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The United States on January 10, 1974

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

President

Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon R · since Jan 20, 1973

Senate

58 D · 41 R

100 senators · 93rd Congress

House

241 D · 193 R

435 representatives

Supreme Court

6 R · 3 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

50 states

26 amendments in force

Unemployment

4.9%

Dec 1973 · $1 then ≈ $7.29 today

Public debt

$458B

as of Jun 30, 1973

1974-01-10/executiveThe administration

President Richard Milhous Nixon R

since Jan 20, 1973

Vice President Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R

Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz R

since Jun 12, 1972

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Roy Ash I

since Feb 2, 1973

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development James Thomas Lynn R

since Feb 2, 1973

Secretary of Commerce Frederick B. Dent R

since Feb 2, 1973

Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Caspar Weinberger R

since Feb 12, 1973

Ambassador to the United Nations John A. Scali R

since Feb 20, 1973

White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig R

since May 4, 1973

Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger R

since Jul 2, 1973

Director of Central Intelligence William Colby I

since Sep 4, 1973

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Russell E. Train R

since Sep 12, 1973

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger R

since Sep 22, 1973

Attorney General William B. Saxbe R

since Jan 4, 1974

1974-01-10/congress93rd Congress

Senate · 58 D · 41 R · 1 C

House · 241 D · 193 R · 1 ID

1974-01-10/supreme-courtThe bench

William Orville Douglas D

Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Apr 15, 1939

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

Thurgood Marshall D

Associate Justice · appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson · since Aug 30, 1967

Warren Earl Burger R

Chief Justice · appointed by Richard M. Nixon · since Jun 23, 1969

Harry Andrew Blackmun R

Associate Justice · appointed by Richard M. Nixon · since May 14, 1970

Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. R

Associate Justice · appointed by Richard M. Nixon · since Dec 9, 1971

William Hubbs Rehnquist R

Associate Justice · appointed by Richard M. Nixon · since Dec 15, 1971

1974-01-10/weekWithin a week · Jan 3, 1974 – Jan 17, 1974

Law Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1974

Jan 3, 1974 · Pub. L. 93-245

Law An Act to amend the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to permit financial assistance to be furnished under that Act for the acquisition of certain equipment which may be used for charter service in a manner which does not foreclose private operators from furnishing such service, and for other purposes.

Jan 4, 1974 · Pub. L. 93-650

Ruling United States v. Maze

Jan 8, 1974 · 414 U.S. 395

Ruling United States v. Calandra

Jan 8, 1974 · 414 U.S. 338

Ruling Gateway Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers of America

Jan 8, 1974 · 414 U.S. 368

Ruling Communist Party of Indiana v. Whitcomb

Jan 9, 1974 · 414 U.S. 441

Ruling Marshall v. United States

Jan 9, 1974 · 414 U.S. 417

Ruling National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. National Association of Railroad Passengers

Jan 9, 1974 · 414 U.S. 453

Ruling O'Shea v. Littleton

Jan 15, 1974 · 414 U.S. 488

Ruling Spomer v. Littleton

Jan 15, 1974 · 414 U.S. 514

Ruling O'Brien v. Skinner

Jan 16, 1974 · 414 U.S. 524

Ruling American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah

Jan 16, 1974 · 414 U.S. 538

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.