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The United States on April 2, 1923

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
42 R · 21 D
63 senators · 68th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
19 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $20.06
in today's dollars
Public debt
$23.0B
as of Jun 30, 1922
1923-04-02/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 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
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Herbert Mayhew Lord R
since Jul 1, 1922
Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work R
since Mar 4, 1923
Postmaster General Harry Stewart New R
since Mar 4, 1923
1923-04-02/congress68th Congress
Senate · 42 R · 21 D
James Thomas Heflin (Democrat, AL)Oscar Wilder Underwood (Democrat, AL)Joseph Taylor Robinson (Democrat, AR)Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (Democrat, AR)Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (Democrat, FL)William Julius Harris (Democrat, GA)Walter Franklin George (Democrat, GA)Augustus Owsley Stanley (Democrat, KY)Joseph Eugene Ransdell (Democrat, LA)Edwin Sidney Broussard (Democrat, LA)David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat, MA)Byron Patton Harrison (Democrat, MS)Thomas James Walsh (Democrat, MT)Furnifold McLendel Simmons (Democrat, NC)Lee Slater Overman (Democrat, NC)Robert Latham Owen (Democrat, OK)Nathaniel Barksdale Dial (Democrat, SC)Ellison DuRant Smith (Democrat, SC)John Knight Shields (Democrat, TN)Morris Sheppard (Democrat, TX)Carter Glass (Democrat, VA)Ralph Henry Cameron (Republican, AZ)Samuel Morgan Shortridge (Republican, CA)Lawrence Cowle Phipps (Republican, CO)Frank Bosworth Brandegee (Republican, CT)Lewis Heisler Ball (Republican, DE)Albert Baird Cummins (Republican, IA)Smith Wildman Brookhart (Republican, IA)William Edgar Borah (Republican, ID)Frank Robert Gooding (Republican, ID)Joseph Medill McCormick (Republican, IL)William Brown McKinley (Republican, IL)James Eli Watson (Republican, IN)Arthur Capper (Republican, KS)Charles Curtis (Republican, KS)Richard Pretlow Ernst (Republican, KY)Ovington Eugene Weller (Republican, MD)Bert Manfred Fernald (Republican, ME)James Couzens (Republican, MI)Knute Nelson (Republican, MN)Selden Palmer Spencer (Republican, MO)Edwin Freemont Ladd (Republican, ND)George William Norris (Republican, NE)Henry Wilder Keyes (Republican, NH)George Higgins Moses (Republican, NH)Walter Evans Edge (Republican, NJ)Holm Olaf Bursum (Republican, NM)Tasker Lowndes Oddie (Republican, NV)James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (Republican, NY)Frank Bartlett Willis (Republican, OH)John William Harreld (Republican, OK)Charles Linza McNary (Republican, OR)Robert Nelson Stanfield (Republican, OR)George Wharton Pepper (Republican, PA)LeBaron Bradford Colt (Republican, RI)Thomas Sterling (Republican, SD)Peter Norbeck (Republican, SD)Reed Smoot (Republican, UT)William Paul Dillingham (Republican, VT)Wesley Livsey Jones (Republican, WA)Irvine Luther Lenroot (Republican, WI)Davis Elkins (Republican, WV)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House ·
1923-04-02/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
Willis Van Devanter R
Associate Justice · appointed by William H. Taft · since Dec 16, 1910
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
Pierce Butler R
Associate Justice · appointed by Warren G. Harding · since Dec 21, 1922
Edward Terry Sanford R
Associate Justice · appointed by Warren G. Harding · since Jan 29, 1923
1923-04-02/weekWithin a week · Mar 26, 1923 – Apr 9, 1923
Ruling Keller v. Potomac Electric Power Company
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 428
Ruling Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 525
Ruling Phipps and Phipps v. Cleveland Refining Company of Cleveland
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 449
Ruling Thomas v. Kansas City Southern Railway Company
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 481
Ruling Layne & Bowler Corporation v. Western Well Works, Inc.
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 387
Ruling Hallanan v. Eureka Pipe Line Company
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 393
Ruling Toledo Scale Company v. Computing Scale Company
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 399
Ruling The Page Company v. Macdonald
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 446
Ruling Gardner v. Chicago Title & Trust Company
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 453
Ruling Wabash Railway Company v. Elliott
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 457
Ruling Federal Trade Commission v. Sinclair Refining Company
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 463
Ruling Hartford Life Insurance Company v. Douds
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 476
Ruling Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company v. Kierejewski
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 479
Ruling Robinson v. United States
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 486
Ruling The Pusey & Jones Company v. Hanssen
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 491
Ruling Omnia Commercial Company, Inc. v. United States
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 502
Ruling Russell Motor Car Company v. United States
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 514
Ruling Watkins v. Sedberry
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 571
Ruling Albert Hanson Lumber Company, Ltd. v. United States
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 581
Ruling New York ex rel. Doyle v. Atwell
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 590
Ruling Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company v. United States
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 592
Ruling Hodges v. Snyder
Apr 9, 1923 · 261 U.S. 600

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