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The United States on February 16, 1904

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

56 R · 33 D

89 senators · 58th Congress

House

207 R · 177 D

387 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

1904-02-16/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

Attorney General Philander C. Knox R

since Apr 5, 1901

Secretary of the Treasury L. M. Shaw R

since Feb 1, 1902

Secretary of War William Howard Taft R

since Feb 1, 1904

1904-02-16/congress58th Congress

Senate · 56 R · 33 D

House · 207 R · 177 D · 3 IR

1904-02-16/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

1904-02-16/weekWithin a week · Feb 9, 1904 – Feb 23, 1904

Ruling St. Clair County v. Interstate Sand and Car Transfer Company

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 454

Ruling Thomas v. United States

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 363

Ruling Bankers Mutual Casualty Company v. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Sainte Marie Railway Company

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 371

Ruling Brunswick Terminal Company v. National Bank of Baltimore

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 386

Ruling Spreckels Sugar Refining Company v. McClain

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 397

Ruling Cornell v. Coyne

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 418

Ruling Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Adams

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 440

Ruling Buttfield v. Stranahan

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 470

Ruling Buttfield v. Bidwell

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 498

Ruling Buttfield v. United States

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 499

Ruling American Steel & Wire Company v. Speed

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 500

Ruling United States v. St. Anthony Railroad Company

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 524

Ruling United States ex rel. Steinmetz v. Allen

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 543

Ruling Ex parte Frasch

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 566

Ruling Central Stock Yards Company v. Louisville & Nashville Railway Company

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 568

Ruling Wedding v. Meyler

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 573

Ruling Adams v. New York

Feb 23, 1904 · 192 U.S. 585

Ruling United States v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 1

Ruling Carstairs v. Cochran

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 10

Ruling Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway Company v. Osborn

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 17

Ruling Cincinnati Street Railway Company v. Snell

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 30

Ruling Montague & Company v. Lowry

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 38

Ruling American Book Company v. Kansas ex rel. Nichols

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 49

Ruling Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company v. Minnesota ex rel. the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 53

Ruling Ah How Alias Louie Ah How v. United States

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 65

Ruling Leigh v. Green

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 79

Ruling Julian v. Central Trust Company

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 93

Ruling United States v. Nation

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 115

Ruling Delaware Indians v. Cherokee Nation

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 127

Ruling Giles v. Teasley

Feb 23, 1904 · 193 U.S. 146

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.