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The United States on November 18, 1883

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

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, 1883
1883-11-18/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
1883-11-18/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 ·
1883-11-18/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
1883-11-18/weekWithin a week · Nov 11, 1883 – Nov 25, 1883
Ruling Retzer v. Wood
Nov 12, 1883 · 109 U.S. 185
Ruling Cragin v. Lovell
Nov 12, 1883 · 109 U.S. 194
Ruling United States v. Gibbons
Nov 12, 1883 · 109 U.S. 200
Ruling Booth v. Tiernan
Nov 12, 1883 · 109 U.S. 205
Ruling New Orleans National Banking Association v. Adams
Nov 12, 1883 · 109 U.S. 211
Ruling Matthews v. Densmore
Nov 12, 1883 · 109 U.S. 216
Ruling Board of Liquidation of the City Debt of New Orleans v. Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Nov 12, 1883 · 109 U.S. 221
Ruling Knox County Court v. United States ex rel. Geo. W. Harshman
Nov 12, 1883 · 109 U.S. 229
Ruling Ex parte Mead
Nov 12, 1883 · 109 U.S. 230
Ruling Alabama Gold Life Insurance Company v. Nichols
Nov 12, 1883 · 109 U.S. 232
Ruling Snyder v. Marks
Nov 15, 1883 · 109 U.S. 189
Ruling Lamar v. McCay
Nov 19, 1883 · 109 U.S. 235
Ruling Arnson v. Murphy
Nov 19, 1883 · 109 U.S. 238
Ruling Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Palmes
Nov 19, 1883 · 109 U.S. 244
Ruling United States to the Use of Wilson v. Walker
Nov 19, 1883 · 109 U.S. 258
Ruling Meath v. Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners
Nov 19, 1883 · 109 U.S. 268
Ruling Grace v. American Central Insurance Company
Nov 19, 1883 · 109 U.S. 278
Ruling Louisiana ex rel. Folsom v. Mayor and Administrators of New Orleans
Nov 19, 1883 · 109 U.S. 285
Ruling Walsh v. Preston
Nov 19, 1883 · 109 U.S. 297
Ruling Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad Co. v. Des Moines Valley Railroad Co
Nov 19, 1883 · 109 U.S. 329
Ruling Flash v. Conn
Nov 20, 1883 · 109 U.S. 371

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.