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The United States on May 9, 1877

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President
Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes R · since Mar 4, 1877
Senate
31 R · 21 D
52 senators · 45th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 1 D
8 justices by appointing party
Union
38 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$2.2B
as of Jul 1, 1876
1877-05-09/executiveThe administration
President Rutherford Birchard Hayes R
since Mar 4, 1877
Vice President William Almon Wheeler R
Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman R
since Mar 10, 1877
Secretary of War George W. McCrary R
since Mar 12, 1877
Attorney General Charles Devens W
since Mar 12, 1877
Secretary of State William M. Evarts W
since Mar 12, 1877
Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz LRP
since Mar 12, 1877
Secretary of the Navy Richard W. Thompson W
since Mar 13, 1877
1877-05-09/congress45th Congress
Senate · 31 R · 21 D
William Wallace Eaton (Democrat, CT)William Henry Barnum (Democrat, CT)Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (Democrat, DE)Charles William Jones (Democrat, FL)John Brown Gordon (Democrat, GA)Joseph Ewing McDonald (Democrat, IN)Thomas Clay McCreery (Democrat, KY)James Biddle Eustis (Democrat, LA)George Robertson Dennis (Democrat, MD)William Pinkney Whyte (Democrat, MD)Lewis Vital Bogy (Democrat, MO)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)Augustus Summerfield Merrimon (Democrat, NC)Theodore Fitz Randolph (Democrat, NJ)Francis Kernan (Democrat, NY)Allen Granberry Thurman (Democrat, OH)William Andrew Wallace (Democrat, PA)David McKendree Key (Democrat, TN)Samuel Bell Maxey (Democrat, TX)Robert Enoch Withers (Democrat, VA)Samuel Price (Democrat, WV)George Eliphaz Spencer (Republican, AL)Stephen Wallace Dorsey (Republican, AR)Aaron Augustus Sargent (Republican, CA)Newton Booth (Republican, CA)Jerome Bunty Chaffee (Republican, CO)Simon Barclay Conover (Republican, FL)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)Richard James Oglesby (Republican, IL)Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (Republican, IN)John James Ingalls (Republican, KS)Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican, MA)Hannibal Hamlin (Republican, ME)James Gillespie Blaine (Republican, ME)Isaac Peckham Christiancy (Republican, MI)Samuel James Renwick McMillan (Republican, MN)William Windom (Republican, MN)Blanche Kelso Bruce (Republican, MS)Algernon Sidney Paddock (Republican, NE)Bainbridge Wadleigh (Republican, NH)John Percival Jones (Republican, NV)William Sharon (Republican, NV)Roscoe Conkling (Republican, NY)John Sherman (Republican, OH)John Hipple Mitchell (Republican, OR)Simon Cameron (Republican, PA)Ambrose Everett Burnside (Republican, RI)John James Patterson (Republican, SC)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)George Franklin Edmunds (Republican, VT)Timothy Otis Howe (Republican, WI)Angus Cameron (Republican, WI)
House ·
1877-05-09/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
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
1877-05-09/weekWithin a week · May 2, 1877 – May 16, 1877
Ruling Town of East Lincoln v. Davenport
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 801
Ruling Johnson v. Harmon
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 371
Ruling Stewart v. Salamon
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 434
Ruling Stark v. Starr
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 477
Ruling Davis v. Crouch
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 514
Ruling Davis v. Alvord
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 545
Ruling Southern Express Company v. Dickson
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 549
Ruling Aetna Life Insurance Company v. France
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 561
Ruling Relief Fire Insurance Company of New York v. Shaw
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 574
Ruling Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Schwenk
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 593
Ruling United States v. Joseph
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 614
Ruling Eames v. Home Insurance Company
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 621
Ruling Boyd v. Alabama
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 645
Ruling Gunn v. Plant
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 664
Ruling Pike v. Wassell
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 711
Ruling Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company v. Virginia
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 718
Ruling Forbes v. Gracey
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 762
Ruling Lippincott v. Mitchell
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 767
Ruling Hogan v. Kurtz
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 773
Ruling Davis v. Indiana
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 792
Ruling Sullivan v. Portland and Kennebec Railroad Company
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 806
Ruling Sessions v. Johnson
May 7, 1877 · 95 U.S. 347
Ruling Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works v. National Bank of Keokuk
May 7, 1877 · 154 U.S. 626
Ruling Wilson v. Hoss
May 7, 1877 · 131 U.S. ccx
Ruling Casey v. Galli
May 7, 1877 · 94 U.S. 680

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.