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The United States on April 12, 1873

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President
Grant
Ulysses Simpson Grant R · since Mar 4, 1873
Senate
31 R · 14 D
50 senators · 43rd Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
8 R · 1 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
37 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$2.3B
as of Jul 1, 1872
1873-04-12/executiveThe administration
President Ulysses Simpson Grant R
since Mar 4, 1873
Vice President Henry Wilson R
Postmaster General John Creswell R
since Mar 5, 1869
Secretary of State Hamilton Fish R
since Mar 17, 1869
Secretary of War William W. Belknap R
since Oct 25, 1869
Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano R
since Nov 1, 1870
Attorney General George Henry Williams D
since Dec 14, 1871
Secretary of the Treasury William Adams Richardson R
since Mar 17, 1873
1873-04-12/congress43rd Congress
Senate · 31 R · 14 D · 5 LR
George Goldthwaite (Democrat, AL)Eugene Casserly (Democrat, CA)Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (Democrat, DE)Eli Saulsbury (Democrat, DE)Thomas Manson Norwood (Democrat, GA)John White Stevenson (Democrat, KY)William Thomas Hamilton (Democrat, MD)Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat, NC)John Potter Stockton (Democrat, NJ)Allen Granberry Thurman (Democrat, OH)James Kerr Kelly (Democrat, OR)Henry Cooper (Democrat, TN)John Warfield Johnston (Democrat, VA)Henry Gassaway Davis (Democrat, WV)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)Powell Clayton (Republican, AR)William Alfred Buckingham (Republican, CT)Abijah Gilbert (Republican, FL)George Grover Wright (Republican, IA)John Alexander Logan (Republican, IL)Daniel Darwin Pratt (Republican, IN)Alexander Caldwell (Republican, KS)Joseph Rodman West (Republican, LA)Henry Wilson (Republican, MA)Hannibal Hamlin (Republican, ME)Lot Myrick Morrill (Republican, ME)Zachariah Chandler (Republican, MI)Thomas White Ferry (Republican, MI)Alexander Ramsey (Republican, MN)William Windom (Republican, MN)Adelbert Ames (Republican, MS)James Lusk Alcorn (Republican, MS)Phineas Warren Hitchcock (Republican, NE)Aaron Harrison Cragin (Republican, NH)Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (Republican, NJ)William Morris Stewart (Republican, NV)John Scott (Republican, PA)Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican, RI)Thomas James Robertson (Republican, SC)William Gannaway Brownlow (Republican, TN)James Winright Flanagan (Republican, TX)Morgan Calvin Hamilton (Republican, TX)John Francis Lewis (Republican, VA)George Franklin Edmunds (Republican, VT)Matthew Hale Carpenter (Republican, WI)Arthur Inghram Boreman (Republican, WV)
House ·
1873-04-12/supreme-courtThe bench
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
William Strong R
Associate Justice · appointed by Ulysses Grant · since Feb 18, 1870
Joseph P. Bradley R
Associate Justice · appointed by Ulysses Grant · since Mar 21, 1870
Ward Hunt R
Associate Justice · appointed by Ulysses Grant · since Dec 11, 1872
1873-04-12/weekWithin a week · Apr 5, 1873 – Apr 19, 1873
Ruling United States v. Railroad Company
Apr 7, 1873 · 84 U.S. 322
Ruling Hanauer v. Woodruff
Apr 7, 1873 · 82 U.S. 439
Ruling Deitsch v. Wiggins
Apr 7, 1873 · 82 U.S. 539
Ruling Partridge v. The Insurance Company
Apr 7, 1873 · 82 U.S. 573
Ruling Tweed's Case
Apr 7, 1873 · 83 U.S. 504
Ruling Hume v. Beale's Executrix
Apr 7, 1873 · 84 U.S. 336
Ruling Slaughter-House Cases
Apr 14, 1873 · 83 U.S. 36
Ruling Hannewinkle v. Georgetown
Apr 14, 1873 · 82 U.S. 547
Ruling Carlisle v. United States
Apr 14, 1873 · 83 U.S. 147
Ruling Crapo v. Kelly
Apr 14, 1873 · 83 U.S. 610
Ruling Davis v. Gray
Apr 15, 1873 · 83 U.S. 203
Ruling Lapeyre v. United States
Apr 15, 1873 · 84 U.S. 191
Ruling Bradwell v. Illinois
Apr 15, 1873 · 83 U.S. 130
Ruling United States v. Huckabee
Apr 15, 1873 · 83 U.S. 414

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