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The United States on January 5, 1963

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

President
Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy D · since Jan 20, 1961
Senate
43 D · 22 R
65 senators · 88th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
5 D · 4 R
9 justices by appointing party
Union
50 states
23 amendments in force
Unemployment
5.5%
Dec 1962 · $1 then ≈ $11.08 today
Public debt
$298B
as of Jun 30, 1962 · 1 armed conflict
1963-01-05/executiveThe administration
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy D
since Jan 20, 1961
Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson D
White House Chief of Staff Kenneth O'Donnell D
since Jan 20, 1961
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy D
since Jan 20, 1961
Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman D
since Jan 20, 1961
Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges D
since Jan 21, 1961
Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon R
since Jan 21, 1961
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara R
since Jan 21, 1961
Secretary of State Dean Rusk D
since Jan 21, 1961
Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall D
since Jan 21, 1961
Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson II D
since Jan 23, 1961
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Anthony Joseph Celebrezze, Sr. D
since Jul 31, 1962
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Kermit Gordon D
since Dec 28, 1962
1963-01-05/congress88th Congress
Senate · 43 D · 22 R
Edward Lewis Bartlett (Democrat, AK)John Jackson Sparkman (Democrat, AL)John Little McClellan (Democrat, AR)Clair Engle (Democrat, CA)Thomas Joseph Dodd (Democrat, CT)Spessard Lindsey Holland (Democrat, FL)Richard Brevard Russell Jr. (Democrat, GA)Paul Howard Douglas (Democrat, IL)Rupert Vance Hartke (Democrat, IN)Allen Joseph Ellender (Democrat, LA)Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat, MA)Edmund Sixtus Muskie (Democrat, ME)Philip Aloysius Hart (Democrat, MI)Patrick Vincent McNamara (Democrat, MI)Eugene Joseph McCarthy (Democrat, MN)Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (Democrat, MN)William Stuart Symington (Democrat, MO)John Cornelius Stennis (Democrat, MS)James Oliver Eastland (Democrat, MS)Michael Joseph Mansfield (Democrat, MT)Lee Warren Metcalf (Democrat, MT)Benjamin Everett Jordan (Democrat, NC)Quentin Northrup Burdick (Democrat, ND)Thomas James McIntyre (Democrat, NH)Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. (Democrat, NJ)Clinton Presba Anderson (Democrat, NM)Howard Walter Cannon (Democrat, NV)Stephen Marvin Young (Democrat, OH)Maurine Brown Neuberger (Democrat, OR)John Orlando Pastore (Democrat, RI)Claiborne de Borda Pell (Democrat, RI)J. Strom Thurmond (Democrat, SC)Albert Arnold Gore (Democrat, TN)Carey Estes Kefauver (Democrat, TN)Ralph Webster Yarborough (Democrat, TX)Frank Edward Moss (Democrat, UT)Harry Flood Byrd (Democrat, VA)Absalom Willis Robertson (Democrat, VA)Henry Martin Jackson (Democrat, WA)William Proxmire (Democrat, WI)Robert C. Byrd (Democrat, WV)Jennings Randolph (Democrat, WV)Gale William McGee (Democrat, WY)Barry Morris Goldwater (Republican, AZ)Gordon Llewellyn Allott (Republican, CO)John James Williams (Republican, DE)James Caleb Boggs (Republican, DE)Hiram Leong Fong (Republican, HI)Jack Richard Miller (Republican, IA)Leonard Beck Jordan (Republican, ID)James Blackwood Pearson (Republican, KS)John Sherman Cooper (Republican, KY)Leverett Saltonstall (Republican, MA)James Glenn Beall (Republican, MD)Margaret Chase Smith (Republican, ME)Roman Lee Hruska (Republican, NE)Carl Thomas Curtis (Republican, NE)Clifford Philip Case (Republican, NJ)Edwin Leard Mechem (Republican, NM)Kenneth Barnard Keating (Republican, NY)Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. (Republican, PA)Karl Earl Mundt (Republican, SD)John Goodwin Tower (Republican, TX)Winston Lewis Prouty (Republican, VT)Milward Lee Simpson (Republican, WY)
House ·
1963-01-05/supreme-courtThe bench
Hugo Lafayette Black D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Aug 18, 1937
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
Potter Stewart R
Associate Justice · appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower · since May 7, 1959
Byron Raymond White D
Associate Justice · appointed by John F. Kennedy · since Apr 12, 1962
Arthur Joseph Goldberg D
Associate Justice · appointed by John F. Kennedy · since Sep 28, 1962
1963-01-05/militaryArmed conflicts under way
Vietnam: South Vietnam vs. the Viet Cong
since Jan 1, 1962 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat
1963-01-05/weekWithin a week · Dec 29, 1962 – Jan 12, 1963
Ruling National Labor Relations Board v. Reliance Fuel Oil Corp.
Jan 7, 1963 · 371 U.S. 224
Ruling United States v. Buffalo Savings Bank
Jan 7, 1963 · 371 U.S. 228

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.