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The United States on January 13, 1979

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

President
Carter
James Earl Carter D · since Jan 20, 1977
Senate
45 D · 22 R
67 senators · 96th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
50 states
26 amendments in force
Unemployment
6%
Dec 1978 · $1 then ≈ $4.98 today
Public debt
$772B
as of Sep 30, 1978
1979-01-13/executiveThe administration
President James Earl Carter D
since Jan 20, 1977
Vice President Walter Frederick Mondale D
Ambassador to the United Nations James E. Baker
since Jan 1, 1976
Secretary of Defense Harold Brown D
since Jan 21, 1977
Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams D
since Jan 23, 1977
Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal D
since Jan 23, 1977
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Harris D
since Jan 23, 1977
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance D
since Jan 23, 1977
Secretary of Agriculture Robert Bergland D
since Jan 23, 1977
Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus D
since Jan 23, 1977
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano, Jr. D
since Jan 25, 1977
Attorney General Griffin Bell D
since Jan 26, 1977
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Douglas M. Costle D
since Mar 7, 1977
Director of Central Intelligence Stansfield Turner D
since Mar 9, 1977
Secretary of Energy James R. Schlesinger R
since Aug 6, 1977
Director of the Office of Management and Budget James T. McIntyre D
since Sep 24, 1977
1979-01-13/congress96th Congress
Senate · 45 D · 22 R
Maurice Robert Gravel (Democrat, AK)Donald Wilbur Stewart (Democrat, AL)Dale Bumpers (Democrat, AR)Dennis Webster DeConcini (Democrat, AZ)Alan Cranston (Democrat, CA)Gary Warren Hart (Democrat, CO)Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (Democrat, CT)Richard Bernard Stone (Democrat, FL)Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. (Democrat, FL)Herman Eugene Talmadge (Democrat, GA)Daniel K. Inouye (Democrat, HI)Spark Masayuki Matsunaga (Democrat, HI)John Chester Culver (Democrat, IA)Frank Forrester Church (Democrat, ID)Adlai Ewing Stevenson III (Democrat, IL)Birch Evans Bayh (Democrat, IN)Wendell Hampton Ford (Democrat, KY)Russell Billiu Long (Democrat, LA)Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat, MA)Paul S. Sarbanes (Democrat, MD)Edmund Sixtus Muskie (Democrat, ME)Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. (Democrat, MI)Thomas Francis Eagleton (Democrat, MO)John Cornelius Stennis (Democrat, MS)John Melcher (Democrat, MT)Robert Burren Morgan (Democrat, NC)Quentin Northrup Burdick (Democrat, ND)Edward Zorinsky (Democrat, NE)John Anthony Durkin (Democrat, NH)Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. (Democrat, NJ)Howard Walter Cannon (Democrat, NV)Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Democrat, NY)John Herschel Glenn Jr. (Democrat, OH)Howard Morton Metzenbaum (Democrat, OH)Ernest F. Hollings (Democrat, SC)George Stanley McGovern (Democrat, SD)James Ralph Sasser (Democrat, TN)Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. (Democrat, TX)Patrick J. Leahy (Democrat, VT)Warren Grant Magnuson (Democrat, WA)Henry Martin Jackson (Democrat, WA)Gaylord Anton Nelson (Democrat, WI)William Proxmire (Democrat, WI)Robert C. Byrd (Democrat, WV)Harry Flood Byrd Jr. (Independent, VA)Barry Morris Goldwater (Republican, AZ)Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (Republican, CA)Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. (Republican, CT)William V. Roth Jr. (Republican, DE)Richard G. Lugar (Republican, IN)Robert Joseph Dole (Republican, KS)Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. (Republican, MD)David Ferdinand Durenberger (Republican, MN)John Claggett Danforth (Republican, MO)Milton Ruben Young (Republican, ND)Harrison Hagan Schmitt (Republican, NM)Paul Dominque Laxalt (Republican, NV)Jacob Koppel Javits (Republican, NY)Henry Louis Bellmon (Republican, OK)Robert William Packwood (Republican, OR)Richard Schultz Schweiker (Republican, PA)Henry John Heinz III (Republican, PA)John Hubbard Chafee (Republican, RI)Edwin Jacob Garn (Republican, UT)Orrin G. Hatch (Republican, UT)Robert Theodore Stafford (Republican, VT)Malcolm Wallop (Republican, WY)
House ·
1979-01-13/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
1979-01-13/weekWithin a week · Jan 6, 1979 – Jan 20, 1979
Ruling Duren v. Missouri
Jan 9, 1979 · 439 U.S. 357
Ruling Colautti v. Franklin
Jan 9, 1979 · 439 U.S. 379
Ruling Parklane Hosiery Co., Inc. v. Shore
Jan 9, 1979 · 439 U.S. 322
Ruling Washington v. Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation
Jan 16, 1979 · 439 U.S. 463
Ruling Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Pennzoil Producing Co.
Jan 16, 1979 · 439 U.S. 508
Ruling Thor Power Tool Co. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Jan 16, 1979 · 439 U.S. 522
Ruling International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Daniel
Jan 16, 1979 · 439 U.S. 551

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.