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The United States on October 25, 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
$2.0B
as of Jul 1, 1899
1899-10-25/executiveThe administration
President William McKinley Jr. R
since Mar 4, 1897
Vice President Garret Augustus Hobart R
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
Secretary of War Elihu Root R
since Aug 1, 1899
1899-10-25/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 ·
1899-10-25/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
1899-10-25/weekWithin a week · Oct 18, 1899 – Nov 1, 1899
Ruling Jones v. Meehan
Oct 30, 1899 · 175 U.S. 1
Ruling Scudder v. Comptroller of New York
Oct 30, 1899 · 175 U.S. 32
Ruling Anglo-Californian Bank v. United States
Oct 30, 1899 · 175 U.S. 37
Ruling United States v. Conway
Oct 30, 1899 · 175 U.S. 60

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.