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The United States on March 15, 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
1891-03-15/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
1891-03-15/congress52nd Congress
Senate · 34 R · 24 D
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)James Henderson Berry (Democrat, AR)George Gray (Democrat, DE)Samuel Pasco (Democrat, FL)Alfred Holt Colquitt (Democrat, GA)David Turpie (Democrat, IN)John Griffin Carlisle (Democrat, KY)Randall Lee Gibson (Democrat, LA)Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat, MD)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)James Zachariah George (Democrat, MS)Edward Cary Walthall (Democrat, MS)Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat, NC)Rufus Blodgett (Democrat, NJ)John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat, NJ)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)Edward Oliver Wolcott (Republican, CO)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)Anthony Higgins (Republican, DE)James Falconer Wilson (Republican, IA)George Laird Shoup (Republican, ID)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)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)Lyman Rufus Casey (Republican, ND)Algernon Sidney Paddock (Republican, NE)Charles Frederick Manderson (Republican, NE)William Eaton Chandler (Republican, NH)William Morris Stewart (Republican, NV)Frank Hiscock (Republican, NY)John Sherman (Republican, OH)Joseph Norton Dolph (Republican, OR)Matthew Stanley Quay (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)Nathan Fellows Dixon (Republican, RI)Richard Franklin Pettigrew (Republican, SD)George Franklin Edmunds (Republican, VT)John Beard Allen (Republican, WA)Philetus Sawyer (Republican, WI)Joseph Maull Carey (Republican, WY)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House ·
1891-03-15/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
1891-03-15/weekWithin a week · Mar 8, 1891 – Mar 22, 1891
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
Ruling Howard v. Stillwell and Bierce Manufacturing Company
Mar 16, 1891 · 139 U.S. 199
Ruling Northwestern Fuel Company v. Brock
Mar 16, 1891 · 139 U.S. 216
Ruling British Queen Mining Company v. Baker Silver Mining Company
Mar 16, 1891 · 139 U.S. 222
Ruling St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company v. Commercial Union Insurance Company
Mar 16, 1891 · 139 U.S. 223
Ruling Manchester v. Massachusetts
Mar 16, 1891 · 139 U.S. 240

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.