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The United States on November 22, 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
1895-11-22/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
1895-11-22/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 ·
1895-11-22/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
1895-11-22/weekWithin a week · Nov 15, 1895 – Nov 29, 1895
Ruling Magone v. Wiederer
Nov 18, 1895 · 159 U.S. 555
Ruling Dejonge v. Magone
Nov 18, 1895 · 159 U.S. 562
Ruling Cowley v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Nov 18, 1895 · 159 U.S. 569
Ruling Hilton's Administrator v. Jones
Nov 18, 1895 · 159 U.S. 584
Ruling Clune v. United States
Nov 18, 1895 · 159 U.S. 590
Ruling McDowell v. United States
Nov 18, 1895 · 159 U.S. 596
Ruling Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company v. Griffith
Nov 18, 1895 · 159 U.S. 603
Ruling Folsom v. Ninety Six
Nov 18, 1895 · 159 U.S. 611
Ruling Stewart v. McHarry
Nov 18, 1895 · 159 U.S. 643
Ruling Lambert v. Barrett
Nov 18, 1895 · 159 U.S. 660
Ruling Bucklin v. United States
Nov 18, 1895 · 159 U.S. 680
Ruling Bucklin v. United States
Nov 18, 1895 · 159 U.S. 682
Ruling United States v. Company
Nov 18, 1895 · 160 U.S. 1
Ruling United States v. Company
Nov 18, 1895 · 160 U.S. 53
Ruling Rutland Railroad Company v. Central Vermont Railroad Company
Nov 19, 1895 · 159 U.S. 630
Ruling Mills v. Green
Nov 25, 1895 · 159 U.S. 651
Ruling Gillis v. Stinchfield
Nov 25, 1895 · 159 U.S. 658
Ruling Goode v. United States
Nov 25, 1895 · 159 U.S. 663
Ruling Moore v. Missouri
Nov 25, 1895 · 159 U.S. 673

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.