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The United States on April 3, 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
1911-04-03/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 State Philander C. Knox R
since Mar 6, 1909
Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh R
since Mar 8, 1909
Secretary of the Interior Walter L. Fisher R
since Mar 13, 1911
1911-04-03/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 ·
1911-04-03/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
1911-04-03/weekWithin a week · Mar 27, 1911 – Apr 10, 1911
Ruling Ex parte in the Matter of the State of Oklahoma
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 191
Ruling Ex parte in the Matter of the State of Oklahoma
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 210
Ruling Martinez v. International Banking Corporation
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 214
Ruling Perez Y Fernandez v. Fernandez Y Perez
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 224
Ruling Blanco v. Hubbard
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 233
Ruling Interstate Commerce Commission v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 235
Ruling United States v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 257
Ruling United States v. Erie Railroad Company
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 275
Ruling Oklahoma v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 277
Ruling Oklahoma v. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 290
Ruling Oklahoma on the Relation of West v. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 302
Ruling Enriquez v. Go-Tiongco
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 307
Ruling Arnett v. Reade
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 311
Ruling United States v. O'Brien
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 321
Ruling Hills & Company, Limited v. Hoover
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 329
Ruling Gavieres v. United States
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 338
Ruling Vilas v. City of Manila
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 345
Ruling Western Union Telegraph Company v. Crovo
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 364
Ruling Dr. Miles Medical Company v. Park
Apr 3, 1911 · 220 U.S. 373
Ruling Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company v. Willard
Apr 10, 1911 · 220 U.S. 413
Ruling Diamond Rubber Company of New York v. Consolidated Rubber Tire Company
Apr 10, 1911 · 220 U.S. 428
Ruling Standard Paint Company v. Trinidad Asphalt Manufacturing Company
Apr 10, 1911 · 220 U.S. 446
Ruling Shawnee Sewerage and Drainage Company v. Stearns
Apr 10, 1911 · 220 U.S. 462

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.