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The United States on May 21, 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
1895-05-21/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
1895-05-21/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 ·
1895-05-21/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
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
1895-05-21/weekWithin a week · May 14, 1895 – May 28, 1895
Ruling Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company. (Rehearing)
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 601
Ruling Kennedy v. Magone
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 212
Ruling De Sollar v. Hanscome
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 216
Ruling Episcopal City Mission v. Brown
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 222
Ruling Wright and Wade v. United States
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 232
Ruling Stoneroad v. Stoneroad
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 240
Ruling Russell v. Maxwell Land Grant Company
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 253
Ruling Boyd v. Janesville Hay Tool Company
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 260
Ruling Virginia v. Tennessee
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 267
Ruling Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Urlin
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 271
Ruling Todd v. United States
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 278
Ruling Union Pacific Railway Company v. Wyler
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 285
Ruling Richards v. Chase Elevator Company
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 299
Ruling The Beaconsfield
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 303
Ruling Andes v. Ely
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 312
Ruling Union Pacific Railway Company v. Harris
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 326
Ruling Boston and Albany Railroad Company v. O'Reilly
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 334
Ruling Park Bank v. Remsen
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 337
Ruling United States v. Smith
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 346
Ruling Shipman v. Straitsville Central Mining Company
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 356
Ruling Eby v. King
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 366
Ruling Connors v. United States
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 408
Ruling Abraham v. Ordway
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 416
Ruling In re Quarles and Butler
May 20, 1895 · 158 U.S. 532
Ruling In re Debs
May 27, 1895 · 158 U.S. 564
Ruling Cutler v. Huston
May 27, 1895 · 158 U.S. 423
Ruling New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania
May 27, 1895 · 158 U.S. 431
Ruling Tioga Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania
May 27, 1895 · 158 U.S. 440
Ruling Bennett v. Harkrader
May 27, 1895 · 158 U.S. 441
Ruling Harter v. Twohig
May 27, 1895 · 158 U.S. 448
Ruling Colvin v. Jacksonville
May 27, 1895 · 158 U.S. 456
Ruling Lehigh Valley Railroad Company v. Kearney
May 27, 1895 · 158 U.S. 461
Ruling Green v. Bogue
May 27, 1895 · 158 U.S. 478
Ruling Clark v. Reeder
May 27, 1895 · 158 U.S. 505
Ruling Lem Moon Sing v. United States
May 27, 1895 · 158 U.S. 538
Ruling Babe Beard v. United States
May 27, 1895 · 158 U.S. 550

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.