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The United States on March 15, 1865

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

President
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln R · since Mar 4, 1865
Senate
27 R · 8 D
36 senators · 39th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
5 R · 4 D · 1 W
10 justices by appointing party
Union
36 states
12 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.8B
as of Jul 1, 1864
1865-03-15/executiveThe administration
President Abraham Lincoln R
since Mar 4, 1865
Vice President Andrew Johnson D
Secretary of State William H. Seward R
since Mar 5, 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
Postmaster General William Dennison Jr. R
since Sep 24, 1864
Attorney General James Speed R
since Dec 2, 1864
Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch R
since Mar 9, 1865
1865-03-15/congress39th Congress
Senate · 27 R · 8 D · 1 UU
James Alexander McDougall (Democrat, CA)George Read Riddle (Democrat, DE)Thomas Andrews Hendricks (Democrat, IN)Garrett Davis (Democrat, KY)Reverdy Johnson (Democrat, MD)William Wright (Democrat, NJ)James Willis Nesmith (Democrat, OR)Charles Rollin Buckalew (Democrat, PA)Thomas Holliday Hicks (Unconditional Unionist, MD)John Conness (Republican, CA)Lafayette Sabine Foster (Republican, CT)James Dixon (Republican, CT)James Harlan (Republican, IA)Lyman Trumbull (Republican, IL)Henry Smith Lane (Republican, IN)Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (Republican, KS)Charles Sumner (Republican, MA)Lot Myrick Morrill (Republican, ME)Zachariah Chandler (Republican, MI)Alexander Ramsey (Republican, MN)John Brooks Henderson (Republican, MO)Benjamin Gratz Brown (Republican, MO)Daniel Clark (Republican, NH)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)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 ·
1865-03-15/supreme-courtThe bench
James Moore Wayne D
Associate Justice · appointed by Andrew Jackson · since Jan 9, 1835
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
Salmon Portland Chase R
Chief Justice · appointed by Abraham Lincoln · since Dec 6, 1864
1865-03-15/weekWithin a week · Mar 8, 1865 – Mar 22, 1865
Ruling The Slavers. (Kate
Mar 8, 1865 · 69 U.S. 350
Ruling The Baigorry
Mar 8, 1865 · 69 U.S. 474
Ruling The Sutter Case
Mar 8, 1865 · 69 U.S. 562
Ruling Brobst v. Brobst
Mar 10, 1865 · 69 U.S. 96
Ruling Humiston v. Stainthorp
Mar 10, 1865 · 69 U.S. 106
Ruling Freeborn v. Smith
Mar 10, 1865 · 69 U.S. 160
Ruling The Slavers. (Sarah
Mar 10, 1865 · 69 U.S. 366
Ruling The Slavers. (Weathergage
Mar 10, 1865 · 69 U.S. 375
Ruling The Slavers. (Reindeer
Mar 10, 1865 · 69 U.S. 383
Ruling Mrs. Alexander's Cotton
Mar 10, 1865 · 69 U.S. 404
Ruling Milwaukie and Minnesota Railroad Company and Fleming v. Soutter
Mar 10, 1865 · 69 U.S. 510
Ruling Gordon v. United States
Mar 10, 1865 · 69 U.S. 561
Ruling Minnesota Company v. St. Paul Company
Mar 10, 1865 · 69 U.S. 609
Ruling Ex parte Fleming
Mar 10, 1865 · 69 U.S. 759

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