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The United States on October 19, 1922

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

President

Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding R · since Mar 4, 1921

Senate

60 R · 36 D

96 senators · 67th Congress

House

300 R · 132 D

434 representatives

Supreme Court

7 R · 2 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

48 states

19 amendments in force

Prices

$1 ≈ $20.30

in today's dollars

Public debt

$23.0B

as of Jun 30, 1922

1922-10-19/executiveThe administration

President Warren Gamaliel Harding R

since Mar 4, 1921

Vice President Calvin Coolidge R

Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty R

since Mar 4, 1921

Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall R

since Mar 5, 1921

Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes R

since Mar 5, 1921

Secretary of War John W. Weeks R

since Mar 5, 1921

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover R

since Mar 5, 1921

Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby R

since Mar 6, 1921

Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon R

since Mar 9, 1921

Postmaster General Hubert Work R

since Mar 4, 1922

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Herbert Mayhew Lord R

since Jul 1, 1922

1922-10-19/congress67th Congress

Senate · 60 R · 36 D

House · 300 R · 132 D · 1 S · 1 IR

1922-10-19/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

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

William Howard Taft R

Chief Justice · appointed by Warren G. Harding · since Jun 30, 1921

George Sutherland R

Associate Justice · appointed by Warren G. Harding · since Sep 5, 1922

1922-10-19/weekWithin a week · Oct 12, 1922 – Oct 26, 1922

Ruling Lederer v. Stockton

Oct 16, 1922 · 260 U.S. 3

Ruling Harbor v. Welles

Oct 16, 1922 · 260 U.S. 8

Ruling Knights v. Jackson

Oct 16, 1922 · 260 U.S. 12

Ruling North Carolina Railroad Company v. Lee

Oct 16, 1922 · 260 U.S. 16

Ruling United States v. Wong Sing

Oct 23, 1922 · 260 U.S. 18

Ruling Jackman v. Rosenbaum Company

Oct 23, 1922 · 260 U.S. 22

Ruling Interstate Commerce Commission v. United States ex rel. Members of the Waste Merchants Association of New York

Oct 23, 1922 · 260 U.S. 32

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.