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The United States on September 9, 1903

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt R · since Sep 14, 1901
Senate
37 R · 21 D
58 senators · 58th Congress
House
1 R
1 representatives
Supreme Court
6 R · 3 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
45 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$2.2B
as of Jul 1, 1903
1903-09-09/executiveThe administration
President Theodore Roosevelt R
since Sep 14, 1901
Vice President vacant
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
Secretary of the Treasury L. M. Shaw R
since Feb 1, 1902
1903-09-09/congress58th Congress
Senate · 37 R · 21 D
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)James Henderson Berry (Democrat, AR)Thomas MacDonald Patterson (Democrat, CO)James Piper Taliaferro (Democrat, FL)Augustus Octavius Bacon (Democrat, GA)Fred Thomas Dubois (Democrat, ID)Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (Democrat, KY)Murphy James Foster (Democrat, LA)Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat, MO)Hernando De Soto Money (Democrat, MS)Anselm Joseph McLaurin (Democrat, MS)Paris Gibson (Democrat, MT)William Andrews Clark (Democrat, MT)Furnifold McLendel Simmons (Democrat, NC)Benjamin Ryan Tillman (Democrat, SC)William Brimage Bate (Democrat, TN)Edward Ward Carmack (Democrat, TN)Charles Allen Culberson (Democrat, TX)Joseph Weldon Bailey (Democrat, TX)John Warwick Daniel (Democrat, VA)Thomas Staples Martin (Democrat, VA)Thomas Robert Bard (Republican, CA)Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican, CT)Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican, IA)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (Republican, IN)Joseph Ralph Burton (Republican, KS)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA)George Frisbie Hoar (Republican, MA)Louis Emory McComas (Republican, MD)Eugene Hale (Republican, ME)William Pierce Frye (Republican, ME)Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican, MI)Russell Alexander Alger (Republican, MI)Moses Edwin Clapp (Republican, MN)Knute Nelson (Republican, MN)Porter James McCumber (Republican, ND)Charles Henry Dietrich (Republican, NE)Joseph Hopkins Millard (Republican, NE)Henry Eben Burnham (Republican, NH)John Kean (Republican, NJ)John Fairfield Dryden (Republican, NJ)William Morris Stewart (Republican, NV)Chauncey Mitchell Depew (Republican, NY)Marcus Alonzo Hanna (Republican, OH)John Hipple Mitchell (Republican, OR)Matthew Stanley Quay (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)George Peabody Wetmore (Republican, RI)Robert Jackson Gamble (Republican, SD)Thomas Kearns (Republican, UT)Redfield Proctor (Republican, VT)Addison Gardner Foster (Republican, WA)Joseph Very Quarles (Republican, WI)Nathan Bay Scott (Republican, WV)Stephen Benton Elkins (Republican, WV)Clarence Don Clark (Republican, WY)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House · 1 R
Charles William Frederick Dick (Republican, OH-19)
1903-09-09/supreme-courtThe bench
John Marshall Harlan R
Associate Justice · appointed by Rutherford B. Hayes · since Nov 29, 1877
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
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
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. R
Associate Justice · appointed by Theodore Roosevelt · since Dec 4, 1902
William Rufus Day R
Associate Justice · appointed by Theodore Roosevelt · since Feb 23, 1903
1903-09-09/weekWithin a week · Sep 2, 1903 – Sep 16, 1903
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.