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The United States on February 12, 1899

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President
Jr.
William McKinley Jr. R · since Mar 4, 1897
Senate
46 R · 37 D
90 senators · 55th Congress
House
204 R · 127 D
357 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, 1898
1899-02-12/executiveThe administration
President William McKinley Jr. R
since Mar 4, 1897
Vice President Garret Augustus Hobart R
Secretary of War Russell Alexander Alger R
since Mar 4, 1897
Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage R
since Mar 6, 1897
Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long R
since Mar 6, 1897
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson R
since Mar 6, 1897
Attorney General John W. Griggs R
since Jan 25, 1898
Secretary of State John Hay R
since Sep 30, 1898
1899-02-12/congress55th Congress
Senate · 46 R · 37 D · 3 P · 3 SR · 1 S
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)Edmund Winston Pettus (Democrat, AL)James Henderson Berry (Democrat, AR)James Kimbrough Jones (Democrat, AR)Stephen Mallory White (Democrat, CA)Henry Moore Teller (Democrat, CO)George Gray (Democrat, DE)Richard Rolland Kenney (Democrat, DE)Samuel Pasco (Democrat, FL)Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat, FL)Augustus Octavius Bacon (Democrat, GA)Alexander Stephens Clay (Democrat, GA)Henry Heitfeld (Democrat, ID)David Turpie (Democrat, IN)William Lindsay (Democrat, KY)Donelson Caffery (Democrat, LA)Samuel Douglas McEnery (Democrat, LA)Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat, MD)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)George Graham Vest (Democrat, MO)William Van Amberg Sullivan (Democrat, MS)Hernando De Soto Money (Democrat, MS)William Nathaniel Roach (Democrat, ND)James Smith Jr. (Democrat, NJ)Edward Murphy Jr. (Democrat, NY)Benjamin Ryan Tillman (Democrat, SC)John Lowndes McLaurin (Democrat, SC)William Brimage Bate (Democrat, TN)Thomas Battle Turley (Democrat, TN)Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat, TX)Horace Chilton (Democrat, TX)Joseph Lafayette Rawlins (Democrat, UT)John Warwick Daniel (Democrat, VA)Thomas Staples Martin (Democrat, VA)George Turner (Democrat, WA)John Lendrum Mitchell (Democrat, WI)Charles James Faulkner (Democrat, WV)William Alexander Harris (Populist, KS)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)George Clement Perkins (Republican, CA)Edward Oliver Wolcott (Republican, CO)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican, CT)John Henry Gear (Republican, IA)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)George Laird Shoup (Republican, ID)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)William Ernest Mason (Republican, IL)Charles Warren Fairbanks (Republican, IN)Lucien Baker (Republican, KS)William Joseph Deboe (Republican, KY)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA)George Louis Wellington (Republican, MD)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)Jeter Connelly Pritchard (Republican, NC)Henry Clay Hansbrough (Republican, ND)John Mellen Thurston (Republican, NE)William Eaton Chandler (Republican, NH)Jacob Harold Gallinger (Republican, NH)William Joyce Sewell (Republican, NJ)John Percival Jones (Republican, NV)Thomas Collier Platt (Republican, NY)Marcus Alonzo Hanna (Republican, OH)Joseph Benson Foraker (Republican, OH)George Wycliffe McBride (Republican, OR)Joseph Simon (Republican, OR)Matthew Stanley Quay (Republican, PA)Boies Penrose (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)George Peabody Wetmore (Republican, RI)James Henderson Kyle (Republican, SD)Redfield Proctor (Republican, VT)Justin Smith Morrill (Republican, VT)John Lockwood Wilson (Republican, WA)John Coit Spooner (Republican, WI)Stephen Benton Elkins (Republican, WV)Clarence Don Clark (Republican, WY)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House · 204 R · 127 D · 21 P · 3 SR · 1 FS · 1 IR
Thomas Scales Plowman (Democrat, AL-4)Willis Brewer (Democrat, AL-5)Jesse Francis Stallings (Democrat, AL-2)Joseph Wheeler (Democrat, AL-8)Henry De Lamar Clayton (Democrat, AL-3)George Washington Taylor (Democrat, AL-1)John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat, AL-6)Oscar Wilder Underwood (Democrat, AL-9)William Leake Terry (Democrat, AR-4)Philip Doddridge McCulloch Jr. (Democrat, AR-1)Thomas Chipman McRae (Democrat, AR-3)Hugh Anderson Dinsmore (Democrat, AR-5)John Sebastian Little (Democrat, AR-2)Stephen Brundidge Jr. (Democrat, AR-6)Marcus Aurelius Smith (Democrat, AZ-AL)James George Maguire (Democrat, CA-4)Marion De Vries (Democrat, CA-2)Levin Irving Handy (Democrat, DE-AL)Robert Wyche Davis (Democrat, FL-2)Stephen Milancthon Sparkman (Democrat, FL-1)William Henry Fleming (Democrat, GA-10)John W. Maddox (Democrat, GA-7)Farish Carter Tate (Democrat, GA-9)Rufus Ezekiel Lester (Democrat, GA-1)Elijah Banks Lewis (Democrat, GA-3)James Mathews Griggs (Democrat, GA-2)William Marcellus Howard (Democrat, GA-8)Leonidas Felix Livingston (Democrat, GA-5)William Gordon Brantley (Democrat, GA-11)Charles Lafayette Bartlett (Democrat, GA-6)William Charles Adamson (Democrat, GA-4)Jehu Baker (Democrat, IL-21)James Romulus Campbell (Democrat, IL-20)William Henry Hinrichsen (Democrat, IL-16)Andrew Jackson Hunter (Democrat, IL-19)Thomas Marion Jett (Democrat, IL-18)William Steele Holman (Democrat, IN-4)Robert Walter Miers (Democrat, IN-2)James McClellan Robinson (Democrat, IN-12)William Taylor Zenor (Democrat, IN-3)John Daniel Clardy (Democrat, KY-2)Albert Seaton Berry (Democrat, KY-6)Thomas Young Fitzpatrick (Democrat, KY-10)Evan Evans Settle (Democrat, KY-7)Charles Kennedy Wheeler (Democrat, KY-1)John Stockdale Rhea (Democrat, KY-3)David Highbaugh Smith (Democrat, KY-4)Henry Warren Ogden (Democrat, LA-4)Samuel Thomas Baird (Democrat, LA-5)Samuel Matthews Robertson (Democrat, LA-6)Robert Charles Davey (Democrat, LA-2)Adolph Meyer (Democrat, LA-1)Robert Foligny Broussard (Democrat, LA-3)John Francis Fitzgerald (Democrat, MA-9)Ferdinand Brucker (Democrat, MI-8)Albert May Todd (Democrat, MI-3)Robert Nall Bodine (Democrat, MO-2)Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat, MO-3)Richard Parks Bland (Democrat, MO-8)James Cooney (Democrat, MO-7)Maecenas Eason Benton (Democrat, MO-15)Charles Fremont Cochran (Democrat, MO-4)William Strother Cowherd (Democrat, MO-5)Edward Robb (Democrat, MO-13)Willard Duncan Vandiver (Democrat, MO-14)David Albaugh De Armond (Democrat, MO-6)James Tilghman Lloyd (Democrat, MO-1)James Beauchamp Clark (Democrat, MO-9)William Franklin Love (Democrat, MS-6)John Mills Allen (Democrat, MS-1)Thomas Clendinen Catchings (Democrat, MS-3)Patrick Henry (Democrat, MS-7)Andrew Fuller Fox (Democrat, MS-4)John Sharp Williams (Democrat, MS-5)Thomas Spight (Democrat, MS-2)William Walton Kitchin (Democrat, NC-5)Harvey Butler Fergusson (Democrat, NM-AL)Francis Griffith Newlands (Democrat, NV-AL)John Herman George Vehslage (Democrat, NY-7)Thomas Joseph Bradley (Democrat, NY-9)Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat, NY-10)George Brinton McClellan (Democrat, NY-12)William Sulzer (Democrat, NY-11)George Alexander Marshall (Democrat, OH-4)John Lewis Brenner (Democrat, OH-3)John Jacob Lentz (Democrat, OH-12)John Anderson McDowell (Democrat, OH-17)David Meekison (Democrat, OH-5)James Albert Norton (Democrat, OH-13)George Jacob Benner (Democrat, PA-19)Daniel Ermentrout (Democrat, PA-9)William McAleer (Democrat, PA-3)Thomas Jefferson Strait (Democrat, SC-5)James Norton (Democrat, SC-6)Stanyarne Wilson (Democrat, SC-4)William Elliott (Democrat, SC-1)James William Stokes (Democrat, SC-7)William Jasper Talbert (Democrat, SC-2)Asbury Churchwell Latimer (Democrat, SC-3)Benton McMillin (Democrat, TN-4)Nicholas Nichols Cox (Democrat, TN-7)Edward Ward Carmack (Democrat, TN-10)Rice Alexander Pierce (Democrat, TN-9)James Daniel Richardson (Democrat, TN-5)John Wesley Gaines (Democrat, TN-6)John Austin Moon (Democrat, TN-3)Thetus Willrette Sims (Democrat, TN-8)John Walter Cranford (Democrat, TX-4)Joseph Draper Sayers (Democrat, TX-9)Robert Emmet Burke (Democrat, TX-6)Reese Calhoun De Graffenreid (Democrat, TX-3)Rudolph Kleberg (Democrat, TX-11)Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham (Democrat, TX-8)Thomas Henry Ball (Democrat, TX-1)Joseph Weldon Bailey (Democrat, TX-5)Samuel Bronson Cooper (Democrat, TX-2)Robert Lee Henry (Democrat, TX-7)John Hall Stephens (Democrat, TX-13)James Luther Slayden (Democrat, TX-12)William Henry King (Democrat, UT-1)Peter Johnston Otey (Democrat, VA-6)John Franklin Rixey (Democrat, VA-8)John Lamb (Democrat, VA-3)James Hay (Democrat, VA-7)William Atkinson Jones (Democrat, VA-1)Claude Augustus Swanson (Democrat, VA-5)John Eugene Osborne (Democrat, WY-AL)Milford Wriarson Howard (Populist, AL-7)Charles Averill Barlow (Populist, CA-6)Curtis Harvey Castle (Populist, CA-7)John Calhoun Bell (Populist, CO-2)John Franklin Shafroth (Silver Republican, CO-1)James Gunn (Populist, ID-1)Jeremiah Dunham Botkin (Populist, KS-AL)Nelson B. McCormick (Populist, KS-6)Mason Summers Peters (Populist, KS-2)Jeremiah Simpson (Populist, KS-7)William Davis Vincent (Populist, KS-5)Edwin Reed Ridgely (Populist, KS-3)Charles Sampson Hartman (Silver Republican, MT-1)John Edgar Fowler (Populist, NC-3)Charles Henry Martin (Populist, NC-6)Alonzo Craig Shuford (Populist, NC-7)Harry Skinner (Populist, NC-1)William Franklin Strowd (Populist, NC-4)Samuel Maxwell (Populist, NE-3)William Laury Greene (Populist, NE-6)Roderick Dhu Sutherland (Populist, NE-5)William Ledyard Stark (Populist, NE-4)James Yancy Callahan (Free Silver, OK-AL)Thomas Stalker Butler (Ind. Republican, PA-6)John Edward Kelley (Populist, SD-AL)William Carey Jones (Silver Republican, WA-AL)Samuel Greeley Hilborn (Republican, CA-3)John All Barham (Republican, CA-1)Eugene Francis Loud (Republican, CA-5)Charles Addison Russell (Republican, CT-3)Nehemiah Day Sperry (Republican, CT-2)Edward Stevens Henry (Republican, CT-1)Ebenezer J. Hill (Republican, CT-4)Samuel Mercer Clark (Republican, IA-1)George Martin Curtis (Republican, IA-2)Alva Lysander Hager (Republican, IA-9)George Douglas Perkins (Republican, IA-11)Thomas Updegraff (Republican, IA-4)David Bremner Henderson (Republican, IA-3)John Fletcher Lacey (Republican, IA-6)Robert Gordon Cousins (Republican, IA-5)Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican, IA-10)William Peters Hepburn (Republican, IA-8)John Albert Tiffin Hull (Republican, IA-7)Hugh Reid Belknap (Republican, IL-3)James Austin Connolly (Republican, IL-17)Edward Dean Cooke (Republican, IL-6)Daniel Webster Mills (Republican, IL-4)George Elon White (Republican, IL-5)Walter Reeves (Republican, IL-11)Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican, IL-8)Vespasian Warner (Republican, IL-13)Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican, IL-9)Benjamin Franklin Marsh (Republican, IL-15)George Washington Smith (Republican, IL-22)Joseph Verdi Graff (Republican, IL-14)William Lorimer (Republican, IL-2)George Washington Prince (Republican, IL-10)George Edmund Foss (Republican, IL-7)Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican, IL-12)James Robert Mann (Republican, IL-1)Charles Lewis Henry (Republican, IN-8)Henry Underwood Johnson (Republican, IN-6)Lemuel Willard Royse (Republican, IN-13)George Washington Faris (Republican, IN-5)George Washington Steele (Republican, IN-11)James Alexander Hemenway (Republican, IN-1)Charles Beary Landis (Republican, IN-9)Jesse Overstreet (Republican, IN-7)Edgar Dean Crumpacker (Republican, IN-10)Case Broderick (Republican, KS-1)Charles Curtis (Republican, KS-4)David Grant Colson (Republican, KY-11)George Mosby Davison (Republican, KY-8)Walter Evans (Republican, KY-5)Samuel Johnson Pugh (Republican, KY-9)William Emerson Barrett (Republican, MA-7)Samuel June Barrows (Republican, MA-10)John Simpkins (Republican, MA-13)Joseph Henry Walker (Republican, MA-3)Ashley Bascom Wright (Republican, MA-1)Charles Franklin Sprague (Republican, MA-11)George Warren Weymouth (Republican, MA-4)William Shadrach Knox (Republican, MA-5)William Henry Moody (Republican, MA-6)William Croad Lovering (Republican, MA-12)Samuel Walker McCall (Republican, MA-8)Frederick Huntington Gillett (Republican, MA-2)Isaac Ambrose Barber (Republican, MD-1)William Samuel Booze (Republican, MD-3)John McDonald (Republican, MD-6)William Watson McIntire (Republican, MD-4)William Benjamin Baker (Republican, MD-2)Sydney Emanuel Mudd (Republican, MD-5)Seth Llewellyn Milliken (Republican, ME-3)Nelson Dingley Jr. (Republican, ME-2)Thomas Brackett Reed (Republican, ME-1)Charles Addison Boutelle (Republican, ME-4)Horace Greeley Snover (Republican, MI-7)George Spalding (Republican, MI-2)William Smith Mesick (Republican, MI-11)John Blaisdell Corliss (Republican, MI-1)Rousseau Owen Crump (Republican, MI-10)Carlos Douglas Shelden (Republican, MI-12)Roswell Peter Bishop (Republican, MI-9)Samuel William Smith (Republican, MI-6)William Alden Smith (Republican, MI-5)Edward La Rue Hamilton (Republican, MI-4)Frank Marion Eddy (Republican, MN-7)Joel Prescott Heatwole (Republican, MN-3)Robert Page Walter Morris (Republican, MN-6)Loren Fletcher (Republican, MN-5)James Thompson McCleary (Republican, MN-2)James Albertus Tawney (Republican, MN-1)Frederick Clement Stevens (Republican, MN-4)Charles Edward Pearce (Republican, MO-12)Charles Frederick Joy (Republican, MO-11)Richard Bartholdt (Republican, MO-10)Romulus Zachariah Linney (Republican, NC-8)Richmond Pearson (Republican, NC-9)George Henry White (Republican, NC-2)Martin Nelson Johnson (Republican, ND-1)Jesse Burr Strode (Republican, NE-1)David Henry Mercer (Republican, NE-2)Frank Gay Clarke (Republican, NH-2)Cyrus Adams Sulloway (Republican, NH-1)Thomas McEwan Jr. (Republican, NJ-7)Mahlon Pitney (Republican, NJ-4)James Fleming Stewart (Republican, NJ-5)Charles Newell Fowler (Republican, NJ-8)Benjamin Franklin Howell (Republican, NJ-3)John James Gardner (Republican, NJ-2)Henry Clay Loudenslager (Republican, NJ-1)Richard Wayne Parker (Republican, NJ-6)James Jerome Belden (Republican, NY-27)Joseph McCrum Belford (Republican, NY-1)Charles Goodwin Bennett (Republican, NY-5)Henry Colvin Brewster (Republican, NY-31)Israel Frederick Fischer (Republican, NY-4)Wallace Turner Foote Jr. (Republican, NY-23)James Robinson Howe (Republican, NY-6)Denis Michael Hurley (Republican, NY-2)Philip Burrill Low (Republican, NY-15)Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany (Republican, NY-32)John Murry Mitchell (Republican, NY-8)Benjamin Baker Odell Jr. (Republican, NY-17)Lemuel Ely Quigg (Republican, NY-14)Richard Cutts Shannon (Republican, NY-13)William Lukens Ward (Republican, NY-16)David Forrest Wilber (Republican, NY-21)Francis Henry Wilson (Republican, NY-3)Charles Addison Chickering (Republican, NY-24)Aaron Van Schaick Cochrane (Republican, NY-19)Warren Brewster Hooker (Republican, NY-34)George Washington Ray (Republican, NY-26)Charles William Gillet (Republican, NY-29)John Henry Ketcham (Republican, NY-18)Lucius Nathan Littauer (Republican, NY-22)James Wolcott Wadsworth (Republican, NY-30)James Schoolcraft Sherman (Republican, NY-25)De Alva Stanwood Alexander (Republican, NY-33)George Newell Southwick (Republican, NY-20)Sereno Elisha Payne (Republican, NY-28)Clifton Bailey Beach (Republican, OH-20)Lucien Jerome Fenton (Republican, OH-10)Seth W. Brown (Republican, OH-6)Lorenzo Danford (Republican, OH-16)Winfield Scott Kerr (Republican, OH-14)Archibald Lybrand (Republican, OH-8)Walter Lowrie Weaver (Republican, OH-7)Jacob Henry Bromwell (Republican, OH-2)William Bunn Shattuc (Republican, OH-1)Robert Walker Tayler (Republican, OH-18)Henry Clay Van Voorhis (Republican, OH-15)Charles Henry Grosvenor (Republican, OH-11)James Harding Southard (Republican, OH-9)Theodore Elijah Burton (Republican, OH-21)Charles William Frederick Dick (Republican, OH-19)Thomas H. Tongue (Republican, OR-1)William Russell Ellis (Republican, OR-2)William Carlile Arnold (Republican, PA-28)James Hodge Codding (Republican, PA-15)Josiah Duane Hicks (Republican, PA-20)William Sebring Kirkpatrick (Republican, PA-8)Monroe Henry Kulp (Republican, PA-17)Charles Warren Stone (Republican, PA-27)William Alexis Stone (Republican, PA-23)John Cirby Sturtevant (Republican, PA-26)Morgan B. Williams (Republican, PA-12)Samuel Arza Davenport (Republican, PA-AL)Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican, PA-5)Horace Billings Packer (Republican, PA-16)Marriott Brosius (Republican, PA-10)Joseph Baltzell Showalter (Republican, PA-25)James Rankin Young (Republican, PA-4)William Connell (Republican, PA-11)Robert Adams Jr. (Republican, PA-2)Thaddeus Maclay Mahon (Republican, PA-18)Ernest Francis Acheson (Republican, PA-24)Charles Napoleon Brumm (Republican, PA-13)Irving Price Wanger (Republican, PA-7)Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican, PA-1)John Dalzell (Republican, PA-22)Marlin Edgar Olmsted (Republican, PA-14)Edward Everett Robbins (Republican, PA-21)Melville Bull (Republican, RI-1)Adin Ballou Capron (Republican, RI-2)Henry Richard Gibson (Republican, TN-2)Walter Preston Brownlow (Republican, TN-1)Robert Bradley Hawley (Republican, TX-10)Robert Taylor Thorp (Republican, VA-4)James Alexander Walker (Republican, VA-9)Jacob Yost (Republican, VA-10)Richard Alsop Wise (Republican, VA-2)William Wallace Grout (Republican, VT-2)Horace Henry Powers (Republican, VT-1)Michael Griffin (Republican, WI-7)Edward Sauerhering (Republican, WI-2)Alexander Stewart (Republican, WI-9)Samuel Stebbins Barney (Republican, WI-5)Joseph Weeks Babcock (Republican, WI-3)Edward Sloman Minor (Republican, WI-8)Theobald Otjen (Republican, WI-4)John James Jenkins (Republican, WI-10)James Henry Davidson (Republican, WI-6)Henry Allen Cooper (Republican, WI-1)Charles Phillips Dorr (Republican, WV-3)Warren Miller (Republican, WV-4)Alston Gordon Dayton (Republican, WV-2)Blackburn Barrett Dovener (Republican, WV-1)
1899-02-12/supreme-courtThe bench
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
Joseph McKenna R
Associate Justice · appointed by William McKinley · since Jan 21, 1898
1899-02-12/weekWithin a week · Feb 5, 1899 – Feb 19, 1899
Nothing recorded within a week of this date.

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.