President George Washington signed the Judiciary Act of 1789 on September 24th of that year. Among other things, the Act created the Office of Attorney General and established 13 judicial districts, each with a United States Attorney and a United States Marshal. The 13 were one each in the 11 states that had ratified the Constitution, plus a District of Maine in Massachusetts and a District of Kentucky in Virginia. (North Carolina ratified the Constitution in November 1789, Rhode Island in May 1790. The United States Department of Justice was established in 1870.)