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The United States on March 8, 1891

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

34 R · 24 D

58 senators · 52nd Congress

House

—

0 representatives

Supreme Court

7 R · 2 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

44 states

15 amendments in force

Public debt

$1.6B

as of Jul 1, 1890

1891-03-08/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 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

Secretary of the Treasury Charles Foster R

since Feb 25, 1891

1891-03-08/congress52nd Congress

Senate · 34 R · 24 D

House ·

1891-03-08/supreme-courtThe bench

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

Henry Billings Brown R

Associate Justice · appointed by Benjamin Harrison · since Dec 29, 1890

1891-03-08/weekWithin a week · Mar 1, 1891 – Mar 15, 1891

Ruling Central Trust Company v. Kneeland

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 414

Ruling Russell v. Post

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 425

Ruling Case Manufacturing Company v. Soxman

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 431

Ruling Simmons v. Saul

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 439

Ruling In re Graham

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 461

Ruling Clay v. Field

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 464

Ruling Bunt v. Sierra Butte Gold Mining Company

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 483

Ruling Hanner v. Moulton

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 486

Ruling Missouri v. Andriano

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 496

Ruling Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Railroad Company v. Wilson

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 501

Ruling Kneeland v. American Loan and Trust Company

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 509

Ruling Williams v. United States

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 514

Ruling Cressey v. Meyer

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 525

Ruling Barney v. Oelrichs

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 529

Ruling Lawrence Manufacturing Company v. Tennessee Manufacturing Company

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 537

Ruling Lawrence Manufacturing Company v. Janesville Cotton Mills

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 552

Ruling Schell's Executors v. Fauche

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 562

Ruling Heath v. Wallace

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 573

Ruling Ducie v. Ford

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 587

Ruling New Orleans v. Gaines's Administrator

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 595

Ruling Troy Laundry Machinery Company v. Dolph

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 617

Ruling Gormley v. Bunyan

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 623

Ruling Cook County v. Calumet & Chicago Canal & Dock Company

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 635

Ruling San Francisco City and County v. Le Roy

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 656

Ruling Merrill v. Monticello

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 673

Ruling Anderson v. Watt

Mar 2, 1891 · 138 U.S. 694

Ruling St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 1

Ruling St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company v. Greenalgh

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 19

Ruling Central Transportation Company v. Pullman's Palace Car Company

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 24

Ruling Pullman's Palace Car Company v. Central Transportation Company

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 62

Ruling Logan County National Bank v. Townsend

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 67

Ruling Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad Company v. Pullman Southern Car Company

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 79

Ruling Clark v. Bever

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 96

Ruling Fogg v. Blair

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 118

Ruling Covington Stock-Yards Company v. Keith

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 128

Ruling Guaranty Trust and Safe Deposit Company v. Green Cove Springs and Melrose Railroad Company

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 137

Ruling Stout v. Mastin

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 151

Ruling King v. Doane

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 166

Ruling Stockmeyer v. Tobin

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 176

Ruling Bayne v. Wiggins

Mar 2, 1891 · 139 U.S. 210

Law Merchant Marine Act of 1891

Mar 3, 1891

Law Forest Reserve Act of 1891

Mar 3, 1891

Law Judiciary Act of 1891 (Evarts Act)

Mar 3, 1891 · Ch. 517, Sess. 2, 51st Cong.

Law Immigration Act of 1891

Mar 3, 1891 · Ch. 551, Sess. 2, 51st Cong.

Law Land Revision Act of 1891

Mar 3, 1891 · Ch. 561, Sess. 2, 51st Cong.

Law International Copyright Act of 1891

Mar 3, 1891 · Ch. 565, Sess. 2, 51st Cong.

Ruling Johnson v. Powers

Mar 9, 1891 · 139 U.S. 156

Ruling Callan v. Bransford

Mar 9, 1891 · 139 U.S. 197

Ruling Peake v. New Orleans

Mar 9, 1891 · 139 U.S. 342

Ruling Peake v. New Orleans

Mar 9, 1891 · 139 U.S. 377

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.