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The United States on November 4, 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
6 R · 2 D
8 justices by appointing party
Union
44 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.7B
as of Jul 1, 1895
1895-11-04/executiveThe administration
President Grover Cleveland D
since Mar 4, 1893
Vice President Adlai Ewing Stevenson D
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
Secretary of State Richard Olney D
since Jun 10, 1895
Attorney General Judson Harmon D
since Jun 11, 1895
1895-11-04/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 ·
1895-11-04/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
Edward Douglass White D
Associate Justice · appointed by Grover Cleveland · since Feb 19, 1894
1895-11-04/weekWithin a week · Oct 28, 1895 – Nov 11, 1895
Ruling Borgmeyer v. Idler
Oct 28, 1895 · 159 U.S. 408
Ruling California v. Holladay
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 415
Ruling Sonn v. Magone
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 417
Ruling Thorn Wire Hedge Company v. Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 423
Ruling United States v. Chaves
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 452
Ruling The Incandescent Lamp Patent
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 465
Ruling Isaacs v. United States
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 487
Ruling Shiver v. United States
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 491
Ruling Patton v. United States
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 500
Ruling Thiede v. Utah Territory
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 510
Ruling Wheeler v. United States
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 523
Ruling Winona and St. Peter Land Company v. Minnesota
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 526
Ruling Winona & St. Peter Land Company v. Minnesota
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 540
Ruling Weeks v. Bridgman
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 541
Ruling United States v. American Bell Telephone Company
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 548
Ruling Richards v. Chase Elevator Company
Nov 11, 1895 · 159 U.S. 477

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.