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The United States on January 30, 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

55 D · 45 R

100 senators · 100th Congress

House

258 D · 177 R

435 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

1987-01-30/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

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

1987-01-30/congress100th Congress

Senate · 55 D · 45 R

House · 258 D · 177 R

1987-01-30/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

1987-01-30/weekWithin a week · Jan 23, 1987 – Feb 6, 1987

Ruling California v. Brown

Jan 27, 1987 · 479 U.S. 538

Ruling Connecticut v. Barrett

Jan 27, 1987 · 479 U.S. 523

Ruling Colorado v. Spring

Jan 27, 1987 · 479 U.S. 564

Law A joint resolution extending the time within which the President may transmit the Economic Report to the Congress.

Jan 28, 1987 · Pub. L. 100-1

Law A joint resolution to provide for a temporary prohibition of strikes or lockouts with respect to the Long Island Rail Road labor-management dispute.

Jan 28, 1987 · Pub. L. 100-2

Law Water Quality Act of 1987

Feb 5, 1987 · Pub. L. 100-4

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.