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The United States on January 4, 1943

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 Jan 20, 1941
Senate
42 D · 21 R
64 senators · 78th Congress
House
1 D
1 representatives
Supreme Court
7 D · 1 R
8 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
21 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $19.94
in today's dollars
Public debt
$72.4B
as of Jun 30, 1942
1943-01-04/executiveThe administration
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt D
since Jan 20, 1941
Vice President Henry Agard Wallace D
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 Harold D. Smith D
since Apr 15, 1939
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson R
since Jul 10, 1940
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox R
since Jul 11, 1940
Secretary of Commerce Jesse H. Jones D
since Sep 19, 1940
Attorney General Francis Biddle D
since Aug 26, 1941
1943-01-04/congress78th Congress
Senate · 42 D · 21 R · 1 P
Joseph Lister Hill (Democrat, AL)Hattie Wyatt Caraway (Democrat, AR)Carl Trumbull Hayden (Democrat, AZ)Ernest William McFarland (Democrat, AZ)Sheridan Downey (Democrat, CA)Francis Thomas Maloney (Democrat, CT)James Miller Tunnell (Democrat, DE)Claude Denson Pepper (Democrat, FL)Charles Oscar Andrews (Democrat, FL)Walter Franklin George (Democrat, GA)Guy Mark Gillette (Democrat, IA)David Worth Clark (Democrat, ID)Scott Wike Lucas (Democrat, IL)Frederick Van Nuys (Democrat, IN)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)Dennis Chavez (Democrat, NM)Patrick Anthony McCarran (Democrat, NV)James Graves Scrugham (Democrat, NV)Robert Ferdinand Wagner (Democrat, NY)James Michael Mead (Democrat, NY)John William Elmer Thomas (Democrat, OK)Joseph F. Guffey (Democrat, PA)Peter Goelet Gerry (Democrat, RI)Ellison DuRant Smith (Democrat, SC)Kenneth Douglas McKellar (Democrat, TN)Thomas Terry Connally (Democrat, TX)Elbert Duncan Thomas (Democrat, UT)Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Democrat, UT)Harry Flood Byrd (Democrat, VA)Homer Truett Bone (Democrat, WA)Monrad Charles Wallgren (Democrat, WA)Harley Martin Kilgore (Democrat, WV)Joseph Christopher O’Mahoney (Democrat, WY)Robert Marion La Follette Jr. (Progressive, WI)Hiram Warren Johnson (Republican, CA)Eugene Donald Millikin (Republican, CO)John Anthony Danaher (Republican, CT)Raymond Eugene Willis (Republican, IN)Clyde Martin Reed (Republican, KS)Ralph Owen Brewster (Republican, ME)Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (Republican, MI)Henrik Shipstead (Republican, MN)Gerald Prentice Nye (Republican, ND)William Langer (Republican, ND)Hugh Alfred Butler (Republican, NE)Charles William Tobey (Republican, NH)William Warren Barbour (Republican, NJ)Robert Alphonso Taft (Republican, OH)Harold Hitz Burton (Republican, OH)Rufus Cecil Holman (Republican, OR)James John Davis (Republican, PA)John Chandler Gurney (Republican, SD)Warren Robinson Austin (Republican, VT)George David Aiken (Republican, VT)Alexander Wiley (Republican, WI)
House · 1 D
Warren Grant Magnuson (Democrat, WA-1)
1943-01-04/supreme-courtThe bench
Owen Josephus Roberts R
Associate Justice · appointed by Herbert Hoover · since May 20, 1930
Hugo Lafayette Black D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Aug 18, 1937
Stanley Forman Reed D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Jan 27, 1938
Felix Frankfurter D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Jan 20, 1939
William Orville Douglas D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Apr 15, 1939
Frank Murphy D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Jan 18, 1940
Harlan Fiske Stone D
Chief Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Jul 3, 1941
Robert Houghwout Jackson D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Jul 11, 1941
1943-01-04/weekWithin a week · Dec 28, 1942 – Jan 11, 1943
Agency + Solid Fuels Administration for War
Jan 1, 1943 · other
Ruling United States v. Miller
Jan 4, 1943 · 317 U.S. 369
Ruling Pendergast v. United States
Jan 4, 1943 · 317 U.S. 412
Ruling Marshall v. Pletz
Jan 4, 1943 · 317 U.S. 383
Ruling Clyde-Mallory Lines v. The Eglantine
Jan 4, 1943 · 317 U.S. 395
Ruling Coryell v. Phipps
Jan 4, 1943 · 317 U.S. 406
Ruling Wragg v. Federal Land Bank of New Orleans
Jan 4, 1943 · 317 U.S. 325
Ruling Detroit Bank (Formerly Detroit Savings Bank) v. United States
Jan 4, 1943 · 317 U.S. 329
Ruling Michigan v. United States
Jan 4, 1943 · 317 U.S. 338
Ruling Kieselbach v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Jan 4, 1943 · 317 U.S. 399
Ruling Parker v. Brown
Jan 4, 1943 · 317 U.S. 341
Ruling Natural Milk Producers Association v. City and County of San Francisco
Jan 11, 1943 · 317 U.S. 423
Ruling Endicott Johnson Corp. v. Perkins
Jan 11, 1943 · 317 U.S. 501
Ruling Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. United Fuel Gas Co.
Jan 11, 1943 · 317 U.S. 456
Ruling Lilly v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad Co.
Jan 11, 1943 · 317 U.S. 481
Ruling Harris v. Zion's Savings Bank & Trust Co.
Jan 11, 1943 · 317 U.S. 447
Ruling Harrison v. Northern Trust Co.
Jan 11, 1943 · 317 U.S. 476
Ruling Spies v. United States
Jan 11, 1943 · 317 U.S. 492
Ruling United States v. Monia
Jan 11, 1943 · 317 U.S. 424

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.