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The United States on March 4, 1897

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President
Jr.
William McKinley Jr. R · since Mar 4, 1897
Senate
28 R · 25 D
59 senators · 55th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
6 R · 3 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
45 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$1.8B
as of Jul 1, 1896
1897-03-04/executiveThe administration
President William McKinley Jr. R
since Mar 4, 1897
Vice President Garret Augustus Hobart R
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
Secretary of War Russell Alexander Alger R
since Mar 4, 1897
1897-03-04/congress55th Congress
Senate · 28 R · 25 D · 3 SR · 2 P · 1 S
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)James Henderson Berry (Democrat, AR)Stephen Mallory White (Democrat, CA)George Gray (Democrat, DE)Samuel Pasco (Democrat, FL)Augustus Octavius Bacon (Democrat, GA)David Turpie (Democrat, IN)William Lindsay (Democrat, KY)Donelson Caffery (Democrat, LA)Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat, MD)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)James Zachariah George (Democrat, MS)Edward Cary Walthall (Democrat, MS)William Nathaniel Roach (Democrat, ND)James Smith Jr. (Democrat, NJ)Edward Murphy Jr. (Democrat, NY)Benjamin Ryan Tillman (Democrat, SC)William Brimage Bate (Democrat, TN)Isham Green Harris (Democrat, TN)Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat, TX)Horace Chilton (Democrat, TX)John Warwick Daniel (Democrat, VA)Thomas Staples Martin (Democrat, VA)John Lendrum Mitchell (Democrat, WI)Charles James Faulkner (Democrat, WV)Lee Mantle (Silver Republican, MT)Marion Butler (Populist, NC)William Vincent Allen (Populist, NE)William Morris Stewart (Silver, NV)Richard Franklin Pettigrew (Silver Republican, SD)Frank Jenne Cannon (Silver Republican, UT)Edward Oliver Wolcott (Republican, CO)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)John Henry Gear (Republican, IA)George Laird Shoup (Republican, ID)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)Lucien Baker (Republican, KS)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA)Eugene Hale (Republican, ME)William Pierce Frye (Republican, ME)Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican, MI)James McMillan (Republican, MI)Cushman Kellogg Davis (Republican, MN)Knute Nelson (Republican, MN)Thomas Henry Carter (Republican, MT)John Mellen Thurston (Republican, NE)William Eaton Chandler (Republican, NH)William Joyce Sewell (Republican, NJ)John Sherman (Republican, OH)George Wycliffe McBride (Republican, OR)Matthew Stanley Quay (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)George Peabody Wetmore (Republican, RI)Redfield Proctor (Republican, VT)John Lockwood Wilson (Republican, WA)Stephen Benton Elkins (Republican, WV)Clarence Don Clark (Republican, WY)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House ·
1897-03-04/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
Rufus Wheeler Peckham D
Associate Justice · appointed by Grover Cleveland · since Dec 9, 1895
1897-03-04/weekWithin a week · Feb 25, 1897 – Mar 11, 1897
William McKinley Jr. takes office · Mar 4, 1897
Ruling Allgeyer v. Louisiana
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 578
Ruling In re Kollock
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 526
Ruling McCormick v. Market Bank
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 538
Ruling Swaim v. United States
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 553
Ruling De Vaughn v. Hutchinson
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 566
Ruling Walker v. New Mexico and Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 593
Ruling Pauly v. State Loan and Trust Company
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 606
Ruling Wade v. Lawder
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 624
Ruling New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company v. New York
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 628
Ruling Fourth Street Bank (Of Philadelphia) v. Yardley
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 634
Ruling Walker v. Brown
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 654
Ruling United States v. Santa Fe
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 675
Ruling The Three Friends
Mar 1, 1897 · 166 U.S. 1
Ruling Barber v. Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company
Mar 1, 1897 · 166 U.S. 83
Ruling Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company v. Chicago
Mar 1, 1897 · 166 U.S. 226
Ruling Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company v. Chicago
Mar 1, 1897 · 166 U.S. 258
Ruling In re McCaully
Mar 1, 1897 · 165 U.S. 538
Law Tea Importation Act
Mar 2, 1897 · 29 Stat. 604
Ruling The Conqueror
Mar 8, 1897 · 166 U.S. 110

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.