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The United States on January 9, 1967

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

President
Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson D · since Jan 20, 1965
Senate
49 D · 18 R
67 senators · 90th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
5 D · 4 R
9 justices by appointing party
Union
50 states
24 amendments in force
Unemployment
3.8%
Dec 1966 · $1 then ≈ $10.24 today
Public debt
$320B
as of Jun 30, 1966 · 2 armed conflicts
1967-01-09/executiveThe administration
President Lyndon Baines Johnson D
since Jan 20, 1965
Vice President Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. D
Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman D
since Jan 20, 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
White House Chief of Staff W. Marvin Watson D
since Nov 22, 1963
Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler D
since Apr 1, 1965
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Charles Schultze D
since Jun 1, 1965
Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg D
since Jul 28, 1965
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare John W. Gardner R
since Aug 18, 1965
Postmaster General Larry O'Brien D
since Nov 3, 1965
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Robert C. Weaver D
since Jan 18, 1966
Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms I
since Jun 30, 1966
1967-01-09/congress90th Congress
Senate · 49 D · 18 R
Ernest Gruening (Democrat, AK)Joseph Lister Hill (Democrat, AL)James William Fulbright (Democrat, AR)Carl Trumbull Hayden (Democrat, AZ)Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (Democrat, CT)Thomas Joseph Dodd (Democrat, CT)George Armistead Smathers (Democrat, FL)Spessard Lindsey Holland (Democrat, FL)Herman Eugene Talmadge (Democrat, GA)Daniel K. Inouye (Democrat, HI)Frank Forrester Church (Democrat, ID)Birch Evans Bayh (Democrat, IN)Rupert Vance Hartke (Democrat, IN)Russell Billiu Long (Democrat, LA)Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat, MA)Daniel Baugh Brewster (Democrat, MD)Joseph Davies Tydings (Democrat, MD)Edmund Sixtus Muskie (Democrat, ME)Philip Aloysius Hart (Democrat, MI)Eugene Joseph McCarthy (Democrat, MN)Edward Vaughn Long (Democrat, MO)William Stuart Symington (Democrat, MO)John Cornelius Stennis (Democrat, MS)Michael Joseph Mansfield (Democrat, MT)Samuel James Ervin Jr. (Democrat, NC)Quentin Northrup Burdick (Democrat, ND)Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. (Democrat, NJ)Joseph Manuel Montoya (Democrat, NM)Alan Harvey Bible (Democrat, NV)Howard Walter Cannon (Democrat, NV)Robert Francis Kennedy (Democrat, NY)Frank John Lausche (Democrat, OH)Stephen Marvin Young (Democrat, OH)Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney (Democrat, OK)Wayne Lyman Morse (Democrat, OR)Joseph Sill Clark (Democrat, PA)John Orlando Pastore (Democrat, RI)Ernest F. Hollings (Democrat, SC)George Stanley McGovern (Democrat, SD)Albert Arnold Gore (Democrat, TN)Ralph Webster Yarborough (Democrat, TX)Frank Edward Moss (Democrat, UT)Harry Flood Byrd Jr. (Democrat, VA)Warren Grant Magnuson (Democrat, WA)Henry Martin Jackson (Democrat, WA)Gaylord Anton Nelson (Democrat, WI)William Proxmire (Democrat, WI)Robert C. Byrd (Democrat, WV)Gale William McGee (Democrat, WY)Paul Jones Fannin (Republican, AZ)Thomas Henry Kuchel (Republican, CA)George Lloyd Murphy (Republican, CA)Peter Hoyt Dominick (Republican, CO)John James Williams (Republican, DE)Hiram Leong Fong (Republican, HI)Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper (Republican, IA)Everett McKinley Dirksen (Republican, IL)Frank Carlson (Republican, KS)Thruston Ballard Morton (Republican, KY)Milton Ruben Young (Republican, ND)Roman Lee Hruska (Republican, NE)Norris H. Cotton (Republican, NH)Jacob Koppel Javits (Republican, NY)Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. (Republican, PA)Wallace Foster Bennett (Republican, UT)George David Aiken (Republican, VT)Winston Lewis Prouty (Republican, VT)
House ·
1967-01-09/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
Abe Fortas D
Associate Justice · appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson · since Aug 11, 1965
1967-01-09/militaryArmed conflicts under way
Laotian Civil War
since Dec 31, 1963 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat
Vietnam War
since Dec 31, 1965 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat
1967-01-09/weekWithin a week · Jan 2, 1967 – Jan 16, 1967
Ruling Time, Inc. v. Hill
Jan 9, 1967 · 385 U.S. 374
Ruling Swann v. Adams
Jan 9, 1967 · 385 U.S. 440
Ruling National Labor Relations Board v. C & C Plywood Corp.
Jan 9, 1967 · 385 U.S. 421
Ruling National Labor Relations Board v. Acme Industrial Co.
Jan 9, 1967 · 385 U.S. 432
Ruling Lassen v. Arizona ex rel. Arizona Highway Department
Jan 10, 1967 · 385 U.S. 458
Ruling United States v. Laub
Jan 10, 1967 · 385 U.S. 475
Ruling Travis v. United States
Jan 10, 1967 · 385 U.S. 491
Ruling Spevack v. Klein
Jan 16, 1967 · 385 U.S. 511
Ruling Garrity v. New Jersey
Jan 16, 1967 · 385 U.S. 493

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.