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The United States on October 18, 1915

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
37 D · 27 R
64 senators · 64th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
8 R · 1 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
17 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $33.36
in today's dollars
Public debt
$3.1B
as of Jul 1, 1915
1915-10-18/executiveThe administration
President Woodrow Wilson D
since Mar 4, 1913
Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall D
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
Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo D
since Mar 6, 1913
Secretary of Agriculture David Franklin Houston D
since Mar 6, 1913
Secretary of the Interior Franklin Knight Lane D
since Mar 6, 1913
Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory D
since Aug 29, 1914
Secretary of State Robert Lansing D
since Jun 9, 1915
1915-10-18/congress64th Congress
Senate · 37 D · 27 R
John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat, AL)Joseph Taylor Robinson (Democrat, AR)Henry Fountain Ashurst (Democrat, AZ)John Franklin Shafroth (Democrat, CO)Willard Saulsbury Jr. (Democrat, DE)Nathan Philemon Bryan (Democrat, FL)Thomas William Hardwick (Democrat, GA)James Hamilton Lewis (Democrat, IL)John Worth Kern (Democrat, IN)William Howard Thompson (Democrat, KS)Ollie Murray James (Democrat, KY)Joseph Eugene Ransdell (Democrat, LA)Blair Lee (Democrat, MD)Charles Fletcher Johnson (Democrat, ME)James Alexander Reed (Democrat, MO)John Sharp Williams (Democrat, MS)James Kimble Vardaman (Democrat, MS)Henry Lee Myers (Democrat, MT)Thomas James Walsh (Democrat, MT)Furnifold McLendel Simmons (Democrat, NC)Gilbert Monell Hitchcock (Democrat, NE)Henry French Hollis (Democrat, NH)James Edgar Martine (Democrat, NJ)William Hughes (Democrat, NJ)Key Pittman (Democrat, NV)James Aloysius O’Gorman (Democrat, NY)Atlee Pomerene (Democrat, OH)Robert Latham Owen (Democrat, OK)Harry Lane (Democrat, OR)Benjamin Ryan Tillman (Democrat, SC)Luke Lea (Democrat, TN)John Knight Shields (Democrat, TN)Charles Allen Culberson (Democrat, TX)Morris Sheppard (Democrat, TX)Claude Augustus Swanson (Democrat, VA)Thomas Staples Martin (Democrat, VA)William Edwin Chilton (Democrat, WV)John Downey Works (Republican, CA)George Payne McLean (Republican, CT)Henry Algernon du Pont (Republican, DE)William Squire Kenyon (Republican, IA)William Edgar Borah (Republican, ID)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA)John Wingate Weeks (Republican, MA)Edwin Chick Burleigh (Republican, ME)Charles Elroy Townsend (Republican, MI)William Alden Smith (Republican, MI)Moses Edwin Clapp (Republican, MN)Knute Nelson (Republican, MN)Porter James McCumber (Republican, ND)George William Norris (Republican, NE)Thomas Benton Catron (Republican, NM)Albert Bacon Fall (Republican, NM)George Tener Oliver (Republican, PA)Henry Frederick Lippitt (Republican, RI)LeBaron Bradford Colt (Republican, RI)Thomas Sterling (Republican, SD)George Sutherland (Republican, UT)Carroll Smalley Page (Republican, VT)Miles Poindexter (Republican, WA)Robert Marion La Follette (Republican, WI)Nathan Goff (Republican, WV)Clarence Don Clark (Republican, WY)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House ·
1915-10-18/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
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
James Clark McReynolds D
Associate Justice · appointed by Woodrow Wilson · since Aug 29, 1914
1915-10-18/weekWithin a week · Oct 11, 1915 – Oct 25, 1915
Ruling Cerecedo v. United States
Oct 25, 1915 · 239 U.S. 1
Ruling Gegiow v. Uhl
Oct 25, 1915 · 239 U.S. 3

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.