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The United States on October 12, 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
Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge R · since Aug 2, 1923
Senate
40 R · 22 D
62 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 ≈ $19.59
in today's dollars
Public debt
$22.3B
as of Jun 30, 1923
1923-10-12/executiveThe administration
President Calvin Coolidge R
since Aug 2, 1923
Vice President vacant
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
1923-10-12/congress68th Congress
Senate · 40 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)Wesley Livsey Jones (Republican, WA)Irvine Luther Lenroot (Republican, WI)Davis Elkins (Republican, WV)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House ·
1923-10-12/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
1923-10-12/weekWithin a week · Oct 5, 1923 – Oct 19, 1923
Ruling Frese v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
Oct 15, 1923 · 263 U.S. 1

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.