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The United States on November 18, 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
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
6 R · 2 D
8 justices by appointing party
Union
42 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.6B
as of Jul 1, 1889
1889-11-18/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
1889-11-18/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 ·
1889-11-18/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
1889-11-18/weekWithin a week · Nov 11, 1889 – Nov 25, 1889
State Washington
Nov 11, 1889 · WA
Ruling Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. Miller
Nov 11, 1889 · 132 U.S. 75
Ruling Aron v. Manhattan Railway Company
Nov 11, 1889 · 132 U.S. 84
Ruling Keystone Manganese and Iron Company v. Martin
Nov 11, 1889 · 132 U.S. 91
Ruling Day v. Fair Haven and Westville Railway Company
Nov 11, 1889 · 132 U.S. 98
Ruling Roemer v. Bernheim
Nov 11, 1889 · 132 U.S. 103
Ruling Hill v. Sumner
Nov 11, 1889 · 132 U.S. 118
Ruling Smith v. Bolles
Nov 11, 1889 · 132 U.S. 125
Ruling Cross v. North Carolina
Nov 11, 1889 · 132 U.S. 131
Ruling First National Bank of Charlotte v. Morgan
Nov 11, 1889 · 132 U.S. 141
Ruling Boylan v. Hot Springs Railroad Company
Nov 11, 1889 · 132 U.S. 146
Ruling Glenn v. Sumner
Nov 18, 1889 · 132 U.S. 152
Ruling Robertson v. Glendenning
Nov 18, 1889 · 132 U.S. 158
Ruling Watson v. Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway Company
Nov 18, 1889 · 132 U.S. 161
Ruling Merritt v. Tiffany
Nov 18, 1889 · 132 U.S. 167
Ruling Anthony v. Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Nov 18, 1889 · 132 U.S. 172
Ruling Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. Thomas
Nov 18, 1889 · 132 U.S. 174
Ruling Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. Board of Levee Commissioners of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta
Nov 18, 1889 · 132 U.S. 190
Ruling Redfield v. Parks
Nov 18, 1889 · 132 U.S. 239
Ruling Missouri Pacific Railway Company v. Chicago and Alton Railroad Company
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 191
Ruling Raimond v. Terrebonne Parish
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 192
Ruling Marchand v. Emken
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 195
Ruling Royer v. Roth
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 201
Ruling Winters v. Ethell
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 207
Ruling Chanute City v. Trader
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 210
Ruling Oregon Improvement Company v. Excelsior Coal Company
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 215
Ruling Brown v. Rank
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 216
Ruling Vane v. Newcombe
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 220
Ruling Dahl v. Raunheim
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 260
Ruling Dahl v. Montana Copper Company
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 264
Ruling Fritts v. Palmer
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 282
Ruling Cleveland v. King
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 295
Ruling Continental Life Insurance Company v. Chamberlain
Nov 25, 1889 · 132 U.S. 304

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.