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The United States on May 13, 1907

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
41 R · 19 D
60 senators · 60th 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, 1906
1907-05-13/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 War William Howard Taft R
since Feb 1, 1904
Secretary of State Elihu Root R
since Jul 19, 1905
Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte R
since Dec 17, 1906
Secretary of the Treasury George Bruce Cortelyou R
since Mar 4, 1907
Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield R
since Mar 5, 1907
1907-05-13/congress60th Congress
Senate · 41 R · 19 D
Edmund Winston Pettus (Democrat, AL)James Paul Clarke (Democrat, AR)Jeff Davis (Democrat, AR)Henry Moore Teller (Democrat, CO)Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat, FL)James Piper Taliaferro (Democrat, FL)Alexander Stephens Clay (Democrat, GA)James Bennett McCreary (Democrat, KY)Samuel Douglas McEnery (Democrat, LA)Isidor Rayner (Democrat, MD)William Pinkney Whyte (Democrat, MD)William Joel Stone (Democrat, MO)Hernando De Soto Money (Democrat, MS)Lee Slater Overman (Democrat, NC)Francis Griffith Newlands (Democrat, NV)Asbury Churchwell Latimer (Democrat, SC)James Beriah Frazier (Democrat, TN)Charles Allen Culberson (Democrat, TX)John Warwick Daniel (Democrat, VA)George Clement Perkins (Republican, CA)Frank Putnam Flint (Republican, CA)Frank Bosworth Brandegee (Republican, CT)Morgan Gardner Bulkeley (Republican, CT)Henry Algernon du Pont (Republican, DE)William Boyd Allison (Republican, IA)Weldon Brinton Heyburn (Republican, ID)Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican, IL)James Alexander Hemenway (Republican, IN)Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (Republican, IN)Chester Isaiah Long (Republican, KS)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA)Eugene Hale (Republican, ME)Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican, MI)Moses Edwin Clapp (Republican, MN)William Warner (Republican, MO)Thomas Henry Carter (Republican, MT)Henry Clay Hansbrough (Republican, ND)Porter James McCumber (Republican, ND)Elmer Jacob Burkett (Republican, NE)Jacob Harold Gallinger (Republican, NH)John Kean (Republican, NJ)George Stuart Nixon (Republican, NV)Thomas Collier Platt (Republican, NY)Chauncey Mitchell Depew (Republican, NY)Joseph Benson Foraker (Republican, OH)Charles William Frederick Dick (Republican, OH)Charles William Fulton (Republican, OR)Boies Penrose (Republican, PA)Philander Chase Knox (Republican, PA)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican, RI)Alfred Beard Kittredge (Republican, SD)Reed Smoot (Republican, UT)George Sutherland (Republican, UT)William Paul Dillingham (Republican, VT)Redfield Proctor (Republican, VT)Levi Ankeny (Republican, WA)Samuel Henry Piles (Republican, WA)Robert Marion La Follette (Republican, WI)Nathan Bay Scott (Republican, WV)Clarence Don Clark (Republican, WY)
House ·
1907-05-13/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
William Henry Moody R
Associate Justice · appointed by Theodore Roosevelt · since Dec 12, 1906
1907-05-13/weekWithin a week · May 6, 1907 – May 20, 1907
Ruling Adams Express Company v. Kentucky
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 129
Ruling Hiscock v. Varick Bank of New York
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 28
Ruling Chapman and Dewey Land Company v. Bigelow
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 41
Ruling Kansas v. Colorado
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 46
Ruling United States v. Cramp
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 118
Ruling Adams Express Company v. Kentucky
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 138
Ruling American Express Company of New York v. Kentucky
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 139
Ruling Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 142
Ruling Yates v. Jones National Bank
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 158
Ruling Yates v. Utica Bank
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 181
Ruling Stewart v. United States and the Osage Nation
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 185
Ruling Goat and Sheepskin Import Company v. United States
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 194
Ruling Lowrey v. Hawaii
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 206
Ruling Henry E. Frankenberg Company v. United States
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 224
Ruling United States v. Farenholt
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 226
Ruling Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Company
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 230
Ruling United States v. Brown
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 240
Ruling Ellis v. United States
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 246
Ruling Stone v. Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Company
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 267
Ruling Smith v. Jennings
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 276
Ruling Wyoming ex rel. Wyoming Agricultural College v. Irvine
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 278
Ruling Kessler v. Eldred
May 13, 1907 · 206 U.S. 285

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.