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The United States on January 15, 1976

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

President

Jr.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R · since Aug 9, 1974

Senate

62 D · 37 R

100 senators · 94th Congress

House

289 D · 145 R

434 representatives

Supreme Court

7 R · 2 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

50 states

26 amendments in force

Unemployment

8.2%

Dec 1975 · $1 then ≈ $6.07 today

Public debt

$533B

as of Jun 30, 1975

1976-01-15/executiveThe administration

President Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R

since Aug 9, 1974

Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller R

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

Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon R

since May 9, 1974

Attorney General Edward H. Levi R

since Feb 2, 1975

Director of the Office of Management and Budget James Thomas Lynn R

since Feb 10, 1975

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Carla Anderson Hills R

since Mar 10, 1975

Secretary of Labor John Thomas Dunlop D

since Mar 18, 1975

U.S. Trade Representative Frederick B. Dent R

since Mar 26, 1975

Ambassador to the United Nations Daniel Patrick Moynihan D

since Jun 30, 1975

Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare F. David Mathews R

since Aug 8, 1975

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld R

since Nov 20, 1975

White House Chief of Staff Dick Cheney R

since Nov 21, 1975

1976-01-15/congress94th Congress

Senate · 62 D · 37 R · 1 C

House · 289 D · 145 R

1976-01-15/supreme-courtThe bench

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

John Paul Stevens R

Associate Justice · appointed by Gerald Ford · since Dec 17, 1975

1976-01-15/weekWithin a week · Jan 8, 1976 – Jan 22, 1976

Ruling Laing v. United States

Jan 13, 1976 · 423 U.S. 161

Ruling Barrett v. United States

Jan 13, 1976 · 423 U.S. 212

Ruling Foremost-Mckesson, Inc. v. Provident Securities Co.

Jan 13, 1976 · 423 U.S. 232

Ruling Michelin Tire Corp. v. Wages

Jan 14, 1976 · 423 U.S. 276

Ruling Mathews v. Weber

Jan 14, 1976 · 423 U.S. 261

Ruling United States v. Bornstein

Jan 14, 1976 · 423 U.S. 303

Ruling Thermtron Products, Inc. v. Hermansdorfer

Jan 20, 1976 · 423 U.S. 336

Ruling Rizzo v. Goode

Jan 21, 1976 · 423 U.S. 362

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.