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The United States on March 4, 1889

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President
Harrison
Benjamin Harrison R · since Mar 4, 1889
Senate
26 R · 24 D
50 senators · 51st Congress
House
1 R
1 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
38 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.7B
as of Jul 1, 1888
1889-03-04/executiveThe administration
President Benjamin Harrison R
since Mar 4, 1889
Vice President Levi Parsons Morton R
Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard D
since Mar 7, 1885
Secretary of the Treasury Charles Stebbins Fairchild D
since Apr 1, 1887
Secretary of the Interior William Freeman Vilas D
since Jan 16, 1888
Secretary of Agriculture Norman Jay Colman D
since Feb 15, 1889
1889-03-04/congress51st Congress
Senate · 26 R · 24 D
James Lawrence Pugh (Democrat, AL)James Kimbrough Jones (Democrat, AR)George Hearst (Democrat, CA)George Gray (Democrat, DE)Wilkinson Call (Democrat, FL)Samuel Pasco (Democrat, FL)Joseph Emerson Brown (Democrat, GA)Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat, IN)David Turpie (Democrat, IN)Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (Democrat, KY)James Biddle Eustis (Democrat, LA)Ephraim King Wilson (Democrat, MD)Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat, MD)George Graham Vest (Democrat, MO)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)James Zachariah George (Democrat, MS)Zebulon Baird Vance (Democrat, NC)Rufus Blodgett (Democrat, NJ)Henry B. Payne (Democrat, OH)Wade Hampton (Democrat, SC)William Brimage Bate (Democrat, TN)John Henninger Reagan (Democrat, TX)John Warwick Daniel (Democrat, VA)Charles James Faulkner (Democrat, WV)Leland Stanford (Republican, CA)Henry Moore Teller (Republican, CO)Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican, CT)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)Charles Benjamin Farwell (Republican, IL)John James Ingalls (Republican, KS)Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican, MA)Eugene Hale (Republican, ME)Francis Brown Stockbridge (Republican, MI)Cushman Kellogg Davis (Republican, MN)Algernon Sidney Paddock (Republican, NE)Henry William Blair (Republican, NH)John Percival Jones (Republican, NV)William Morris Stewart (Republican, NV)William Maxwell Evarts (Republican, NY)Frank Hiscock (Republican, NY)John Sherman (Republican, OH)John Hipple Mitchell (Republican, OR)James Donald Cameron (Republican, PA)Matthew Stanley Quay (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)George Franklin Edmunds (Republican, VT)John Coit Spooner (Republican, WI)Philetus Sawyer (Republican, WI)
House · 1 R
John Beard Allen (Republican, WA-AL)
1889-03-04/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
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
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D
Associate Justice · appointed by Grover Cleveland · since Jan 16, 1888
Melville Weston Fuller D
Chief Justice · appointed by Grover Cleveland · since Jul 20, 1888
1889-03-04/weekWithin a week · Feb 25, 1889 – Mar 11, 1889
Benjamin Harrison takes office · Mar 4, 1889
Ruling Liverpool and Great Western Steam Company v. Phenix Insurance Company
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 397
Ruling Liverpool and Great Western Steam Company v. Insurance Company of North America
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 464
Ruling Allen v. Smith
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 465
Ruling United States ex rel. Levey v. Stockslager
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 470
Ruling Norton v. Board of Commissioners of the Taxing District of Brownsville
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 479
Ruling Commissioners of the Taxing District of Brownsville v. Loague
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 493
Ruling Norton v. Commissioners of the Taxing District of Brownsville
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 505
Ruling McKenna v. Simpson
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 506
Ruling Kimberly v. Arms
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 512
Ruling Peters v. Active Manufacturing Company
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 530
Ruling Peters v. Hanson
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 541
Ruling City National Bank of Fort Worth v. Hunter
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 557
Ruling United States v. Marshall Silver Mining Company
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 579
Ruling Shotwell v. Moore
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 590
Ruling Goodwin v. Fox
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 601
Ruling Insurance Company of North America v. Guardiola
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 642
Ruling Woodstock Iron Company v. Richmond and Danville Extension Company
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 643
Ruling Ralston v. Turpin
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 663
Ruling Chapman v. Barney
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 677
Ruling Bene v. Jeantet
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 683
Ruling Schraeder Mining and Manufacturing Company v. Packer
Mar 5, 1889 · 129 U.S. 688
Ruling Oregon Railway and Navigation Company v. Oregonian Railway Company, Limited
Mar 5, 1889 · 130 U.S. 1
Ruling Badger v. Cusimano
Mar 5, 1889 · 130 U.S. 39
Ruling Parker v. Dacres
Mar 5, 1889 · 130 U.S. 43
Ruling Ballard v. Searls
Mar 5, 1889 · 130 U.S. 50
Ruling Collins Company v. Coes
Mar 5, 1889 · 130 U.S. 56
Ruling Arkansas Valley Land and Cattle Company v. Mann
Mar 5, 1889 · 130 U.S. 69
Ruling United States v. Watson
Mar 11, 1889 · 130 U.S. 80
Ruling Calton v. Utah
Mar 11, 1889 · 130 U.S. 83
Ruling Brown v. District of Columbia
Mar 11, 1889 · 130 U.S. 87
Ruling Bullitt County v. Washer
Mar 11, 1889 · 130 U.S. 142

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.