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The United States on February 23, 1884

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

40 R · 36 D

76 senators · 48th Congress

House

199 D · 114 R

326 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

1884-02-23/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

1884-02-23/congress48th Congress

Senate · 40 R · 36 D

House · 199 D · 114 R · 5 R · 3 ID · 2 I · 2 NG · 1 IR

1884-02-23/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

1884-02-23/weekWithin a week · Feb 16, 1884 – Mar 1, 1884

Nothing recorded within a week of this date.

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.