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The United States on January 3, 1935

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

69 D · 26 R

96 senators · 74th Congress

House

324 D · 104 R

439 representatives

Supreme Court

7 R · 2 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

48 states

21 amendments in force

Prices

$1 ≈ $25.14

in today's dollars

Public debt

$27.1B

as of Jun 30, 1934

1935-01-03/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 Henry Morgenthau Jr. D

since Jan 1, 1934

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Daniel Wafena Bell D

since Sep 1, 1934

1935-01-03/congress74th Congress

Senate · 69 D · 26 R · 1 P

House · 324 D · 104 R · 7 P · 4 FL

1935-01-03/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

1935-01-03/weekWithin a week · Dec 27, 1934 – Jan 10, 1935

Agency + Supreme Court Police

Jan 1, 1935 · other

Ruling Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan

Jan 7, 1935 · 293 U.S. 388

Ruling Dimick v. Schiedt

Jan 7, 1935 · 293 U.S. 474

Ruling Enelow v. New York Life Insurance Co.

Jan 7, 1935 · 293 U.S. 379

Ruling Adamos v. New York Life Insurance Co.

Jan 7, 1935 · 293 U.S. 386

Ruling McCrea v. United States

Jan 7, 1935 · 294 U.S. 23

Ruling Central Vermont Transportation Co. v. Durning

Jan 7, 1935 · 294 U.S. 33

Ruling United States v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.

Jan 7, 1935 · 293 U.S. 454

Ruling United States ex rel. Chicago Great Western Railroad Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission

Jan 7, 1935 · 294 U.S. 50

Ruling Taylor v. Sternberg

Jan 7, 1935 · 293 U.S. 470

Ruling Shanferoke Coal & Supply Corp. v. Westchester Service Corp.

Jan 7, 1935 · 293 U.S. 449

Ruling Smith v. Snow

Jan 7, 1935 · 294 U.S. 1

Ruling Waxham v. Smith

Jan 7, 1935 · 294 U.S. 20

Ruling Keystone Driller Co. v. Northwest Engineering Corp.

Jan 7, 1935 · 294 U.S. 42

Ruling West Ohio Gas Co. v. Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (No. 2)

Jan 7, 1935 · 294 U.S. 63

Ruling West Ohio Gas Co. v. Public Utilities Commission of Ohio

Jan 7, 1935 · 294 U.S. 79

Ruling Gregory v. Helvering

Jan 7, 1935 · 293 U.S. 465

Ruling United States v. Spaulding

Jan 7, 1935 · 293 U.S. 498

Ruling Helvering v. Taylor

Jan 7, 1935 · 293 U.S. 507

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.