How did the United States change between and ?

Pick two dates. See the laws, the executive orders, the courts, Congress, federal agencies, the Constitution and the budget, as a diff.

civicdiff.com/1889-03-04...1893-03-03 · 4 years json
18 files changed, 1,445 insertions(+), 267 deletions(−)
Laws enacted
+16
major laws · full counts from 1973
Executive orders
—
records start in 1994
Final rules
—
records start in 1994
Supreme Court
4 of 9
seats changed hands
Agencies
+4 −1
departments & tracked agencies
Public debt
−$104M
$1.7B → $1.6B

The presidency passed from Grover Cleveland to Benjamin Harrison. 34 senators and 231 representatives took seats that they did not hold before. 4 new justices joined the Supreme Court.

Executive5 files+14−11

executive/presidentThe presidency
Grover Cleveland D
22nd president
Benjamin Harrison R
23rd president · took office Mar 4, 1889
executive/vice-presidentThe vice presidency
vacant
Levi Parsons Morton R
took office Mar 4, 1889
executive/cabinetCabinet & senior officials
executive/ordersExecutive orders
Federal Register records of executive orders begin in 1994.
executive/agenciesFederal agencies
50 → 53 tracked organizations · 8 → 8 executive departments
Climate Prediction Center
established Jan 1, 1890 · United States federal agency that is one of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction
United States Board on Geographic Names
established Sep 4, 1890 · US geographic naming government agency
United States Weather Bureau
established Jul 1, 1891 · former United States federal agency
Bureau of Public Roads
established Jan 1, 1893 · former agency in the United States Department of Agriculture and Department of Commerce
Division of Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce and Agriculture
abolished Jul 1, 1891 · predecessor to United States Weather Bureau · replaced by United States Weather Bureau
Agency start and end dates come from Wikidata, which covers smaller bureaus unevenly.

Military1 file±0

military/conflictsArmed conflicts
U.S. in 0 armed conflicts → 0
The U.S. was not a party to any armed conflict in this window (conflict records start in 1946).
An armed conflict here means at least 25 battle deaths in a year, with U.S. forces as a party or fighting for a government (UCDP's definition). Air strikes, raids, and advisory missions below that threshold aren't included. UN peacekeeping missions are excluded.

Legislative4 files+281−250

legislative/controlControl of Congress
Top: House · Bottom: Senate DemocraticRepublicanOther
50th Congress → 52nd Congress · 2 new Congresses elected
2 changes of chamber control along the way
House: Democrat majority
172 D · 154 R
House: null majority
240 D · 87 R
Senate: Republican majority on both dates
39 R · 37 D → 47 R · 39 D
Mar 4, 1889 · 39 R · 37 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)Wilkinson Call (Democrat, FL)Samuel Pasco (Democrat, FL)Alfred Holt Colquitt (Democrat, GA)Joseph Emerson Brown (Democrat, GA)Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat, IN)David Turpie (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)Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat, MD)George Graham Vest (Democrat, MO)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)Edward Cary Walthall (Democrat, MS)James Zachariah George (Democrat, MS)Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat, NC)Zebulon Baird Vance (Democrat, NC)John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat, NJ)Rufus Blodgett (Democrat, NJ)Henry B. Payne (Democrat, OH)Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat, SC)Wade Hampton (Democrat, SC)Isham Green Harris (Democrat, TN)William Brimage Bate (Democrat, TN)Richard Coke (Democrat, TX)John Henninger Reagan (Democrat, TX)John Warwick Daniel (Democrat, VA)John Edward Kenna (Democrat, WV)Charles James Faulkner (Democrat, WV)Leland Stanford (Republican, CA)Thomas Mead Bowen (Republican, CO)Henry Moore Teller (Republican, CO)Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican, CT)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)James Falconer Wilson (Republican, IA)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)Charles Benjamin Farwell (Republican, IL)Preston B. Plumb (Republican, KS)John James Ingalls (Republican, KS)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA)Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican, MA)William Pierce Frye (Republican, ME)Eugene Hale (Republican, ME)Thomas Witherell Palmer (Republican, MI)Francis Brown Stockbridge (Republican, MI)Dwight May Sabin (Republican, MN)Cushman Kellogg Davis (Republican, MN)Charles Frederick Manderson (Republican, NE)Algernon Sidney Paddock (Republican, NE)Henry William Blair (Republican, NH)William Eaton Chandler (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)Joseph Norton Dolph (Republican, OR)John Hipple Mitchell (Republican, OR)James Donald Cameron (Republican, PA)Matthew Stanley Quay (Republican, PA)Jonathan Chace (Republican, RI)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)Harrison Holt Riddleberger (Republican, VA)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)George Franklin Edmunds (Republican, VT)John Coit Spooner (Republican, WI)Philetus Sawyer (Republican, WI)
Mar 3, 1893 · 47 R · 39 D · 2 P
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)James Lawrence Pugh (Democrat, AL)James Henderson Berry (Democrat, AR)James Kimbrough Jones (Democrat, AR)George Gray (Democrat, DE)Samuel Pasco (Democrat, FL)Wilkinson Call (Democrat, FL)Alfred Holt Colquitt (Democrat, GA)John Brown Gordon (Democrat, GA)John McAuley Palmer (Democrat, IL)David Turpie (Democrat, IN)Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat, IN)John Griffin Carlisle (Democrat, KY)Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (Democrat, KY)Donelson Caffery (Democrat, LA)Edward Douglass White (Democrat, LA)Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat, MD)Charles Hopper Gibson (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)Rufus Blodgett (Democrat, NJ)John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat, NJ)David Bennett Hill (Democrat, NY)Calvin Stewart Brice (Democrat, OH)Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat, SC)John Laurens Manning Irby (Democrat, SC)William Brimage Bate (Democrat, TN)Isham Green Harris (Democrat, TN)Richard Coke (Democrat, TX)Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat, TX)John Warwick Daniel (Democrat, VA)Eppa Hunton (Democrat, VA)William Freeman Vilas (Democrat, WI)Charles James Faulkner (Democrat, WV)John Edward Kenna (Democrat, WV)William Alfred Peffer (Populist, KS)James Henderson Kyle (Populist, SD)Charles Norton Felton (Republican, CA)Leland Stanford (Republican, CA)Edward Oliver Wolcott (Republican, CO)Henry Moore Teller (Republican, CO)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican, CT)Anthony Higgins (Republican, DE)James Falconer Wilson (Republican, IA)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)George Laird Shoup (Republican, ID)Fred Thomas Dubois (Republican, ID)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)Bishop Walden Perkins (Republican, KS)Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican, MA)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA)Eugene Hale (Republican, ME)William Pierce Frye (Republican, ME)Francis Brown Stockbridge (Republican, MI)James McMillan (Republican, MI)Cushman Kellogg Davis (Republican, MN)William Drew Washburn (Republican, MN)Wilbur Fiske Sanders (Republican, MT)Thomas Charles Power (Republican, MT)Lyman Rufus Casey (Republican, ND)Henry Clay Hansbrough (Republican, ND)Algernon Sidney Paddock (Republican, NE)Charles Frederick Manderson (Republican, NE)William Eaton Chandler (Republican, NH)Jacob Harold Gallinger (Republican, NH)William Morris Stewart (Republican, NV)John Percival Jones (Republican, NV)Frank Hiscock (Republican, NY)John Sherman (Republican, OH)Joseph Norton Dolph (Republican, OR)John Hipple Mitchell (Republican, OR)Matthew Stanley Quay (Republican, PA)James Donald Cameron (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)Nathan Fellows Dixon (Republican, RI)Richard Franklin Pettigrew (Republican, SD)Redfield Proctor (Republican, VT)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)John Beard Allen (Republican, WA)Watson Carvosso Squire (Republican, WA)Philetus Sawyer (Republican, WI)Joseph Maull Carey (Republican, WY)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
34 new members · 22 departed · 54 served on both dates · women 0 → 0 · median age 59 → 59
7 seats changed party
Show 3 more seat flips
Who joined and who left (34 in · 22 out)
Anthony Higgins R
Delaware
Donelson Caffery D
Louisiana
James McMillan R
Michigan
Lyman Rufus Casey R
North Dakota
Henry Clay Hansbrough R
North Dakota
Jacob Harold Gallinger R
New Hampshire
Nathan Fellows Dixon R
Rhode Island
James Henderson Kyle P
South Dakota
Eppa Hunton D
Virginia
John Beard Allen R
Washington
George Hearst D
California
Eli Saulsbury D
Delaware
Dwight May Sabin R
Minnesota
Henry William Blair R
New Hampshire
Jonathan Chace R
Rhode Island
Wade Hampton D
South Carolina
Mar 4, 1889 · 172 D · 154 R · 2 IR · 2 U · 1 I · 1 NG
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)James Edward Cobb (Democrat, AL-5)Joseph Wheeler (Democrat, AL-8)John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat, AL-6)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)Marcus Aurelius Smith (Democrat, AZ-AL)Thomas Larkin Thompson (Democrat, CA-1)Marion Biggs (Democrat, CA-2)Carlos French (Democrat, CT-2)Miles Tobey Granger (Democrat, CT-4)Robert Johnstone Vance (Democrat, CT-1)John Brown Penington (Democrat, DE-AL)Charles Dougherty (Democrat, FL-2)Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson (Democrat, FL-1)Thomas Manson Norwood (Democrat, GA-1)George Thomas Barnes (Democrat, GA-10)Allen Daniel Candler (Democrat, GA-9)Henry Hull Carlton (Democrat, GA-8)Judson Claudius Clements (Democrat, GA-7)Thomas Wingfield Grimes (Democrat, GA-4)John David Stewart (Democrat, GA-5)James Henderson Blount (Democrat, GA-6)Charles Frederick Crisp (Democrat, GA-3)Henry Gray Turner (Democrat, GA-2)Walter Ingalls Hayes (Democrat, IA-2)George Alburtus Anderson (Democrat, IL-12)Silas Zephaniah Landes (Democrat, IL-16)Frank Lawler (Democrat, IL-2)Richard Wellington Townshend (Democrat, IL-19)Edward Lane (Democrat, IL-17)William McKendree Springer (Democrat, IL-13)Jonas George Howard (Democrat, IN-3)Courtland Cushing Matson (Democrat, IN-5)John Henry O’Neall (Democrat, IN-2)William Dallas Bynum (Democrat, IN-7)William Steele Holman (Democrat, IN-4)Benjamin Franklin Shively (Democrat, IN-13)Polk Laffoon (Democrat, KY-2)William Preston Taulbee (Democrat, KY-10)John Griffin Carlisle (Democrat, KY-6)William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Democrat, KY-7)Asher Graham Caruth (Democrat, KY-5)Alexander Brooks Montgomery (Democrat, KY-4)William Johnson Stone (Democrat, KY-1)James Bennett McCreary (Democrat, KY-8)Cherubusco Newton (Democrat, LA-5)Edward White Robertson (Democrat, LA-6)Edward James Gay (Democrat, LA-3)Theodore Stark Wilkinson (Democrat, LA-1)Matthew Diamond Lagan (Democrat, LA-2)Newton Crain Blanchard (Democrat, LA-4)Edward Burnett (Democrat, MA-9)Patrick Andrew Collins (Democrat, MA-4)Leopold Morse (Democrat, MA-3)John Edwards Russell (Democrat, MA-10)Frank Thomas Shaw (Democrat, MD-2)Charles Hopper Gibson (Democrat, MD-1)Barnes Compton (Democrat, MD-5)Harry Welles Rusk (Democrat, MD-3)Isidor Rayner (Democrat, MD-4)Spencer Oliver Fisher (Democrat, MI-10)Timothy Edward Tarsney (Democrat, MI-8)Melbourne Haddock Ford (Democrat, MI-5)John Logan Chipman (Democrat, MI-1)Justin Rice Whiting (Democrat, MI-7)John Lewis MacDonald (Democrat, MN-3)Edmund Rice (Democrat, MN-4)Thomas Wilson (Democrat, MN-1)Martin Linn Clardy (Democrat, MO-10)John Milton Glover (Democrat, MO-9)John Edward Hutton (Democrat, MO-7)James Nelson Burnes (Democrat, MO-4)James Peter Walker (Democrat, MO-14)Charles Harley Mansur (Democrat, MO-2)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)Frederick George Barry (Democrat, MS-4)Chapman Levy Anderson (Democrat, MS-5)James Bright Morgan (Democrat, MS-2)Thomas Ringland Stockdale (Democrat, MS-6)John Mills Allen (Democrat, MS-1)Thomas Clendinen Catchings (Democrat, MS-3)Charles Edward Hooker (Democrat, MS-7)Joseph Kemp Toole (Democrat, MT-AL)Thomas Dillard Johnston (Democrat, NC-9)Louis Charles Latham (Democrat, NC-1)Charles Washington McClammy (Democrat, NC-3)Alfred Rowland (Democrat, NC-6)William Henry Harrison Cowles (Democrat, NC-8)John Steele Henderson (Democrat, NC-7)Furnifold McLendel Simmons (Democrat, NC-2)John Albert McShane (Democrat, NE-1)Luther Franklin McKinney (Democrat, NH-1)James Nelson Pidcock (Democrat, NJ-4)William McAdoo (Democrat, NJ-7)Antonio Joseph (Democrat, NM-AL)Perry Belmont (Democrat, NY-1)Archibald Meserole Bliss (Democrat, NY-5)Lloyd Stephens Bryce (Democrat, NY-7)Edward Whitford Greenman (Democrat, NY-18)Nicholas Thomas Kane (Democrat, NY-19)Peter Paul Mahoney (Democrat, NY-4)Truman Adams Merriman (Democrat, NY-11)Felix Campbell (Democrat, NY-2)Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat, NY-9)Henry Bacon (Democrat, NY-15)Francis Barretto Spinola (Democrat, NY-10)William Griggs Stahlnecker (Democrat, NY-14)Timothy John Campbell (Democrat, NY-8)Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat, NY-6)William Bourke Cockran (Democrat, NY-12)James Edwin Campbell (Democrat, OH-7)Martin Ambrose Foran (Democrat, OH-21)Beriah Wilkins (Democrat, OH-16)George Ebbert Seney (Democrat, OH-5)Samuel S. Yoder (Democrat, OH-4)Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat, OH-13)Norman Hall (Democrat, PA-26)John Lynch (Democrat, PA-12)William Lawrence Scott (Democrat, PA-27)William Henry Sowden (Democrat, PA-10)Charles Rollin Buckalew (Democrat, PA-11)Levi Maish (Democrat, PA-19)Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat, PA-3)Daniel Ermentrout (Democrat, PA-8)James Sproull Cothran (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)William Elliott (Democrat, SC-7)Presley Thornton Glass (Democrat, TN-9)John Randolph Neal (Democrat, TN-3)James Phelan (Democrat, TN-10)Washington Curran Whitthorne (Democrat, TN-7)Benjamin Augustine Enloe (Democrat, TN-8)Joseph Edwin Washington (Democrat, TN-6)Benton McMillin (Democrat, TN-4)James Daniel Richardson (Democrat, TN-5)Silas Hare (Democrat, TX-5)William Harrison Martin (Democrat, TX-2)Littleton Wilde Moore (Democrat, TX-8)Charles Stewart (Democrat, TX-1)Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat, TX-9)Constantine Buckley Kilgore (Democrat, TX-3)Jo Abbott (Democrat, TX-6)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)William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (Democrat, VA-8)Charles Triplett O’Ferrall (Democrat, VA-7)George Douglas Wise (Democrat, VA-3)Charles Stewart Voorhees (Democrat, WA-AL)Thomas Richard Hudd (Democrat, WI-5)Charles Edgar Hogg (Democrat, WV-4)Charles Philip Snyder (Democrat, WV-3)William Lyne Wilson (Democrat, WV-2)John Nichols (Independent, NC-4)Albert Raney Anderson (Ind. Republican, IA-8)James Baird Weaver (National Greenbacker, IA-6)John Alexander Anderson (Ind. Republican, KS-5)Samuel Isaac Hopkins (Union, VA-6)Henry Smith (Union, WI-4)William W. Morrow (Republican, CA-4)William Vandever (Republican, CA-6)Charles Norton Felton (Republican, CA-5)Joseph McKenna (Republican, CA-3)George Gifford Symes (Republican, CO-1)Charles Addison Russell (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)Daniel Kerr (Republican, IA-5)Isaac S. Struble (Republican, IA-11)John Henry Gear (Republican, IA-1)David Bremner Henderson (Republican, IA-3)Fred Thomas Dubois (Republican, ID-AL)Ransom Williams Dunham (Republican, IL-1)Ralph Plumb (Republican, IL-8)John Robert Thomas (Republican, IL-20)George Everett Adams (Republican, IL-4)William Harrison Gest (Republican, IL-11)Lewis Edwin Payson (Republican, IL-9)Jonathan Harvey Rowell (Republican, IL-14)Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican, IL-7)Philip Sidney Post (Republican, IL-10)Jehu Baker (Republican, IL-18)Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican, IL-5)Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican, IL-6)Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican, IL-15)William Ernest Mason (Republican, IL-3)Alvin Peterson Hovey (Republican, IN-1)James Thomas Johnston (Republican, IN-8)James Bain White (Republican, IN-12)Thomas McLelland Browne (Republican, IN-6)Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle (Republican, IN-9)William Dale Owen (Republican, IN-10)George Washington Steele (Republican, IN-11)Edmund Needham Morrill (Republican, KS-1)Samuel Ritter Peters (Republican, KS-7)Thomas Ryan (Republican, KS-4)Erastus Johnson Turner (Republican, KS-6)Bishop Walden Perkins (Republican, KS-3)Edward Hogue Funston (Republican, KS-2)George Morgan Thomas (Republican, KY-9)Hugh Franklin Finley (Republican, KY-11)Whiteside Godfrey Hunter (Republican, KY-3)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)William Cogswell (Republican, MA-7)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA-6)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)Edward Payson Allen (Republican, MI-2)Mark Spencer Brewer (Republican, MI-6)Byron M. Cutcheon (Republican, MI-9)James O’Donnell (Republican, MI-3)Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican, MI-4)John Lind (Republican, MN-2)Knute Nelson (Republican, MN-5)William Henry Wade (Republican, MO-13)William Warner (Republican, MO-5)John Morehead Brower (Republican, NC-5)George Washington Emery Dorsey (Republican, NE-3)James Laird (Republican, NE-2)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)John Kean (Republican, NJ-3)William Woodburn (Republican, NV-AL)Ira Davenport (Republican, NY-29)Stephen Tyng Hopkins (Republican, NY-17)Abraham X. Parker (Republican, NY-22)John Baptiste Weber (Republican, NY-33)George West (Republican, NY-20)Stephen Van Culen White (Republican, NY-3)Charles Simeon Baker (Republican, NY-30)Milton De Lano (Republican, NY-26)John McCreath Farquhar (Republican, NY-32)Thomas Schmeck Flood (Republican, NY-28)William Grant Laidlaw (Republican, NY-34)John Henry Moffitt (Republican, NY-21)Newton Wright Nutting (Republican, NY-27)John Gilbert Sawyer (Republican, NY-31)David Wilber (Republican, NY-24)Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (Republican, NY-13)James Jerome Belden (Republican, NY-25)John Henry Ketcham (Republican, NY-16)James Schoolcraft Sherman (Republican, NY-23)Charles Elwood Brown (Republican, OH-2)George Washington Crouse (Republican, OH-20)Jacob Romeis (Republican, OH-10)Melvin Morella Boothman (Republican, OH-6)Benjamin Butterworth (Republican, OH-1)William Craig Cooper (Republican, OH-9)Robert Patterson Kennedy (Republican, OH-8)Jacob Joseph Pugsley (Republican, OH-12)Albert Clifton Thompson (Republican, OH-11)Charles Preston Wickham (Republican, OH-14)Elihu Stephen Williams (Republican, OH-3)Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican, OH-19)Joseph Danner Taylor (Republican, OH-17)William McKinley Jr. (Republican, OH-18)Charles Henry Grosvenor (Republican, OH-15)Binger Hermann (Republican, OR-1)Franklin Bound (Republican, PA-14)Frank Charles Bunnell (Republican, PA-15)John Andrew Hiestand (Republican, PA-9)Oscar Lawrence Jackson (Republican, PA-24)James Thompson Maffett (Republican, PA-25)Welty McCullogh (Republican, PA-21)John Patton (Republican, PA-20)Thomas McKee Bayne (Republican, PA-23)Smedley Darlington (Republican, PA-6)William Darrah Kelley (Republican, PA-4)Henry Clay McCormick (Republican, PA-16)Edwin Sylvanus Osborne (Republican, PA-AL)Robert Morris Yardley (Republican, PA-7)Louis Evans Atkinson (Republican, PA-18)Edward Scull (Republican, PA-17)Charles O’Neill (Republican, PA-2)Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican, PA-5)Charles Napoleon Brumm (Republican, PA-13)Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican, PA-1)John Dalzell (Republican, PA-22)Henry Joshua Spooner (Republican, RI-1)Warren Otis Arnold (Republican, RI-2)Roderick Randum Butler (Republican, TN-1)Leonidas Campbell Houk (Republican, TN-2)Henry Bowen (Republican, VA-9)John Robert Brown (Republican, VA-5)William Embre Gaines (Republican, VA-4)George Edwin Bowden (Republican, VA-2)Thomas Henry Bayly Browne (Republican, VA-1)Jacob Yost (Republican, VA-10)William Wallace Grout (Republican, VT-2)John Wolcott Stewart (Republican, VT-1)Richard William Guenther (Republican, WI-2)Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (Republican, WI-1)Charles Benjamin Clark (Republican, WI-6)Ormsby Brunson Thomas (Republican, WI-7)Nils Pederson Haugen (Republican, WI-8)Isaac Stephenson (Republican, WI-9)Robert Marion La Follette (Republican, WI-3)Nathan Goff (Republican, WV-1)Joseph Maull Carey (Republican, WY-AL)
Mar 3, 1893 · 240 D · 87 R · 8 P
William Henry Forney (Democrat, AL-7)Hilary Abner Herbert (Democrat, AL-2)William Calvin Oates (Democrat, AL-3)Louis Washington Turpin (Democrat, AL-4)Richard Henry Clarke (Democrat, AL-1)James Edward Cobb (Democrat, AL-5)Joseph Wheeler (Democrat, AL-8)John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat, AL-6)William Henderson Cate (Democrat, AR-1)Samuel West Peel (Democrat, AR-5)Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (Democrat, AR-2)William Leake Terry (Democrat, AR-4)Thomas Chipman McRae (Democrat, AR-3)Marcus Aurelius Smith (Democrat, AZ-AL)Anthony Caminetti (Democrat, CA-2)Thomas J. Geary (Democrat, CA-1)Washington Frederick Willcox (Democrat, CT-2)Robert Elliott De Forest (Democrat, CT-4)Lewis Sperry (Democrat, CT-1)John Williams Causey (Democrat, DE-AL)Robert Bullock (Democrat, FL-2)Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat, FL-1)James Henderson Blount (Democrat, GA-6)Robert William Everett (Democrat, GA-7)Thomas Elisha Winn (Democrat, GA-9)Charles Frederick Crisp (Democrat, GA-3)Thomas Graves Lawson (Democrat, GA-8)Charles Leavell Moses (Democrat, GA-4)Henry Gray Turner (Democrat, GA-2)Rufus Ezekiel Lester (Democrat, GA-1)Leonidas Felix Livingston (Democrat, GA-5)Thomas Edward Watson (Democrat, GA-10)Thomas Bowman (Democrat, IA-9)Walter Halben Butler (Democrat, IA-4)John Taylor Hamilton (Democrat, IA-5)John Joseph Seerley (Democrat, IA-1)Frederick Edward White (Democrat, IA-6)Walter Ingalls Hayes (Democrat, IA-2)Samuel Thompson Busey (Democrat, IL-15)Benjamin Taylor Cable (Democrat, IL-11)Walter Cass Newberry (Democrat, IL-4)Owen Scott (Democrat, IL-14)Herman Wilber Snow (Democrat, IL-9)Lewis Steward (Democrat, IL-8)Scott Wike (Democrat, IL-12)Allan Cathcart Durborow Jr. (Democrat, IL-3)George Washington Fithian (Democrat, IL-16)William St. John Forman (Democrat, IL-18)Edward Lane (Democrat, IL-17)William McKendree Springer (Democrat, IL-13)Lawrence Edward McGann (Democrat, IL-2)James Robert Williams (Democrat, IL-19)Charles A. O. McClellan (Democrat, IN-12)William Fletcher Parrett (Democrat, IN-1)David Henry Patton (Democrat, IN-10)John Lewis Bretz (Democrat, IN-2)Elijah Voorhees Brookshire (Democrat, IN-8)Jason Brevoort Brown (Democrat, IN-3)William Dallas Bynum (Democrat, IN-7)George William Cooper (Democrat, IN-5)Augustus Newton Martin (Democrat, IN-11)William Steele Holman (Democrat, IN-4)Benjamin Franklin Shively (Democrat, IN-13)W. W. Dickerson (Democrat, KY-6)John Wilkerson Kendall (Democrat, KY-10)William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Democrat, KY-7)Asher Graham Caruth (Democrat, KY-5)William Thomas Ellis (Democrat, KY-2)Isaac Herschel Goodnight (Democrat, KY-3)Alexander Brooks Montgomery (Democrat, KY-4)William Johnson Stone (Democrat, KY-1)James Bennett McCreary (Democrat, KY-8)Thomas Hanson Paynter (Democrat, KY-9)Matthew Diamond Lagan (Democrat, LA-2)Newton Crain Blanchard (Democrat, LA-4)Charles Jahleal Boatner (Democrat, LA-5)Andrew Price (Democrat, LA-3)Samuel Matthews Robertson (Democrat, LA-6)Adolph Meyer (Democrat, LA-1)John Forrester Andrew (Democrat, MA-3)Frederick Spaulding Coolidge (Democrat, MA-11)John Crawford Crosby (Democrat, MA-12)Sherman Hoar (Democrat, MA-5)George Fred Williams (Democrat, MA-9)Joseph Henry O’Neil (Democrat, MA-4)Moses Tyler Stevens (Democrat, MA-8)John Brewer Brown (Democrat, MD-1)Herman Stump (Democrat, MD-2)Barnes Compton (Democrat, MD-5)William McMahon McKaig (Democrat, MD-6)Harry Welles Rusk (Democrat, MD-3)Isidor Rayner (Democrat, MD-4)Byron Gray Stout (Democrat, MI-6)Harrison H. Wheeler (Democrat, MI-9)Henry Melville Youmans (Democrat, MI-8)John Logan Chipman (Democrat, MI-1)James Sedgwick Gorman (Democrat, MI-2)Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock (Democrat, MI-10)Justin Rice Whiting (Democrat, MI-7)James Nathan Castle (Democrat, MN-4)William Henry Harries (Democrat, MN-1)Osee Matson Hall (Democrat, MN-3)Samuel Byrns (Democrat, MO-10)Charles Harley Mansur (Democrat, MO-2)Richard Henry Norton (Democrat, MO-7)Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (Democrat, MO-4)Marshall Arnold (Democrat, MO-14)Robert Washington Fyan (Democrat, MO-13)William Henry Hatch (Democrat, MO-1)John Taddeus Heard (Democrat, MO-6)John Joseph O’Neill (Democrat, MO-8)Seth Wallace Cobb (Democrat, MO-9)John Charles Tarsney (Democrat, MO-5)Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat, MO-3)Richard Parks Bland (Democrat, MO-11)David Albaugh De Armond (Democrat, MO-12)Joseph Henry Beeman (Democrat, MS-5)Clarke Lewis (Democrat, MS-4)Thomas Ringland Stockdale (Democrat, MS-6)John Curtis Kyle (Democrat, MS-2)John Mills Allen (Democrat, MS-1)Thomas Clendinen Catchings (Democrat, MS-3)Charles Edward Hooker (Democrat, MS-7)William Wirt Dixon (Democrat, MT-1)William Henry Harrison Cowles (Democrat, NC-8)Archibald Hunter Arrington Williams (Democrat, NC-5)Sydenham Benoni Alexander (Democrat, NC-6)William Augustus Blount Branch (Democrat, NC-1)Benjamin Hickman Bunn (Democrat, NC-4)Benjamin Franklin Grady (Democrat, NC-3)John Steele Henderson (Democrat, NC-7)William Thomas Crawford (Democrat, NC-9)William Jennings Bryan (Democrat, NE-1)Warren Fisher Daniell (Democrat, NH-2)Luther Franklin McKinney (Democrat, NH-1)Samuel Fowler (Democrat, NJ-4)Edward Francis McDonald (Democrat, NJ-7)Cornelius Andrew Cadmus (Democrat, NJ-5)Thomas Dunn English (Democrat, NJ-6)Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (Democrat, NJ-3)Antonio Joseph (Democrat, NM-AL)Henry Bacon (Democrat, NY-15)Henry Wilbur Bentley (Democrat, NY-23)David Augustus Boody (Democrat, NY-2)Thomas Lathrop Bunting (Democrat, NY-33)Alfred Clark Chapin (Democrat, NY-1)Isaac Newton Cox (Democrat, NY-17)Roswell Pettibone Flower (Democrat, NY-12)Halbert Stevens Greenleaf (Democrat, NY-30)Hosea Hunt Rockwell (Democrat, NY-28)Francis Barretto Spinola (Democrat, NY-10)William Griggs Stahlnecker (Democrat, NY-14)George Van Horn (Democrat, NY-24)Timothy John Campbell (Democrat, NY-8)John Michael Clancy (Democrat, NY-4)William Jerome Coombs (Democrat, NY-3)Edward John Dunphy (Democrat, NY-7)John R. Fellows (Democrat, NY-6)Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (Democrat, NY-13)Daniel Newton Lockwood (Democrat, NY-32)Thomas Francis Magner (Democrat, NY-5)Charles Tracey (Democrat, NY-19)John De Witt Warner (Democrat, NY-11)Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat, NY-9)James Irvine Dungan (Democrat, OH-13)Martin Kissinger Gantz (Democrat, OH-4)William Elisha Haynes (Democrat, OH-7)Lewis Philip Ohliger (Democrat, OH-16)James W. Owens (Democrat, OH-14)John M. Pattison (Democrat, OH-11)Dennis D. Donovan (Democrat, OH-6)Darius Dodge Hare (Democrat, OH-8)Michael Daniel Harter (Democrat, OH-15)George Washington Houk (Democrat, OH-3)Tom Loftin Johnson (Democrat, OH-21)Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat, OH-9)Albert Jackson Pearson (Democrat, OH-17)Fernando Coello Layton (Democrat, OH-5)Lemuel Amerman (Democrat, PA-11)David B. Brunner (Democrat, PA-9)Alexander Kerr Craig (Democrat, PA-24)Eugene Pierce Gillespie (Democrat, PA-25)Edwin Hallowell (Democrat, PA-7)Frank Eckels Beltzhoover (Democrat, PA-19)George Frederic Kribbs (Democrat, PA-28)William Mutchler (Democrat, PA-8)James Bernard Reilly (Democrat, PA-13)Simon Peter Wolverton (Democrat, PA-17)William McAleer (Democrat, PA-3)Oscar Lapham (Democrat, RI-1)Charles Harrison Page (Democrat, RI-2)John James Hemphill (Democrat, SC-5)George Johnstone (Democrat, SC-3)Eli Thomas Stackhouse (Democrat, SC-6)George Dionysius Tillman (Democrat, SC-2)William Huggins Brawley (Democrat, SC-1)George Washington Shell (Democrat, SC-4)William Elliott (Democrat, SC-7)Benjamin Augustine Enloe (Democrat, TN-8)Henry Clay Snodgrass (Democrat, TN-3)Josiah Patterson (Democrat, TN-10)Joseph Edwin Washington (Democrat, TN-6)Benton McMillin (Democrat, TN-4)Nicholas Nichols Cox (Democrat, TN-7)Rice Alexander Pierce (Democrat, TN-9)James Daniel Richardson (Democrat, TN-5)John Benjamin Long (Democrat, TX-2)Littleton Wilde Moore (Democrat, TX-8)Charles Stewart (Democrat, TX-1)Constantine Buckley Kilgore (Democrat, TX-3)Jo Abbott (Democrat, TX-6)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)Joseph Weldon Bailey (Democrat, TX-5)Edwin Le Roy Antony (Democrat, TX-9)John Thomas Caine (Democrat, UT-AL)John Alexander Buchanan (Democrat, VA-9)John William Lawson (Democrat, VA-2)William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (Democrat, VA-8)Posey Green Lester (Democrat, VA-5)Paul Carrington Edmunds (Democrat, VA-6)James Fletcher Epes (Democrat, VA-4)Charles Triplett O’Ferrall (Democrat, VA-7)George Douglas Wise (Democrat, VA-3)William Atkinson Jones (Democrat, VA-1)Henry St. George Tucker (Democrat, VA-10)Clinton Babbitt (Democrat, WI-1)Allen Ralph Bushnell (Democrat, WI-3)Frank Potter Coburn (Democrat, WI-7)Lucas Miltiades Miller (Democrat, WI-6)Charles Barwig (Democrat, WI-2)George H. Brickner (Democrat, WI-5)Thomas Lynch (Democrat, WI-9)John Lendrum Mitchell (Democrat, WI-4)John Duffy Alderson (Democrat, WV-3)James Capehart (Democrat, WV-4)John Overton Pendleton (Democrat, WV-1)William Lyne Wilson (Democrat, WV-2)Benjamin Hutchinson Clover (Populist, KS-3)John Grant Otis (Populist, KS-4)John Davis (Populist, KS-5)William Baker (Populist, KS-6)Jeremiah Simpson (Populist, KS-7)Kittel Halvorson (Populist, MN-5)William Arthur McKeighan (Populist, NE-2)Omer Madison Kem (Populist, NE-3)John Tyler Cutting (Republican, CA-4)Joseph McKenna (Republican, CA-3)William Wallace Bowers (Republican, CA-6)Eugene Francis Loud (Republican, CA-5)Hosea Townsend (Republican, CO-1)Charles Addison Russell (Republican, CT-3)James Patton Flick (Republican, IA-8)George Douglas Perkins (Republican, IA-11)David Bremner Henderson (Republican, IA-3)Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican, IA-10)John Albert Tiffin Hull (Republican, IA-7)Willis Sweet (Republican, ID-1)Abner Taylor (Republican, IL-1)Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican, IL-7)Philip Sidney Post (Republican, IL-10)Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican, IL-5)Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican, IL-6)George Washington Smith (Republican, IL-20)Daniel Webster Waugh (Republican, IN-9)Henry Underwood Johnson (Republican, IN-6)Edward Hogue Funston (Republican, KS-2)Case Broderick (Republican, KS-1)John Henry Wilson (Republican, KY-11)Charles Sturtevant Randall (Republican, MA-1)William Cogswell (Republican, MA-7)Elijah Adams Morse (Republican, MA-2)Joseph Henry Walker (Republican, MA-10)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA-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)Charles Eugene Belknap (Republican, MI-5)James O’Donnell (Republican, MI-3)Samuel Merritt Stephenson (Republican, MI-11)Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican, MI-4)John Lind (Republican, MN-2)Henry Plummer Cheatham (Republican, NC-2)Martin Nelson Johnson (Republican, ND-1)Christopher Augustus Bergen (Republican, NJ-1)James Buchanan (Republican, NJ-2)Horace Franklin Bartine (Republican, NV-AL)John Adam Quackenbush (Republican, NY-18)John Raines (Republican, NY-29)Leslie W. Russell (Republican, NY-22)John Sanford (Republican, NY-20)John Madison Wever (Republican, NY-21)James Jerome Belden (Republican, NY-25)Warren Brewster Hooker (Republican, NY-34)George Washington Ray (Republican, NY-26)John Henry Ketcham (Republican, NY-16)James Wolcott Wadsworth (Republican, NY-31)Sereno Elisha Payne (Republican, NY-27)Robert Eachus Doan (Republican, OH-10)Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican, OH-19)Joseph Danner Taylor (Republican, OH-18)Vincent Albert Taylor (Republican, OH-20)John Alexander Caldwell (Republican, OH-2)William Henry Enochs (Republican, OH-12)Bellamy Storer (Republican, OH-1)David Archibald Harvey (Republican, OK-AL)Binger Hermann (Republican, OR-1)Louis Evans Atkinson (Republican, PA-18)John Winebrenner Rife (Republican, PA-14)Edward Scull (Republican, PA-20)George Washington Shonk (Republican, PA-12)Albert Cole Hopkins (Republican, PA-16)Charles O’Neill (Republican, PA-2)Myron Benjamin Wright (Republican, PA-15)Matthew Griswold (Republican, PA-26)John Buchanan Robinson (Republican, PA-6)Charles Warren Stone (Republican, PA-27)William Alexis Stone (Republican, PA-23)Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican, PA-5)Marriott Brosius (Republican, PA-10)John Edgar Reyburn (Republican, PA-4)George Franklin Huff (Republican, PA-21)Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican, PA-1)John Dalzell (Republican, PA-22)John Rankin Gamble (Republican, SD-AL)Leonidas Campbell Houk (Republican, TN-2)Alfred Alexander Taylor (Republican, TN-1)William Wallace Grout (Republican, VT-2)Horace Henry Powers (Republican, VT-1)John Lockwood Wilson (Republican, WA-1)Nils Pederson Haugen (Republican, WI-8)Clarence Don Clark (Republican, WY-AL)
231 new members · 228 departed · 104 served on both dates · women 0 → 0 · median age 49 → 50
25 state delegations changed
Show delegation changes
Iowa 1 D · 8 R · 2 other
Iowa 6 D · 5 R
Illinois 6 D · 14 R
Illinois 14 D · 6 R
Indiana 6 D · 7 R
Indiana 11 D · 2 R
Kansas 0 D · 6 R · 1 other
Kansas 0 D · 2 R · 5 other
Kentucky 8 D · 3 R
Kentucky 10 D · 1 R
Massachusetts 4 D · 8 R
Massachusetts 7 D · 5 R
Maryland 5 D · 1 R
Maryland 6 D · 0 R
Michigan 5 D · 6 R
Michigan 7 D · 4 R
Minnesota 3 D · 2 R
Minnesota 3 D · 1 R · 1 other
Missouri 12 D · 2 R
Missouri 14 D · 0 R
North Carolina 7 D · 1 R · 1 other
North Carolina 8 D · 1 R
North Dakota 0 D · 0 R
North Dakota 0 D · 1 R
Nebraska 1 D · 2 R
Nebraska 1 D · 0 R · 2 other
New Hampshire 1 D · 1 R
New Hampshire 2 D · 0 R
New Jersey 2 D · 5 R
New Jersey 5 D · 2 R
New York 15 D · 19 R
New York 23 D · 11 R
Ohio 6 D · 15 R
Ohio 14 D · 7 R
Oklahoma 0 D · 0 R
Oklahoma 0 D · 1 R
Pennsylvania 8 D · 20 R
Pennsylvania 11 D · 17 R
Rhode Island 0 D · 2 R
Rhode Island 2 D · 0 R
South Dakota 0 D · 0 R
South Dakota 0 D · 1 R
Virginia 3 D · 6 R · 1 other
Virginia 10 D · 0 R
Washington 1 D · 0 R
Washington 0 D · 1 R
Wisconsin 1 D · 7 R · 1 other
Wisconsin 8 D · 1 R
West Virginia 3 D · 1 R
West Virginia 4 D · 0 R
Who joined and who left (231 in · 228 out)
John Tyler Cutting R
California-4
Anthony Caminetti D
California-2
Thomas J. Geary D
California-1
Eugene Francis Loud R
California-5
Hosea Townsend R
Colorado-1
Lewis Sperry D
Connecticut-1
Robert Bullock D
Florida-2
Willis Sweet R
Idaho-1
Owen Scott D
Illinois-14
Herman Wilber Snow D
Illinois-9
Lewis Steward D
Illinois-8
Abner Taylor R
Illinois-1
Scott Wike D
Illinois-12
David Henry Patton D
Indiana-10
John Lewis Bretz D
Indiana-2
John Grant Otis P
Kansas-4
John Davis P
Kansas-5
William Baker P
Kansas-6
Case Broderick R
Kansas-1
W. W. Dickerson D
Kentucky-6
John Henry Wilson R
Kentucky-11
Andrew Price D
Louisiana-3
Adolph Meyer D
Louisiana-1
John Forrester Andrew D
Massachusetts-3
John Crawford Crosby D
Massachusetts-12
Sherman Hoar D
Massachusetts-5
George Fred Williams D
Massachusetts-9
Joseph Henry O’Neil D
Massachusetts-4
Moses Tyler Stevens D
Massachusetts-8
Elijah Adams Morse R
Massachusetts-2
Joseph Henry Walker R
Massachusetts-10
John Brewer Brown D
Maryland-1
Herman Stump D
Maryland-2
Byron Gray Stout D
Michigan-6
James Nathan Castle D
Minnesota-4
Kittel Halvorson P
Minnesota-5
Osee Matson Hall D
Minnesota-3
Samuel Byrns D
Missouri-10
Marshall Arnold D
Missouri-14
Seth Wallace Cobb D
Missouri-9
Joseph Henry Beeman D
Mississippi-5
Clarke Lewis D
Mississippi-4
John Curtis Kyle D
Mississippi-2
Henry Plummer Cheatham R
North Carolina-2
Sydenham Benoni Alexander D
North Carolina-6
Benjamin Hickman Bunn D
North Carolina-4
Benjamin Franklin Grady D
North Carolina-3
William Thomas Crawford D
North Carolina-9
Martin Nelson Johnson R
North Dakota-1
Omer Madison Kem P
Nebraska-3
Warren Fisher Daniell D
New Hampshire-2
Samuel Fowler D
New Jersey-4
Thomas Dunn English D
New Jersey-6
Isaac Newton Cox D
New York-17
John Raines R
New York-29
Hosea Hunt Rockwell D
New York-28
Leslie W. Russell R
New York-22
John Sanford R
New York-20
George Van Horn D
New York-24
Edward John Dunphy D
New York-7
John R. Fellows D
New York-6
Charles Tracey D
New York-19
John De Witt Warner D
New York-11
John Madison Wever R
New York-21
Sereno Elisha Payne R
New York-27
Lemuel Amerman D
Pennsylvania-11
David B. Brunner D
Pennsylvania-9
Alexander Kerr Craig D
Pennsylvania-24
Eugene Pierce Gillespie D
Pennsylvania-25
Edwin Hallowell D
Pennsylvania-7
John Winebrenner Rife R
Pennsylvania-14
George Washington Shonk R
Pennsylvania-12
Frank Eckels Beltzhoover D
Pennsylvania-19
Albert Cole Hopkins R
Pennsylvania-16
George Frederic Kribbs D
Pennsylvania-28
William Mutchler D
Pennsylvania-8
James Bernard Reilly D
Pennsylvania-13
Simon Peter Wolverton D
Pennsylvania-17
Myron Benjamin Wright R
Pennsylvania-15
Matthew Griswold R
Pennsylvania-26
John Buchanan Robinson R
Pennsylvania-6
Charles Warren Stone R
Pennsylvania-27
William Alexis Stone R
Pennsylvania-23
William McAleer D
Pennsylvania-3
Marriott Brosius R
Pennsylvania-10
John Edgar Reyburn R
Pennsylvania-4
George Franklin Huff R
Pennsylvania-21
Oscar Lapham D
Rhode Island-1
Charles Harrison Page D
Rhode Island-2
George Johnstone D
South Carolina-3
Eli Thomas Stackhouse D
South Carolina-6
William Huggins Brawley D
South Carolina-1
George Washington Shell D
South Carolina-4
John Rankin Gamble R
South Dakota-AL
Josiah Patterson D
Tennessee-10
Posey Green Lester D
Virginia-5
John Lockwood Wilson R
Washington-1
Clinton Babbitt D
Wisconsin-1
Frank Potter Coburn D
Wisconsin-7
Charles Barwig D
Wisconsin-2
George H. Brickner D
Wisconsin-5
Thomas Lynch D
Wisconsin-9
John Duffy Alderson D
West Virginia-3
James Capehart D
West Virginia-4
John Overton Pendleton D
West Virginia-1
Clarence Don Clark R
Wyoming-AL
Poindexter Dunn D
Arkansas-1
John Henry Rogers D
Arkansas-4
Marion Biggs D
California-2
William W. Morrow R
California-4
William Vandever R
California-6
Charles Norton Felton R
California-5
Carlos French D
Connecticut-2
Miles Tobey Granger D
Connecticut-4
Robert Johnstone Vance D
Connecticut-1
Joseph Lyman R
Iowa-9
Daniel Kerr R
Iowa-5
Ralph Plumb R
Illinois-8
John Robert Thomas R
Illinois-20
Frank Lawler D
Illinois-2
Lewis Edwin Payson R
Illinois-9
Jehu Baker R
Illinois-18
James Bain White R
Indiana-12
William Dale Owen R
Indiana-10
Thomas Ryan R
Kansas-4
Polk Laffoon D
Kentucky-2
Cherubusco Newton D
Louisiana-5
Edward James Gay D
Louisiana-3
Charles Herbert Allen R
Massachusetts-8
Edward Burnett D
Massachusetts-9
Patrick Andrew Collins D
Massachusetts-4
Robert Thompson Davis R
Massachusetts-1
Edward Daniel Hayden R
Massachusetts-5
John Davis Long R
Massachusetts-2
Leopold Morse D
Massachusetts-3
John Edwards Russell D
Massachusetts-10
William Whiting R
Massachusetts-11
Francis Williams Rockwell R
Massachusetts-12
Frank Thomas Shaw D
Maryland-2
Byron M. Cutcheon R
Michigan-9
Edmund Rice D
Minnesota-4
Thomas Wilson D
Minnesota-1
Knute Nelson R
Minnesota-5
Martin Linn Clardy D
Missouri-10
John Milton Glover D
Missouri-9
John Edward Hutton D
Missouri-7
William Henry Wade R
Missouri-13
James Peter Walker D
Missouri-14
William Warner R
Missouri-5
William Joel Stone D
Missouri-12
Frederick George Barry D
Mississippi-4
Chapman Levy Anderson D
Mississippi-5
James Bright Morgan D
Mississippi-2
Joseph Kemp Toole D
Montana-AL
Thomas Dillard Johnston D
North Carolina-9
Louis Charles Latham D
North Carolina-1
John Nichols I
North Carolina-4
John Morehead Brower R
North Carolina-5
Charles Washington McClammy D
North Carolina-3
Alfred Rowland D
North Carolina-6
Furnifold McLendel Simmons D
North Carolina-2
James Laird R
Nebraska-2
Jacob Harold Gallinger R
New Hampshire-2
George Hires R
New Jersey-1
William Walter Phelps R
New Jersey-5
James Nelson Pidcock D
New Jersey-4
Herman Lehlbach R
New Jersey-6
William McAdoo D
New Jersey-7
John Kean R
New Jersey-3
William Woodburn R
Nevada-AL
Perry Belmont D
New York-1
Ira Davenport R
New York-29
Peter Paul Mahoney D
New York-4
Abraham X. Parker R
New York-22
John Baptiste Weber R
New York-33
George West R
New York-20
Felix Campbell D
New York-2
Milton De Lano R
New York-26
John Henry Moffitt R
New York-21
John Gilbert Sawyer R
New York-31
David Wilber R
New York-24
Jacob Romeis R
Ohio-10
Franklin Bound R
Pennsylvania-14
Frank Charles Bunnell R
Pennsylvania-15
Norman Hall D
Pennsylvania-26
John Andrew Hiestand R
Pennsylvania-9
Oscar Lawrence Jackson R
Pennsylvania-24
John Lynch D
Pennsylvania-12
James Thompson Maffett R
Pennsylvania-25
Welty McCullogh R
Pennsylvania-21
John Patton R
Pennsylvania-20
William Lawrence Scott D
Pennsylvania-27
William Henry Sowden D
Pennsylvania-10
Thomas McKee Bayne R
Pennsylvania-23
Charles Rollin Buckalew D
Pennsylvania-11
Smedley Darlington R
Pennsylvania-6
William Darrah Kelley R
Pennsylvania-4
Levi Maish D
Pennsylvania-19
Henry Clay McCormick R
Pennsylvania-16
Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R
Pennsylvania-AL
Samuel Jackson Randall D
Pennsylvania-3
Robert Morris Yardley R
Pennsylvania-7
Daniel Ermentrout D
Pennsylvania-8
Charles Napoleon Brumm R
Pennsylvania-13
Henry Joshua Spooner R
Rhode Island-1
Warren Otis Arnold R
Rhode Island-2
James Sproull Cothran D
South Carolina-3
George William Dargan D
South Carolina-6
Samuel Dibble D
South Carolina-1
William Hayne Perry D
South Carolina-4
John Randolph Neal D
Tennessee-3
James Phelan D
Tennessee-10
Silas Hare D
Texas-5
Henry Bowen R
Virginia-9
John Robert Brown R
Virginia-5
Jacob Yost R
Virginia-10
Thomas Richard Hudd D
Wisconsin-5
Henry Smith U
Wisconsin-4
Isaac Stephenson R
Wisconsin-9
Charles Edgar Hogg D
West Virginia-4
Charles Philip Snyder D
West Virginia-3
Nathan Goff R
West Virginia-1
Joseph Maull Carey R
Wyoming-AL
legislative/lawsLaws enacted
Complete lists of public laws start with the 93rd Congress (Jan 3, 1973). Earlier years show notable and landmark acts only.
16 laws recorded · 1 landmark · 15 notable
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 landmark
Ch. 647, Sess. 1, 51st Cong. · Jul 2, 1890
Oklahoma Organic Act
Ch. 182, Sess. 1, 51st Cong. · May 2, 1890
Dependent and Disability Pension Act
Ch. 634, Sess. 1, 51st Cong. · Jun 27, 1890
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Ch. 708, Sess. 1, 51st Cong. · Jul 14, 1890
Morrill Act of 1890
Ch. 841, Sess. 1, 51st Cong. · Aug 30, 1890
McKinley Tariff
Ch. 1244, Sess. 1, 51st Cong. · Oct 1, 1890
Show 6 more notable laws
Judiciary Act of 1891 (Evarts Act)
Ch. 517, Sess. 2, 51st Cong. · Mar 3, 1891
Immigration Act of 1891
Ch. 551, Sess. 2, 51st Cong. · Mar 3, 1891
Land Revision Act of 1891
Ch. 561, Sess. 2, 51st Cong. · Mar 3, 1891
International Copyright Act of 1891
Ch. 565, Sess. 2, 51st Cong. · Mar 3, 1891
Geary Act
Ch. 60, Sess. 1, 52nd Cong. · May 5, 1892
Harter Act (Carriage of Goods by Sea)
Ch. 105, Sess. 2, 52nd Cong. · Feb 13, 1893

Judicial3 files+1,144−4

judicial/supreme-courtThe Supreme Court
Bench by appointing party: 7 R · 2 D → 8 R · 1 D · every justice ↗
Samuel Freeman Miller R
appointed by Abraham Lincoln · 1862
Joseph P. Bradley R
appointed by Ulysses Grant · 1870
Stanley Matthews R
appointed by James A. Garfield · 1881
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D
appointed by Grover Cleveland · 1888
David Josiah Brewer R
appointed by Benjamin Harrison · 1889
Henry Billings Brown R
appointed by Benjamin Harrison · 1890
George Shiras, Jr. R
appointed by Benjamin Harrison · 1892
Howell Edmunds Jackson R
appointed by Benjamin Harrison · 1893
5 justices served on both dates
Stephen Johnson Field R
appointed by Abraham Lincoln · 1863
John Marshall Harlan R
appointed by Rutherford B. Hayes · 1877
Horace Gray R
appointed by Chester A. Arthur · 1881
Samuel M. Blatchford R
appointed by Chester A. Arthur · 1882
Melville Weston Fuller D
appointed by Grover Cleveland · 1888
judicial/lower-courtsAppeals & district courts
Courts of appeals (active judges): → 10 R · 8 N(
District courts (active judges): 43 R · 18 D · 4 N( → 57 R · 14 D · 2 N(
Benjamin Harrison R appointed 54 judges
4 Supreme Court · 10 appeals · 27 district · 13 other
None (assignment) N( appointed 10 judges
10 appeals
D and R describe the party of the appointing president, not the judge. Active service ends when a judge takes senior status.
judicial/rulingsSupreme Court decisions
1,076 argued decisions · 1 landmark
The Chinese Exclusion Case
130 U.S. 581 · May 13, 1889 · Decided 8–0 · Civil Rights · Affirmed
Landmark means the Court overruled precedent, struck down a federal law, or the case is on a curated landmark list.

Fiscal2 files±0

fiscal/budgetThe federal budget
Fiscal year undefined → fiscal year undefined · inflation-adjusted with the GDP price index
fiscal/debtTotal public debt outstanding
$1.7B
as of Jul 1, 1888
$1.6B
as of Jul 1, 1892

Constitution & Union1 file+6

constitution/amendmentsAmendments & statehood
15 → 15 amendments in force · 38 → 44 states
North Dakota joins the Union
admitted Nov 2, 1889
South Dakota joins the Union
admitted Nov 2, 1889
Montana joins the Union
admitted Nov 8, 1889
Washington joins the Union
admitted Nov 11, 1889
Idaho joins the Union
admitted Jul 3, 1890
Wyoming joins the Union
admitted Jul 10, 1890

Reverts1 file−2

revert/undoneWhat was undone
0 executive orders revoked or superseded · 0 rules struck down by Congress · 2 Supreme Court precedents overruled
2 decisions that overruled precedent
Leisy v. Hardin
Apr 28, 1890 · 6-3 · Economic Activity
Brenham v. German American Bank
Mar 28, 1892 · 5-3 · Economic Activity
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Benjamin Harrison takes office · 1889-03-04The Chinese Exclusion Case · 1889-05-13North Dakota · 1889-11-02South Dakota · 1889-11-02Montana · 1889-11-08Washington · 1889-11-11David Josiah Brewer — Associate Justice · 1889-12-18Oklahoma Organic Act · 1890-05-02Dependent Pension Act · 1890-06-27Dependent and Disability Pension Act · 1890-06-27Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 · 1890-07-02Idaho · 1890-07-03Wyoming · 1890-07-10Sherman Silver Purchase Act · 1890-07-14Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act · 1890-08-30Morrill Act of 1890 · 1890-08-30McKinley Tariff · 1890-10-01Henry Billings Brown — Associate Justice · 1890-12-29Merchant Marine Act of 1891 · 1891-03-03Forest Reserve Act of 1891 · 1891-03-03Judiciary Act of 1891 (Evarts Act) · 1891-03-03Immigration Act of 1891 · 1891-03-03Land Revision Act of 1891 · 1891-03-03International Copyright Act of 1891 · 1891-03-03Geary Act · 1892-05-05George Shiras, Jr. — Associate Justice · 1892-07-26Harter Act (Carriage of Goods by Sea) · 1893-02-13Howell Edmunds Jackson — Associate Justice · 1893-02-181890189118921893
  1. presidentBenjamin Harrison takes office
  2. rulingThe Chinese Exclusion Case
  3. stateNorth Dakota
  4. stateSouth Dakota
  5. stateMontana
  6. stateWashington
  7. justiceDavid Josiah Brewer — Associate Justice
  8. lawOklahoma Organic Act
  9. lawDependent Pension Act
  10. lawDependent and Disability Pension Act
  11. lawSherman Antitrust Act of 1890
  12. stateIdaho
  13. stateWyoming
  14. lawSherman Silver Purchase Act
  15. lawMorrill Land-Grant Colleges Act
  16. lawMorrill Act of 1890
  17. lawMcKinley Tariff
  18. justiceHenry Billings Brown — Associate Justice
  19. lawMerchant Marine Act of 1891
  20. lawForest Reserve Act of 1891
  21. lawJudiciary Act of 1891 (Evarts Act)
  22. lawImmigration Act of 1891
  23. lawLand Revision Act of 1891
  24. lawInternational Copyright Act of 1891
  25. lawGeary Act
  26. justiceGeorge Shiras, Jr. — Associate Justice
  27. lawHarter Act (Carriage of Goods by Sea)
  28. justiceHowell Edmunds Jackson — Associate Justice