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The United States on March 5, 1919

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
34 D · 31 R
65 senators · 66th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
6 R · 3 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
18 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $20.80
in today's dollars
Public debt
$14.6B
as of Jul 1, 1918
1919-03-05/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 Agriculture David Franklin Houston D
since Mar 6, 1913
Secretary of the Interior Franklin Knight Lane D
since Mar 6, 1913
Secretary of State Robert Lansing D
since Jun 9, 1915
Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker Jr. D
since Jan 1, 1916
Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass D
since Dec 16, 1918
Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer D
since Mar 5, 1919
1919-03-05/congress66th Congress
Senate · 34 D · 31 R
Oscar Wilder Underwood (Democrat, AL)William Fosgate Kirby (Democrat, AR)Joseph Taylor Robinson (Democrat, AR)Marcus Aurelius Smith (Democrat, AZ)Henry Fountain Ashurst (Democrat, AZ)James Duval Phelan (Democrat, CA)Charles Spalding Thomas (Democrat, CO)Josiah Oliver Wolcott (Democrat, DE)Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (Democrat, FL)Park Trammell (Democrat, FL)Hoke Smith (Democrat, GA)John Frost Nugent (Democrat, ID)John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham (Democrat, KY)Edward James Gay (Democrat, LA)John Walter Smith (Democrat, MD)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)Andrieus Aristieus Jones (Democrat, NM)Key Pittman (Democrat, NV)Charles Belknap Henderson (Democrat, NV)Atlee Pomerene (Democrat, OH)Thomas Pryor Gore (Democrat, OK)George Earle Chamberlain (Democrat, OR)Peter Goelet Gerry (Democrat, RI)Ellison DuRant Smith (Democrat, SC)Edwin Stockton Johnson (Democrat, SD)Kenneth Douglas McKellar (Democrat, TN)Charles Allen Culberson (Democrat, TX)William Henry King (Democrat, UT)Claude Augustus Swanson (Democrat, VA)John Benjamin Kendrick (Democrat, WY)Hiram Warren Johnson (Republican, CA)Frank Bosworth Brandegee (Republican, CT)George Payne McLean (Republican, CT)Albert Baird Cummins (Republican, IA)Lawrence Yates Sherman (Republican, IL)James Eli Watson (Republican, IN)Harry Stewart New (Republican, IN)Charles Curtis (Republican, KS)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA)Joseph Irvin France (Republican, MD)Frederick Hale (Republican, ME)Charles Elroy Townsend (Republican, MI)Frank Billings Kellogg (Republican, MN)Selden Palmer Spencer (Republican, MO)Asle Jorgenson Gronna (Republican, ND)Porter James McCumber (Republican, ND)George Higgins Moses (Republican, NH)Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (Republican, NJ)James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (Republican, NY)William Musgrave Calder (Republican, NY)Warren Gamaliel Harding (Republican, OH)Boies Penrose (Republican, PA)Philander Chase Knox (Republican, PA)Reed Smoot (Republican, UT)William Paul Dillingham (Republican, VT)Carroll Smalley Page (Republican, VT)Wesley Livsey Jones (Republican, WA)Miles Poindexter (Republican, WA)Robert Marion La Follette (Republican, WI)Irvine Luther Lenroot (Republican, WI)Howard Sutherland (Republican, WV)
House ·
1919-03-05/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
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
1919-03-05/weekWithin a week · Feb 26, 1919 – Mar 12, 1919
Law Grand Canyon Park Act of 1919
Feb 26, 1919 · Pub. L. 65-277
Law Acadia National Park Act of 1919
Feb 26, 1919 · Pub. L. 65-278
Justice George True Page — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Mar 1, 1919 · Seventh Circuit
Law War Risk Insurance Act of 1919 (War Minerals Relief Act of 1919, Dent Act)
Mar 2, 1919 · Pub. L. 65-322
Law River and Harbors Act of 1919
Mar 2, 1919 · Pub. L. 65-323
Ruling Schenck v. United States
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 47
Law Hospitalization Act of 1919
Mar 3, 1919 · Pub. L. 65-326
Law Fifth Liberty Bond Act
Mar 3, 1919 · Pub. L. 65-328
Ruling United States v. Doremus
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 86
Ruling Webb v. United States
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 96
Ruling Harriman National Bank of New York v. Seldomridge
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 1
Ruling Butte & Superior Copper Company, Limited v. Clark-Montana Realty Company
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 12
Ruling G.S. Nicholas & Company v. United States
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 34
Ruling Panama Railroad Company v. Bosse
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 41
Ruling Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. Territory of Alaska
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 53
Ruling Alaska Salmon Company v. Territory of Alaska
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 62
Ruling Withnell v. Ruecking Construction Company
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 63
Ruling Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Alhambra Cigar & Cigarette Manufacturing Company
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 72
Ruling Whitehead v. Galloway
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 79
Ruling L.A. Westermann Company v. Dispatch Printing Company
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 100
Ruling Lane v. Pueblo of Santa Rosa
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 110
Ruling Ex parte Whitney Steamboat Corporation
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 115
Ruling North Pacific Steamship Company v. Hall Brothers Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Company
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 119
Ruling Werk, Copartners Under the Name of Robert F. Werk & Company v. Parker, Copartners Under the Name of F.T. Parker Company
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 130
Ruling Arkadelphia Milling Company v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 134
Ruling Middleton v. Texas Power & Light Company
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 152
Ruling Chicago Great Western Railroad Company v. Basham
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 164
Ruling New York Central Railroad Company, Successor of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company v. Porter
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 168
Ruling Missouri & Arkansas Lumber & Mining Company v. Greenwood District of Sebastian County
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 170
Ruling City of Richmond v. Bird
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 174
Ruling Gilcrease v. McCullough
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 178
Ruling Sugarman v. United States
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 182
Ruling Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company v. Collins Produce Company
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 186
Ruling Seufert Brothers Company v. United States
Mar 3, 1919 · 249 U.S. 194
Law Wheat Price Guarantee Act
Mar 4, 1919 · Pub. L. 65-348
Ruling Shaffer v. Howard
Mar 10, 1919 · 249 U.S. 200
Ruling New York v. New Jersey and Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners
Mar 10, 1919 · 249 U.S. 202
Ruling Frohwerk v. United States
Mar 10, 1919 · 249 U.S. 204
Ruling Debs v. United States
Mar 10, 1919 · 249 U.S. 211
Ruling Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company v. Leach
Mar 10, 1919 · 249 U.S. 217

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.