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The United States on January 4, 1937

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
52 D · 11 R
64 senators · 75th Congress
House
1 D
1 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
21 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $24.07
in today's dollars
Public debt
$33.8B
as of Jun 30, 1936
1937-01-04/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
Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring D
since Sep 25, 1936
1937-01-04/congress75th Congress
Senate · 52 D · 11 R · 1 P
Hugo Lafayette Black (Democrat, AL)Hattie Wyatt Caraway (Democrat, AR)Carl Trumbull Hayden (Democrat, AZ)Henry Fountain Ashurst (Democrat, AZ)William Gibbs McAdoo (Democrat, CA)Alva Blanchard Adams (Democrat, CO)Augustine Lonergan (Democrat, CT)Francis Thomas Maloney (Democrat, CT)Claude Denson Pepper (Democrat, FL)Charles Oscar Andrews (Democrat, FL)Walter Franklin George (Democrat, GA)Guy Mark Gillette (Democrat, IA)James Pinckney Pope (Democrat, ID)William Henry Dieterich (Democrat, IL)Frederick Van Nuys (Democrat, IN)Sherman Minton (Democrat, IN)George McGill (Democrat, KS)Alben William Barkley (Democrat, KY)John Holmes Overton (Democrat, LA)David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat, MA)Millard Evelyn Tydings (Democrat, MD)George Lovic Pierce Radcliffe (Democrat, MD)Joel Bennett Clark (Democrat, MO)Harry S. Truman (Democrat, MO)Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (Democrat, MS)Burton Kendall Wheeler (Democrat, MT)Robert Rice Reynolds (Democrat, NC)Edward Raymond Burke (Democrat, NE)Fred Herbert Brown (Democrat, NH)Arthur Harry Moore (Democrat, NJ)Dennis Chavez (Democrat, NM)Patrick Anthony McCarran (Democrat, NV)Key Pittman (Democrat, NV)Robert Ferdinand Wagner (Democrat, NY)Royal Samuel Copeland (Democrat, NY)Robert Johns Bulkley (Democrat, OH)Alvin Victor Donahey (Democrat, OH)John William Elmer Thomas (Democrat, OK)Joseph F. Guffey (Democrat, PA)Peter Goelet Gerry (Democrat, RI)Ellison DuRant Smith (Democrat, SC)Herbert Emery Hitchcock (Democrat, SD)Kenneth Douglas McKellar (Democrat, TN)Thomas Terry Connally (Democrat, TX)Elbert Duncan Thomas (Democrat, UT)William Henry King (Democrat, UT)Harry Flood Byrd (Democrat, VA)Homer Truett Bone (Democrat, WA)Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach (Democrat, WA)Francis Ryan Duffy (Democrat, WI)Rush Dew Holt (Democrat, WV)Joseph Christopher O’Mahoney (Democrat, WY)Robert Marion La Follette Jr. (Progressive, WI)Hiram Warren Johnson (Republican, CA)John Gillis Townsend Jr. (Republican, DE)Frederick Hale (Republican, ME)Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (Republican, MI)Henrik Shipstead (Republican, MN)Gerald Prentice Nye (Republican, ND)Lynn Joseph Frazier (Republican, ND)Frederick Steiwer (Republican, OR)James John Davis (Republican, PA)Ernest Willard Gibson (Republican, VT)Warren Robinson Austin (Republican, VT)
House · 1 D
John Elvis Miller (Democrat, AR-2)
1937-01-04/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
1937-01-04/weekWithin a week · Dec 28, 1936 – Jan 11, 1937
Agency + Bonneville Power Administration
Jan 1, 1937 · sub_agency
Ruling De Jonge v. Oregon
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 353
Ruling New York ex rel. Rogers v. Graves
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 401
Ruling New York ex rel. Whitney v. Graves
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 366
Ruling Kentucky Whip & Collar Co. v. Illinois Central Railroad Co.
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 334
Ruling W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co. v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co.
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 393
Ruling City Bank Farmers Trust Co. v. Irving Trust Co.
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 433
Ruling Kuehner v. Irving Trust Co.
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 445
Ruling Schwartz v. Irving Trust Co.
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 456
Ruling Meadows v. Irving Trust Co.
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 464
Ruling Employers Reinsurance Corp. v. Bryant
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 374
Ruling Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. v. United States
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 383
Ruling Hauge v. Chicago
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 387
Ruling Bengzon v. Secretary of Justice of the Philippine Islands
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 410
Ruling United States v. The Seminole Nation
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 417
Ruling Shapleigh v. Mier
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 468
Ruling Shoshone Tribe of Indians v. United States
Jan 4, 1937 · 299 U.S. 476
Ruling United States v. Hudson
Jan 11, 1937 · 299 U.S. 498

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.