (Republican, IA)Lyman Trumbull (Republican, IL)Henry Smith Lane (Republican, IN)Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (Republican, KS)Charles Sumner (Republican, MA)Lot Myrick Morrill (Republican, ME)Zachariah Chandler (Republican, MI)Alexander Ramsey (Republican, MN)John Brooks Henderson (Republican, MO)Benjamin Gratz Brown (Republican, MO)Daniel Clark (Republican, NH)James Warren Nye (Republican, NV)William Morris Stewart (Republican, NV)Ira Harris (Republican, NY)Edwin Denison Morgan (Republican, NY)John Sherman (Republican, OH)Benjamin Franklin Wade (Republican, OH)Edgar Cowan (Republican, PA)William Sprague (Republican, RI)Jacob Collamer (Republican, VT)Solomon Foot (Republican, VT)Timothy Otis Howe (Republican, WI)James Rood Doolittle (Republican, WI)Peter Godwin Van Winkle (Republican, WV)
House ·
1865-06-22/supreme-courtThe bench
James Moore Wayne D
Associate Justice · appointed by Andrew Jackson · since Jan 9, 1835
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
Salmon Portland Chase R
Chief Justice · appointed by Abraham Lincoln · since Dec 6, 1864
1865-06-22/weekWithin a week · Jun 15, 1865 – Jun 29, 1865
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.