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The United States on May 22, 1899

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
34 R · 22 D
59 senators · 56th 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, 1898
1899-05-22/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
Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock R
since Feb 20, 1899
1899-05-22/congress56th Congress
Senate · 34 R · 22 D · 2 P · 1 SR
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)Edmund Winston Pettus (Democrat, AL)James Henderson Berry (Democrat, AR)James Kimbrough Jones (Democrat, AR)Henry Moore Teller (Democrat, CO)Richard Rolland Kenney (Democrat, DE)Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat, FL)Augustus Octavius Bacon (Democrat, GA)Alexander Stephens Clay (Democrat, GA)Henry Heitfeld (Democrat, ID)William Lindsay (Democrat, KY)Donelson Caffery (Democrat, LA)Samuel Douglas McEnery (Democrat, LA)George Graham Vest (Democrat, MO)William Van Amberg Sullivan (Democrat, MS)Benjamin Ryan Tillman (Democrat, SC)John Lowndes McLaurin (Democrat, SC)Thomas Battle Turley (Democrat, TN)Horace Chilton (Democrat, TX)Joseph Lafayette Rawlins (Democrat, UT)Thomas Staples Martin (Democrat, VA)George Turner (Democrat, WA)William Alexander Harris (Populist, KS)Marion Butler (Populist, NC)Richard Franklin Pettigrew (Silver Republican, SD)George Clement Perkins (Republican, CA)Edward Oliver Wolcott (Republican, CO)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)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA)George Louis Wellington (Republican, MD)William Pierce Frye (Republican, ME)James McMillan (Republican, MI)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)Joseph Benson Foraker (Republican, OH)George Wycliffe McBride (Republican, OR)Joseph Simon (Republican, OR)Boies Penrose (Republican, PA)George Peabody Wetmore (Republican, RI)James Henderson Kyle (Republican, SD)John Coit Spooner (Republican, WI)Stephen Benton Elkins (Republican, WV)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House ·
1899-05-22/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
1899-05-22/weekWithin a week · May 15, 1899 – May 29, 1899
Ruling Raton Water Works Company v. Raton
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 360
Ruling Concord First National Bank v. Hawkins
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 364
Ruling Price v. United States and Osage Indians
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 373
Ruling Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Freeman
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 379
Ruling United States v. Krall
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 385
Ruling Israel v. Gale
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 391
Ruling McDonald v. Williams
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 397
Ruling Stone v. Farmers' Bank of Kentucky
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 409
Ruling Stone v. Bank of Commerce
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 412
Ruling Louisville v. The Bank of Commerce
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 428
Ruling Fidelity Trust and Safety Vault Company v. Louisville
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 429
Ruling Third National Bank of Louisville v. Stone
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 432
Ruling Louisville v. Third National Bank
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 435
Ruling Louisville v. Citizens' National Bank
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 436
Ruling First National Bank of Louisville v. Louisville
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 438
Ruling Louisville v. Bank of Louisville
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 439
Ruling Stephens v. Cherokee Nation
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 445
Ruling Office Specialty Manufacturing Company v. Fenton Metallic Manufacturing Company
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 492
Ruling Wade v. Travis County
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 499
Ruling The Olinde Rodrigues
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 510
Ruling Cohn v. Daley
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 539
Ruling New Mexico v. United States Trust Company
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 545
Ruling Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Company v. Louisville Trust Company
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 552
Ruling Rio Grande Irrigation and Colonization Company v. Gildersleeve
May 15, 1899 · 174 U.S. 603
Ruling Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company v. McCann
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 580
Ruling West Company v. Lea
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 590
Ruling Columbus Construction Company v. Crane Company
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 600
Ruling McDonald v. Chemical National Bank
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 610
Ruling Northern Pacific Railway Company v. De Lacey
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 622
Ruling McMullen v. Hoffman
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 639
Ruling United States v. Dudley
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 670
Ruling Louisville Trust Company v. Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway Company
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 674
Ruling United States v. Rio Grande Dam and Irrigation Company
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 690
Ruling Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company v. Sturm
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 710
Ruling Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company v. Campbell
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 718
Ruling Davis v. Coblens
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 719
Ruling Spurr v. United States
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 728
Ruling San Diego Land and Town Company v. National City
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 739
Ruling Richmond v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 761
Ruling Oakes v. United States
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 778
Ruling United States v. Coe
May 22, 1899 · 174 U.S. 578

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.