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The United States on May 28, 1901

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President
Jr.
William McKinley Jr. R · since Mar 4, 1901
Senate
38 R · 17 D
56 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
1901-05-28/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
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
Attorney General Philander C. Knox R
since Apr 5, 1901
1901-05-28/congress57th Congress
Senate · 38 R · 17 D · 1 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)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 ·
1901-05-28/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
1901-05-28/weekWithin a week · May 21, 1901 – Jun 4, 1901
Ruling Downes v. Bidwell
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 244
Ruling De Lima v. Bidwell
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 1
Ruling Dooley v. United States
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 222
Ruling Pirie v. Chicago Title and Trust Company
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 438
Ruling Glavey v. United States
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 595
Ruling Goetze v. United States
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 221
Ruling Armstrong v. United States
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 243
Ruling Huus v. New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 392
Ruling Carson v. Brockton Sewerage Commission
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 398
Ruling Homer Ramsdell Transportation Company v. La Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 406
Ruling Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 417
Ruling Reagan v. United States
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 419
Ruling Simon v. Craft
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 427
Ruling United States ex rel. Queen v. Alvey
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 456
Ruling Clews v. Jamieson
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 461
Ruling Calhoun Gold Mining Company v. Ajax Gold Mining Company
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 499
Ruling District of Columbia v. Talty
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 510
Ruling Russell v. United States
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 516
Ruling Lantry v. Wallace
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 536
Ruling Hood v. Wallace
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 555
Ruling Commercial Bank v. Chambers
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 556
Ruling Fuller v. United States
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 562
Ruling District of Columbia v. Moulton
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 576
Ruling Jacobs v. Marks
May 27, 1901 · 182 U.S. 583

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