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The United States on October 21, 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

49 R · 41 D

90 senators · 62nd Congress

House

227 D · 164 R

393 representatives

Supreme Court

8 R

8 justices by appointing party

Union

46 states

15 amendments in force

Public debt

$2.8B

as of Jul 1, 1911

1911-10-21/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

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson R

since May 22, 1911

1911-10-21/congress62nd Congress

Senate · 49 R · 41 D

House · 227 D · 164 R · 1 PR · 1 S

1911-10-21/supreme-courtThe bench

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

1911-10-21/weekWithin a week · Oct 14, 1911 – Oct 28, 1911

Ruling Blinn v. Nelson

Oct 23, 1911 · 222 U.S. 1

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.