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The United States on October 22, 1906

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

57 R · 33 D

90 senators · 59th Congress

House

248 R · 138 D

386 representatives

Supreme Court

5 R · 3 D

8 justices by appointing party

Union

45 states

15 amendments in force

Public debt

$2.3B

as of Jul 1, 1906

1906-10-22/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

1906-10-22/congress59th Congress

Senate · 57 R · 33 D

House · 248 R · 138 D

1906-10-22/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

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

1906-10-22/weekWithin a week · Oct 15, 1906 – Oct 29, 1906

Ruling New Mexico ex rel. E. J. McLean & Company v. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company

Oct 15, 1906 · 203 U.S. 38

Ruling Landram v. Jordan

Oct 22, 1906 · 203 U.S. 56

Ruling Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Clark

Oct 29, 1906 · 203 U.S. 64

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.