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The United States on April 16, 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
1895-04-16/executiveThe administration
President Grover Cleveland D
since Mar 4, 1893
Vice President Adlai Ewing Stevenson D
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
1895-04-16/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 ·
1895-04-16/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
1895-04-16/weekWithin a week · Apr 9, 1895 – Apr 23, 1895
Ruling Last Chance Mining Company v. Tyler Mining Company
Apr 15, 1895 · 157 U.S. 683
Ruling Lambert v. Barrett
Apr 15, 1895 · 157 U.S. 697
Ruling Mattingly v. Northwestern Virginia Railroad Company
Apr 15, 1895 · 158 U.S. 53
Ruling In re Buchanan
Apr 17, 1895 · 158 U.S. 31
Ruling Roberts v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Apr 22, 1895 · 158 U.S. 1
Ruling Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company v. Pace
Apr 22, 1895 · 158 U.S. 36
Ruling Koenigsberger v. Richmond Silver Mining Company
Apr 22, 1895 · 158 U.S. 41
Ruling Du Bois v. Kirk
Apr 22, 1895 · 158 U.S. 58
Ruling Risdon Iron and Locomotive Works v. Medart
Apr 22, 1895 · 158 U.S. 68

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.