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The United States on September 11, 1946

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

President

Truman

Harry S. Truman D · since Apr 12, 1945

Senate

56 D · 38 R

95 senators · 79th Congress

House

239 D · 190 R

431 representatives

Supreme Court

9 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

48 states

21 amendments in force

Prices

$1 ≈ $16.68

in today's dollars

Public debt

$269B

as of Jun 28, 1946

1946-09-11/executiveThe administration

President Harry S. Truman D

since Apr 12, 1945

Vice President vacant

Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal D

since May 19, 1944

Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace PP

since Mar 2, 1945

Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark D

since Jun 27, 1945

Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson D

since Jun 30, 1945

Secretary of State James F. Byrnes R

since Jul 3, 1945

Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson D

since Sep 27, 1945

Ambassador to the United Nations Herschel Johnson D

since Jun 3, 1946

Director of Central Intelligence Hoyt Vandenberg

since Jun 10, 1946

Secretary of the Treasury John Wesley Snyder D

since Jun 25, 1946

Director of the Office of Management and Budget James E. Webb D

since Jul 13, 1946

1946-09-11/congress79th Congress

Senate · 56 D · 38 R · 1 P

House · 239 D · 190 R · 1 AL · 1 P

1946-09-11/supreme-courtThe bench

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

Robert Houghwout Jackson D

Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Jul 11, 1941

Wiley Blount Rutledge D

Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Feb 11, 1943

Harold Hitz Burton D

Associate Justice · appointed by Harry S Truman · since Sep 22, 1945

Frederick Moore Vinson D

Chief Justice · appointed by Harry S Truman · since Jun 21, 1946

1946-09-11/weekWithin a week · Sep 4, 1946 – Sep 18, 1946

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.