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The United States on March 16, 1879

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

President
Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes R · since Mar 4, 1877
Senate
28 D · 22 R
51 senators · 46th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
8 R · 1 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
38 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$2.3B
as of Jul 1, 1878
1879-03-16/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
1879-03-16/congress46th Congress
Senate · 28 D · 22 R · 1 I
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)Augustus Hill Garland (Democrat, AR)William Wallace Eaton (Democrat, CT)Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (Democrat, DE)Eli Saulsbury (Democrat, DE)Charles William Jones (Democrat, FL)Benjamin Harvey Hill (Democrat, GA)Joseph Ewing McDonald (Democrat, IN)James Burnie Beck (Democrat, KY)William Pinkney Whyte (Democrat, MD)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat, MS)Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat, NC)Theodore Fitz Randolph (Democrat, NJ)John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat, NJ)Francis Kernan (Democrat, NY)Allen Granberry Thurman (Democrat, OH)La Fayette Grover (Democrat, OR)William Andrew Wallace (Democrat, PA)Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat, SC)James Edmund Bailey (Democrat, TN)Isham Green Harris (Democrat, TN)Samuel Bell Maxey (Democrat, TX)Richard Coke (Democrat, TX)Robert Enoch Withers (Democrat, VA)John Warfield Johnston (Democrat, VA)Frank Hereford (Democrat, WV)Henry Gassaway Davis (Democrat, WV)David Davis (Independent, IL)Newton Booth (Republican, CA)Henry Moore Teller (Republican, CO)Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (Republican, IA)Preston B. Plumb (Republican, KS)William Pitt Kellogg (Republican, LA)Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican, MA)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA)Hannibal Hamlin (Republican, ME)James Gillespie Blaine (Republican, ME)Isaac Peckham Christiancy (Republican, MI)Thomas White Ferry (Republican, MI)Samuel James Renwick McMillan (Republican, MN)William Windom (Republican, MN)Blanche Kelso Bruce (Republican, MS)Algernon Sidney Paddock (Republican, NE)Alvin Saunders (Republican, NE)Edward Henry Rollins (Republican, NH)William Sharon (Republican, NV)Ambrose Everett Burnside (Republican, RI)Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican, RI)George Franklin Edmunds (Republican, VT)Angus Cameron (Republican, WI)
House ·
1879-03-16/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
John Marshall Harlan R
Associate Justice · appointed by Rutherford B. Hayes · since Nov 29, 1877
1879-03-16/weekWithin a week · Mar 9, 1879 – Mar 23, 1879
Ruling United States v. Perot
Mar 10, 1879 · 98 U.S. 428
Ruling Fosdick v. Schall
Mar 10, 1879 · 99 U.S. 235
Ruling Fosdick v. Car Company
Mar 10, 1879 · 99 U.S. 256
Ruling Huidekoper v. Locomotive Works
Mar 10, 1879 · 99 U.S. 258
Ruling Hartell v. Tilghman
Mar 17, 1879 · 99 U.S. 547
Ruling Airhart v. Massieu
Mar 17, 1879 · 98 U.S. 491
Ruling Hooper v. Robinson
Mar 17, 1879 · 98 U.S. 528
Ruling Wilkerson v. Utah
Mar 17, 1879 · 99 U.S. 130
Ruling United States v. Fort Scott
Mar 17, 1879 · 99 U.S. 152
Ruling Tice v. United States
Mar 17, 1879 · 99 U.S. 286
Ruling Grigsby v. Purcell
Mar 17, 1879 · 99 U.S. 505
Ruling Yulee v. Vose
Mar 17, 1879 · 99 U.S. 539
Ruling National Bank v. Bank of Commerce
Mar 17, 1879 · 99 U.S. 608

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.