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The United States on May 13, 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
1891-05-13/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
1891-05-13/congress52nd Congress
Senate · 35 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)Charles Norton Felton (Republican, CA)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 ·
1891-05-13/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
1891-05-13/weekWithin a week · May 6, 1891 – May 20, 1891
Ruling Manning v. Amy
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 137
Ruling United States v. Ewing
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 142
Ruling United States v. McDermott
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 151
Ruling United States v. Pointer
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 160
Ruling United States v. Barber
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 164
Ruling United States v. Van Duzee
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 169
Ruling United States v. Barber
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 177
Ruling Cluett v. Claflin
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 180
Ruling St. Paul Plow Works v. Starling
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 184
Ruling In re Claasen
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 200
Ruling Kneeland v. Lawrence
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 209
Ruling Dwight v. Merritt
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 213
Ruling Uniontown Bank v. Mackey
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 220
Ruling Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Clements
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 226
Ruling Block v. Darling
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 234
Ruling Mullan v. United States
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 240
Ruling Woodward v. Jewell
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 247
Ruling Reynolds v. Stockton
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 254
Ruling Halsted v. Buster
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 273
Ruling In re Wood
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 278
Ruling In re Shibuya Jugiro
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 291
Ruling Rogers v. Durant
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 298
Ruling Humphreys v. McKissock
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 304
Ruling Lent v. Tillson
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 316
Ruling Essex Public Road Board v. Skinkle
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 334
Ruling Marsh v. Nichols
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 344
Ruling The E. A. Packer
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 360
Ruling Hardin v. Jordan
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 371
Ruling Mitchell v. Smale
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 406
Ruling Quock Ting v. United States
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 417
Ruling Wan Shing v. United States
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 424
Ruling Higgins v. Keuffel
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 428
Ruling Gleeson v. Virginia Midland Railroad Company
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 435
Ruling Lewisburg Bank v. Sheffey
May 11, 1891 · 140 U.S. 445
Ruling Stein v. Bienville Water Supply Company
May 11, 1891 · 141 U.S. 67

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.