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The United States on April 19, 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
1893-04-19/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
1893-04-19/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 ·
1893-04-19/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
1893-04-19/weekWithin a week · Apr 12, 1893 – Apr 26, 1893
Justice Richard Henry Alvey — U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Apr 15, 1893 · District of Columbia Circuit
Justice Martin Ferdinand Morris — U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Apr 15, 1893 · District of Columbia Circuit
Justice Seth Shepard — U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Apr 15, 1893 · District of Columbia Circuit
Ruling Mexia v. Oliver
Apr 17, 1893 · 148 U.S. 664
Ruling Smith v. Whitman Saddle Company
Apr 17, 1893 · 148 U.S. 674
Ruling Bushnell v. Crooke Mining & Smelting Company
Apr 17, 1893 · 148 U.S. 682
Ruling Phineas Pam-To-Pee v. United States
Apr 17, 1893 · 148 U.S. 691
Ruling Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company v. Hoyt
Apr 17, 1893 · 149 U.S. 1
Ruling Bogk v. Gassert
Apr 17, 1893 · 149 U.S. 17
Ruling Paulsen v. Portland
Apr 17, 1893 · 149 U.S. 30
Ruling Richmond and Danville Railroad Company v. Powers
Apr 17, 1893 · 149 U.S. 43
Ruling National Meter Company v. Yonkers Water Commissioners
Apr 17, 1893 · 149 U.S. 48
Ruling Wilson v. United States
Apr 17, 1893 · 149 U.S. 60
Ruling In re Fredrich
Apr 24, 1893 · 149 U.S. 70
Ruling Chandler v. Calumet and Hecla Mining Company
Apr 24, 1893 · 149 U.S. 79
Ruling Thomas v. Western Car Company
Apr 24, 1893 · 149 U.S. 95
Ruling Dobson v. Cubley
Apr 24, 1893 · 149 U.S. 117
Ruling Cairo v. Zane
Apr 24, 1893 · 149 U.S. 122
Ruling The Servia
Apr 24, 1893 · 149 U.S. 144
Ruling Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Whalen
Apr 24, 1893 · 149 U.S. 157
Ruling In re Tyler
Apr 24, 1893 · 149 U.S. 164
Ruling In re Humes
Apr 24, 1893 · 149 U.S. 192
Ruling Patrick v. Bowman
Apr 24, 1893 · 149 U.S. 411

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.