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The United States on March 5, 1913

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

President
Wilson
Woodrow Wilson D · since Mar 4, 1913
Senate
32 R · 29 D
61 senators · 63rd Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
9 R
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
16 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $34.38
in today's dollars
Public debt
$2.9B
as of Jul 1, 1912
1913-03-05/executiveThe administration
President Woodrow Wilson D
since Mar 4, 1913
Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall D
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan D
since Mar 5, 1913
Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson D
since Mar 5, 1913
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels D
since Mar 5, 1913
Secretary of Labor William Bauchop Wilson D
since Mar 5, 1913
1913-03-05/congress63rd Congress
Senate · 32 R · 29 D
Joseph Forney Johnston (Democrat, AL)James Paul Clarke (Democrat, AR)Marcus Aurelius Smith (Democrat, AZ)Henry Fountain Ashurst (Democrat, AZ)Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (Democrat, FL)Nathan Philemon Bryan (Democrat, FL)Hoke Smith (Democrat, GA)Benjamin Franklin Shively (Democrat, IN)John Worth Kern (Democrat, IN)John Randolph Thornton (Democrat, LA)John Walter Smith (Democrat, MD)Charles Fletcher Johnson (Democrat, ME)William Joel Stone (Democrat, MO)James Alexander Reed (Democrat, MO)John Sharp Williams (Democrat, MS)Henry Lee Myers (Democrat, MT)Lee Slater Overman (Democrat, NC)Gilbert Monell Hitchcock (Democrat, NE)James Edgar Martine (Democrat, NJ)Francis Griffith Newlands (Democrat, NV)James Aloysius O’Gorman (Democrat, NY)Atlee Pomerene (Democrat, OH)Thomas Pryor Gore (Democrat, OK)George Earle Chamberlain (Democrat, OR)Ellison DuRant Smith (Democrat, SC)Luke Lea (Democrat, TN)Charles Allen Culberson (Democrat, TX)Claude Augustus Swanson (Democrat, VA)William Edwin Chilton (Democrat, WV)George Clement Perkins (Republican, CA)John Downey Works (Republican, CA)Frank Bosworth Brandegee (Republican, CT)George Payne McLean (Republican, CT)Henry Algernon du Pont (Republican, DE)Albert Baird Cummins (Republican, IA)Joseph Little Bristow (Republican, KS)William O’Connell Bradley (Republican, KY)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA)William Purnell Jackson (Republican, MD)Charles Elroy Townsend (Republican, MI)Moses Edwin Clapp (Republican, MN)Asle Jorgenson Gronna (Republican, ND)Porter James McCumber (Republican, ND)Jacob Harold Gallinger (Republican, NH)Thomas Benton Catron (Republican, NM)Albert Bacon Fall (Republican, NM)Elihu Root (Republican, NY)Theodore Elijah Burton (Republican, OH)Boies Penrose (Republican, PA)George Tener Oliver (Republican, PA)Henry Frederick Lippitt (Republican, RI)Coe Isaac Crawford (Republican, SD)Reed Smoot (Republican, UT)George Sutherland (Republican, UT)William Paul Dillingham (Republican, VT)Carroll Smalley Page (Republican, VT)Wesley Livsey Jones (Republican, WA)Miles Poindexter (Republican, WA)Isaac Stephenson (Republican, WI)Robert Marion La Follette (Republican, WI)Clarence Don Clark (Republican, WY)
House ·
1913-03-05/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
Mahlon Pitney R
Associate Justice · appointed by William H. Taft · since Mar 13, 1912
1913-03-05/weekWithin a week · Feb 26, 1913 – Mar 12, 1913
Woodrow Wilson takes office · Mar 4, 1913
Law Webb–Kenyon Act
Mar 1, 1913
Law Railway Evaluation Act
Mar 1, 1913
Agency − United States Department of Commerce and Labor
Mar 3, 1913 · executive_department
Law Publicity In Taking Evidence Act
Mar 3, 1913
Law Virus-Serum-Toxin Act
Mar 3, 1913
Law Gould Amendment
Mar 3, 1913
Agency + United States Department of Commerce
Mar 4, 1913 · executive_department
Agency + United States Department of Labor
Mar 4, 1913 · executive_department
Law Arlington Memorial Amphitheater Act
Mar 4, 1913
Law Road and Trails Fund Act
Mar 4, 1913
Law Burnett Act
Mar 4, 1913
Law Weeks–McLean Act
Mar 4, 1913
Law Federal Revenue Sharing Act
Mar 4, 1913
Law Rivers and Harbors Act of 1913
Mar 4, 1913
Law Burnt Timber Act
Mar 4, 1913
Law Labor Department Act
Mar 4, 1913 · Pub. L. 62-426
Law Virus-Serum-Toxin Act
Mar 4, 1913 · Pub. L. 62-430
Ruling Marrone v. Washington Jockey Club
Mar 10, 1913 · 227 U.S. 633
Ruling Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Carl
Mar 10, 1913 · 227 U.S. 639
Ruling Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company v. Harriman
Mar 10, 1913 · 227 U.S. 657

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.