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The United States on November 19, 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
$1.7B
as of Jul 1, 1887
1887-11-19/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
1887-11-19/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 ·
1887-11-19/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
1887-11-19/weekWithin a week · Nov 12, 1887 – Nov 26, 1887
Ruling Smith & Griggs Manufacturing Company v. Sprague
Nov 14, 1887 · 123 U.S. 249
Ruling Andrews v. Hovey
Nov 14, 1887 · 123 U.S. 267
Ruling Siemens's Administrator v. Sellers
Nov 14, 1887 · 123 U.S. 276
Ruling Wilkinson v. Nebraska
Nov 14, 1887 · 123 U.S. 286
Ruling Sands v. Manistee River Improvement Company
Nov 14, 1887 · 123 U.S. 288
Ruling Hitz v. Jenks
Nov 14, 1887 · 123 U.S. 297
Ruling Shreveport v. Holme
Nov 14, 1887 · 125 U.S. 694
Ruling Colorado Coal and Iron Company v. United States
Nov 21, 1887 · 123 U.S. 307
Ruling Dewey v. West Fairmont Gas Coal Company
Nov 21, 1887 · 123 U.S. 329
Ruling United States v. Morant
Nov 21, 1887 · 123 U.S. 335
Ruling The Maggie J. Smith; Walker v. Dun
Nov 21, 1887 · 123 U.S. 349
Ruling Oelbermann v. Merritt
Nov 21, 1887 · 123 U.S. 356
Ruling Mustin v. Cadwalader
Nov 21, 1887 · 123 U.S. 369
Ruling In re Henry
Nov 21, 1887 · 123 U.S. 372
Ruling Cox v. Western Land and Cattle Company
Nov 21, 1887 · 123 U.S. 375
Ruling Doolan v. Carr
Nov 21, 1887 · 125 U.S. 618

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.