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The United States on March 6, 1911

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President
Taft
William Howard Taft R · since Mar 4, 1909
Senate
34 R · 25 D
59 senators · 62nd Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
9 R
9 justices by appointing party
Union
46 states
15 amendments in force
Public debt
$2.7B
as of Jul 1, 1910
1911-03-06/executiveThe administration
President William Howard Taft R
since Mar 4, 1909
Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman R
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson R
since Mar 6, 1897
Attorney General George Woodward Wickersham R
since Mar 4, 1909
Secretary of the Interior Richard A. Ballinger R
since Mar 6, 1909
Secretary of State Philander C. Knox R
since Mar 6, 1909
Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh R
since Mar 8, 1909
1911-03-06/congress62nd Congress
Senate · 34 R · 25 D
John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat, AL)Joseph Forney Johnston (Democrat, AL)Jeff Davis (Democrat, AR)James Paul Clarke (Democrat, AR)Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (Democrat, FL)Augustus Octavius Bacon (Democrat, GA)Joseph Meriwether Terrell (Democrat, GA)Benjamin Franklin Shively (Democrat, IN)Thomas Hanson Paynter (Democrat, KY)Murphy James Foster (Democrat, LA)John Randolph Thornton (Democrat, LA)John Walter Smith (Democrat, MD)William Joel Stone (Democrat, MO)Le Roy Percy (Democrat, MS)Furnifold McLendel Simmons (Democrat, NC)Lee Slater Overman (Democrat, NC)Francis Griffith Newlands (Democrat, NV)Robert Latham Owen (Democrat, OK)Thomas Pryor Gore (Democrat, OK)George Earle Chamberlain (Democrat, OR)Benjamin Ryan Tillman (Democrat, SC)Ellison DuRant Smith (Democrat, SC)Robert Love Taylor (Democrat, TN)Joseph Weldon Bailey (Democrat, TX)Thomas Staples Martin (Democrat, VA)George Clement Perkins (Republican, CA)Simon Guggenheim (Republican, CO)Frank Bosworth Brandegee (Republican, CT)Harry Alden Richardson (Republican, DE)Albert Baird Cummins (Republican, IA)Lafayette Young (Republican, IA)William Edgar Borah (Republican, ID)Weldon Brinton Heyburn (Republican, ID)Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican, IL)William Lorimer (Republican, IL)Charles Curtis (Republican, KS)Joseph Little Bristow (Republican, KS)William O’Connell Bradley (Republican, KY)Winthrop Murray Crane (Republican, MA)William Pierce Frye (Republican, ME)William Alden Smith (Republican, MI)Knute Nelson (Republican, MN)Joseph Moore Dixon (Republican, MT)Norris Brown (Republican, NE)Henry Eben Burnham (Republican, NH)Jacob Harold Gallinger (Republican, NH)Frank Obadiah Briggs (Republican, NJ)Elihu Root (Republican, NY)Theodore Elijah Burton (Republican, OH)Jonathan Bourne Jr. (Republican, OR)Boies Penrose (Republican, PA)George Peabody Wetmore (Republican, RI)Robert Jackson Gamble (Republican, SD)Coe Isaac Crawford (Republican, SD)Reed Smoot (Republican, UT)William Paul Dillingham (Republican, VT)Wesley Livsey Jones (Republican, WA)Isaac Stephenson (Republican, WI)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House ·
1911-03-06/supreme-courtThe bench
John Marshall Harlan R
Associate Justice · appointed by Rutherford B. Hayes · since Nov 29, 1877
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
Horace Harmon Lurton R
Associate Justice · appointed by William H. Taft · since Dec 20, 1909
Charles Evans Hughes R
Associate Justice · appointed by William H. Taft · since May 2, 1910
Edward Douglass White R
Chief Justice · appointed by William H. Taft · since Dec 12, 1910
Willis Van Devanter R
Associate Justice · appointed by William H. Taft · since Dec 16, 1910
Joseph Rucker Lamar R
Associate Justice · appointed by William H. Taft · since Dec 17, 1910
1911-03-06/weekWithin a week · Feb 27, 1911 – Mar 13, 1911
Justice Arthur Carter Denison — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Mar 2, 1911 · Sixth Circuit
Law Judicial Code of 1911
Mar 3, 1911 · Ch. 231, 61st Cong.
Law Defense Secrets Act of 1911
Mar 3, 1911 · Pub. L. 61-470
Ruling Virginia v. West Virginia
Mar 6, 1911 · 220 U.S. 1
Ruling United States v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Mar 13, 1911 · 220 U.S. 37
Ruling Hipolite Egg Company v. United States
Mar 13, 1911 · 220 U.S. 45
Ruling Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Company
Mar 13, 1911 · 220 U.S. 61
Ruling Flint v. Stone Tracy Company
Mar 13, 1911 · 220 U.S. 107
Ruling Eliot v. Freeman
Mar 13, 1911 · 220 U.S. 178
Ruling Zonne v. Minneapolis Syndicate
Mar 13, 1911 · 220 U.S. 187

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.