← a year earlier · day before · day after · a year later →

The United States on January 19, 1961

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, 1957

Senate

65 D · 35 R

100 senators · 87th Congress

House

262 D · 173 R

435 representatives

Supreme Court

5 R · 4 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

50 states

22 amendments in force

Unemployment

6.6%

Dec 1960 · $1 then ≈ $11.31 today

Public debt

$286B

as of Jun 30, 1960

1961-01-19/executiveThe administration

President Dwight David Eisenhower R

since Jan 20, 1957

Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon R

Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson R

since Jan 21, 1953

Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles D

since Feb 26, 1953

Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton R

since Jun 8, 1956

Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson D

since Jul 29, 1957

Attorney General William P. Rogers R

since Oct 23, 1957

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Maurice Stans R

since Mar 18, 1958

White House Chief of Staff Wilton Persons R

since Oct 7, 1958

Secretary of State Christian Herter R

since Apr 22, 1959

Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates, Jr. R

since Dec 2, 1959

Ambassador to the United Nations James Jeremiah Wadsworth R

since Sep 8, 1960

1961-01-19/congress87th Congress

Senate · 65 D · 35 R

House · 262 D · 173 R

1961-01-19/supreme-courtThe bench

Hugo Lafayette Black D

Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Aug 18, 1937

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

Tom C. Clark D

Associate Justice · appointed by Harry S Truman · since Aug 19, 1949

Earl Warren R

Chief Justice · appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower · since Mar 20, 1954

John Marshall Harlan R

Associate Justice · appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower · since Mar 17, 1955

William Joseph Brennan, Jr. R

Associate Justice · appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower · since Mar 21, 1957

Charles Evans Whittaker R

Associate Justice · appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower · since Mar 22, 1957

Potter Stewart R

Associate Justice · appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower · since May 7, 1959

1961-01-19/weekWithin a week · Jan 12, 1961 – Jan 26, 1961

John Fitzgerald Kennedy takes office · Jan 20, 1961

Ruling Travis v. United States

Jan 16, 1961 · 364 U.S. 631

Ruling System Federation No. 91 v. Wright

Jan 16, 1961 · 364 U.S. 642

Ruling Radiant Burners, Inc. v. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co.

Jan 16, 1961 · 364 U.S. 656

Ruling Kimbrough v. United States

Jan 16, 1961 · 364 U.S. 661

Ruling Times Film Corp. v. City of Chicago

Jan 23, 1961 · 365 U.S. 43

Ruling Campbell v. United States

Jan 23, 1961 · 365 U.S. 85

Ruling Federal Power Commission v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.

Jan 23, 1961 · 365 U.S. 1

Ruling McNeal v. Culver

Jan 23, 1961 · 365 U.S. 109

Ruling National Labor Relations Board v. Mattison Machine Works

Jan 23, 1961 · 365 U.S. 123

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.