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The United States on March 11, 1895

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
30 D · 21 R
55 senators · 54th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
44 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.6B
as of Jul 1, 1894
1895-03-11/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
Postmaster General William Lyne Wilson BD
since Mar 1, 1895
1895-03-11/congress54th Congress
Senate · 30 D · 21 R · 3 P · 1 S
James Lawrence Pugh (Democrat, AL)James Kimbrough Jones (Democrat, AR)Stephen Mallory White (Democrat, CA)George Gray (Democrat, DE)Wilkinson Call (Democrat, FL)Samuel Pasco (Democrat, FL)John Brown Gordon (Democrat, GA)John McAuley Palmer (Democrat, IL)Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat, IN)David Turpie (Democrat, IN)Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (Democrat, KY)Newton Crain Blanchard (Democrat, LA)Charles Hopper Gibson (Democrat, MD)Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat, MD)George Graham Vest (Democrat, MO)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)James Zachariah George (Democrat, MS)Thomas Jordan Jarvis (Democrat, NC)William Nathaniel Roach (Democrat, ND)James Smith Jr. (Democrat, NJ)David Bennett Hill (Democrat, NY)Edward Murphy Jr. (Democrat, NY)Calvin Stewart Brice (Democrat, OH)John Laurens Manning Irby (Democrat, SC)William Brimage Bate (Democrat, TN)Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat, TX)John Warwick Daniel (Democrat, VA)William Freeman Vilas (Democrat, WI)John Lendrum Mitchell (Democrat, WI)Charles James Faulkner (Democrat, WV)William Alfred Peffer (Populist, KS)William Vincent Allen (Populist, NE)William Morris Stewart (Silver, NV)James Henderson Kyle (Populist, SD)George Clement Perkins (Republican, CA)Henry Moore Teller (Republican, CO)Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican, CT)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)Fred Thomas Dubois (Republican, ID)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA)Eugene Hale (Republican, ME)John Patton Jr. (Republican, MI)Cushman Kellogg Davis (Republican, MN)Henry Clay Hansbrough (Republican, ND)Jacob Harold Gallinger (Republican, NH)John Percival Jones (Republican, NV)John Sherman (Republican, OH)John Hipple Mitchell (Republican, OR)James Donald Cameron (Republican, PA)Matthew Stanley Quay (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)Redfield Proctor (Republican, VT)Watson Carvosso Squire (Republican, WA)
House ·
1895-03-11/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
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
Edward Douglass White D
Associate Justice · appointed by Grover Cleveland · since Feb 19, 1894
1895-03-11/weekWithin a week · Mar 4, 1895 – Mar 18, 1895
Ruling Emert v. Missouri
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 296
Ruling In re Lehigh Mining and Manufacturing Company
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 322
Ruling Brown v. Webster
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 328
Ruling Bank of Rondout v. Smith
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 330
Ruling Connell v. Smiley
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 335
Ruling Palmer v. Corning
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 342
Ruling Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad Company v. Arizona Territory
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 347
Ruling United States ex rel. Siegel v. Thoman
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 353
Ruling Waldron v. Waldron
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 361
Ruling Winter v. Montgomery
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 385
Ruling Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Brown
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 386
Ruling Hays v. Steiger
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 387
Ruling Mather v. Rillston
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 391
Ruling Cunningham v. Macon & Brunswick Railroad Company
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 400
Ruling Batchelor v. United States
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 426
Ruling Coffin v. United States
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 432
Ruling Bannon and Mulkey v. United States
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 464
Ruling Bell Silver and Copper Mining Company v. First National Bank of Butte
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 470
Ruling St. Louis, Cape Girardeau and Fort Smith Railway Company v. Missouri ex rel. Merriam
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 478
Ruling Lindsay v. First National Bank of Shreveport
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 485
Ruling Carr v. Fife
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 494
Ruling National Cash Register Company v. Boston Cash Indicator and Recorder Company
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 502
Ruling Evers v. Watson
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 527
Ruling Ard v. Brandon
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 537
Ruling Maddox v. Burnham
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 544
Ruling Wood v. Beach
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 548
Ruling United States v. Berdan Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 552
Ruling Corinne Mill Canal and Stock Company v. Johnson
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 574
Ruling Pittsburg and Southern Coal Company v. Bates
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 577
Ruling Pittsburg and Southern Coal Company v. Louisiana
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 590
Ruling Saltonstall v. Wiebusch
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 601
Ruling Grimm v. United States
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 604
Ruling Black Diamond Coal Mining Company v. Excelsior Coal Company
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 611
Ruling Johnson v. Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Company
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 618
Ruling St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company v. Gill
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 649
Ruling St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company v. Stevenson
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 667
Ruling Norfolk and Western Railroad Company v. Pendleton
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 667
Ruling Fox v. Haarstick
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 674
Ruling Davis v. Wakelee
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 680
Ruling Citizens' Saving and Loan Association v. Perry County
Mar 4, 1895 · 156 U.S. 692
Ruling Bate Refrigerating Company v. Sulzberger
Mar 4, 1895 · 157 U.S. 1
Ruling Frost v. Wenie
Mar 4, 1895 · 157 U.S. 46
Ruling The Ludvig Holberg
Mar 4, 1895 · 157 U.S. 60
Ruling Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company v. Mackey
Mar 4, 1895 · 157 U.S. 72
Ruling Pullman's Palace Car Company v. Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Mar 4, 1895 · 157 U.S. 94
Ruling United States v. Piatt and Salisbury
Mar 4, 1895 · 157 U.S. 113
Ruling United States v. Salisbury
Mar 4, 1895 · 157 U.S. 121
Ruling New Orleans City and Lake Railroad Company v. Louisiana ex rel. City of New Orleans
Mar 4, 1895 · 157 U.S. 219
Ruling Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company
Mar 4, 1895 · 157 U.S. 225
Ruling Goldey v. Morning News
Mar 11, 1895 · 156 U.S. 518
Ruling The Caledonia
Mar 11, 1895 · 157 U.S. 124
Ruling Cooper v. Dobson
Mar 11, 1895 · 157 U.S. 148
Ruling Neel v. Pennsylvania Company
Mar 11, 1895 · 157 U.S. 153
Ruling Beuttell v. Magone
Mar 11, 1895 · 157 U.S. 154
Ruling Frisbie v. United States
Mar 18, 1895 · 157 U.S. 160
Ruling Shields v. Coleman
Mar 18, 1895 · 157 U.S. 168
Ruling Seeberger v. Wright and Lawther Oil and Lead Manufacturing Company
Mar 18, 1895 · 157 U.S. 183
Ruling Stokes v. United States
Mar 18, 1895 · 157 U.S. 187
Ruling Morgan v. Potter
Mar 18, 1895 · 157 U.S. 195
Ruling Michels v. Olmstead
Mar 18, 1895 · 157 U.S. 198
Ruling Mexican National Railroad Company v. Davidson
Mar 18, 1895 · 157 U.S. 201
Ruling Chicago, Kansas and Western Railroad Company v. Pontius
Mar 18, 1895 · 157 U.S. 209
Ruling Baker v. Woo
Mar 18, 1895 · 157 U.S. 212
Ruling California v. Southern Pacific Company
Mar 18, 1895 · 157 U.S. 229

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.