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The United States on February 15, 1864

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President
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln R · since Mar 4, 1861
Senate
36 R · 12 D
52 senators · 38th Congress
House
87 R · 74 D
190 representatives
Supreme Court
5 D · 4 R · 1 W
10 justices by appointing party
Union
35 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.1B
as of Jul 1, 1863
1864-02-15/executiveThe administration
President Abraham Lincoln R
since Mar 4, 1861
Vice President Hannibal Hamlin R
Postmaster General Montgomery Blair R
since Mar 5, 1861
Attorney General Edward Bates DR
since Mar 5, 1861
Secretary of State William H. Seward R
since Mar 5, 1861
Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase D
since Mar 7, 1861
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles D
since Mar 7, 1861
Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton D
since Jan 20, 1862
Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher R
since Jan 1, 1863
1864-02-15/congress38th Congress
Senate · 36 R · 12 D · 2 U · 2 UU
James Alexander McDougall (Democrat, CA)Willard Saulsbury Sr. (Democrat, DE)George Read Riddle (Democrat, DE)William Alexander Richardson (Democrat, IL)Thomas Andrews Hendricks (Democrat, IN)Lazarus Whitehead Powell (Democrat, KY)Garrett Davis (Democrat, KY)Reverdy Johnson (Democrat, MD)William Wright (Democrat, NJ)James Willis Nesmith (Democrat, OR)Benjamin Franklin Harding (Democrat, OR)Charles Rollin Buckalew (Democrat, PA)Thomas Holliday Hicks (Unconditional Unionist, MD)John Snyder Carlile (Unionist, VA)Lemuel Jackson Bowden (Unionist, VA)Waitman Thomas Willey (Unconditional Unionist, WV)John Conness (Republican, CA)Lafayette Sabine Foster (Republican, CT)James Dixon (Republican, CT)James Wilson Grimes (Republican, IA)James Harlan (Republican, IA)Lyman Trumbull (Republican, IL)Henry Smith Lane (Republican, IN)James Henry Lane (Republican, KS)Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (Republican, KS)Henry Wilson (Republican, MA)Charles Sumner (Republican, MA)Nathan Allen Farwell (Republican, ME)Lot Myrick Morrill (Republican, ME)Jacob Merritt Howard (Republican, MI)Zachariah Chandler (Republican, MI)Morton Smith Wilkinson (Republican, MN)Alexander Ramsey (Republican, MN)John Brooks Henderson (Republican, MO)Benjamin Gratz Brown (Republican, MO)John Parker Hale (Republican, NH)Daniel Clark (Republican, NH)John Conover Ten Eyck (Republican, NJ)James Warren Nye (Republican, NV)William Morris Stewart (Republican, NV)Ira Harris (Republican, NY)Edwin Denison Morgan (Republican, NY)John Sherman (Republican, OH)Benjamin Franklin Wade (Republican, OH)Edgar Cowan (Republican, PA)Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican, RI)William Sprague (Republican, RI)Jacob Collamer (Republican, VT)Solomon Foot (Republican, VT)Timothy Otis Howe (Republican, WI)James Rood Doolittle (Republican, WI)Peter Godwin Van Winkle (Republican, WV)
House · 87 R · 74 D · 17 UU · 9 U · 2 IR · 1 CR
James Edward English (Democrat, CT-2)James Cameron Allen (Democrat, IL-AL)William Joshua Allen (Democrat, IL-13)Charles Murray Harris (Democrat, IL-4)Anthony Lausett Knapp (Democrat, IL-10)John Todd Stuart (Democrat, IL-8)Lewis Winans Ross (Democrat, IL-9)James Carroll Robinson (Democrat, IL-11)John Rice Eden (Democrat, IL-7)William Ralls Morrison (Democrat, IL-12)James Addison Cravens (Democrat, IN-2)Joseph Ketchum Edgerton (Democrat, IN-10)Henry William Harrington (Democrat, IN-3)John Law (Democrat, IN-1)James Foster McDowell (Democrat, IN-11)Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat, IN-7)William Steele Holman (Democrat, IN-4)Benjamin Gwinn Harris (Democrat, MD-5)Lorenzo De Medici Sweat (Democrat, ME-1)Augustus Carpenter Baldwin (Democrat, MI-5)Samuel McLean (Democrat, MT-AL)Daniel Marcy (Democrat, NH-1)George Middleton (Democrat, NJ-2)Nehemiah Perry (Democrat, NJ-5)William Gaston Steele (Democrat, NJ-3)Andrew Jackson Rogers (Democrat, NJ-4)Erastus Corning (Democrat, NY-14)John Ganson (Democrat, NY-30)Anson Herrick (Democrat, NY-9)Martin Kalbfleisch (Democrat, NY-2)Homer Augustus Nelson (Democrat, NY-12)Moses Fowler Odell (Democrat, NY-3)Henry George Stebbins (Democrat, NY-1)John Benedict Steele (Democrat, NY-13)William Radford (Democrat, NY-10)Charles Henry Winfield (Democrat, NY-11)John Winthrop Chanler (Democrat, NY-7)John Augustus Griswold (Democrat, NY-15)James Brooks (Democrat, NY-8)Francis Kernan (Democrat, NY-21)Elijah Ward (Democrat, NY-6)Benjamin Wood (Democrat, NY-4)Fernando Wood (Democrat, NY-5)George Bliss (Democrat, OH-14)Wells Andrews Hutchins (Democrat, OH-11)William Johnston (Democrat, OH-8)Alexander Long (Democrat, OH-2)James Remley Morris (Democrat, OH-15)Warren Perry Noble (Democrat, OH-9)John O’Neill (Democrat, OH-13)Chilton Allen White (Democrat, OH-6)Joseph Worthington White (Democrat, OH-16)Francis Celeste Le Blond (Democrat, OH-5)John Franklin McKinney (Democrat, OH-4)William Edward Finck (Democrat, OH-12)George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat, OH-1)Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat, OH-7)Joseph Bailey (Democrat, PA-15)Jesse Lazear (Democrat, PA-24)Archibald McAllister (Democrat, PA-17)William Henry Miller (Democrat, PA-14)Sydenham Elnathan Ancona (Democrat, PA-8)John Littleton Dawson (Democrat, PA-21)Philip Johnson (Democrat, PA-11)Myer Strouse (Democrat, PA-10)Charles Denison (Democrat, PA-12)John Dodson Stiles (Democrat, PA-6)Alexander Hamilton Coffroth (Democrat, PA-16)Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat, PA-1)John Fitch Kinney (Democrat, UT-AL)George Edward Cole (Democrat, WA-AL)James Sproat Brown (Democrat, WI-1)Ezra Wheeler (Democrat, WI-5)Charles Augustus Eldredge (Democrat, WI-4)Hiram Pitt Bennet (Conservative Republican, CO-AL)Nathaniel Barratt Smithers (Unconditional Unionist, DE-AL)Lucien Anderson (Unconditional Unionist, KY-1)Brutus Junius Clay (Unionist, KY-7)Robert Mallory (Unionist, KY-5)George Helm Yeaman (Unionist, KY-2)Henry Grider (Unionist, KY-3)Aaron Harding (Unionist, KY-4)William Harrison Randall (Unconditional Unionist, KY-8)Green Clay Smith (Unconditional Unionist, KY-6)William Henry Wadsworth (Unionist, KY-9)Henry Winter Davis (Unconditional Unionist, MD-3)John Angel James Creswell (Unconditional Unionist, MD-1)Edwin Hanson Webster (Unconditional Unionist, MD-2)Francis Thomas (Unconditional Unionist, MD-4)William Augustus Hall (Unionist, MO-8)Austin Augustus King (Unionist, MO-6)Samuel Knox (Unconditional Unionist, MO-1)John William Noell (Unconditional Unionist, MO-3)James Sidney Rollins (Unionist, MO-9)Henry Taylor Blow (Unconditional Unionist, MO-2)Benjamin Franklin Loan (Unconditional Unionist, MO-7)Joseph Washington McClurg (Unconditional Unionist, MO-5)Sempronius Hamilton Boyd (Unconditional Unionist, MO-4)James Tracy Hale (Ind. Republican, PA-18)Henry Wells Tracy (Ind. Republican, PA-13)William Gay Brown (Unconditional Unionist, VA-AL)Jacob Beeson Blair (Unconditional Unionist, WV-1)Kellian Van Rensalear Whaley (Unconditional Unionist, WV-3)Charles Debrille Poston (Republican, AZ-AL)Thomas Bowles Shannon (Republican, CA-AL)Augustus Brandegee (Republican, CT-3)Henry Champion Deming (Republican, CT-1)John Henry Hubbard (Republican, CT-4)Josiah Bushnell Grinnell (Republican, IA-4)Asahel Wheeler Hubbard (Republican, IA-6)Hiram Price (Republican, IA-2)John Adam Kasson (Republican, IA-5)James Falconer Wilson (Republican, IA-1)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA-3)William Henson Wallace (Republican, ID-AL)Isaac Newton Arnold (Republican, IL-1)Owen Lovejoy (Republican, IL-5)Jesse Olds Norton (Republican, IL-6)Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican, IL-3)John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican, IL-2)Ebenezer Dumont (Republican, IN-6)Schuyler Colfax (Republican, IN-9)George Washington Julian (Republican, IN-5)Godlove Stein Orth (Republican, IN-8)Abel Carter Wilder (Republican, KS-1)John Bassett Alley (Republican, MA-5)Alexander Hamilton Rice (Republican, MA-3)John Denison Baldwin (Republican, MA-8)Thomas Dawes Eliot (Republican, MA-1)Oakes Ames (Republican, MA-2)George Sewel Boutwell (Republican, MA-7)Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican, MA-6)Samuel Hooper (Republican, MA-4)William Barrett Washburn (Republican, MA-9)Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican, MA-10)John Hovey Rice (Republican, ME-4)Sidney Perham (Republican, ME-2)Frederick Augustus Pike (Republican, ME-5)James Gillespie Blaine (Republican, ME-3)John Wesley Longyear (Republican, MI-3)John Fletcher Driggs (Republican, MI-6)Francis William Kellogg (Republican, MI-4)Charles Upson (Republican, MI-2)Fernando Cortez Beaman (Republican, MI-1)Ignatius Donnelly (Republican, MN-2)William Windom (Republican, MN-1)Samuel Gordon Daily (Republican, NE-AL)James Willis Patterson (Republican, NH-3)Edward Henry Rollins (Republican, NH-2)John Farson Starr (Republican, NJ-1)Francisco Perea (Republican, NM-AL)Gordon Newell Mott (Republican, NV-AL)Ambrose Williams Clark (Republican, NY-20)Augustus Frank (Republican, NY-29)De Witt Clinton Littlejohn (Republican, NY-22)Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh (Republican, NY-27)Thomas Treadwell Davis (Republican, NY-23)Orlando Kellogg (Republican, NY-16)Daniel Morris (Republican, NY-25)Calvin Tilden Hulburd (Republican, NY-17)James Madison Marvin (Republican, NY-18)Theodore Medad Pomeroy (Republican, NY-24)Reuben Eaton Fenton (Republican, NY-31)Giles Waldo Hotchkiss (Republican, NY-26)Freeman Clarke (Republican, NY-28)Samuel Franklin Miller (Republican, NY-19)James Mitchell Ashley (Republican, OH-10)Ephraim Ralph Eckley (Republican, OH-17)Rufus Paine Spalding (Republican, OH-18)Robert Cumming Schenck (Republican, OH-3)James Abram Garfield (Republican, OH-19)John Rogers McBride (Republican, OR-1)Amos Myers (Republican, PA-20)Martin Russell Thayer (Republican, PA-5)John Martin Broomall (Republican, PA-7)James Kennedy Moorhead (Republican, PA-22)Thaddeus Stevens (Republican, PA-9)Thomas Williams (Republican, PA-23)Leonard Myers (Republican, PA-3)Glenni William Scofield (Republican, PA-19)William Darrah Kelley (Republican, PA-4)Charles O’Neill (Republican, PA-2)Nathan Fellows Dixon (Republican, RI-2)Thomas Allen Jenckes (Republican, RI-1)Portus Baxter (Republican, VT-3)Frederick Enoch Woodbridge (Republican, VT-1)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT-2)Walter Duncan McIndoe (Republican, WI-6)Ithamar Conkey Sloan (Republican, WI-2)Amasa Cobb (Republican, WI-3)
1864-02-15/supreme-courtThe bench
James Moore Wayne D
Associate Justice · appointed by Andrew Jackson · since Jan 9, 1835
Roger Brooke Taney D
Chief Justice · appointed by Andrew Jackson · since Mar 15, 1836
John Catron D
Associate Justice · appointed by Andrew Jackson · since Mar 8, 1837
Samuel Nelson W
Associate Justice · appointed by John Tyler · since Feb 13, 1845
Robert Cooper Grier D
Associate Justice · appointed by James K. Polk · since Aug 4, 1846
Nathan Clifford D
Associate Justice · appointed by James Buchanan · since Jan 12, 1858
Noah Haynes Swayne R
Associate Justice · appointed by Abraham Lincoln · since Jan 24, 1862
Samuel Freeman Miller R
Associate Justice · appointed by Abraham Lincoln · since Jul 16, 1862
David Davis R
Associate Justice · appointed by Abraham Lincoln · since Dec 8, 1862
Stephen Johnson Field R
Associate Justice · appointed by Abraham Lincoln · since Mar 10, 1863
1864-02-15/weekWithin a week · Feb 8, 1864 – Feb 22, 1864
Ruling United States v. Sepulveda
Feb 8, 1864 · 68 U.S. 104
Ruling The Bridge Proprietors v. The Hoboken Company
Feb 8, 1864 · 68 U.S. 116
Ruling Sturgis v. Clough
Feb 8, 1864 · 68 U.S. 269
Ruling Bloomer v. Millinger
Feb 8, 1864 · 68 U.S. 340
Ruling United States v. Hallock
Feb 8, 1864 · 154 U.S. 537
Ruling Ex parte Vallandigham
Feb 15, 1864 · 68 U.S. 243
Ruling Dunham v. The Cincinnati, Peru, &c., Railway Company
Feb 15, 1864 · 68 U.S. 254
Ruling Malarin v. United States
Feb 15, 1864 · 68 U.S. 282
Ruling United States v. D'Aguirre
Feb 15, 1864 · 68 U.S. 311
Ruling United States v. Johnson
Feb 15, 1864 · 68 U.S. 326
Ruling Niswanger v. Saunders
Feb 15, 1864 · 68 U.S. 424
Ruling Beaver v. Taylor
Feb 15, 1864 · 68 U.S. 637
Ruling Vincente Miramontes v. United States
Feb 15, 1864 · 131 U.S. lxxiii

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.