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The United States on May 22, 1891

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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
1891-05-22/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
1891-05-22/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 ·
1891-05-22/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
1891-05-22/weekWithin a week · May 15, 1891 – May 29, 1891
Ruling Crutcher v. Kentucky
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 47
Ruling Voight v. Wright
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 62
Ruling Briggs v. Spaulding
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 132
Ruling In re Ross
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 453
Ruling Clark Thread Company v. Willimantic Linen Company
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 481
Ruling Albright v. Oyster
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 493
Ruling Marchand v. Griffon
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 516
Ruling Williams v. Heard
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 529
Ruling In re Rahrer
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 545
Ruling Insurance Company of North America v. Hibernia Insurance Company
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 565
Ruling In re Wilson
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 575
Ruling In re Delgado
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 586
Ruling Kneeland v. Bass Foundry and Machine Works
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 592
Ruling United States v. Dalles Military Road Co.
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 599
Ruling Martin v. Barbour
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 634
Ruling Chicago Distilling Company v. Stone
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 647
Ruling New Orleans v. Louisiana Construction Company
May 25, 1891 · 140 U.S. 654
Ruling In re Garnett
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 1
Ruling Pullman's Palace Car Company v. Pennsylvania
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 18
Ruling Pullman's Palace Car Company v. Hayward
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 36
Ruling Massachusetts v. Western Union Telegraph Company
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 40
Ruling Parker v. Ormsby
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 81
Ruling Carpenter v. Strange
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 87
Ruling Evans v. State Ban
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 107
Ruling In re Mayfield
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 107
Ruling Reynolds v. Burns
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 117
Ruling Denny v. Pironi
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 121
Ruling St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company v. McBrid
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 127
Ruling McAllister v. United States
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 174
Ruling Wingard v. United States
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 201
Ruling Gorman v. Havird
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 206
Ruling Caldwell v. Texas
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 209
Ruling Schutz v. Jordan
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 213
Ruling Gregory Consolidated Mining Company v. Starr
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 222
Ruling Pacific National Bank v. Eaton
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 227
Ruling Thayer v. Butler
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 234
Ruling Butler v. Eaton
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 240
Ruling Union Pacific Railway Company v. Botsford
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 250
Ruling Griswold v. Hazard
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 260
Ruling Potter v. Couch
May 25, 1891 · 141 U.S. 296

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.