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The United States on January 5, 1987

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

President
Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan R · since Jan 20, 1985
Senate
35 D · 31 R
66 senators · 100th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
50 states
26 amendments in force
Unemployment
6.6%
Dec 1986 · $1 then ≈ $3.05 today
Public debt
$2.13T
as of Sep 30, 1986
1987-01-05/executiveThe administration
President Ronald Wilson Reagan R
since Jan 20, 1985
Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush R
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger R
since Jan 21, 1981
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel Pierce R
since Jan 23, 1981
Director of Central Intelligence William J. Casey R
since Jan 28, 1981
Secretary of State George Shultz R
since Jul 16, 1982
Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole R
since Feb 7, 1983
White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan R
since Feb 4, 1985
Secretary of the Treasury James Baker R
since Feb 4, 1985
Secretary of Education William J. Bennett D
since Feb 6, 1985
Secretary of Energy John S. Herrington R
since Feb 7, 1985
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee M. Thomas R
since Feb 8, 1985
Secretary of the Interior Donald P. Hodel R
since Feb 8, 1985
Attorney General Edwin Meese R
since Feb 25, 1985
Ambassador to the United Nations Vernon A. Walters R
since May 22, 1985
Director of the Office of Management and Budget James C. Miller III R
since Oct 8, 1985
Secretary of Health and Human Services Otis R. Bowen R
since Dec 13, 1985
Secretary of Agriculture Richard Edmund Lyng R
since Mar 7, 1986
1987-01-05/congress100th Congress
Senate · 35 D · 31 R
Howell Thomas Heflin (Democrat, AL)David Hampton Pryor (Democrat, AR)Dennis Webster DeConcini (Democrat, AZ)Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Democrat, DE)Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. (Democrat, FL)Samuel Augustus Nunn (Democrat, GA)Spark Masayuki Matsunaga (Democrat, HI)Tom Harkin (Democrat, IA)Paul Martin Simon (Democrat, IL)John Bennett Johnston Jr. (Democrat, LA)Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat, MA)John F. Kerry (Democrat, MA)Paul S. Sarbanes (Democrat, MD)George John Mitchell (Democrat, ME)Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. (Democrat, MI)Carl Levin (Democrat, MI)John Cornelius Stennis (Democrat, MS)John Melcher (Democrat, MT)Max Baucus (Democrat, MT)Quentin Northrup Burdick (Democrat, ND)Edward Zorinsky (Democrat, NE)J. James Exon (Democrat, NE)Frank R. Lautenberg (Democrat, NJ)William Warren Bradley (Democrat, NJ)Jeff Bingaman (Democrat, NM)Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Democrat, NY)Howard Morton Metzenbaum (Democrat, OH)David Lyle Boren (Democrat, OK)Claiborne de Borda Pell (Democrat, RI)James Ralph Sasser (Democrat, TN)Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (Democrat, TN)Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. (Democrat, TX)William Proxmire (Democrat, WI)Robert C. Byrd (Democrat, WV)John D. Rockefeller, IV (Democrat, WV)Ted F. Stevens (Republican, AK)Pete Wilson (Republican, CA)William Lester Armstrong (Republican, CO)Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. (Republican, CT)William V. Roth Jr. (Republican, DE)James Albertus McClure (Republican, ID)Richard G. Lugar (Republican, IN)Nancy Landon Kassebaum (Republican, KS)Mitch McConnell (Republican, KY)William Sebastian Cohen (Republican, ME)David Ferdinand Durenberger (Republican, MN)Rudolph Eli Boschwitz (Republican, MN)John Claggett Danforth (Republican, MO)Thad Cochran (Republican, MS)Jesse Helms (Republican, NC)Gordon John Humphrey (Republican, NH)Pete V. Domenici (Republican, NM)Jacob Chic Hecht (Republican, NV)Mark Odom Hatfield (Republican, OR)Henry John Heinz III (Republican, PA)John Hubbard Chafee (Republican, RI)J. Strom Thurmond (Republican, SC)Larry Lee Pressler (Republican, SD)Phil Gramm (Republican, TX)Orrin G. Hatch (Republican, UT)Paul Seward Trible Jr. (Republican, VA)John W. Warner (Republican, VA)Robert Theodore Stafford (Republican, VT)Daniel Jackson Evans (Republican, WA)Malcolm Wallop (Republican, WY)Alan Kooi Simpson (Republican, WY)
House ·
1987-01-05/supreme-courtThe bench
William Joseph Brennan, Jr. R
Associate Justice · appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower · since Mar 21, 1957
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
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
John Paul Stevens R
Associate Justice · appointed by Gerald Ford · since Dec 17, 1975
Sandra Day O'Connor R
Associate Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Sep 22, 1981
William Hubbs Rehnquist R
Chief Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Sep 25, 1986
Antonin Scalia R
Associate Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Sep 25, 1986
1987-01-05/weekWithin a week · Dec 29, 1986 – Jan 12, 1987
Agency + United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
Jan 1, 1987 · independent_agency

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.