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The United States on February 5, 1892

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

47 R · 39 D

88 senators · 52nd Congress

House

240 D · 87 R

335 representatives

Supreme Court

6 R · 2 D

8 justices by appointing party

Union

44 states

15 amendments in force

Public debt

$1.5B

as of Jul 1, 1891

1892-02-05/executiveThe administration

President Benjamin Harrison R

since Mar 4, 1889

Vice President Levi Parsons Morton R

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

1892-02-05/congress52nd Congress

Senate · 47 R · 39 D · 2 P

House · 240 D · 87 R · 8 P

1892-02-05/supreme-courtThe bench

Stephen Johnson Field R

Associate Justice · appointed by Abraham Lincoln · since Mar 10, 1863

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

1892-02-05/weekWithin a week · Jan 29, 1892 – Feb 12, 1892

Ruling District of Columbia v. Hutton

Feb 1, 1892 · 143 U.S. 18

Ruling National Steamship Company v. Tugman

Feb 1, 1892 · 143 U.S. 28

Ruling Sioux City and Iowa Falls Town Lot and Land Company v. Griffey

Feb 1, 1892 · 143 U.S. 32

Ruling New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company v. Winter's Administrator

Feb 1, 1892 · 143 U.S. 60

Ruling United States v. Witten

Feb 1, 1892 · 143 U.S. 76

Ruling Tyler v. Savage

Feb 1, 1892 · 143 U.S. 79

Ruling Smale v. Mitchell

Feb 1, 1892 · 143 U.S. 99

Ruling In re Rapier

Feb 1, 1892 · 143 U.S. 110

Ruling Boyd v. Nebraska ex rel. Thayer

Feb 1, 1892 · 143 U.S. 135

Ruling New Orleans Pacific Railway Company v. Parker

Feb 1, 1892 · 143 U.S. 42

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.