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The United States on February 28, 1893

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

8 R · 1 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

44 states

15 amendments in force

Public debt

$1.6B

as of Jul 1, 1892

1893-02-28/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

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

Secretary of State William F. Wharton R (acting)

since Feb 24, 1893

1893-02-28/congress52nd Congress

Senate · 47 R · 39 D · 2 P

House · 240 D · 87 R · 8 P

1893-02-28/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

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

George Shiras, Jr. R

Associate Justice · appointed by Benjamin Harrison · since Jul 26, 1892

Howell Edmunds Jackson R

Associate Justice · appointed by Benjamin Harrison · since Feb 18, 1893

1893-02-28/weekWithin a week · Feb 21, 1893 – Mar 7, 1893

Grover Cleveland takes office · Mar 4, 1893

Ruling Fleitas v. Richardson

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 538

Ruling Fleitas v. Richardson

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 550

Ruling Hayes v. Pratt

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 557

Ruling Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company v. Harmon's Administrator

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 571

Ruling New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company v. Estill

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 591

Ruling Lovell Manufacturing Company v. Cary

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 623

Ruling Taylor v. Brown

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 640

Ruling Bauserman v. Blunt

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 647

Ruling United States v. Tanner

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 661

Ruling United States v. Fletcher

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 664

Ruling United States v. Pitman

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 669

Ruling United States v. Jones

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 672

Ruling United States v. King

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 676

Ruling United States v. Erwin

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 685

Ruling United States v. Payne

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 687

Ruling United States v. Hall

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 691

Ruling United States v. McCandless

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 692

Ruling United States v. Taylor

Mar 6, 1893 · 147 U.S. 695

Ruling The J. E. Rumbell

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 1

Ruling Moelle v. Sherwood

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 21

Ruling United States v. California and Oregon Land Company

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 31

Ruling United States v. Dalles Military Road Company

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 49

Ruling Commercial Bank of Pennsylvania v. Armstrong

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 50

Ruling May v. Tenney

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 60

Ruling Lehnen v. Dickson

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 71

Ruling Astiazaran v. Santa Rita Land and Mining Company

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 80

Ruling United States v. Fletcher

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 84

Ruling St. Louis v. Western Union Telegraph Company

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 92

Ruling Virginia v. Paul

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 107

Ruling Roget v. United States

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 167

Ruling Marx v. Hanthorn

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 172

Ruling United States v. Alexander

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 186

Ruling United States v. Truesdell

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 196

Ruling Pettibone v. United States

Mar 6, 1893 · 148 U.S. 197

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.