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The United States on May 27, 1905

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 Mar 4, 1905
Senate
35 R · 26 D
61 senators · 59th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
6 R · 3 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
45 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$2.3B
as of Jul 1, 1904
1905-05-27/executiveThe administration
President Theodore Roosevelt R
since Mar 4, 1905
Vice President Charles Warren Fairbanks R
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 the Treasury L. M. Shaw R
since Feb 1, 1902
Secretary of War William Howard Taft R
since Feb 1, 1904
Attorney General William Henry Moody R
since Jul 1, 1904
Postmaster General George Bruce Cortelyou R
since Mar 6, 1905
1905-05-27/congress59th Congress
Senate · 35 R · 26 D
John Tyler Morgan (Democrat, AL)Edmund Winston Pettus (Democrat, AL)James Henderson Berry (Democrat, AR)James Paul Clarke (Democrat, AR)Thomas MacDonald Patterson (Democrat, CO)Henry Moore Teller (Democrat, CO)Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat, FL)Augustus Octavius Bacon (Democrat, GA)Alexander Stephens Clay (Democrat, GA)Fred Thomas Dubois (Democrat, ID)Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (Democrat, KY)James Bennett McCreary (Democrat, KY)Murphy James Foster (Democrat, LA)Samuel Douglas McEnery (Democrat, LA)Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat, MD)William Joel Stone (Democrat, MO)Anselm Joseph McLaurin (Democrat, MS)William Andrews Clark (Democrat, MT)Furnifold McLendel Simmons (Democrat, NC)Lee Slater Overman (Democrat, NC)Francis Griffith Newlands (Democrat, NV)Benjamin Ryan Tillman (Democrat, SC)Asbury Churchwell Latimer (Democrat, SC)Edward Ward Carmack (Democrat, TN)Joseph Weldon Bailey (Democrat, TX)Thomas Staples Martin (Democrat, VA)George Clement Perkins (Republican, CA)Frank Bosworth Brandegee (Republican, CT)James Frank Allee (Republican, DE)Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican, IA)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)Weldon Brinton Heyburn (Republican, ID)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican, IL)Joseph Ralph Burton (Republican, KS)Chester Isaiah Long (Republican, KS)Winthrop Murray Crane (Republican, MA)William Pierce Frye (Republican, ME)Russell Alexander Alger (Republican, MI)Knute Nelson (Republican, MN)Henry Clay Hansbrough (Republican, ND)Joseph Hopkins Millard (Republican, NE)Henry Eben Burnham (Republican, NH)Jacob Harold Gallinger (Republican, NH)John Fairfield Dryden (Republican, NJ)Thomas Collier Platt (Republican, NY)Joseph Benson Foraker (Republican, OH)Charles William Frederick Dick (Republican, OH)John Hipple Mitchell (Republican, OR)Charles William Fulton (Republican, OR)Boies Penrose (Republican, PA)Philander Chase Knox (Republican, PA)George Peabody Wetmore (Republican, RI)Robert Jackson Gamble (Republican, SD)Alfred Beard Kittredge (Republican, SD)Reed Smoot (Republican, UT)William Paul Dillingham (Republican, VT)Levi Ankeny (Republican, WA)John Coit Spooner (Republican, WI)Stephen Benton Elkins (Republican, WV)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House ·
1905-05-27/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
1905-05-27/weekWithin a week · May 20, 1905 – Jun 3, 1905
Ruling Leonard v. Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad Company
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 416
Ruling Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Hammond Elevator Company
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 424
Ruling Lavagnino v. Uhlig
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 443
Ruling Cunnius v. Reading School District
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 458
Ruling Kendall v. American Automatic Loom Company
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 477
Ruling Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. West Coast Naval Stores Company
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 483
Ruling Ah Sin v. Wittman
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 500
Ruling The Supreme Lodge v. Meyer
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 508
Ruling Texas and Pacific Railway Company v. Dashiell
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 521
Ruling Union Trust Company, and Security Warehousing Company v. Wilson
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 530
Ruling Whitney v. Wenman
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 539
Ruling Van Reed v. People's National Bank of Lebanon
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 554
Ruling Great Western Mining and Manufacturing Company v. Harris
May 29, 1905 · 198 U.S. 561
Ruling New York ex rel. Metropolitan Street Railway Company v. New York State Board of Tax Commissioner
May 29, 1905 · 199 U.S. 1
Ruling New York ex rel. Brooklyn City Railroad Company v. New York State Board of Tax Commissioner
May 29, 1905 · 199 U.S. 48
Ruling New York ex rel. Twenty-Third Street Railway Company v. State Board of Tax Commissioners
May 29, 1905 · 199 U.S. 53
Ruling Gleason v. White
May 29, 1905 · 199 U.S. 54
Ruling Hyde v. Shine
May 29, 1905 · 199 U.S. 62
Ruling Farrell v. O'Brien
May 29, 1905 · 199 U.S. 89
Ruling Dimond v. Shine
May 29, 1905 · 199 U.S. 88

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.