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The United States on March 9, 1885

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

President

Cleveland

Grover Cleveland D · since Mar 4, 1885

Senate

29 R · 21 D

50 senators · 49th Congress

House

—

0 representatives

Supreme Court

9 R

9 justices by appointing party

Union

38 states

15 amendments in force

Public debt

$1.8B

as of Jul 1, 1884

1885-03-09/executiveThe administration

President Grover Cleveland D

since Mar 4, 1885

Vice President Thomas Andrews Hendricks D

Postmaster General William Freeman Vilas D

since Mar 6, 1885

Secretary of the Interior Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D

since Mar 6, 1885

Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland D

since Mar 6, 1885

Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney D

since Mar 7, 1885

Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard D

since Mar 7, 1885

Secretary of the Treasury Daniel Manning D

since Mar 8, 1885

1885-03-09/congress49th Congress

Senate · 29 R · 21 D

House ·

1885-03-09/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

1885-03-09/weekWithin a week · Mar 2, 1885 – Mar 16, 1885

Grover Cleveland takes office · Mar 4, 1885

Ruling Morgan v. United States

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 476

Ruling McArthur v. Scott

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 340

Ruling Hyatt v. Vincennes National Bank

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 408

Ruling United States v. Jordan

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 418

Ruling Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company v. Crane

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 424

Ruling Prentice v. Stearns

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 435

Ruling Morgan v. Hamlet

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 449

Ruling Chase v. Curtis

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 452

Ruling St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company v. Berry

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 465

Ruling Provident Institution for Savings v. Mayor & Aldermen of Jersey City

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 506

Ruling Union Pacific Railway Company v. Cheyenne

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 516

Ruling Erhardt v. Boaro

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 527

Ruling Erhardt v. Boaro

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 537

Ruling Richards v. Mackall

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 539

Ruling Peugh v. Davis

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 542

Ruling Gumbel v. Pitkin

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 545

Ruling St. Louis v. Myers

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 566

Ruling Brown v. United States

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 568

Ruling Chicago Life Insurance Company v. Needles

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 574

Ruling Pearce v. Ham

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 585

Ruling Ayers v. Watson

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 594

Ruling California Artificial Stone Paving Company v. Molitor

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 609

Ruling Winona & St. Peter Railroad Company v. Barney

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 618

Ruling Kansas Pacific Railway Company v. Dunmeyer

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 629

Ruling Schmieder v. Barney

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 645

Ruling Camp v. United States

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 648

Ruling Maxwell's Executors v. Wilkinson

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 656

Ruling Flagg v. Walker

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 659

Ruling Blake v. San Francisco

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 679

Ruling Boyer v. Boyer

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 689

Ruling Ex parte Fisk

Mar 2, 1885 · 113 U.S. 713

Ruling Buncombe County Commissioners v. Tommey

Mar 2, 1885 · 115 U.S. 122

Ruling Hardin v. Boyd

Mar 15, 1885 · 113 U.S. 756

Ruling Fourth National Bank v. Stout

Mar 16, 1885 · 113 U.S. 684

Ruling Soon Hing v. Crowley

Mar 16, 1885 · 113 U.S. 703

Ruling United States v. Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company

Mar 16, 1885 · 113 U.S. 711

Ruling Cooper Manufacturing Company v. Ferguson

Mar 16, 1885 · 113 U.S. 727

Ruling Carter v. Burr

Mar 16, 1885 · 113 U.S. 737

Ruling Gregory v. Hartley

Mar 16, 1885 · 113 U.S. 742

Ruling United States v. Steever

Mar 16, 1885 · 113 U.S. 747

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.