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The United States on March 13, 1929

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

President
Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover R · since Mar 4, 1929
Senate
37 R · 26 D
63 senators · 71st Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
19 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $19.70
in today's dollars
Public debt
$17.6B
as of Jun 30, 1928
1929-03-13/executiveThe administration
President Herbert Clark Hoover R
since Mar 4, 1929
Vice President Charles Curtis R
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon R
since Mar 9, 1921
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Herbert Mayhew Lord R
since Jul 1, 1922
Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg R
since Mar 5, 1925
Attorney General William D. Mitchell R
since Mar 4, 1929
Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur R
since Mar 5, 1929
Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams III R
since Mar 5, 1929
Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde R
since Mar 6, 1929
1929-03-13/congress71st Congress
Senate · 37 R · 26 D
James Thomas Heflin (Democrat, AL)Hugo Lafayette Black (Democrat, AL)Joseph Taylor Robinson (Democrat, AR)Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (Democrat, AR)Carl Trumbull Hayden (Democrat, AZ)Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (Democrat, FL)William Julius Harris (Democrat, GA)Walter Franklin George (Democrat, GA)Daniel Frederic Steck (Democrat, IA)Alben William Barkley (Democrat, KY)Joseph Eugene Ransdell (Democrat, LA)Edwin Sidney Broussard (Democrat, LA)Millard Evelyn Tydings (Democrat, MD)Harry Bartow Hawes (Democrat, MO)Byron Patton Harrison (Democrat, MS)Thomas James Walsh (Democrat, MT)Furnifold McLendel Simmons (Democrat, NC)Lee Slater Overman (Democrat, NC)Sam Gilbert Bratton (Democrat, NM)Robert Ferdinand Wagner (Democrat, NY)John William Elmer Thomas (Democrat, OK)Coleman Livingston Blease (Democrat, SC)Ellison DuRant Smith (Democrat, SC)Lawrence Davis Tyson (Democrat, TN)Morris Sheppard (Democrat, TX)Carter Glass (Democrat, VA)Samuel Morgan Shortridge (Republican, CA)Lawrence Cowle Phipps (Republican, CO)Charles Winfield Waterman (Republican, CO)Hiram Bingham (Republican, CT)Daniel Oren Hastings (Republican, DE)Smith Wildman Brookhart (Republican, IA)William Edgar Borah (Republican, ID)John Thomas (Republican, ID)Charles Samuel Deneen (Republican, IL)Otis Ferguson Glenn (Republican, IL)James Eli Watson (Republican, IN)Arthur Capper (Republican, KS)Frederic Mosley Sackett (Republican, KY)Frederick Huntington Gillett (Republican, MA)Arthur Robinson Gould (Republican, ME)James Couzens (Republican, MI)Thomas David Schall (Republican, MN)Gerald Prentice Nye (Republican, ND)George William Norris (Republican, NE)Henry Wilder Keyes (Republican, NH)George Higgins Moses (Republican, NH)Walter Evans Edge (Republican, NJ)Tasker Lowndes Oddie (Republican, NV)Theodore Elijah Burton (Republican, OH)William Bliss Pine (Republican, OK)Charles Linza McNary (Republican, OR)Frederick Steiwer (Republican, OR)William Scott Vare (Republican, PA)Jesse Houghton Metcalf (Republican, RI)William Henry McMaster (Republican, SD)Peter Norbeck (Republican, SD)Reed Smoot (Republican, UT)Porter Hinman Dale (Republican, VT)Wesley Livsey Jones (Republican, WA)John James Blaine (Republican, WI)Guy Despard Goff (Republican, WV)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House ·
1929-03-13/supreme-courtThe bench
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. R
Associate Justice · appointed by Theodore Roosevelt · since Dec 4, 1902
Willis Van Devanter R
Associate Justice · appointed by William H. Taft · since Dec 16, 1910
James Clark McReynolds D
Associate Justice · appointed by Woodrow Wilson · since Aug 29, 1914
Louis Dembitz Brandeis D
Associate Justice · appointed by Woodrow Wilson · since Jun 1, 1916
William Howard Taft R
Chief Justice · appointed by Warren G. Harding · since Jun 30, 1921
George Sutherland R
Associate Justice · appointed by Warren G. Harding · since Sep 5, 1922
Pierce Butler R
Associate Justice · appointed by Warren G. Harding · since Dec 21, 1922
Edward Terry Sanford R
Associate Justice · appointed by Warren G. Harding · since Jan 29, 1923
Harlan Fiske Stone R
Associate Justice · appointed by Calvin Coolidge · since Feb 5, 1925
1929-03-13/weekWithin a week · Mar 6, 1929 – Mar 20, 1929
Ruling United States v. New York Central Railroad Company
Mar 11, 1929 · 279 U.S. 73

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.