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The United States on April 12, 1883

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President
Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur R · since Sep 19, 1881
Senate
28 R · 23 D
51 senators · 48th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
9 R
9 justices by appointing party
Union
38 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.9B
as of Jul 1, 1882
1883-04-12/executiveThe administration
President Chester Alan Arthur R
since Sep 19, 1881
Vice President vacant
Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln R
since Mar 5, 1881
Secretary of the Treasury Charles J. Folger R
since Nov 14, 1881
Attorney General Benjamin H. Brewster R
since Dec 16, 1881
Secretary of State Frederick T. Frelinghuysen R
since Dec 19, 1881
Postmaster General Walter Quintin Gresham KN
since Apr 9, 1883
1883-04-12/congress48th Congress
Senate · 28 R · 23 D
James Lawrence Pugh (Democrat, AL)James David Walker (Democrat, AR)James Thompson Farley (Democrat, CA)Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (Democrat, DE)Wilkinson Call (Democrat, FL)Charles William Jones (Democrat, FL)Joseph Emerson Brown (Democrat, GA)Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat, IN)John Stuart Williams (Democrat, KY)Benjamin Franklin Jonas (Democrat, LA)James Black Groome (Democrat, MD)Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat, MD)George Graham Vest (Democrat, MO)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)James Zachariah George (Democrat, MS)Zebulon Baird Vance (Democrat, NC)James Graham Fair (Democrat, NV)George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat, OH)James Harvey Slater (Democrat, OR)Wade Hampton (Democrat, SC)Howell Edmunds Jackson (Democrat, TN)Samuel Bell Maxey (Democrat, TX)Johnson Newlon Camden (Democrat, WV)John Franklin Miller (Republican, CA)Nathaniel Peter Hill (Republican, CO)Thomas Mead Bowen (Republican, CO)Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican, CT)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)John Alexander Logan (Republican, IL)Benjamin Harrison (Republican, IN)John James Ingalls (Republican, KS)Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican, MA)Eugene Hale (Republican, ME)Omar Dwight Conger (Republican, MI)Samuel James Renwick McMillan (Republican, MN)Charles Henry Van Wyck (Republican, NE)Henry William Blair (Republican, NH)William Joyce Sewell (Republican, NJ)John Percival Jones (Republican, NV)Elbridge Gerry Lapham (Republican, NY)Warner Miller (Republican, NY)John Sherman (Republican, OH)James Donald Cameron (Republican, PA)John Inscho Mitchell (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)William Mahone (Republican, VA)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)George Franklin Edmunds (Republican, VT)Angus Cameron (Republican, WI)Philetus Sawyer (Republican, WI)
House ·
1883-04-12/supreme-courtThe bench
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
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
Stanley Matthews R
Associate Justice · appointed by James A. Garfield · since May 12, 1881
Horace Gray R
Associate Justice · appointed by Chester A. Arthur · since Dec 20, 1881
Samuel M. Blatchford R
Associate Justice · appointed by Chester A. Arthur · since Mar 22, 1882
1883-04-12/weekWithin a week · Apr 5, 1883 – Apr 19, 1883
Ruling Cotzhausen v. Nazro
Apr 9, 1883 · 107 U.S. 215
Ruling Hahn v. United States
Apr 9, 1883 · 107 U.S. 402
Ruling Merriam v. United States
Apr 9, 1883 · 107 U.S. 437
Ruling Cook County National Bank v. United States
Apr 9, 1883 · 107 U.S. 445
Ruling Williams v. Jackson
Apr 9, 1883 · 107 U.S. 478
Ruling United States v. Curtis
Apr 9, 1883 · 107 U.S. 671
Ruling District of Columbia v. Washington Market Company
Apr 9, 1883 · 108 U.S. 243
Ruling Ex parte Wall
Apr 16, 1883 · 107 U.S. 265
Ruling Missionary Society v. Dalles
Apr 16, 1883 · 107 U.S. 336
Ruling Wood v. United States
Apr 16, 1883 · 107 U.S. 414
Ruling Allen v. McVeigh
Apr 16, 1883 · 107 U.S. 433
Ruling Quincy v. Cooke
Apr 16, 1883 · 107 U.S. 549
Ruling Wilkins v. Ellett
Apr 16, 1883 · 108 U.S. 256
Ruling Hampton v. Phipps
Apr 16, 1883 · 108 U.S. 260
Ruling Basket v. Hassell
Apr 16, 1883 · 108 U.S. 267
Ruling Roundtree v. Smith
Apr 16, 1883 · 108 U.S. 269
Ruling Little Miami & Columbus & Xenia Railroad Company v. United States
Apr 16, 1883 · 108 U.S. 277
Ruling Wright v. United States
Apr 16, 1883 · 108 U.S. 281
Ruling Lewis v. City of Shreveport
Apr 16, 1883 · 108 U.S. 282
Ruling Farlow v. Kelly
Apr 16, 1883 · 108 U.S. 288
Ruling Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church v. Kelly
Apr 16, 1883 · 107 U.S. 347n

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