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The United States on March 31, 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
1893-03-31/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
1893-03-31/congress53rd Congress
Senate · 31 R · 29 D · 2 P
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)James Lawrence Pugh (Democrat, AL)James Henderson Berry (Democrat, AR)James Kimbrough Jones (Democrat, AR)Wilkinson Call (Democrat, FL)Alfred Holt Colquitt (Democrat, GA)John Brown Gordon (Democrat, GA)John McAuley Palmer (Democrat, IL)Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat, IN)John Griffin Carlisle (Democrat, KY)Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (Democrat, KY)Edward Douglass White (Democrat, LA)Donelson Caffery (Democrat, LA)Charles Hopper Gibson (Democrat, MD)George Graham Vest (Democrat, MO)Edward Cary Walthall (Democrat, MS)Matt Whitaker Ransom (Democrat, NC)Zebulon Baird Vance (Democrat, NC)John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat, NJ)David Bennett Hill (Democrat, NY)Calvin Stewart Brice (Democrat, OH)Matthew Calbraith Butler (Democrat, SC)John Laurens Manning Irby (Democrat, SC)Isham Green Harris (Democrat, TN)Richard Coke (Democrat, TX)Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat, TX)Eppa Hunton (Democrat, VA)William Freeman Vilas (Democrat, WI)John Edward Kenna (Democrat, WV)William Alfred Peffer (Populist, KS)James Henderson Kyle (Populist, SD)Leland Stanford (Republican, CA)Edward Oliver Wolcott (Republican, CO)Henry Moore Teller (Republican, CO)Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican, CT)Anthony Higgins (Republican, DE)James Falconer Wilson (Republican, IA)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)George Laird Shoup (Republican, ID)Fred Thomas Dubois (Republican, ID)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)Bishop Walden Perkins (Republican, KS)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA)William Pierce Frye (Republican, ME)James McMillan (Republican, MI)William Drew Washburn (Republican, MN)Thomas Charles Power (Republican, MT)Henry Clay Hansbrough (Republican, ND)Charles Frederick Manderson (Republican, NE)William Eaton Chandler (Republican, NH)Jacob Harold Gallinger (Republican, NH)John Percival Jones (Republican, NV)Joseph Norton Dolph (Republican, OR)John Hipple Mitchell (Republican, OR)James Donald Cameron (Republican, PA)Matthew Stanley Quay (Republican, PA)Nathan Fellows Dixon (Republican, RI)Richard Franklin Pettigrew (Republican, SD)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)Watson Carvosso Squire (Republican, WA)Joseph Maull Carey (Republican, WY)
House ·
1893-03-31/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
1893-03-31/weekWithin a week · Mar 24, 1893 – Apr 7, 1893
Ruling Monongahela Navigation Company v. United States
Mar 27, 1893 · 148 U.S. 312
Justice Horace Harmon Lurton — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Mar 27, 1893 · Sixth Circuit
Ruling Hohorst v. Hamburg-American Packet Company
Mar 27, 1893 · 148 U.S. 262
Ruling Columbus Watch Company v. Robbins
Mar 27, 1893 · 148 U.S. 266
Ruling Huber v. Nelson Manufacturing Company
Mar 27, 1893 · 148 U.S. 270
Ruling Wasatch Mining Company v. Crescent Mining Company
Mar 27, 1893 · 148 U.S. 293
Ruling Cameron v. United States
Mar 27, 1893 · 148 U.S. 301
Ruling Ankeny v. Clark
Mar 27, 1893 · 148 U.S. 345
Ruling Johnston v. Standard Mining Company
Mar 27, 1893 · 148 U.S. 360
Ruling American Construction Company v. Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway Company
Mar 27, 1893 · 148 U.S. 372
Ruling Wolfe v. Hartford Life and Annuity Insurance Company
Mar 27, 1893 · 148 U.S. 389
Ruling Ogden v. United States
Mar 27, 1893 · 148 U.S. 390
Ruling Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Walker
Apr 3, 1893 · 148 U.S. 391
Ruling Barnum v. Okolona
Apr 3, 1893 · 148 U.S. 393
Ruling People ex rel. Schurz v. Cook
Apr 3, 1893 · 148 U.S. 397
Ruling Manhattan Company v. Blake
Apr 3, 1893 · 148 U.S. 412
Ruling United States v. Old Settlers
Apr 3, 1893 · 148 U.S. 427
Ruling National Hat Pouncing Machine Company v. Hedden
Apr 3, 1893 · 148 U.S. 482
Ruling Smith v. Townsend
Apr 3, 1893 · 148 U.S. 490
Ruling Bender v. Pennsylvania Company
Apr 3, 1893 · 148 U.S. 502
Ruling Virginia v. Tennessee
Apr 3, 1893 · 148 U.S. 503
Ruling Chicot County v. Sherwood
Apr 3, 1893 · 148 U.S. 529
Ruling Lascelles v. Georgia
Apr 3, 1893 · 148 U.S. 537

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.