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The United States on December 1, 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
1895-12-01/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
1895-12-01/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 ·
1895-12-01/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
1895-12-01/weekWithin a week · Nov 24, 1895 – Dec 8, 1895
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
Ruling The Bayonne
Dec 2, 1895 · 159 U.S. 687
Ruling Ansbro v. United States
Dec 2, 1895 · 159 U.S. 695
Ruling Little Rock and Memphis Railroad Company v. East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company
Dec 2, 1895 · 159 U.S. 698
Ruling Goldsby v. United States
Dec 2, 1895 · 160 U.S. 70
Ruling Washington & Idaho Railroad Company v. Coeur D'Alene Railway and Navigation Company
Dec 2, 1895 · 160 U.S. 77
Ruling Washington and Idaho Railroad Company v. Coeur D'Alene Railway and Navigation Company
Dec 2, 1895 · 160 U.S. 101
Ruling Washington and Idaho Railroad Company v. Osborn
Dec 2, 1895 · 160 U.S. 103
Ruling McCarty v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Dec 2, 1895 · 160 U.S. 110
Ruling Folsom v. United States
Dec 2, 1895 · 160 U.S. 121
Ruling Streep v. United States
Dec 2, 1895 · 160 U.S. 128
Ruling United States v. Healey
Dec 2, 1895 · 160 U.S. 136

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.