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The United States on May 5, 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
1883-05-05/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
1883-05-05/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 ·
1883-05-05/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
1883-05-05/weekWithin a week · Apr 28, 1883 – May 12, 1883
Ruling Boese v. King
Apr 30, 1883 · 108 U.S. 379
Ruling Campbell v. United States
Apr 30, 1883 · 107 U.S. 407
Ruling The Julia Blake
Apr 30, 1883 · 107 U.S. 418
Ruling National Bank of Xenia v. Stewart
Apr 30, 1883 · 107 U.S. 676
Ruling Transportation Company v. Parkersburg
Apr 30, 1883 · 107 U.S. 691
Ruling The Tornado.; Ellis v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company
Apr 30, 1883 · 108 U.S. 342
Ruling The Connemara.; Sinclair v. Cooper
Apr 30, 1883 · 108 U.S. 352
Ruling Adriatic Fire Insurance Company v. Treadwell
Apr 30, 1883 · 108 U.S. 361
Ruling Scruggs' Executor v. Memphis & Charleston Railroad Company
Apr 30, 1883 · 108 U.S. 368
Ruling Kountze v. Omaha Hotel Company
May 7, 1883 · 107 U.S. 378
Ruling Gage v. Herring
May 7, 1883 · 107 U.S. 640
Ruling Wabash Railway Company v. McDaniels
May 7, 1883 · 107 U.S. 454
Ruling District of Columbia v. Armes
May 7, 1883 · 107 U.S. 519
Ruling McLaughlin v. United States
May 7, 1883 · 107 U.S. 526
Ruling Schell v. Cochran
May 7, 1883 · 107 U.S. 625
Ruling Schell v. Dodge
May 7, 1883 · 107 U.S. 629
Ruling The Steamship Belgenland v. Jensen
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 153
Ruling Warren v. King
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 389
Ruling Devoe Manufacturing Company
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 401
Ruling Post v. Pearson
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 418
Ruling Hawkins v. Blake
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 422
Ruling Clark v. Barnard
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 436
Ruling Manning v. Cape Ann Isinglass & Glue Company
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 462
Ruling Downton v. Yeager Milling Company
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 466
Ruling Gross v. United States Mortgage Company
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 477
Ruling United States v. Forty-Three Gallons of Whiskey
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 491
Ruling Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Luchs
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 498
Ruling Vance v. Vance
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 514
Ruling Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company v. District of Columbia
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 522
Ruling Ruggles v. Illinois
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 526
Ruling Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Illinois
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 541
Ruling Hawley v. Fairbanks
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 543
Ruling Ex parte Hung Hang
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 552
Ruling Meath v. Phillips County
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 553
Ruling Ex parte Tom Tong
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 556
Ruling Gibson v. Bruce
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 561
Ruling New Jersey Zinc Company v. Trotter
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 564
Ruling Ex parte Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 566
Ruling Scarborough v. Pargoud
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 567
Ruling Louisiana ex rel. New Orleans Gas Light Company v. City Council of New Orleans
May 7, 1883 · 108 U.S. 568

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.