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The United States on April 18, 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 · 22 D
51 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
1885-04-18/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
1885-04-18/congress49th Congress
Senate · 29 R · 22 D
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)James Henderson Berry (Democrat, AR)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 ·
1885-04-18/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
1885-04-18/weekWithin a week · Apr 11, 1885 – Apr 25, 1885
Ruling Gloucester Ferry Company v. Pennsylvania
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 196
Ruling Weaver v. Field
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 244
Ruling Doe v. Hyde
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 247
Ruling Bradstreet Company v. Higgins
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 262
Ruling Boatmen's Savings Bank v. State Savings Association
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 265
Ruling East Alabama Railway Company v. Doe ex Dem. Visscher
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 340
Ruling The Belgenland
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 355
Ruling Walden v. Knevals
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 373
Ruling Penn Bank v. Furness
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 376
Ruling Aurrecoechea v. Bangs
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 381
Ruling Amy v. Shelby County Taxing District
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 387
Ruling State Bank v. United States
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 401
Ruling The Laura
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 411
Ruling Dodge v. Knowles
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 430
Ruling United States v. Petit
Apr 13, 1885 · 114 U.S. 429n
Ruling Poindexter v. Greenhow
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 270
Ruling White v. Greenhow
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 307
Ruling Chaffin v. Taylor
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 309
Ruling Allen v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 311
Ruling Marye v. Parsons
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 325
Ruling Carter v. Greenhow
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 317
Ruling Pleasants v. Greenhow
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 323
Ruling Dobson v. Hartford Carpet Company
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 439
Ruling Western Electric Manufacturing Company v. Ansonia Brass & Copper Company
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 447
Ruling District of Columbia Commissioners v. Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Company
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 453
Ruling Pacific Bank v. Mixter
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 463
Ruling Cavender v. Cavender
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 464
Ruling Burton v. West Jersey Ferry Company
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 474
Ruling Clawson v. United States
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 477
Ruling Hopt v. Utah
Apr 20, 1885 · 114 U.S. 488

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