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The United States on May 4, 1881

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

President
Garfield
James Abram Garfield R · since Mar 4, 1881
Senate
28 D · 21 R
50 senators · 47th Congress
House
1 R
1 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 1 D
8 justices by appointing party
Union
38 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$2.1B
as of Jul 1, 1880
1881-05-04/executiveThe administration
President James Abram Garfield R
since Mar 4, 1881
Vice President Chester Alan Arthur R
Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh D
since Mar 5, 1881
Postmaster General Thomas Lemuel James R
since Mar 5, 1881
Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln R
since Mar 5, 1881
Secretary of State James G. Blaine R
since Mar 7, 1881
Secretary of the Treasury William Windom R
since Mar 8, 1881
Secretary of the Interior Samuel J. Kirkwood R
since Mar 8, 1881
1881-05-04/congress47th Congress
Senate · 28 D · 21 R · 1 I
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)James Lawrence Pugh (Democrat, AL)Augustus Hill Garland (Democrat, AR)James David Walker (Democrat, AR)James Thompson Farley (Democrat, CA)Eli Saulsbury (Democrat, DE)Wilkinson Call (Democrat, FL)Benjamin Harvey Hill (Democrat, GA)Joseph Emerson Brown (Democrat, GA)Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat, IN)James Burnie Beck (Democrat, KY)John Stuart Williams (Democrat, KY)Benjamin Franklin Jonas (Democrat, LA)James Black Groome (Democrat, MD)George Graham Vest (Democrat, MO)Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat, MS)Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat, NC)Zebulon Baird Vance (Democrat, NC)John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat, NJ)George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat, OH)La Fayette Grover (Democrat, OR)James Harvey Slater (Democrat, OR)Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat, SC)Wade Hampton (Democrat, SC)Isham Green Harris (Democrat, TN)Richard Coke (Democrat, TX)John Warfield Johnston (Democrat, VA)Henry Gassaway Davis (Democrat, WV)David Davis (Independent, IL)John Franklin Miller (Republican, CA)Henry Moore Teller (Republican, CO)Nathaniel Peter Hill (Republican, CO)Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican, CT)Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (Republican, IA)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)John Alexander Logan (Republican, IL)Preston B. Plumb (Republican, KS)John James Ingalls (Republican, KS)William Pitt Kellogg (Republican, LA)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA)Thomas White Ferry (Republican, MI)Alvin Saunders (Republican, NE)Edward Henry Rollins (Republican, NH)Henry William Blair (Republican, NH)John Percival Jones (Republican, NV)Roscoe Conkling (Republican, NY)James Donald Cameron (Republican, PA)Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican, RI)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)Matthew Hale Carpenter (Republican, WI)
House · 1 R
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI-1)
1881-05-04/supreme-courtThe bench
Nathan Clifford D
Associate Justice · appointed by James Buchanan · since Jan 12, 1858
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
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
William Burnham Woods R
Associate Justice · appointed by Rutherford B. Hayes · since Dec 21, 1880
1881-05-04/weekWithin a week · Apr 27, 1881 – May 11, 1881
Ruling Webber v. Virginia
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 344
Ruling Neal v. Delaware
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 370
Ruling Supervisors v. Kennicott
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 554
Ruling The Illinois
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 298
Ruling Blake v. McKim
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 336
Ruling Railroad Company v. Baldwin
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 426
Ruling Insurance Company v. Bangs
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 435
Ruling Adam v. Norris
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 591
Ruling Hoyt v. Sprague
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 613
Ruling Williams v. Louisiana
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 637
Ruling Durkee v. Board of Liquidation
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 646
Ruling Schaumburg v. United States
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 667
Ruling
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 699
Ruling School District v. Insurance Company
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 707
Ruling Penniman's Case
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 714
Ruling The Adriatic
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 730
Ruling Williams v. Claflin
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 753
Ruling Clark v. Killian
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 766
Ruling Life Insurance Company v. Bangs
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 780
Ruling Manufacturing Company v. Corbin
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 786
Ruling Thompson v. Perrine
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 806
Ruling Brown v. Slee
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 828
Ruling Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
May 2, 1881 · 131 U.S. clxxx
Ruling Wight v. Condict
May 2, 1881 · 154 U.S. 666
Ruling Hinckley v. Morton
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 764
Ruling Whitney v. Cook
May 2, 1881 · 131 U.S. cxcvii
Ruling County of Morgan v. Allen
May 2, 1881 · 103 U.S. 515n

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