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The United States on September 7, 1932

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

47 R · 47 D

95 senators · 72nd Congress

House

221 R · 217 D

439 representatives

Supreme Court

7 R · 2 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

48 states

19 amendments in force

Prices

$1 ≈ $24.96

in today's dollars

Public debt

$19.5B

as of Jun 30, 1932

1932-09-07/executiveThe administration

President Herbert Clark Hoover R

since Mar 4, 1929

Vice President Charles Curtis R

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

Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills R

since Feb 12, 1932

1932-09-07/congress72nd Congress

Senate · 47 R · 47 D · 1 FL

House · 221 R · 217 D · 1 FL

1932-09-07/supreme-courtThe bench

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

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo R

Associate Justice · appointed by Herbert Hoover · since Mar 2, 1932

1932-09-07/weekWithin a week · Aug 31, 1932 – Sep 14, 1932

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.