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The United States on March 14, 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
1885-03-14/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
1885-03-14/congress49th Congress
Senate · 29 R · 21 D
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (Democrat, DE)Eli Saulsbury (Democrat, DE)Charles William Jones (Democrat, FL)Alfred Holt Colquitt (Democrat, GA)James Burnie Beck (Democrat, KY)Randall Lee Gibson (Democrat, LA)Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat, MD)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)James Zachariah George (Democrat, MS)Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat, MS)Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat, NC)John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat, NJ)James Graham Fair (Democrat, NV)Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat, SC)Howell Edmunds Jackson (Democrat, TN)Isham Green Harris (Democrat, TN)Samuel Bell Maxey (Democrat, TX)Richard Coke (Democrat, TX)Johnson Newlon Camden (Democrat, WV)John Edward Kenna (Democrat, WV)John Franklin Miller (Republican, CA)Thomas Mead Bowen (Republican, CO)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)James Falconer Wilson (Republican, IA)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)Benjamin Harrison (Republican, IN)Preston B. Plumb (Republican, KS)Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican, MA)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA)Eugene Hale (Republican, ME)William Pierce Frye (Republican, ME)Omar Dwight Conger (Republican, MI)Thomas Witherell Palmer (Republican, MI)Samuel James Renwick McMillan (Republican, MN)Dwight May Sabin (Republican, MN)Charles Henry Van Wyck (Republican, NE)Charles Frederick Manderson (Republican, NE)Austin Franklin Pike (Republican, NH)William Joyce Sewell (Republican, NJ)Warner Miller (Republican, NY)John Sherman (Republican, OH)Joseph Norton Dolph (Republican, OR)John Inscho Mitchell (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)William Paine Sheffield (Republican, RI)William Mahone (Republican, VA)Harrison Holt Riddleberger (Republican, VA)George Franklin Edmunds (Republican, VT)Philetus Sawyer (Republican, WI)
House ·
1885-03-14/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
1885-03-14/weekWithin a week · Mar 7, 1885 – Mar 21, 1885
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
Ruling Davies v. Corbin
Mar 18, 1885 · 113 U.S. 687

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.