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The United States on January 4, 1955

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

President
Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower R · since Jan 20, 1953
Senate
37 R · 28 D
66 senators · 84th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 D · 1 R
8 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
22 amendments in force
Unemployment
5%
Dec 1954 · $1 then ≈ $12.62 today
Public debt
$271B
as of Jun 30, 1954
1955-01-04/executiveThe administration
President Dwight David Eisenhower R
since Jan 20, 1953
Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon R
White House Chief of Staff Sherman Adams R
since Jan 20, 1953
Secretary of the Treasury George Magoffin Humphrey R
since Jan 21, 1953
Attorney General Herbert Brownell R
since Jan 21, 1953
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles R
since Jan 21, 1953
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson R
since Jan 21, 1953
Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. R
since Jan 26, 1953
Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson R
since Jan 28, 1953
Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles D
since Feb 26, 1953
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby R
since Apr 11, 1953
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Rowland Hughes R
since Apr 16, 1954
1955-01-04/congress84th Congress
Senate · 37 R · 28 D · 1 I
Joseph Lister Hill (Democrat, AL)James William Fulbright (Democrat, AR)Carl Trumbull Hayden (Democrat, AZ)George Armistead Smathers (Democrat, FL)Spessard Lindsey Holland (Democrat, FL)Walter Franklin George (Democrat, GA)Earle C Clements (Democrat, KY)Russell Billiu Long (Democrat, LA)John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat, MA)Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. (Democrat, MO)William Stuart Symington (Democrat, MO)John Cornelius Stennis (Democrat, MS)Michael Joseph Mansfield (Democrat, MT)Samuel James Ervin Jr. (Democrat, NC)William Kerr Scott (Democrat, NC)Dennis Chavez (Democrat, NM)Alan Harvey Bible (Democrat, NV)Herbert Henry Lehman (Democrat, NY)Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney (Democrat, OK)John Orlando Pastore (Democrat, RI)Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston (Democrat, SC)Albert Arnold Gore (Democrat, TN)Marion Price Daniel (Democrat, TX)Harry Flood Byrd (Democrat, VA)Warren Grant Magnuson (Democrat, WA)Henry Martin Jackson (Democrat, WA)Harley Martin Kilgore (Democrat, WV)Joseph Christopher O’Mahoney (Democrat, WY)Wayne Lyman Morse (Independent, OR)Barry Morris Goldwater (Republican, AZ)Thomas Henry Kuchel (Republican, CA)William Fife Knowland (Republican, CA)Eugene Donald Millikin (Republican, CO)Prescott Sheldon Bush (Republican, CT)William Arthur Purtell (Republican, CT)John James Williams (Republican, DE)Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper (Republican, IA)Herman Welker (Republican, ID)Everett McKinley Dirksen (Republican, IL)Homer Earl Capehart (Republican, IN)William Ezra Jenner (Republican, IN)Frank Carlson (Republican, KS)John Marshall Butler (Republican, MD)James Glenn Beall (Republican, MD)Frederick George Payne (Republican, ME)Charles Edward Potter (Republican, MI)Edward John Thye (Republican, MN)Milton Ruben Young (Republican, ND)William Langer (Republican, ND)Roman Lee Hruska (Republican, NE)Norris H. Cotton (Republican, NH)Howard Alexander Smith (Republican, NJ)George Wilson Malone (Republican, NV)Irving McNeil Ives (Republican, NY)John William Bricker (Republican, OH)George Harrison Bender (Republican, OH)James Henderson Duff (Republican, PA)Edward Martin (Republican, PA)Francis Higbee Case (Republican, SD)Wallace Foster Bennett (Republican, UT)Arthur Vivian Watkins (Republican, UT)George David Aiken (Republican, VT)Ralph Edward Flanders (Republican, VT)Alexander Wiley (Republican, WI)Joseph Raymond McCarthy (Republican, WI)Frank Aloysius Barrett (Republican, WY)
House ·
1955-01-04/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
Harold Hitz Burton D
Associate Justice · appointed by Harry S Truman · since Sep 22, 1945
Tom C. Clark D
Associate Justice · appointed by Harry S Truman · since Aug 19, 1949
Sherman Minton D
Associate Justice · appointed by Harry S Truman · since Oct 5, 1949
Earl Warren R
Chief Justice · appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower · since Mar 20, 1954
1955-01-04/weekWithin a week · Dec 28, 1954 – Jan 11, 1955
War + Taiwan Strait crisis
Dec 31, 1954 · UCDP
War − Taiwan Strait crisis
Jan 1, 1955 · UCDP
Agency + Indian Health Service
Jan 1, 1955 · sub_agency
Ruling Baltimore Contractors, Inc. v. Bodinger
Jan 10, 1955 · 348 U.S. 176
Ruling Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate of Sternberger
Jan 10, 1955 · 348 U.S. 187
Ruling Cox v. Roth
Jan 10, 1955 · 348 U.S. 207
Ruling United States v. Acri
Jan 10, 1955 · 348 U.S. 211
Ruling United States v. Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co., Ltd.
Jan 10, 1955 · 348 U.S. 215
Ruling United States v. Scovil
Jan 10, 1955 · 348 U.S. 218

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.