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The United States on June 29, 1874

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President
Grant
Ulysses Simpson Grant R · since Mar 4, 1873
Senate
50 R · 19 D
73 senators · 43rd Congress
House
193 R · 93 D
292 representatives
Supreme Court
8 R · 1 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
37 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$2.2B
as of Jul 1, 1873
1874-06-29/executiveThe administration
President Ulysses Simpson Grant R
since Mar 4, 1873
Vice President Henry Wilson R
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 Benjamin Helm Bristow R
since Jun 4, 1874
1874-06-29/congress43rd Congress
Senate · 50 R · 19 D · 4 LR
George Goldthwaite (Democrat, AL)John Sharpenstein Hager (Democrat, CA)Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (Democrat, DE)Eli Saulsbury (Democrat, DE)Thomas Manson Norwood (Democrat, GA)John Brown Gordon (Democrat, GA)John White Stevenson (Democrat, KY)Thomas Clay McCreery (Democrat, KY)William Thomas Hamilton (Democrat, MD)George Robertson Dennis (Democrat, MD)Lewis Vital Bogy (Democrat, MO)Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat, NC)Augustus Summerfield Merrimon (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)Carl Schurz (Liberal Republican, MO)Thomas Weston Tipton (Liberal Republican, NE)Reuben Eaton Fenton (Liberal Republican, NY)William Sprague (Liberal Republican, RI)George Eliphaz Spencer (Republican, AL)Powell Clayton (Republican, AR)Stephen Wallace Dorsey (Republican, AR)Aaron Augustus Sargent (Republican, CA)William Alfred Buckingham (Republican, CT)Orris Sanford Ferry (Republican, CT)Abijah Gilbert (Republican, FL)Simon Barclay Conover (Republican, FL)George Grover Wright (Republican, IA)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)John Alexander Logan (Republican, IL)Richard James Oglesby (Republican, IL)Daniel Darwin Pratt (Republican, IN)Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (Republican, IN)James Madison Harvey (Republican, KS)John James Ingalls (Republican, KS)Joseph Rodman West (Republican, LA)William Barrett Washburn (Republican, MA)George Sewel Boutwell (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)Henry Roberts Pease (Republican, MS)James Lusk Alcorn (Republican, MS)Phineas Warren Hitchcock (Republican, NE)Aaron Harrison Cragin (Republican, NH)Bainbridge Wadleigh (Republican, NH)Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (Republican, NJ)William Morris Stewart (Republican, NV)John Percival Jones (Republican, NV)Roscoe Conkling (Republican, NY)John Sherman (Republican, OH)John Hipple Mitchell (Republican, OR)John Scott (Republican, PA)Simon Cameron (Republican, PA)Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican, RI)Thomas James Robertson (Republican, SC)John James Patterson (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)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)Matthew Hale Carpenter (Republican, WI)Timothy Otis Howe (Republican, WI)Arthur Inghram Boreman (Republican, WV)
House · 193 R · 93 D · 4 LR · 1 ID · 1 U
Joseph Humphrey Sloss (Democrat, AL-6)John Henry Caldwell (Democrat, AL-5)John King Luttrell (Democrat, CA-3)William Henry Barnum (Democrat, CT-4)Morgan Rawls (Democrat, GA-1)Pierce Manning Butler Young (Democrat, GA-7)Hiram Parks Bell (Democrat, GA-9)Philip Cook (Democrat, GA-3)Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Democrat, GA-8)Henry Richard Harris (Democrat, GA-4)James Henderson Blount (Democrat, GA-6)John Hailey (Democrat, ID-AL)Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat, IL-19)James Carroll Robinson (Democrat, IL-12)Robert McCarty Knapp (Democrat, IL-11)John Rice Eden (Democrat, IL-15)William Ralls Morrison (Democrat, IL-17)William Ellis Niblack (Democrat, IN-1)Simeon Kalfius Wolfe (Democrat, IN-2)William Steele Holman (Democrat, IN-3)George Madison Adams (Democrat, KY-9)William Evans Arthur (Democrat, KY-6)Edward Crossland (Democrat, KY-1)William Brown Read (Democrat, KY-4)Elisha David Standiford (Democrat, KY-5)John Duncan Young (Democrat, KY-10)John Young Brown (Democrat, KY-2)Charles William Milliken (Democrat, KY-3)Milton Jameson Durham (Democrat, KY-8)James Burnie Beck (Democrat, KY-7)Effingham Lawrence (Democrat, LA-1)Stevenson Archer (Democrat, MD-2)William James O’Brien (Democrat, MD-3)Thomas Swann (Democrat, MD-4)Ephraim King Wilson (Democrat, MD-1)Abram Comingo (Democrat, MO-8)William Henry Stone (Democrat, MO-3)Thomas Theodore Crittenden (Democrat, MO-7)John Montgomery Glover (Democrat, MO-12)Robert Anthony Hatcher (Democrat, MO-4)Erastus Wells (Democrat, MO-2)John Bullock Clark Jr. (Democrat, MO-11)Aylett Hawes Buckner (Democrat, MO-13)Richard Parks Bland (Democrat, MO-5)Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat, MS-1)Martin Maginnis (Democrat, MT-AL)James Madison Leach (Democrat, NC-5)Thomas Samuel Ashe (Democrat, NC-6)William McKendree Robbins (Democrat, NC-7)Alfred Moore Waddell (Democrat, NC-3)Robert Brank Vance (Democrat, NC-8)Hosea Washington Parker (Democrat, NH-3)Robert Hamilton (Democrat, NJ-4)Charles West Kendall (Democrat, NV-AL)James Brooks (Democrat, NY-6)David Miller De Witt (Democrat, NY-14)Eli Perry (Democrat, NY-15)William Randall Roberts (Democrat, NY-5)John Godfrey Schumaker (Democrat, NY-2)John Osborne Whitehouse (Democrat, NY-13)Clarkson Nott Potter (Democrat, NY-11)Fernando Wood (Democrat, NY-10)Thomas James Creamer (Democrat, NY-7)John Berry (Democrat, OH-14)William Edward Finck (Democrat, OH-12)Charles Nelson Lamison (Democrat, OH-5)Lawrence Talbot Neal (Democrat, OH-7)Milton Sayler (Democrat, OH-1)Milton Isaiah Southard (Democrat, OH-13)James Willis Nesmith (Democrat, OR-1)John Alexander Magee (Democrat, PA-15)Robert Milton Speer (Democrat, PA-17)Hiester Clymer (Democrat, PA-8)John Brutzman Storm (Democrat, PA-11)Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat, PA-1)John Morgan Bright (Democrat, TN-4)John DeWitt Clinton Atkins (Democrat, TN-7)Washington Curran Whitthorne (Democrat, TN-6)William Smith Herndon (Democrat, TX-1)William Pinkney McLean (Democrat, TX-2)Asa Hoxie Willie (Democrat, TX-AL)De Witt Clinton Giddings (Democrat, TX-3)John Hancock (Democrat, TX-4)Rees Tate Bowen (Democrat, VA-9)Alexander Mathews Davis (Democrat, VA-5)Thomas Whitehead (Democrat, VA-6)John Thomas Harris (Democrat, VA-7)Eppa Hunton (Democrat, VA-8)Obadiah Benton McFadden (Democrat, WA-AL)Charles Augustus Eldredge (Democrat, WI-5)Alexander Mitchell (Democrat, WI-4)Frank Hereford (Democrat, WV-3)William Randolph Steele (Democrat, WY-AL)Frederick George Bromberg (Liberal Republican, AL-1)William Joseph Hynes (Liberal Republican, AR-AL)Richard Cunningham McCormick (Unionist, AZ-AL)George Augustus Sheridan (Liberal Republican, LA-AL)Henry Blackstone Banning (Liberal Republican, OH-2)John James Davis (Ind. Democrat, WV-1)Charles Pelham (Republican, AL-3)James Thomas Rapier (Republican, AL-2)Charles Christopher Sheats (Republican, AL-AL)Charles Hays (Republican, AL-4)Asa Hodges (Republican, AR-1)Oliver P. Snyder (Republican, AR-2)William Wallace Wilshire (Republican, AR-3)Charles Clayton (Republican, CA-1)Sherman Otis Houghton (Republican, CA-4)Horace Francis Page (Republican, CA-2)Jerome Bunty Chaffee (Republican, CO-AL)Stephen Wright Kellogg (Republican, CT-2)Henry Howard Starkweather (Republican, CT-3)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT-1)James Rush Lofland (Republican, DE-AL)William James Purman (Republican, FL-AL)James Crawford Freeman (Republican, GA-5)Richard Henry Whiteley (Republican, GA-2)Aylett Rains Cotton (Republican, IA-2)William G. Donnan (Republican, IA-3)William Loughridge (Republican, IA-6)Jackson Orr (Republican, IA-9)George Washington McCrary (Republican, IA-1)Henry Otis Pratt (Republican, IA-4)James Wilson McDill (Republican, IA-8)John Adam Kasson (Republican, IA-7)James Wilson (Republican, IA-5)Granville Barrere (Republican, IL-9)Isaac Clements (Republican, IL-18)Franklin Corwin (Republican, IL-7)John Baldwin Hawley (Republican, IL-6)James Stewart Martin (Republican, IL-16)John McNulta (Republican, IL-13)William Henry Ray (Republican, IL-10)John Blake Rice (Republican, IL-1)Jasper Delos Ward (Republican, IL-2)Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Republican, IL-4)Horatio Chapin Burchard (Republican, IL-5)Greenbury Lafayette Fort (Republican, IL-8)Charles Benjamin Farwell (Republican, IL-3)Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican, IL-14)John Coburn (Republican, IN-5)Jasper Packard (Republican, IN-11)Henry Benton Sayler (Republican, IN-10)John Peter Cleaver Shanks (Republican, IN-9)James Noble Tyner (Republican, IN-8)William Williams (Republican, IN-AL)Jeremiah Morrow Wilson (Republican, IN-4)Thomas Jefferson Cason (Republican, IN-7)Morton Craig Hunter (Republican, IN-6)Stephen Alonzo Cobb (Republican, KS-AL)Lionel Allen Sheldon (Republican, LA-2)George Luke Smith (Republican, LA-4)Frank Morey (Republican, LA-5)Chester Bidwell Darrall (Republican, LA-3)Alvah Crocker (Republican, MA-10)Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican, MA-5)Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (Republican, MA-7)Samuel Hooper (Republican, MA-4)William Whiting (Republican, MA-3)John McKeown Snow Williams (Republican, MA-8)James Buffinton (Republican, MA-1)Benjamin Franklin Butler (Republican, MA-6)Benjamin Winslow Harris (Republican, MA-2)Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican, MA-11)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA-9)William Julian Albert (Republican, MD-5)Lloyd Lowndes Jr. (Republican, MD-6)John Holmes Burleigh (Republican, ME-1)Samuel Freeman Hersey (Republican, ME-4)James Gillespie Blaine (Republican, ME-3)Eugene Hale (Republican, ME-5)William Pierce Frye (Republican, ME-2)Josiah Williams Begole (Republican, MI-6)Moses Whelock Field (Republican, MI-1)Wilder De Ayr Foster (Republican, MI-5)Nathan Ball Bradley (Republican, MI-8)Henry Waldron (Republican, MI-2)George Willard (Republican, MI-3)Omar Dwight Conger (Republican, MI-7)Jay Abel Hubbell (Republican, MI-9)Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican, MI-4)John Thomas Averill (Republican, MN-3)Horace Burton Strait (Republican, MN-2)Mark Hill Dunnell (Republican, MN-1)Harrison Eugene Havens (Republican, MO-6)Ira Barnes Hyde (Republican, MO-10)Isaac Charles Parker (Republican, MO-9)Edwin Obed Stanard (Republican, MO-1)Henry W. Barry (Republican, MS-3)Albert Richards Howe (Republican, MS-2)George Colin McKee (Republican, MS-5)Jason Niles (Republican, MS-4)John Roy Lynch (Republican, MS-6)Clinton Levering Cobb (Republican, NC-1)William Alexander Smith (Republican, NC-4)Charles Randolph Thomas (Republican, NC-2)Lorenzo Crounse (Republican, NE-1)William Bradbury Small (Republican, NH-1)Austin Franklin Pike (Republican, NH-2)Amos Clark Jr. (Republican, NJ-3)John Wright Hazelton (Republican, NJ-1)Isaac Williamson Scudder (Republican, NJ-7)Marcus Lawrence Ward (Republican, NJ-6)Samuel Atkinson Dobbins (Republican, NJ-2)William Walter Phelps (Republican, NJ-5)Stephen Benton Elkins (Republican, NM-AL)Freeman Clarke (Republican, NY-29)Philip Schuyler Crooke (Republican, NY-4)Rodolphus Holland Duell (Republican, NY-24)Robert Safford Hale (Republican, NY-17)William Henry Lamport (Republican, NY-26)William Esselstyne Lansing (Republican, NY-23)John Daniel Lawson (Republican, NY-8)David Batcheller Mellish (Republican, NY-9)Clinton Levi Merriam (Republican, NY-21)Ellis Henry Roberts (Republican, NY-22)Henry Joel Scudder (Republican, NY-1)James Stevenson Smart (Republican, NY-16)Horace Boardman Smith (Republican, NY-28)Charles St. John (Republican, NY-12)Lyman Tremain (Republican, NY-AL)Stewart Lyndon Woodford (Republican, NY-3)Lyman Kidder Bass (Republican, NY-31)Henry Harrison Hathorn (Republican, NY-19)George Gilbert Hoskins (Republican, NY-30)Clinton Dugald MacDougall (Republican, NY-25)William Almon Wheeler (Republican, NY-18)Walter Loomis Sessions (Republican, NY-32)David Wilber (Republican, NY-20)Thomas Collier Platt (Republican, NY-27)Lewis B. Gunckel (Republican, OH-4)Richard Chappel Parsons (Republican, OH-20)James Wallace Robinson (Republican, OH-9)John Quincy Smith (Republican, OH-3)William Peter Sprague (Republican, OH-15)William Lawrence (Republican, OH-8)Laurin Dewey Woodworth (Republican, OH-17)Charles Foster (Republican, OH-10)James Monroe (Republican, OH-18)James Abram Garfield (Republican, OH-19)Hezekiah Sanford Bundy (Republican, OH-11)Lorenzo Danford (Republican, OH-16)Isaac R. Sherwood (Republican, OH-6)Charles Albright (Republican, PA-AL)James Soloman Biery (Republican, PA-6)John Cessna (Republican, PA-16)Carlton Brandaga Curtis (Republican, PA-19)Ebenezer McJunkin (Republican, PA-23)William Sutton Moore (Republican, PA-24)Leonard Myers (Republican, PA-3)Hiram Lawton Richmond (Republican, PA-20)Lazarus Denison Shoemaker (Republican, PA-12)James Dale Strawbridge (Republican, PA-13)Alexander Wilson Taylor (Republican, PA-21)John Black Packer (Republican, PA-14)Sobieski Ross (Republican, PA-18)Washington Townsend (Republican, PA-7)John Weinland Killinger (Republican, PA-10)Abraham Herr Smith (Republican, PA-9)James Scott Negley (Republican, PA-22)William Darrah Kelley (Republican, PA-4)Charles O’Neill (Republican, PA-2)Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican, PA-5)James Monroe Pendleton (Republican, RI-2)Benjamin Tucker Eames (Republican, RI-1)Lewis Cass Carpenter (Republican, SC-3)Alonzo Jacob Ransier (Republican, SC-2)Alexander Stuart Wallace (Republican, SC-4)Richard Harvey Cain (Republican, SC-AL)Joseph Hayne Rainey (Republican, SC-1)William Crutchfield (Republican, TN-3)Horace Harrison Harrison (Republican, TN-5)Barbour Lewis (Republican, TN-9)Horace Maynard (Republican, TN-AL)David Alexander Nunn (Republican, TN-8)Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh (Republican, TN-2)Roderick Randum Butler (Republican, TN-1)George Quayle Cannon (Republican, UT-AL)James Henry Platt Jr. (Republican, VA-2)James Beverley Sener (Republican, VA-1)John Ambler Smith (Republican, VA-3)William Henry Harrison Stowell (Republican, VA-4)Charles Wesley Willard (Republican, VT-1)George Whitman Hendee (Republican, VT-3)Luke Potter Poland (Republican, VT-2)Joel Allen Barber (Republican, WI-3)Gerry Whiting Hazelton (Republican, WI-2)Alexander Stuart McDill (Republican, WI-8)Jeremiah McLain Rusk (Republican, WI-7)Charles Grandison Williams (Republican, WI-1)Philetus Sawyer (Republican, WI-6)John Marshall Hagans (Republican, WV-2)
1874-06-29/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
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
Morrison Remick Waite R
Chief Justice · appointed by Ulysses Grant · since Jan 21, 1874
1874-06-29/weekWithin a week · Jun 22, 1874 – Jul 6, 1874
Law Revised Statutes of the United States
Jun 22, 1874
Law Poland Act
Jun 23, 1874 · Ch. 469, Sess. 1, 43rd Cong.

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