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The United States on April 8, 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 ≈ $20.55
in today's dollars
Public debt
$14.6B
as of Jul 1, 1918
1919-04-08/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
1919-04-08/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 ·
1919-04-08/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
1919-04-08/weekWithin a week · Apr 1, 1919 – Apr 15, 1919
Ruling Standard Oil Company v. Graves
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 389
Ruling Burr v. City of Columbus
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 415
Ruling United States v. Gudger
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 373
Ruling Matters v. Ryan
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 375
Ruling Ex parte Hudgings
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 378
Ruling Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company v. United States
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 385
Ruling Columbus Railway, Power & Light Company v. City of Columbus
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 399
Ruling Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company v. Ochs
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 416
Ruling Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company v. State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois ex rel. Camero
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 422
Ruling Board of Public Utility Commissioners v. Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 425
Ruling Corn Products Refining Company v. Eddy
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 427
Ruling United States v. Laughlin
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 440
Ruling Citizens Bank of Michigan City v. Opperman
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 448
Ruling United States v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 451
Ruling Barbour v. Georgia
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 454
Ruling J.E. Hathaway & Company v. United States
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 460
Ruling Ex parte Wagner (Trading as the American Mechanical Toy Company)
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 465
Ruling Southern Pacific Company v. Arizona
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 472
Ruling Houston v. St. Louis Independent Packing Company
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 479
Ruling Moore v. United States
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 487
Ruling Hartford Life Insurance Company v. Johnson
Apr 14, 1919 · 249 U.S. 490

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.