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The United States on November 17, 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

288 D · 146 R

434 representatives

Supreme Court

7 R · 2 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

50 states

26 amendments in force

Unemployment

7.7%

Oct 1976 · $1 then ≈ $5.82 today

Public debt

$620B

as of Jun 30, 1976

1976-11-17/executiveThe administration

President Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R

since Aug 9, 1974

Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller R

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

U.S. Trade Representative Frederick B. Dent R

since Mar 26, 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

Ambassador to the United Nations James E. Baker

since Jan 1, 1976

Director of Central Intelligence George H. W. Bush R

since Jan 30, 1976

Secretary of Commerce Elliot Richardson R

since Feb 2, 1976

Secretary of Labor William Usery R

since Feb 10, 1976

1976-11-17/congress94th Congress

Senate · 62 D · 37 R · 1 C

House · 288 D · 146 R

1976-11-17/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

1976-11-17/weekWithin a week · Nov 10, 1976 – Nov 24, 1976

Ruling Moody v. Daggett

Nov 15, 1976 · 429 U.S. 78

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.