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The United States on July 19, 1869

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President
Grant
Ulysses Simpson Grant R · since Mar 4, 1869
Senate
51 R · 10 D
66 senators · 41st Congress
House
173 R · 74 D
253 representatives
Supreme Court
5 R · 2 D · 1 W
8 justices by appointing party
Union
37 states
14 amendments in force
Public debt
$2.6B
as of Jul 1, 1869
1869-07-19/executiveThe administration
President Ulysses Simpson Grant R
since Mar 4, 1869
Vice President Schuyler Colfax R
Secretary of the Interior Jacob Dolson Cox R
since Mar 5, 1869
Attorney General Ebenezer R. Hoar R
since Mar 5, 1869
Postmaster General John Creswell R
since Mar 5, 1869
Secretary of the Treasury George S. Boutwell D
since Mar 12, 1869
Secretary of State Hamilton Fish R
since Mar 17, 1869
1869-07-19/congress41st Congress
Senate · 51 R · 10 D · 5 LR
Eugene Casserly (Democrat, CA)Willard Saulsbury Sr. (Democrat, DE)Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (Democrat, DE)Garrett Davis (Democrat, KY)Thomas Clay McCreery (Democrat, KY)George Vickers (Democrat, MD)William Thomas Hamilton (Democrat, MD)Daniel Sheldon Norton (Democrat, MN)John Potter Stockton (Democrat, NJ)Allen Granberry Thurman (Democrat, OH)Charles Sumner (Liberal Republican, MA)Carl Schurz (Liberal Republican, MO)Thomas Weston Tipton (Liberal Republican, NE)Reuben Eaton Fenton (Liberal Republican, NY)William Sprague (Liberal Republican, RI)Willard Warner (Republican, AL)George Eliphaz Spencer (Republican, AL)Alexander McDonald (Republican, AR)Benjamin Franklin Rice (Republican, AR)Cornelius Cole (Republican, CA)Orris Sanford Ferry (Republican, CT)William Alfred Buckingham (Republican, CT)Thomas Ward Osborn (Republican, FL)Abijah Gilbert (Republican, FL)James Wilson Grimes (Republican, IA)James Harlan (Republican, IA)Richard Yates (Republican, IL)Lyman Trumbull (Republican, IL)Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (Republican, IN)Daniel Darwin Pratt (Republican, IN)Edmund Gibson Ross (Republican, KS)Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (Republican, KS)John Spafford Harris (Republican, LA)William Pitt Kellogg (Republican, LA)Henry Wilson (Republican, MA)Lot Myrick Morrill (Republican, ME)Hannibal Hamlin (Republican, ME)Jacob Merritt Howard (Republican, MI)Zachariah Chandler (Republican, MI)Alexander Ramsey (Republican, MN)Charles Daniel Drake (Republican, MO)Joseph Carter Abbott (Republican, NC)John Pool (Republican, NC)John Milton Thayer (Republican, NE)Aaron Harrison Cragin (Republican, NH)James Willis Patterson (Republican, NH)Alexander Gilmore Cattell (Republican, NJ)James Warren Nye (Republican, NV)William Morris Stewart (Republican, NV)Roscoe Conkling (Republican, NY)John Sherman (Republican, OH)George Henry Williams (Republican, OR)Henry Winslow Corbett (Republican, OR)Simon Cameron (Republican, PA)John Scott (Republican, PA)Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican, RI)Thomas James Robertson (Republican, SC)Frederick Adolphus Sawyer (Republican, SC)Joseph Smith Fowler (Republican, TN)William Gannaway Brownlow (Republican, TN)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)George Franklin Edmunds (Republican, VT)Timothy Otis Howe (Republican, WI)Matthew Hale Carpenter (Republican, WI)Waitman Thomas Willey (Republican, WV)Arthur Inghram Boreman (Republican, WV)
House · 173 R · 74 D · 5 C · 1 U
William Crawford Sherrod (Democrat, AL-6)Peter Myndert Dox (Democrat, AL-5)Anthony Astley Cooper Rogers (Democrat, AR-2)Samuel Beach Axtell (Democrat, CA-1)James Augustus Johnson (Democrat, CA-3)William Henry Barnum (Democrat, CT-4)Benjamin Thomas Biggs (Democrat, DE-AL)Stephen Alfestus Corker (Democrat, GA-5)William Pierce Price (Democrat, GA-6)Pierce Manning Butler Young (Democrat, GA-7)Jacob K. Shafer (Democrat, ID-AL)Albert George Burr (Democrat, IL-10)John Montgomery Crebs (Democrat, IL-13)Thompson Ware McNeely (Democrat, IL-9)Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat, IL-11)William Ellis Niblack (Democrat, IN-1)Michael Crawford Kerr (Democrat, IN-2)Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat, IN-6)William Steele Holman (Democrat, IN-3)Jacob Shall Golladay (Democrat, KY-3)William Northcut Sweeney (Democrat, KY-2)Lawrence Strother Trimble (Democrat, KY-1)John McConnell Rice (Democrat, KY-9)Boyd Winchester (Democrat, KY-5)George Madison Adams (Democrat, KY-8)Thomas Laurens Jones (Democrat, KY-6)James Proctor Knott (Democrat, KY-4)James Burnie Beck (Democrat, KY-7)Louis St. Martin (Democrat, LA-AL)Patrick Hamill (Democrat, MD-4)Frederick Stone (Democrat, MD-5)Samuel Hambleton (Democrat, MD-1)Stevenson Archer (Democrat, MD-2)Thomas Swann (Democrat, MD-3)Eugene McLanahan Wilson (Democrat, MN-2)James Robinson McCormick (Democrat, MO-3)Erastus Wells (Democrat, MO-1)James Michael Cavanaugh (Democrat, MT-AL)Francis Edwin Shober (Democrat, NC-6)Orestes Cleveland (Democrat, NJ-5)Charles Haight (Democrat, NJ-2)John Taylor Bird (Democrat, NJ-3)Hervey Chittenden Calkin (Democrat, NY-7)John Fox (Democrat, NY-4)George Woodward Greene (Democrat, NY-11)John Ashley Griswold (Democrat, NY-13)John Morrissey (Democrat, NY-5)Henry Augustus Reeves (Democrat, NY-1)James Brooks (Democrat, NY-8)John Godfrey Schumaker (Democrat, NY-2)Stephen Lorenzo Mayham (Democrat, NY-14)Clarkson Nott Potter (Democrat, NY-10)Fernando Wood (Democrat, NY-9)Henry Warner Slocum (Democrat, NY-3)Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat, NY-6)Edward Fenwick Dickinson (Democrat, OH-9)Truman Harrison Hoag (Democrat, OH-10)William Mungen (Democrat, OH-5)Peter Wilson Strader (Democrat, OH-1)George Washington Morgan (Democrat, OH-13)Philadelph Van Trump (Democrat, OH-12)Joseph Showalter Smith (Democrat, OR-1)John Moffet (Democrat, PA-3)John Roberts Reading (Democrat, PA-5)John Dodson Stiles (Democrat, PA-6)Daniel Myers Van Auken (Democrat, PA-11)George Washington Woodward (Democrat, PA-12)James Lawrence Getz (Democrat, PA-8)Richard Jacobs Haldeman (Democrat, PA-15)Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat, PA-1)John Coggswell Conner (Democrat, TX-2)William Henry Hooper (Democrat, UT-AL)Charles Augustus Eldredge (Democrat, WI-4)Stephen Friel Nuckolls (Democrat, WY-AL)Richard Cunningham McCormick (Unionist, AZ-AL)George William Booker (Conservative, VA-4)James King Gibson (Conservative, VA-8)Lewis McKenzie (Conservative, VA-7)William Milnes Jr. (Conservative, VA-6)Robert Ridgway (Conservative, VA-5)Alfred Eliab Buck (Republican, AL-1)Robert Stell Heflin (Republican, AL-3)Charles Waldron Buckley (Republican, AL-2)Charles Hays (Republican, AL-4)Logan Holt Roots (Republican, AR-1)Thomas Boles (Republican, AR-3)Aaron Augustus Sargent (Republican, CA-2)Allen Alexander Bradford (Republican, CO-AL)Julius Levi Strong (Republican, CT-1)Stephen Wright Kellogg (Republican, CT-2)Henry Howard Starkweather (Republican, CT-3)Charles Memorial Hamilton (Republican, FL-1)Marion Bethune (Republican, GA-3)Joseph Wales Clift (Republican, GA-1)William Posey Edwards (Republican, GA-AL)Jefferson Franklin Long (Republican, GA-4)Richard Henry Whiteley (Republican, GA-2)Charles Pomeroy (Republican, IA-6)William Smyth (Republican, IA-2)Francis Wayland Palmer (Republican, IA-5)William Loughridge (Republican, IA-4)George Washington McCrary (Republican, IA-1)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA-3)Ebon Clark Ingersoll (Republican, IL-5)Norman Buel Judd (Republican, IL-1)Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican, IL-3)Burton Chauncey Cook (Republican, IL-6)John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican, IL-2)John Breese Hay (Republican, IL-12)Jesse Hale Moore (Republican, IL-7)John Baldwin Hawley (Republican, IL-4)John Alexander Logan (Republican, IL-AL)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL-8)George Washington Julian (Republican, IN-4)John Coburn (Republican, IN-5)Jasper Packard (Republican, IN-11)John Peter Cleaver Shanks (Republican, IN-9)James Noble Tyner (Republican, IN-8)William Williams (Republican, IN-10)Godlove Stein Orth (Republican, IN-7)Sidney Clarke (Republican, KS-1)Joseph Parkinson Newsham (Republican, LA-4)Lionel Allen Sheldon (Republican, LA-2)Jacob Hale Sypher (Republican, LA-1)Frank Morey (Republican, LA-5)Chester Bidwell Darrall (Republican, LA-3)Oakes Ames (Republican, MA-2)George Merrick Brooks (Republican, MA-7)Ginery Twichell (Republican, MA-3)Samuel Hooper (Republican, MA-4)William Barrett Washburn (Republican, MA-9)James Buffinton (Republican, MA-1)Benjamin Franklin Butler (Republican, MA-5)Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican, MA-10)Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican, MA-6)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA-8)Samuel Plummer Morrill (Republican, ME-2)John Lynch (Republican, ME-1)John Andrew Peters (Republican, ME-4)James Gillespie Blaine (Republican, ME-3)Eugene Hale (Republican, ME-5)Fernando Cortez Beaman (Republican, MI-1)Randolph Strickland (Republican, MI-6)Austin Blair (Republican, MI-3)William Lewis Stoughton (Republican, MI-2)Thomas White Ferry (Republican, MI-4)Omar Dwight Conger (Republican, MI-5)Morton Smith Wilkinson (Republican, MN-1)Joel Funk Asper (Republican, MO-7)John Forbes Benjamin (Republican, MO-8)Sempronius Hamilton Boyd (Republican, MO-4)David Patterson Dyer (Republican, MO-9)Samuel Swinfin Burdett (Republican, MO-5)Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg (Republican, MO-2)Robert Thompson Van Horn (Republican, MO-6)George Emrick Harris (Republican, MS-1)Joseph Lewis Morphis (Republican, MS-2)Legrand Winfield Perce (Republican, MS-5)Henry W. Barry (Republican, MS-3)George Colin McKee (Republican, MS-4)John Thomas Deweese (Republican, NC-4)Joseph Dixon (Republican, NC-2)Oliver Hart Dockery (Republican, NC-3)Alexander Hamilton Jones (Republican, NC-7)Israel George Lash (Republican, NC-5)Clinton Levering Cobb (Republican, NC-1)John Taffe (Republican, NE-1)Jacob Benton (Republican, NH-3)Jacob Hart Ela (Republican, NH-1)Aaron Fletcher Stevens (Republican, NH-2)William Moore (Republican, NJ-1)John Hill (Republican, NJ-4)José Francisco Chaves (Republican, NM-AL)Thomas Fitch (Republican, NV-AL)Alexander Hamilton Bailey (Republican, NY-21)David Smith Bennett (Republican, NY-30)John Charles Churchill (Republican, NY-22)George Washington Cowles (Republican, NY-24)Noah Davis (Republican, NY-28)Orange Ferriss (Republican, NY-16)John Fisher (Republican, NY-29)Giles Waldo Hotchkiss (Republican, NY-26)William Henry Kelsey (Republican, NY-25)Charles Knapp (Republican, NY-19)Addison Henry Laflin (Republican, NY-20)Dennis McCarthy (Republican, NY-23)Stephen Sanford (Republican, NY-18)Porter Sheldon (Republican, NY-31)Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner (Republican, NY-15)Hamilton Ward (Republican, NY-27)William Almon Wheeler (Republican, NY-17)John Henry Ketcham (Republican, NY-12)Eliakim Hastings Moore (Republican, OH-15)Robert Cumming Schenck (Republican, OH-3)Martin Welker (Republican, OH-14)James January Winans (Republican, OH-7)Jacob A. Ambler (Republican, OH-17)John Beatty (Republican, OH-8)John Armor Bingham (Republican, OH-16)John Armstrong Smith (Republican, OH-6)Job Evans Stevenson (Republican, OH-2)William Hanford Upson (Republican, OH-18)John Thomas Wilson (Republican, OH-11)William Lawrence (Republican, OH-4)James Abram Garfield (Republican, OH-19)William Hepburn Armstrong (Republican, PA-18)Henry Lutz Cake (Republican, PA-10)John Covode (Republican, PA-21)Joseph Benton Donley (Republican, PA-24)Calvin Willard Gilfillan (Republican, PA-20)Daniel Johnson Morrell (Republican, PA-17)Darwin Phelps (Republican, PA-23)Oliver James Dickey (Republican, PA-9)Ulysses Mercur (Republican, PA-13)John Cessna (Republican, PA-16)Glenni William Scofield (Republican, PA-19)John Black Packer (Republican, PA-14)Washington Townsend (Republican, PA-7)James Scott Negley (Republican, PA-22)William Darrah Kelley (Republican, PA-4)Charles O’Neill (Republican, PA-2)Nathan Fellows Dixon (Republican, RI-2)Thomas Allen Jenckes (Republican, RI-1)Christopher Columbus Bowen (Republican, SC-2)Benjamin Franklin Whittemore (Republican, SC-1)Solomon Lafayette Hoge (Republican, SC-3)Alexander Stuart Wallace (Republican, SC-4)Samuel Mayes Arnell (Republican, TN-6)Isaac Roberts Hawkins (Republican, TN-7)William Farrand Prosser (Republican, TN-5)William Jay Smith (Republican, TN-8)William Brickly Stokes (Republican, TN-3)Lewis Tillman (Republican, TN-4)Horace Maynard (Republican, TN-2)Roderick Randum Butler (Republican, TN-1)Edward Degener (Republican, TX-4)George Washington Whitmore (Republican, TX-1)William Thomas Clark (Republican, TX-3)Richard Small Ayer (Republican, VA-1)Charles Howell Porter (Republican, VA-3)James Henry Platt Jr. (Republican, VA-2)Worthington Curtis Smith (Republican, VT-3)Charles Wesley Willard (Republican, VT-1)Luke Potter Poland (Republican, VT-2)Selucius Garfielde (Republican, WA-AL)David Atwood (Republican, WI-2)Amasa Cobb (Republican, WI-3)Halbert Eleazer Paine (Republican, WI-1)Cadwallader Colden Washburn (Republican, WI-6)Philetus Sawyer (Republican, WI-5)Isaac Harding Duval (Republican, WV-1)John Seashoal Witcher (Republican, WV-3)James Clark McGrew (Republican, WV-2)
1869-07-19/supreme-courtThe bench
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
1869-07-19/weekWithin a week · Jul 12, 1869 – Jul 26, 1869
Nothing recorded within a week of this date.

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