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The United States on June 3, 1887

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
26 D · 25 R
51 senators · 50th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
8 R
8 justices by appointing party
Union
38 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.8B
as of Jul 1, 1886
1887-06-03/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 Charles Stebbins Fairchild D
since Apr 1, 1887
1887-06-03/congress50th Congress
Senate · 26 D · 25 R
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)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)Ephraim King Wilson (Democrat, MD)George Graham Vest (Democrat, MO)Edward Cary Walthall (Democrat, MS)Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat, NC)Zebulon Baird Vance (Democrat, NC)John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat, NJ)Henry B. Payne (Democrat, OH)Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat, SC)Wade Hampton (Democrat, SC)Isham Green Harris (Democrat, TN)Richard Coke (Democrat, TX)John Edward Kenna (Democrat, WV)Leland Stanford (Republican, CA)Thomas Mead Bowen (Republican, CO)Henry Moore Teller (Republican, CO)Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican, CT)James Falconer Wilson (Republican, IA)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)Preston B. Plumb (Republican, KS)John James Ingalls (Republican, KS)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA)William Pierce Frye (Republican, ME)Thomas Witherell Palmer (Republican, MI)Dwight May Sabin (Republican, MN)Charles Frederick Manderson (Republican, NE)Henry William Blair (Republican, NH)Person Colby Cheney (Republican, NH)John Percival Jones (Republican, NV)William Maxwell Evarts (Republican, NY)Joseph Norton Dolph (Republican, OR)John Hipple Mitchell (Republican, OR)James Donald Cameron (Republican, PA)Jonathan Chace (Republican, RI)Harrison Holt Riddleberger (Republican, VA)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)John Coit Spooner (Republican, WI)
House ·
1887-06-03/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
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
1887-06-03/weekWithin a week · May 27, 1887 – Jun 10, 1887
Ruling Seibert v. Lewis
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 284
Ruling Philadelphia and Southern Steamship Company v. Pennsylvania
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 326
Ruling Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Pendleton
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 347
Ruling United States v. Auffmordt
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 197
Ruling Benziger v. Robertson
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 211
Ruling Wisner v. Brown
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 214
Ruling Simonton v. Sibley
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 220
Ruling Shepherd v. Thompson
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 231
Ruling Drexel v. Berney
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 241
Ruling Irvine v. The Hesper
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 256
Ruling Porter v. Pittsburg Bessemer Steel Co. (Limited)
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 267
Ruling Minneapolis Gas Light Company v. Kerr Murray Manufacturing Company
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 300
Ruling Harshman v. Knox County
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 306
Ruling Walter v. Bickham
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 320
Ruling St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway v. Vickers
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 360
Ruling Whitsitt v. Union Depot and Railroad Company
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 363
Ruling Maxwell Land-Grant Case
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 365
Ruling Merchants' Insurance Company v. Allen
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 376
Ruling Adams v. Collier
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 382
Ruling Goodlett v. Louisville and Nashville Railroa
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 391
Ruling New Process Fermentation Co. v. Maus
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 413
Ruling Gandy v. Marble
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 432
Ruling Paxton v. Griswold
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 441
Ruling Estes v. Gunter
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 450
Ruling Travellers' Insurance Company v. Edwards
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 457
Ruling Clinton v. Missouri Pacific Railway
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 469
Ruling Argentine Mining Co. v. Terrible Mining Co
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 478
Ruling Struthers v. Drexel
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 487
Ruling Northwestern Life Insurance Company v. Muskegon Bank
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 501
Ruling Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway Company v. Dunn
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 513
Ruling Morrison v. Durr
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 518
Ruling Texas Transportation Co v. Seeligson
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 519
Ruling Fisher v. Perkins
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 522
Ruling McLeod v. Fourth National Bank of St. Louis
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 528
Ruling Thorn Wire Hedge Company v. Fuller
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 535
Ruling Runkle v. United States
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 543
Ruling Shippen v. Bowen
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 575
Ruling Denver and Rio Grande Railway v. Harris
May 27, 1887 · 122 U.S. 597

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