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The United States on July 1, 1886

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
41 R · 35 D
76 senators · 49th Congress
House
187 D · 143 R
332 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, 1886
1886-07-01/executiveThe administration
President Grover Cleveland D
since Mar 4, 1885
Vice President vacant
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
1886-07-01/congress49th Congress
Senate · 41 R · 35 D
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)James Lawrence Pugh (Democrat, AL)James Henderson Berry (Democrat, AR)James Kimbrough Jones (Democrat, AR)George Hearst (Democrat, CA)Eli Saulsbury (Democrat, DE)George Gray (Democrat, DE)Charles William Jones (Democrat, FL)Wilkinson Call (Democrat, FL)Alfred Holt Colquitt (Democrat, GA)Joseph Emerson Brown (Democrat, GA)Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat, IN)James Burnie Beck (Democrat, KY)Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (Democrat, KY)Randall Lee Gibson (Democrat, LA)James Biddle Eustis (Democrat, LA)Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat, MD)Ephraim King Wilson (Democrat, MD)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)George Graham Vest (Democrat, MO)James Zachariah George (Democrat, MS)Edward Cary Walthall (Democrat, MS)Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat, NC)Zebulon Baird Vance (Democrat, NC)John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat, NJ)James Graham Fair (Democrat, NV)Henry B. Payne (Democrat, OH)Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat, SC)Wade Hampton (Democrat, SC)Washington Curran Whitthorne (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)Leland Stanford (Republican, CA)Thomas Mead Bowen (Republican, CO)Henry Moore Teller (Republican, CO)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican, CT)James Falconer Wilson (Republican, IA)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)John Alexander Logan (Republican, IL)Benjamin Harrison (Republican, IN)Preston B. Plumb (Republican, KS)John James Ingalls (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)Person Colby Cheney (Republican, NH)Henry William Blair (Republican, NH)William Joyce Sewell (Republican, NJ)John Percival Jones (Republican, NV)Warner Miller (Republican, NY)William Maxwell Evarts (Republican, NY)John Sherman (Republican, OH)Joseph Norton Dolph (Republican, OR)John Hipple Mitchell (Republican, OR)John Inscho Mitchell (Republican, PA)James Donald Cameron (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)Jonathan Chace (Republican, RI)William Mahone (Republican, VA)Harrison Holt Riddleberger (Republican, VA)George Franklin Edmunds (Republican, VT)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)Philetus Sawyer (Republican, WI)John Coit Spooner (Republican, WI)
House · 187 D · 143 R · 1 ID · 1 NG
John Mason Martin (Democrat, AL-6)Thomas William Sadler (Democrat, AL-5)Alexander Caldwell Davidson (Democrat, AL-4)James Taylor Jones (Democrat, AL-1)William Henry Forney (Democrat, AL-7)Hilary Abner Herbert (Democrat, AL-2)William Calvin Oates (Democrat, AL-3)Joseph Wheeler (Democrat, AL-8)Poindexter Dunn (Democrat, AR-1)John Henry Rogers (Democrat, AR-4)Samuel West Peel (Democrat, AR-5)Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (Democrat, AR-2)Thomas Chipman McRae (Democrat, AR-3)Barclay Henley (Democrat, CA-1)Charles Le Moyne Mitchell (Democrat, CT-2)Edward Woodruff Seymour (Democrat, CT-4)Charles Brown Lore (Democrat, DE-AL)Charles Dougherty (Democrat, FL-2)Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson (Democrat, FL-1)Nathaniel Job Hammond (Democrat, GA-5)Henry Richard Harris (Democrat, GA-4)Seaborn Reese (Democrat, GA-8)Thomas Manson Norwood (Democrat, GA-1)George Thomas Barnes (Democrat, GA-10)Allen Daniel Candler (Democrat, GA-9)Judson Claudius Clements (Democrat, GA-7)James Henderson Blount (Democrat, GA-6)Charles Frederick Crisp (Democrat, GA-3)Henry Gray Turner (Democrat, GA-2)Benjamin Todd Frederick (Democrat, IA-5)Benton Jay Hall (Democrat, IA-1)Jeremiah Henry Murphy (Democrat, IA-2)John Hailey (Democrat, ID-AL)John Rice Eden (Democrat, IL-17)William Ralls Morrison (Democrat, IL-18)William Henry Neece (Democrat, IL-11)James Milton Riggs (Democrat, IL-12)James Hugh Ward (Democrat, IL-3)Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington (Democrat, IL-10)Silas Zephaniah Landes (Democrat, IL-16)Frank Lawler (Democrat, IL-2)Richard Wellington Townshend (Democrat, IL-19)William McKendree Springer (Democrat, IL-13)Thomas Reed Cobb (Democrat, IN-2)George Ford (Democrat, IN-13)John Jay Kleiner (Democrat, IN-1)Robert Lowry (Democrat, IN-12)Thomas Bayless Ward (Democrat, IN-9)Jonas George Howard (Democrat, IN-3)Courtland Cushing Matson (Democrat, IN-5)William Dallas Bynum (Democrat, IN-7)William Steele Holman (Democrat, IN-4)John Edward Halsell (Democrat, KY-3)Thomas Austin Robertson (Democrat, KY-4)Albert Shelby Willis (Democrat, KY-5)Frank Lane Wolford (Democrat, KY-11)Polk Laffoon (Democrat, KY-2)William Preston Taulbee (Democrat, KY-10)John Griffin Carlisle (Democrat, KY-6)William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Democrat, KY-7)William Johnson Stone (Democrat, KY-1)James Bennett McCreary (Democrat, KY-8)Alfred Briggs Irion (Democrat, LA-6)John Floyd King (Democrat, LA-5)Louis St. Martin (Democrat, LA-1)Edward James Gay (Democrat, LA-3)Newton Crain Blanchard (Democrat, LA-4)Henry Bacon Lovering (Democrat, MA-6)Patrick Andrew Collins (Democrat, MA-4)William Hinson Cole (Democrat, MD-3)John Van Lear Findlay (Democrat, MD-4)Frank Thomas Shaw (Democrat, MD-2)Charles Hopper Gibson (Democrat, MD-1)Barnes Compton (Democrat, MD-5)Ezra Child Carleton (Democrat, MI-7)Charles Carter Comstock (Democrat, MI-5)Nathaniel Buel Eldredge (Democrat, MI-2)William Cotter Maybury (Democrat, MI-1)Edwin Baruch Winans (Democrat, MI-6)Spencer Oliver Fisher (Democrat, MI-10)Timothy Edward Tarsney (Democrat, MI-8)William Dawson (Democrat, MO-14)John Blackwell Hale (Democrat, MO-2)Martin Linn Clardy (Democrat, MO-10)John Milton Glover (Democrat, MO-9)John Edward Hutton (Democrat, MO-7)James Nelson Burnes (Democrat, MO-4)William Henry Hatch (Democrat, MO-1)John Taddeus Heard (Democrat, MO-6)John Joseph O’Neill (Democrat, MO-8)Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat, MO-3)Richard Parks Bland (Democrat, MO-11)William Joel Stone (Democrat, MO-12)Ethelbert Barksdale (Democrat, MS-7)Otho Robards Singleton (Democrat, MS-5)Henry Smith Van Eaton (Democrat, MS-6)Frederick George Barry (Democrat, MS-4)James Bright Morgan (Democrat, MS-2)John Mills Allen (Democrat, MS-1)Thomas Clendinen Catchings (Democrat, MS-3)Joseph Kemp Toole (Democrat, MT-AL)Risden Tyler Bennett (Democrat, NC-6)William Ruffin Cox (Democrat, NC-4)Wharton Jackson Green (Democrat, NC-3)James Wesley Reid (Democrat, NC-5)Thomas Dillard Johnston (Democrat, NC-9)Thomas Gregory Skinner (Democrat, NC-1)William Henry Harrison Cowles (Democrat, NC-8)John Steele Henderson (Democrat, NC-7)Robert Stockton Green (Democrat, NJ-3)James Nelson Pidcock (Democrat, NJ-4)William McAdoo (Democrat, NJ-7)Antonio Joseph (Democrat, NM-AL)John Joseph Adams (Democrat, NY-7)John Arnot Jr. (Democrat, NY-28)Lewis Beach (Democrat, NY-15)Abraham Dowdney (Democrat, NY-12)Abram Stevens Hewitt (Democrat, NY-10)Joseph Pulitzer (Democrat, NY-9)John Thomas Spriggs (Democrat, NY-23)Egbert Ludoricus Viele (Democrat, NY-13)Perry Belmont (Democrat, NY-1)Archibald Meserole Bliss (Democrat, NY-5)Peter Paul Mahoney (Democrat, NY-4)Felix Campbell (Democrat, NY-2)John Sigsbee Pindar (Democrat, NY-24)William Griggs Stahlnecker (Democrat, NY-14)Timothy John Campbell (Democrat, NY-8)Nicholas Muller (Democrat, NY-6)Charles Marley Anderson (Democrat, OH-4)William Wallace Ellsberry (Democrat, OH-11)George Washington Geddes (Democrat, OH-16)William David Hill (Democrat, OH-6)Benjamin Le Fevre (Democrat, OH-5)Adoniram Judson Warner (Democrat, OH-17)James Edwin Campbell (Democrat, OH-3)Martin Ambrose Foran (Democrat, OH-21)Beriah Wilkins (Democrat, OH-15)George Ebbert Seney (Democrat, OH-7)Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat, OH-13)Charles Edmund Boyle (Democrat, PA-21)Andrew Gregg Curtin (Democrat, PA-20)John Brutzman Storm (Democrat, PA-11)John Augustus Swope (Democrat, PA-19)William Lawrence Scott (Democrat, PA-27)William Henry Sowden (Democrat, PA-10)Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat, PA-3)Daniel Ermentrout (Democrat, PA-8)David Wyatt Aiken (Democrat, SC-3)George William Dargan (Democrat, SC-6)Samuel Dibble (Democrat, SC-1)William Hayne Perry (Democrat, SC-4)John James Hemphill (Democrat, SC-5)George Dionysius Tillman (Democrat, SC-2)John Goff Ballentine (Democrat, TN-7)Andrew Jackson Caldwell (Democrat, TN-6)John May Taylor (Democrat, TN-8)Presley Thornton Glass (Democrat, TN-9)John Randolph Neal (Democrat, TN-3)Benton McMillin (Democrat, TN-4)James Daniel Richardson (Democrat, TN-5)James Henry Jones (Democrat, TX-3)James Francis Miller (Democrat, TX-8)James Webb Throckmorton (Democrat, TX-5)Olin Wellborn (Democrat, TX-6)John Henninger Reagan (Democrat, TX-2)Charles Stewart (Democrat, TX-1)Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat, TX-9)William Henry Crain (Democrat, TX-7)David Browning Culberson (Democrat, TX-4)Joseph Draper Sayers (Democrat, TX-10)Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham (Democrat, TX-11)John Thomas Caine (Democrat, UT-AL)George Craighead Cabell (Democrat, VA-5)Thomas Croxton (Democrat, VA-1)Connally Findlay Trigg (Democrat, VA-9)John Randolph Tucker (Democrat, VA-10)John Strode Barbour Jr. (Democrat, VA-8)Charles Triplett O’Ferrall (Democrat, VA-7)George Douglas Wise (Democrat, VA-3)John Warwick Daniel (Democrat, VA-6)Charles Stewart Voorhees (Democrat, WA-AL)Edward Stuyvesant Bragg (Democrat, WI-2)Joseph Rankin (Democrat, WI-5)Eustace Gibson (Democrat, WV-4)Charles Philip Snyder (Democrat, WV-3)William Lyne Wilson (Democrat, WV-2)James Baird Weaver (National Greenbacker, IA-6)Truman Adams Merriman (Ind. Democrat, NY-11)Curtis Coe Bean (Republican, AZ-AL)James Alexander Louttit (Republican, CA-2)Henry Harrison Markham (Republican, CA-6)William W. Morrow (Republican, CA-4)Charles Norton Felton (Republican, CA-5)Joseph McKenna (Republican, CA-3)George Gifford Symes (Republican, CO-1)John Ransom Buck (Republican, CT-1)John Turner Wait (Republican, CT-3)William Elijah Fuller (Republican, IA-4)Adoniram Judson Holmes (Republican, IA-10)Joseph Lyman (Republican, IA-9)Edwin Hurd Conger (Republican, IA-7)Isaac S. Struble (Republican, IA-11)David Bremner Henderson (Republican, IA-3)William Peters Hepburn (Republican, IA-8)Reuben Ellwood (Republican, IL-5)Ransom Williams Dunham (Republican, IL-1)Ralph Plumb (Republican, IL-8)John Robert Thomas (Republican, IL-20)George Everett Adams (Republican, IL-4)Lewis Edwin Payson (Republican, IL-9)Jonathan Harvey Rowell (Republican, IL-14)Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican, IL-7)Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican, IL-6)Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican, IL-15)James Thomas Johnston (Republican, IN-8)Thomas McLelland Browne (Republican, IN-6)William Dale Owen (Republican, IN-10)George Washington Steele (Republican, IN-11)Lewis Hanback (Republican, KS-6)John Alexander Anderson (Republican, KS-5)Edmund Needham Morrill (Republican, KS-1)Samuel Ritter Peters (Republican, KS-7)Thomas Ryan (Republican, KS-4)Bishop Walden Perkins (Republican, KS-3)Edward Hogue Funston (Republican, KS-2)William Henry Wadsworth (Republican, KY-9)Michael Hahn (Republican, LA-2)Frederick David Ely (Republican, MA-9)Ambrose Arnold Ranney (Republican, MA-3)William Whitney Rice (Republican, MA-10)Eben Francis Stone (Republican, MA-7)Charles Herbert Allen (Republican, MA-8)Robert Thompson Davis (Republican, MA-1)Edward Daniel Hayden (Republican, MA-5)John Davis Long (Republican, MA-2)William Whiting (Republican, MA-11)Francis Williams Rockwell (Republican, MA-12)Louis Emory McComas (Republican, MD-6)Seth Llewellyn Milliken (Republican, ME-3)Nelson Dingley Jr. (Republican, ME-2)Thomas Brackett Reed (Republican, ME-1)Charles Addison Boutelle (Republican, ME-4)Seth Crittenden Moffatt (Republican, MI-11)Byron M. Cutcheon (Republican, MI-9)James O’Donnell (Republican, MI-3)Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican, MI-4)John Bachop Gilfillan (Republican, MN-4)Horace Burton Strait (Republican, MN-3)James Beach Wakefield (Republican, MN-2)Milo White (Republican, MN-1)Knute Nelson (Republican, MN-5)William Henry Wade (Republican, MO-13)William Warner (Republican, MO-5)James Edward O’Hara (Republican, NC-2)Archibald Jerard Weaver (Republican, NE-1)George Washington Emery Dorsey (Republican, NE-3)James Laird (Republican, NE-2)Martin Alonzo Haynes (Republican, NH-1)Jacob Harold Gallinger (Republican, NH-2)George Hires (Republican, NJ-1)William Walter Phelps (Republican, NJ-5)Herman Lehlbach (Republican, NJ-6)James Buchanan (Republican, NJ-2)William Woodburn (Republican, NV-AL)Henry Gordon Burleigh (Republican, NY-18)Darwin Rush James (Republican, NY-3)Frederick Avery Johnson (Republican, NY-21)James Girard Lindsley (Republican, NY-17)Stephen Columbus Millard (Republican, NY-26)Walter Loomis Sessions (Republican, NY-34)John Swinburne (Republican, NY-19)Ira Davenport (Republican, NY-29)Frank Hiscock (Republican, NY-25)Abraham X. Parker (Republican, NY-22)John Baptiste Weber (Republican, NY-33)George West (Republican, NY-20)Charles Simeon Baker (Republican, NY-30)John McCreath Farquhar (Republican, NY-32)John Gilbert Sawyer (Republican, NY-31)John Henry Ketcham (Republican, NY-16)Sereno Elisha Payne (Republican, NY-27)John Little (Republican, OH-8)Isaac Hamilton Taylor (Republican, OH-18)Charles Elwood Brown (Republican, OH-2)Jacob Romeis (Republican, OH-10)Benjamin Butterworth (Republican, OH-1)William Craig Cooper (Republican, OH-9)Albert Clifton Thompson (Republican, OH-12)Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican, OH-19)William McKinley Jr. (Republican, OH-20)Charles Henry Grosvenor (Republican, OH-14)Binger Hermann (Republican, OR-1)William Wallace Brown (Republican, PA-16)Jacob Miller Campbell (Republican, PA-17)Isaac Newton Evans (Republican, PA-7)James Bowen Everhart (Republican, PA-6)George Washington Fleeger (Republican, PA-26)James Scott Negley (Republican, PA-22)Alexander Colwell White (Republican, PA-25)Franklin Bound (Republican, PA-14)Frank Charles Bunnell (Republican, PA-15)John Andrew Hiestand (Republican, PA-9)Oscar Lawrence Jackson (Republican, PA-24)Thomas McKee Bayne (Republican, PA-23)William Darrah Kelley (Republican, PA-4)Edwin Sylvanus Osborne (Republican, PA-AL)Louis Evans Atkinson (Republican, PA-18)Charles O’Neill (Republican, PA-2)Joseph Augustine Scranton (Republican, PA-12)Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican, PA-5)Charles Napoleon Brumm (Republican, PA-13)Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican, PA-1)William Almy Pirce (Republican, RI-2)Henry Joshua Spooner (Republican, RI-1)Robert Smalls (Republican, SC-7)Augustus Herman Pettibone (Republican, TN-1)Zachary Taylor (Republican, TN-10)Leonidas Campbell Houk (Republican, TN-2)James Dennis Brady (Republican, VA-4)Harry Libbey (Republican, VA-2)William Wallace Grout (Republican, VT-2)John Wolcott Stewart (Republican, VT-1)Hugh Hiram Price (Republican, WI-8)Richard William Guenther (Republican, WI-6)Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (Republican, WI-1)Ormsby Brunson Thomas (Republican, WI-7)Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick (Republican, WI-4)Isaac Stephenson (Republican, WI-9)Robert Marion La Follette (Republican, WI-3)Nathan Goff (Republican, WV-1)Joseph Maull Carey (Republican, WY-AL)
1886-07-01/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
1886-07-01/weekWithin a week · Jun 24, 1886 – Jul 8, 1886
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.