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The United States on April 11, 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
6 R · 2 D
8 justices by appointing party
Union
38 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.7B
as of Jul 1, 1888
1889-04-11/executiveThe administration
President Benjamin Harrison R
since Mar 4, 1889
Vice President Levi Parsons Morton R
Secretary of War Redfield Proctor R
since Mar 5, 1889
Postmaster General John Wanamaker R
since Mar 5, 1889
Secretary of Agriculture Jeremiah McLain Rusk R
since Mar 6, 1889
Secretary of the Treasury William Windom R
since Mar 7, 1889
Secretary of State James G. Blaine R
since Mar 7, 1889
Attorney General William H. H. Miller R
since Mar 7, 1889
Secretary of the Interior John Willock Noble R
since Mar 7, 1889
1889-04-11/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)
1889-04-11/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
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
1889-04-11/weekWithin a week · Apr 4, 1889 – Apr 18, 1889
Ruling United States v. Insley
Apr 8, 1889 · 130 U.S. 263
Ruling Manhattan Bank of Memphis v. Walker
Apr 8, 1889 · 130 U.S. 267
Ruling United States v. Pile
Apr 8, 1889 · 130 U.S. 280
Ruling Hammer v. Garfield Mining and Milling Company
Apr 8, 1889 · 130 U.S. 291
Ruling Amy v. Watertown
Apr 8, 1889 · 130 U.S. 301
Ruling Amy v. Watertown
Apr 8, 1889 · 130 U.S. 320
Ruling Knowlton v. Watertown
Apr 8, 1889 · 130 U.S. 327
Ruling Knowlton v. Watertown
Apr 8, 1889 · 130 U.S. 334
Ruling Brock v. Northwestern Fuel Company
Apr 8, 1889 · 130 U.S. 341
Ruling Reynes v. Dumont
Apr 8, 1889 · 130 U.S. 354
Ruling Shepherd v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Apr 8, 1889 · 130 U.S. 426
Ruling United States v. Averill
Apr 15, 1889 · 130 U.S. 335
Ruling Gon-Shay-Ee
Apr 15, 1889 · 130 U.S. 343
Ruling Captain Jack
Apr 15, 1889 · 130 U.S. 353
Ruling Gibbs v. Consolidated Gas Company of Baltimore
Apr 15, 1889 · 130 U.S. 396
Ruling Robertson v. Salomon
Apr 15, 1889 · 130 U.S. 412
Ruling Friedlander v. Texas and Pacific Railway Company
Apr 15, 1889 · 130 U.S. 416
Ruling Andes v. Slauson
Apr 15, 1889 · 130 U.S. 435
Ruling Badeau v. United States
Apr 15, 1889 · 130 U.S. 439
Ruling Central Trust Company v. Seasongood
Apr 15, 1889 · 130 U.S. 482
Ruling Stillwell and Bierce Manufacturing Company v. Phelps
Apr 15, 1889 · 130 U.S. 520
Ruling New York and Colorado Mining Syndicate and Company v. Frase
Apr 15, 1889 · 130 U.S. 611

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.