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The United States on June 30, 1890

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President
Harrison
Benjamin Harrison R · since Mar 4, 1889
Senate
49 R · 37 D
86 senators · 51st Congress
House
176 R · 160 D
337 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
42 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.6B
as of Jul 1, 1889
1890-06-30/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
1890-06-30/congress51st Congress
Senate · 49 R · 37 D
James Lawrence Pugh (Democrat, AL)John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)James Kimbrough Jones (Democrat, AR)James Henderson Berry (Democrat, AR)George Hearst (Democrat, CA)George Gray (Democrat, DE)Wilkinson Call (Democrat, FL)Samuel Pasco (Democrat, FL)Joseph Emerson Brown (Democrat, GA)Alfred Holt Colquitt (Democrat, GA)Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat, IN)David Turpie (Democrat, IN)Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (Democrat, KY)John Griffin Carlisle (Democrat, KY)James Biddle Eustis (Democrat, LA)Randall Lee Gibson (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)Edward Cary Walthall (Democrat, MS)Zebulon Baird Vance (Democrat, NC)Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat, NC)Rufus Blodgett (Democrat, NJ)John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat, NJ)Henry B. Payne (Democrat, OH)Wade Hampton (Democrat, SC)Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat, SC)William Brimage Bate (Democrat, TN)Isham Green Harris (Democrat, TN)John Henninger Reagan (Democrat, TX)Richard Coke (Democrat, TX)John Warwick Daniel (Democrat, VA)John Strode Barbour Jr. (Democrat, VA)Charles James Faulkner (Democrat, WV)John Edward Kenna (Democrat, WV)Leland Stanford (Republican, CA)Henry Moore Teller (Republican, CO)Edward Oliver Wolcott (Republican, CO)Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican, CT)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)Anthony Higgins (Republican, DE)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)James Falconer Wilson (Republican, IA)William John McConnell (Republican, ID)George Laird Shoup (Republican, ID)Charles Benjamin Farwell (Republican, IL)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)John James Ingalls (Republican, KS)Preston B. Plumb (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)Gilbert Ashville Pierce (Republican, ND)Lyman Rufus Casey (Republican, ND)Algernon Sidney Paddock (Republican, NE)Charles Frederick Manderson (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)John Hipple Mitchell (Republican, OR)Joseph Norton Dolph (Republican, OR)James Donald Cameron (Republican, PA)Matthew Stanley Quay (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)Nathan Fellows Dixon (Republican, RI)Gideon Curtis Moody (Republican, SD)Richard Franklin Pettigrew (Republican, SD)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)George Franklin Edmunds (Republican, VT)John Beard Allen (Republican, WA)Watson Carvosso Squire (Republican, WA)John Coit Spooner (Republican, WI)Philetus Sawyer (Republican, WI)
House · 176 R · 160 D · 1 UL
William Henry Forney (Democrat, AL-7)Hilary Abner Herbert (Democrat, AL-2)William Calvin Oates (Democrat, AL-3)Richard Henry Clarke (Democrat, AL-1)James Edward Cobb (Democrat, AL-5)Joseph Wheeler (Democrat, AL-8)John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat, AL-6)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)Marion Biggs (Democrat, CA-2)Thomas Jefferson Clunie (Democrat, CA-5)Washington Frederick Willcox (Democrat, CT-2)John Brown Penington (Democrat, DE-AL)Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson (Democrat, FL-1)Robert Bullock (Democrat, FL-2)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)Rufus Ezekiel Lester (Democrat, GA-1)Walter Ingalls Hayes (Democrat, IA-2)Frank Lawler (Democrat, IL-2)Richard Wellington Townshend (Democrat, IL-19)Scott Wike (Democrat, IL-12)George Washington Fithian (Democrat, IL-16)William St. John Forman (Democrat, IL-18)Edward Lane (Democrat, IL-17)William McKendree Springer (Democrat, IL-13)John Henry O’Neall (Democrat, IN-2)Charles A. O. McClellan (Democrat, IN-12)William Fletcher Parrett (Democrat, IN-1)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)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)Edward James Gay (Democrat, LA-3)Theodore Stark Wilkinson (Democrat, LA-1)Newton Crain Blanchard (Democrat, LA-4)Charles Jahleal Boatner (Democrat, LA-5)Samuel Matthews Robertson (Democrat, LA-6)John Forrester Andrew (Democrat, MA-3)Joseph Henry O’Neil (Democrat, MA-4)Charles Hopper Gibson (Democrat, MD-1)Herman Stump (Democrat, MD-2)Barnes Compton (Democrat, MD-5)Harry Welles Rusk (Democrat, MD-3)John Logan Chipman (Democrat, MI-1)Justin Rice Whiting (Democrat, MI-7)James Nelson Burnes (Democrat, MO-AL)James Peter Walker (Democrat, MO-14)Charles Harley Mansur (Democrat, MO-2)Richard Henry Norton (Democrat, MO-7)Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (Democrat, MO-4)William Henry Hatch (Democrat, MO-1)John Taddeus Heard (Democrat, MO-6)John Charles Tarsney (Democrat, MO-5)Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat, MO-3)Richard Parks Bland (Democrat, MO-11)William Joel Stone (Democrat, MO-12)Chapman Levy Anderson (Democrat, MS-5)James Bright Morgan (Democrat, MS-2)Clarke Lewis (Democrat, MS-4)Thomas Ringland Stockdale (Democrat, MS-6)John Mills Allen (Democrat, MS-1)Thomas Clendinen Catchings (Democrat, MS-3)Charles Edward Hooker (Democrat, MS-7)Charles Washington McClammy (Democrat, NC-3)Alfred Rowland (Democrat, NC-6)Thomas Gregory Skinner (Democrat, NC-1)William Henry Harrison Cowles (Democrat, NC-8)Benjamin Hickman Bunn (Democrat, NC-4)John Steele Henderson (Democrat, NC-7)William McAdoo (Democrat, NJ-7)Samuel Fowler (Democrat, NJ-4)Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (Democrat, NJ-3)Antonio Joseph (Democrat, NM-AL)Felix Campbell (Democrat, NY-2)Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat, NY-9)Frank Thomas Fitzgerald (Democrat, NY-6)John Henry McCarthy (Democrat, NY-8)John Sigsbee Pindar (Democrat, NY-24)John Quinn (Democrat, NY-11)John McClure Wiley (Democrat, NY-33)Roswell Pettibone Flower (Democrat, NY-12)Francis Barretto Spinola (Democrat, NY-10)William Griggs Stahlnecker (Democrat, NY-14)John Michael Clancy (Democrat, NY-4)James Way Covert (Democrat, NY-1)Edward John Dunphy (Democrat, NY-7)Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (Democrat, NY-13)Thomas Francis Magner (Democrat, NY-5)Charles Tracey (Democrat, NY-19)George Ebbert Seney (Democrat, OH-5)Samuel S. Yoder (Democrat, OH-4)William Elisha Haynes (Democrat, OH-10)James W. Owens (Democrat, OH-16)Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat, OH-13)Charles Rollin Buckalew (Democrat, PA-17)James Kerr (Democrat, PA-28)Levi Maish (Democrat, PA-19)Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat, PA-3)David B. Brunner (Democrat, PA-9)William Mutchler (Democrat, PA-8)James Bernard Reilly (Democrat, PA-13)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)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)Rice Alexander Pierce (Democrat, TN-9)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)John Alexander Buchanan (Democrat, VA-9)William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (Democrat, VA-8)Posey Green Lester (Democrat, VA-5)Paul Carrington Edmunds (Democrat, VA-6)Charles Triplett O’Ferrall (Democrat, VA-7)Henry St. George Tucker (Democrat, VA-10)Charles Barwig (Democrat, WI-2)George H. Brickner (Democrat, WI-5)James Monroe Jackson (Democrat, WV-4)John Duffy Alderson (Democrat, WV-3)William Lyne Wilson (Democrat, WV-2)Lewis Porter Featherstone (Union Labor, AR-1)John Van McDuffie (Republican, AL-4)John Jefferson De Haven (Republican, CA-1)William W. Morrow (Republican, CA-4)William Vandever (Republican, CA-6)Joseph McKenna (Republican, CA-3)Hosea Townsend (Republican, CO-1)Frederick Miles (Republican, CT-4)William Edgar Simonds (Republican, CT-1)Charles Addison Russell (Republican, CT-3)Edwin Hurd Conger (Republican, IA-7)Daniel Kerr (Republican, IA-5)Joseph Rea Reed (Republican, IA-9)Isaac S. Struble (Republican, IA-11)Joseph Henry Sweney (Republican, IA-4)James Patton Flick (Republican, IA-8)John Henry Gear (Republican, IA-1)David Bremner Henderson (Republican, IA-3)John Fletcher Lacey (Republican, IA-6)Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican, IA-10)Willis Sweet (Republican, ID-1)Fred Thomas Dubois (Republican, ID-AL)George Everett Adams (Republican, IL-4)William Harrison Gest (Republican, IL-11)Charles Augustus Hill (Republican, IL-8)Lewis Edwin Payson (Republican, IL-9)Jonathan Harvey Rowell (Republican, IL-14)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)Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican, IL-15)William Ernest Mason (Republican, IL-3)Thomas McLelland Browne (Republican, IN-6)Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle (Republican, IN-9)William Dale Owen (Republican, IN-10)John Alexander Anderson (Republican, KS-5)Harrison Kelley (Republican, KS-4)Edmund Needham Morrill (Republican, KS-1)Samuel Ritter Peters (Republican, KS-7)Erastus Johnson Turner (Republican, KS-6)Bishop Walden Perkins (Republican, KS-3)Edward Hogue Funston (Republican, KS-2)Hugh Franklin Finley (Republican, KY-11)John Henry Wilson (Republican, KY-10)Hamilton Dudley Coleman (Republican, LA-2)Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican, MA-5)John Wilson Candler (Republican, MA-9)Frederic Thomas Greenhalge (Republican, MA-8)Francis Williams Rockwell (Republican, MA-12)Rodney Wallace (Republican, MA-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)Henry Stockbridge Jr. (Republican, MD-4)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)Edward Payson Allen (Republican, MI-2)Aaron Thomas Bliss (Republican, MI-8)Mark Spencer Brewer (Republican, MI-6)Byron M. Cutcheon (Republican, MI-9)Frank Willis Wheeler (Republican, MI-10)Charles Eugene Belknap (Republican, MI-5)James O’Donnell (Republican, MI-3)Samuel Merritt Stephenson (Republican, MI-11)Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican, MI-4)Solomon Gilman Comstock (Republican, MN-5)Mark Hill Dunnell (Republican, MN-1)Darwin Scott Hall (Republican, MN-3)Samuel Prather Snider (Republican, MN-4)John Lind (Republican, MN-2)Nathan Frank (Republican, MO-9)William Medcalf Kinsey (Republican, MO-10)Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus (Republican, MO-8)William Henry Wade (Republican, MO-13)Thomas Henry Carter (Republican, MT-1)John Morehead Brower (Republican, NC-5)Hamilton Glover Ewart (Republican, NC-9)Henry Plummer Cheatham (Republican, NC-2)Henry Clay Hansbrough (Republican, ND-1)William James Connell (Republican, NE-1)George Washington Emery Dorsey (Republican, NE-3)James Laird (Republican, NE-2)Orren Cheney Moore (Republican, NH-2)Alonzo Nute (Republican, NH-1)Charles Dyer Beckwith (Republican, NJ-5)Herman Lehlbach (Republican, NJ-6)Christopher Augustus Bergen (Republican, NJ-1)James Buchanan (Republican, NJ-2)Horace Franklin Bartine (Republican, NV-AL)Charles Simeon Baker (Republican, NY-30)Milton De Lano (Republican, NY-26)John McCreath Farquhar (Republican, NY-32)Thomas Schmeck Flood (Republican, NY-28)Charles Junius Knapp (Republican, NY-17)William Grant Laidlaw (Republican, NY-34)Frederick Lansing (Republican, NY-22)John Henry Moffitt (Republican, NY-21)Newton Wright Nutting (Republican, NY-27)John Gilbert Sawyer (Republican, NY-31)Moses Dunning Stivers (Republican, NY-15)William Copeland Wallace (Republican, NY-3)John Adam Quackenbush (Republican, NY-18)John Raines (Republican, NY-29)John Sanford (Republican, NY-20)James Jerome Belden (Republican, NY-25)John Henry Ketcham (Republican, NY-16)James Schoolcraft Sherman (Republican, NY-23)Melvin Morella Boothman (Republican, OH-6)Benjamin Butterworth (Republican, OH-1)William Craig Cooper (Republican, OH-9)Robert Patterson Kennedy (Republican, OH-8)Henry Lee Morey (Republican, OH-7)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)John Alexander Caldwell (Republican, OH-2)William McKinley Jr. (Republican, OH-18)Charles Henry Grosvenor (Republican, OH-15)Martin Luther Smyser (Republican, OH-20)Theodore Elijah Burton (Republican, OH-21)David Archibald Harvey (Republican, OK-AL)Binger Hermann (Republican, OR-1)Thomas McKee Bayne (Republican, PA-23)Samuel Alfred Craig (Republican, PA-21)William Constantine Culbertson (Republican, PA-26)Smedley Darlington (Republican, PA-6)William Darrah Kelley (Republican, PA-4)Henry Clay McCormick (Republican, PA-16)Edwin Sylvanus Osborne (Republican, PA-12)Joseph Warren Ray (Republican, PA-24)Charles Champlain Townsend (Republican, PA-25)Lewis Findlay Watson (Republican, PA-27)Robert Morris Yardley (Republican, PA-7)Louis Evans Atkinson (Republican, PA-18)John Winebrenner Rife (Republican, PA-14)Edward Scull (Republican, PA-20)Charles O’Neill (Republican, PA-2)Myron Benjamin Wright (Republican, PA-15)Joseph Augustine Scranton (Republican, PA-11)Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican, PA-5)Marriott Brosius (Republican, PA-10)Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican, PA-1)John Dalzell (Republican, PA-22)Henry Joshua Spooner (Republican, RI-1)Warren Otis Arnold (Republican, RI-2)Thomas Ezekiel Miller (Republican, SC-7)Oscar Sherman Gifford (Republican, SD-AL)Henry Clay Evans (Republican, TN-3)Leonidas Campbell Houk (Republican, TN-2)Alfred Alexander Taylor (Republican, TN-1)George Edwin Bowden (Republican, VA-2)Thomas Henry Bayly Browne (Republican, VA-1)John Mercer Langston (Republican, VA-4)Edmund Waddill Jr. (Republican, VA-3)William Wallace Grout (Republican, VT-2)John Wolcott Stewart (Republican, VT-1)John Lockwood Wilson (Republican, WA-1)Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (Republican, WI-1)Charles Benjamin Clark (Republican, WI-6)Myron Hawley McCord (Republican, WI-9)Ormsby Brunson Thomas (Republican, WI-7)Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick (Republican, WI-4)Nils Pederson Haugen (Republican, WI-8)Robert Marion La Follette (Republican, WI-3)George Wesley Atkinson (Republican, WV-1)Joseph Maull Carey (Republican, WY-AL)
1890-06-30/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
David Josiah Brewer R
Associate Justice · appointed by Benjamin Harrison · since Dec 18, 1889
1890-06-30/weekWithin a week · Jun 23, 1890 – Jul 7, 1890
Law Dependent Pension Act
Jun 27, 1890
Law Dependent and Disability Pension Act
Jun 27, 1890 · Ch. 634, Sess. 1, 51st Cong.
Law Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
Jul 2, 1890 · Ch. 647, Sess. 1, 51st Cong.
State Idaho
Jul 3, 1890 · ID

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