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The United States on March 4, 1901

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, 1901
Senate
38 R · 17 D
57 senators · 57th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
6 R · 3 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
45 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$2.1B
as of Jul 1, 1900
1901-03-04/executiveThe administration
President William McKinley Jr. R
since Mar 4, 1901
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt 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
1901-03-04/congress57th Congress
Senate · 38 R · 17 D · 2 P
Edmund Winston Pettus (Democrat, AL)James Kimbrough Jones (Democrat, AR)Henry Moore Teller (Democrat, CO)Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat, FL)James Piper Taliaferro (Democrat, FL)Alexander Stephens Clay (Democrat, GA)Henry Heitfeld (Democrat, ID)Samuel Douglas McEnery (Democrat, LA)George Graham Vest (Democrat, MO)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)Hernando De Soto Money (Democrat, MS)John Lowndes McLaurin (Democrat, SC)William Brimage Bate (Democrat, TN)Charles Allen Culberson (Democrat, TX)Joseph Lafayette Rawlins (Democrat, UT)John Warwick Daniel (Democrat, VA)George Turner (Democrat, WA)William Alexander Harris (Populist, KS)William Vincent Allen (Populist, NE)George Clement Perkins (Republican, CA)Thomas Robert Bard (Republican, CA)Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican, CT)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican, IA)William Ernest Mason (Republican, IL)Charles Warren Fairbanks (Republican, IN)Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (Republican, IN)William Joseph Deboe (Republican, KY)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA)George Louis Wellington (Republican, MD)Louis Emory McComas (Republican, MD)Eugene Hale (Republican, ME)Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican, MI)Jeter Connelly Pritchard (Republican, NC)Henry Clay Hansbrough (Republican, ND)Porter James McCumber (Republican, ND)Jacob Harold Gallinger (Republican, NH)John Kean (Republican, NJ)John Percival Jones (Republican, NV)William Morris Stewart (Republican, NV)Thomas Collier Platt (Republican, NY)Chauncey Mitchell Depew (Republican, NY)Joseph Benson Foraker (Republican, OH)Marcus Alonzo Hanna (Republican, OH)Joseph Simon (Republican, OR)Boies Penrose (Republican, PA)Matthew Stanley Quay (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)James Henderson Kyle (Republican, SD)Redfield Proctor (Republican, VT)William Paul Dillingham (Republican, VT)Addison Gardner Foster (Republican, WA)John Coit Spooner (Republican, WI)Joseph Very Quarles (Republican, WI)Nathan Bay Scott (Republican, WV)Clarence Don Clark (Republican, WY)
House ·
1901-03-04/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
1901-03-04/weekWithin a week · Feb 25, 1901 – Mar 11, 1901
William McKinley Jr. takes office · Mar 4, 1901
Ruling Holly v. Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church
Feb 25, 1901 · 180 U.S. 284
Ruling Robinson v. Southern National Bank
Feb 25, 1901 · 180 U.S. 295
Ruling McDonald v. Massachusetts
Feb 25, 1901 · 180 U.S. 311
Ruling Marx v. Ebner
Feb 25, 1901 · 180 U.S. 314
Ruling New Orleans Debenture Redemption Company v. Louisiana
Feb 25, 1901 · 180 U.S. 320
Ruling Blythe v. Hinckley
Feb 25, 1901 · 180 U.S. 333
Ruling United States v. Beebe
Feb 25, 1901 · 180 U.S. 343
Ruling Bird v. United States
Feb 25, 1901 · 180 U.S. 356
Ruling Gardner v. Bonestell
Feb 25, 1901 · 180 U.S. 362
Ruling Rice v. Ames
Feb 25, 1901 · 180 U.S. 371
Ruling Wheless v. St. Louis
Feb 25, 1901 · 180 U.S. 379
Ruling Johns v. Wilson
Mar 1, 1901 · 180 U.S. 440
Ruling Hobbs v. Beach
Mar 5, 1901 · 180 U.S. 383
Ruling W. W. Cargill Co. v. Minnesota
Mar 5, 1901 · 180 U.S. 452
Ruling Mitchell v. First National Bank of Chicago
Mar 5, 1901 · 180 U.S. 471
Ruling Mitchell v. Furman
Mar 11, 1901 · 180 U.S. 402

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.