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The United States on June 8, 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
41 R · 22 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 ≈ $19.94
in today's dollars
Public debt
$23.0B
as of Jun 30, 1922
1923-06-08/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
1923-06-08/congress68th Congress
Senate · 41 R · 22 D
James Thomas Heflin (Democrat, AL)Oscar Wilder Underwood (Democrat, AL)Joseph Taylor Robinson (Democrat, AR)Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (Democrat, AR)Alva Blanchard Adams (Democrat, CO)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)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 ·
1923-06-08/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
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
1923-06-08/weekWithin a week · Jun 1, 1923 – Jun 15, 1923
Ruling Meyer v. Nebraska
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 390
Ruling Bartels v. Iowa
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 404
Ruling Georgia Railway & Power Company v. Town of Decatur
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 432
Ruling Georgia Railway & Power Company v. Mayor and Council of the City of College Park
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 441
Ruling Houston Coal Company v. United States
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 361
Ruling First National Bank of San Jose v. California
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 366
Ruling United States v. American Linseed Oil Company
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 371
Ruling Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Daughton
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 413
Ruling Collins v. Loisel
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 426
Ruling Brush Electric Company v. City of Galveston
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 443
Ruling Massachusetts v. Mellon
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 447
Ruling Willard, Sutherland & Company v. United States
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 489
Ruling Atwater v. United States
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 495
Ruling Madera Sugar Pine Company v. Industrial Accident Commission of the State of California
Jun 4, 1923 · 262 U.S. 499
Ruling Chas. Wolff Packing Company v. Court of Industrial Relations of the State of Kansas
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 522
Ruling Kentucky Finance Corporation v. Paramount Auto Exchange Corporation
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 544
Ruling Pennsylvania v. West Virginia
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 553
Ruling Sonneborn Brothers v. Cureton
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 506
Ruling Georgia Railway & Power Company v. Railroad Commission of the State of Georgia
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 625
Ruling American Bank & Trust Company v. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 643
Ruling Farmers and Merchants Bank of Monroe v. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 649
Ruling Joslin Manufacturing Company v. City of Providence
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 668
Ruling Bluefield Water Works & Improvement Company v. Public Service Commission of the State of West Virginia
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 679
Ruling City National Bank of El Paso v. El Paso & Northeastern Railroad Company
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 695
Ruling Rindge Company v. County of Los Angeles
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 700
Ruling Milheim v. Moffat Tunnel Improvement District
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 710
Ruling Lion Bonding & Surety Company v. Karatz
Jun 11, 1923 · 262 U.S. 640

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.