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The United States on December 5, 1931

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
34 R · 28 D
63 senators · 72nd Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
19 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $22.92
in today's dollars
Public debt
$16.8B
as of Jun 30, 1931
1931-12-05/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
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
Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson R
since Mar 28, 1929
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Clawson Roop R
since Aug 15, 1929
Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley R
since Dec 9, 1929
1931-12-05/congress72nd Congress
Senate · 34 R · 28 D · 1 FL
Hugo Lafayette Black (Democrat, AL)Hattie Wyatt Caraway (Democrat, AR)Carl Trumbull Hayden (Democrat, AZ)Henry Fountain Ashurst (Democrat, AZ)Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (Democrat, FL)Park Trammell (Democrat, FL)Walter Franklin George (Democrat, GA)George McGill (Democrat, KS)Alben William Barkley (Democrat, KY)Edwin Sidney Broussard (Democrat, LA)David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat, MA)Millard Evelyn Tydings (Democrat, MD)Harry Bartow Hawes (Democrat, MO)Hubert Durrett Stephens (Democrat, MS)Burton Kendall Wheeler (Democrat, MT)Cameron A. Morrison (Democrat, NC)Key Pittman (Democrat, NV)Robert Ferdinand Wagner (Democrat, NY)Royal Samuel Copeland (Democrat, NY)Robert Johns Bulkley (Democrat, OH)John William Elmer Thomas (Democrat, OK)Ellison DuRant Smith (Democrat, SC)Kenneth Douglas McKellar (Democrat, TN)Thomas Terry Connally (Democrat, TX)William Henry King (Democrat, UT)Claude Augustus Swanson (Democrat, VA)Clarence Cleveland Dill (Democrat, WA)John Benjamin Kendrick (Democrat, WY)Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor, MN)Samuel Morgan Shortridge (Republican, CA)Hiram Warren Johnson (Republican, CA)Charles Winfield Waterman (Republican, CO)Hiram Bingham (Republican, CT)Frederic Collin Walcott (Republican, CT)John Gillis Townsend Jr. (Republican, DE)Smith Wildman Brookhart (Republican, IA)John Thomas (Republican, ID)Otis Ferguson Glenn (Republican, IL)James Eli Watson (Republican, IN)Arthur Raymond Robinson (Republican, IN)Phillips Lee Goldsborough (Republican, MD)Frederick Hale (Republican, ME)Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (Republican, MI)Roscoe Conkling Patterson (Republican, MO)Gerald Prentice Nye (Republican, ND)Lynn Joseph Frazier (Republican, ND)Robert Beecher Howell (Republican, NE)George Higgins Moses (Republican, NH)Hamilton Fish Kean (Republican, NJ)Bronson Murray Cutting (Republican, NM)Tasker Lowndes Oddie (Republican, NV)Simeon Davison Fess (Republican, OH)Frederick Steiwer (Republican, OR)David Aiken Reed (Republican, PA)James John Davis (Republican, PA)Felix Hebert (Republican, RI)Peter Norbeck (Republican, SD)Reed Smoot (Republican, UT)Porter Hinman Dale (Republican, VT)Wesley Livsey Jones (Republican, WA)John James Blaine (Republican, WI)Robert Marion La Follette Jr. (Republican, WI)Henry Drury Hatfield (Republican, WV)
House ·
1931-12-05/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
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
Harlan Fiske Stone R
Associate Justice · appointed by Calvin Coolidge · since Feb 5, 1925
Charles Evans Hughes R
Chief Justice · appointed by Herbert Hoover · since Feb 13, 1930
Owen Josephus Roberts R
Associate Justice · appointed by Herbert Hoover · since May 20, 1930
1931-12-05/weekWithin a week · Nov 28, 1931 – Dec 12, 1931
Ruling Hoeper v. Tax Commission of Wisconsin
Nov 30, 1931 · 284 U.S. 206
Ruling United States v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
Nov 30, 1931 · 284 U.S. 195
Ruling Bradford Electric Light Co., Inc. v. Clapper
Dec 7, 1931 · 284 U.S. 221
Ruling Wilbur v. U.S. ex rel. Vindicator Consolidated Gold Mining Co.
Dec 7, 1931 · 284 U.S. 231
Ruling Van Huffel v. Harkelrode
Dec 7, 1931 · 284 U.S. 225

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.