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The United States on March 19, 1917

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, 1917
Senate
38 D · 26 R
64 senators · 65th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
6 R · 3 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
17 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $28.08
in today's dollars
Public debt
$3.6B
as of Jul 1, 1916
1917-03-19/executiveThe administration
President Woodrow Wilson D
since Mar 4, 1917
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
Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker Jr. D
since Jan 1, 1916
1917-03-19/congress65th Congress
Senate · 38 D · 26 R
John Hollis Bankhead (Democrat, AL)Oscar Wilder Underwood (Democrat, AL)Joseph Taylor Robinson (Democrat, AR)William Fosgate Kirby (Democrat, AR)Marcus Aurelius Smith (Democrat, AZ)James Duval Phelan (Democrat, CA)John Franklin Shafroth (Democrat, CO)Charles Spalding Thomas (Democrat, CO)Willard Saulsbury Jr. (Democrat, DE)Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (Democrat, FL)Thomas William Hardwick (Democrat, GA)Hoke Smith (Democrat, GA)James Hamilton Lewis (Democrat, IL)William Howard Thompson (Democrat, KS)Ollie Murray James (Democrat, KY)John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham (Democrat, KY)Joseph Eugene Ransdell (Democrat, LA)Robert Foligny Broussard (Democrat, LA)John Walter Smith (Democrat, MD)William Joel Stone (Democrat, MO)James Kimble Vardaman (Democrat, MS)Thomas James Walsh (Democrat, MT)Furnifold McLendel Simmons (Democrat, NC)Lee Slater Overman (Democrat, NC)Henry French Hollis (Democrat, NH)William Hughes (Democrat, NJ)Francis Griffith Newlands (Democrat, NV)Robert Latham Owen (Democrat, OK)Thomas Pryor Gore (Democrat, OK)Harry Lane (Democrat, OR)George Earle Chamberlain (Democrat, OR)Benjamin Ryan Tillman (Democrat, SC)Ellison DuRant Smith (Democrat, SC)Edwin Stockton Johnson (Democrat, SD)John Knight Shields (Democrat, TN)Morris Sheppard (Democrat, TX)Thomas Staples Martin (Democrat, VA)Paul Oscar Husting (Democrat, WI)Frank Bosworth Brandegee (Republican, CT)William Squire Kenyon (Republican, IA)Albert Baird Cummins (Republican, IA)William Edgar Borah (Republican, ID)James Henry Brady (Republican, ID)Lawrence Yates Sherman (Republican, IL)James Eli Watson (Republican, IN)Charles Curtis (Republican, KS)John Wingate Weeks (Republican, MA)Bert Manfred Fernald (Republican, ME)William Alden Smith (Republican, MI)Knute Nelson (Republican, MN)Asle Jorgenson Gronna (Republican, ND)George William Norris (Republican, NE)Jacob Harold Gallinger (Republican, NH)Albert Bacon Fall (Republican, NM)James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (Republican, NY)Warren Gamaliel Harding (Republican, OH)Boies Penrose (Republican, PA)LeBaron Bradford Colt (Republican, RI)Thomas Sterling (Republican, SD)Reed Smoot (Republican, UT)William Paul Dillingham (Republican, VT)Wesley Livsey Jones (Republican, WA)Nathan Goff (Republican, WV)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House ·
1917-03-19/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
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
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
Louis Dembitz Brandeis D
Associate Justice · appointed by Woodrow Wilson · since Jun 1, 1916
John Hessin Clarke D
Associate Justice · appointed by Woodrow Wilson · since Jul 24, 1916
1917-03-19/weekWithin a week · Mar 12, 1917 – Mar 26, 1917
Ruling United States v. Cress
Mar 12, 1917 · 243 U.S. 316
Ruling Wilson v. New
Mar 19, 1917 · 243 U.S. 332
Ruling Utah Power & Light Company v. United States
Mar 19, 1917 · 243 U.S. 389
Ruling Lehigh Valley Railroad Company v. United States of America and Interstate Commerce Commission
Mar 26, 1917 · 243 U.S. 412
Ruling California v. Deseret Water, Oil & Irrigation Company
Mar 26, 1917 · 243 U.S. 415
Ruling Chicago & Alton Railroad Company v. McWhirt
Mar 26, 1917 · 243 U.S. 422

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.