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The United States on March 7, 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

Cleveland

Grover Cleveland D · since Mar 4, 1893

Senate

31 R · 29 D

62 senators · 53rd Congress

House

—

0 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

1893-03-07/executiveThe administration

President Grover Cleveland D

since Mar 4, 1893

Vice President Adlai Ewing Stevenson D

Attorney General Richard Olney D

since Mar 6, 1893

Secretary of State Walter Quintin Gresham KN

since Mar 7, 1893

Secretary of Agriculture Julius Sterling Morton D

since Mar 7, 1893

Secretary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle D

since Mar 7, 1893

1893-03-07/congress53rd Congress

Senate · 31 R · 29 D · 2 P

House ·

1893-03-07/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

1893-03-07/weekWithin a week · Feb 28, 1893 – Mar 14, 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

Ruling Western National Bank v. Armstrong

Mar 12, 1893 · 152 U.S. 346

Ruling United States v. Post

Mar 13, 1893 · 148 U.S. 124

Ruling United States v. Gates

Mar 13, 1893 · 148 U.S. 134

Ruling Bier v. McGehee

Mar 13, 1893 · 148 U.S. 137

Ruling Rosenthal v. Coates

Mar 13, 1893 · 148 U.S. 142

Ruling Indiana v. United States

Mar 13, 1893 · 148 U.S. 148

Ruling In re Schneider

Mar 14, 1893 · 148 U.S. 157

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.