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The United States on April 9, 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

35 R · 24 D

59 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

1891-04-09/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

1891-04-09/congress52nd Congress

Senate · 35 R · 24 D

House ·

1891-04-09/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

1891-04-09/weekWithin a week · Apr 2, 1891 – Apr 16, 1891

Ruling Electric Gas-Lighting Company v. Boston Electric Company

Apr 6, 1891 · 139 U.S. 481

Ruling Electric Gas-Lighting Company v. Tillotson

Apr 6, 1891 · 139 U.S. 503

Ruling In re Manning

Apr 6, 1891 · 139 U.S. 504

Ruling Davis's Administrator v. Weibbold

Apr 6, 1891 · 139 U.S. 507

Ruling Union Edge Setter Company v. Keith

Apr 6, 1891 · 139 U.S. 530

Ruling Brown Chemical Company v. Meyer

Apr 6, 1891 · 139 U.S. 540

Ruling Inland and Seaboard Coasting Company v. Tolson

Apr 6, 1891 · 139 U.S. 551

Ruling Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company v. United States

Apr 6, 1891 · 139 U.S. 560

Ruling Interstate Land Company v. Maxwell Land Grant Company

Apr 6, 1891 · 139 U.S. 569

Ruling Shelton v. Platt

Apr 6, 1891 · 139 U.S. 591

Ruling Williams v. Passumpsic Savings Bank

Apr 6, 1891 · 141 U.S. 249

Ruling Fowler v. Hamill

Apr 13, 1891 · 139 U.S. 549

Ruling Western Electric Company v. Larue

Apr 13, 1891 · 139 U.S. 601

Ruling Seeberger v. Farwell

Apr 13, 1891 · 139 U.S. 608

Ruling Magone v. Luckemeyer

Apr 13, 1891 · 139 U.S. 612

Ruling Wilson v. Everett

Apr 13, 1891 · 139 U.S. 616

Ruling Natal v. Louisiana

Apr 13, 1891 · 139 U.S. 621

Ruling Mason v. Robertson

Apr 13, 1891 · 139 U.S. 624

Ruling Bock v. Perkins

Apr 13, 1891 · 139 U.S. 628

Ruling Sanford v. Sanford

Apr 13, 1891 · 139 U.S. 642

Ruling Davis v. Texas

Apr 13, 1891 · 139 U.S. 651

Ruling Allen v. Pullman's Palace Car Company

Apr 13, 1891 · 139 U.S. 658

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.