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The United States on March 5, 1933

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

President
Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt D · since Mar 4, 1933
Senate
31 R · 30 D
62 senators · 73rd Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
20 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $26.53
in today's dollars
Public debt
$19.5B
as of Jun 30, 1932
1933-03-05/executiveThe administration
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt D
since Mar 4, 1933
Vice President John Nance Garner D
Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper D
since Mar 4, 1933
Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings D
since Mar 4, 1933
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace PP
since Mar 4, 1933
Postmaster General James Farley D
since Mar 4, 1933
Secretary of State Cordell Hull D
since Mar 4, 1933
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins D
since Mar 4, 1933
Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes PP
since Mar 4, 1933
Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin R
since Mar 5, 1933
1933-03-05/congress73rd Congress
Senate · 31 R · 30 D · 1 FL
John Hollis Bankhead II (Democrat, AL)Joseph Taylor Robinson (Democrat, AR)Henry Fountain Ashurst (Democrat, AZ)William Gibbs McAdoo (Democrat, CA)Edward Prentiss Costigan (Democrat, CO)Park Trammell (Democrat, FL)James Hamilton Lewis (Democrat, IL)Marvel Mills Logan (Democrat, KY)Huey Pierce Long (Democrat, LA)David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat, MA)Marcus Allen Coolidge (Democrat, MA)Hubert Durrett Stephens (Democrat, MS)Byron Patton Harrison (Democrat, MS)Burton Kendall Wheeler (Democrat, MT)Josiah William Bailey (Democrat, NC)Robert Rice Reynolds (Democrat, NC)Sam Gilbert Bratton (Democrat, NM)Key Pittman (Democrat, NV)Royal Samuel Copeland (Democrat, NY)Thomas Pryor Gore (Democrat, OK)James Francis Byrnes (Democrat, SC)William John Bulow (Democrat, SD)Kenneth Douglas McKellar (Democrat, TN)Thomas Terry Connally (Democrat, TX)Morris Sheppard (Democrat, TX)William Henry King (Democrat, UT)Carter Glass (Democrat, VA)Clarence Cleveland Dill (Democrat, WA)Matthew Mansfield Neely (Democrat, WV)John Benjamin Kendrick (Democrat, WY)Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor, MN)Hiram Warren Johnson (Republican, CA)Frederic Collin Walcott (Republican, CT)John Gillis Townsend Jr. (Republican, DE)Daniel Oren Hastings (Republican, DE)Lester Jesse Dickinson (Republican, IA)William Edgar Borah (Republican, ID)Arthur Raymond Robinson (Republican, IN)Arthur Capper (Republican, KS)Phillips Lee Goldsborough (Republican, MD)Frederick Hale (Republican, ME)Wallace Humphrey White Jr. (Republican, ME)Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (Republican, MI)James Couzens (Republican, MI)Thomas David Schall (Republican, MN)Roscoe Conkling Patterson (Republican, MO)Lynn Joseph Frazier (Republican, ND)Robert Beecher Howell (Republican, NE)George William Norris (Republican, NE)Henry Wilder Keyes (Republican, NH)Hamilton Fish Kean (Republican, NJ)William Warren Barbour (Republican, NJ)Bronson Murray Cutting (Republican, NM)Simeon Davison Fess (Republican, OH)Charles Linza McNary (Republican, OR)David Aiken Reed (Republican, PA)Felix Hebert (Republican, RI)Jesse Houghton Metcalf (Republican, RI)Warren Robinson Austin (Republican, VT)Robert Marion La Follette Jr. (Republican, WI)Henry Drury Hatfield (Republican, WV)Robert Davis Carey (Republican, WY)
House ·
1933-03-05/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
1933-03-05/weekWithin a week · Feb 26, 1933 – Mar 12, 1933
Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes office · Mar 4, 1933
Law Buy American Act
Mar 3, 1933 · Pub. L. 72-428
Law Emergency Banking Act
Mar 9, 1933 · Pub. L. 73-1

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.