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The United States on June 21, 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
1893-06-21/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
1893-06-21/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 ·
1893-06-21/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
1893-06-21/weekWithin a week · Jun 14, 1893 – Jun 28, 1893
Nothing recorded within a week of this date.

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.