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The United States on October 12, 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, 1905
1905-10-12/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 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
Secretary of the Navy Charles Joseph Bonaparte R
since Jul 1, 1905
Secretary of State Elihu Root R
since Jul 19, 1905
1905-10-12/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 ·
1905-10-12/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
1905-10-12/weekWithin a week · Oct 5, 1905 – Oct 19, 1905
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.