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The United States on March 9, 1925

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 Mar 4, 1925
Senate
35 R · 29 D
65 senators · 69th 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
$21.3B
as of Jun 30, 1924
1925-03-09/executiveThe administration
President Calvin Coolidge R
since Mar 4, 1925
Vice President Charles Gates Dawes R
Secretary of War John W. Weeks R
since Mar 5, 1921
1925-03-09/congress69th Congress
Senate · 35 R · 29 D · 1 FL
Oscar Wilder Underwood (Democrat, AL)Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (Democrat, AR)Joseph Taylor Robinson (Democrat, AR)Henry Fountain Ashurst (Democrat, AZ)Thomas Francis Bayard Jr. (Democrat, DE)Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (Democrat, FL)Park Trammell (Democrat, FL)Walter Franklin George (Democrat, GA)Samuel Moffett Ralston (Democrat, IN)Edwin Sidney Broussard (Democrat, LA)William Cabell Bruce (Democrat, MD)Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (Democrat, MI)James Alexander Reed (Democrat, MO)Hubert Durrett Stephens (Democrat, MS)Burton Kendall Wheeler (Democrat, MT)Lee Slater Overman (Democrat, NC)Edward Irving Edwards (Democrat, NJ)Andrieus Aristieus Jones (Democrat, NM)Key Pittman (Democrat, NV)Royal Samuel Copeland (Democrat, NY)Peter Goelet Gerry (Democrat, RI)Ellison DuRant Smith (Democrat, SC)Kenneth Douglas McKellar (Democrat, TN)Earle Bradford Mayfield (Democrat, TX)William Henry King (Democrat, UT)Claude Augustus Swanson (Democrat, VA)Clarence Cleveland Dill (Democrat, WA)Matthew Mansfield Neely (Democrat, WV)John Benjamin Kendrick (Democrat, WY)Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor, MN)Ralph Henry Cameron (Republican, AZ)Samuel Morgan Shortridge (Republican, CA)Hiram Warren Johnson (Republican, CA)Rice William Means (Republican, CO)George Payne McLean (Republican, CT)Hiram Bingham (Republican, CT)Albert Baird Cummins (Republican, IA)Frank Robert Gooding (Republican, ID)William Brown McKinley (Republican, IL)James Eli Watson (Republican, IN)Charles Curtis (Republican, KS)Richard Pretlow Ernst (Republican, KY)William Morgan Butler (Republican, MA)Ovington Eugene Weller (Republican, MD)Frederick Hale (Republican, ME)Selden Palmer Spencer (Republican, MO)Edwin Freemont Ladd (Republican, ND)Lynn Joseph Frazier (Republican, ND)Robert Beecher Howell (Republican, NE)George Higgins Moses (Republican, NH)Tasker Lowndes Oddie (Republican, NV)James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (Republican, NY)Frank Bartlett Willis (Republican, OH)Simeon Davison Fess (Republican, OH)John William Harreld (Republican, OK)Robert Nelson Stanfield (Republican, OR)George Wharton Pepper (Republican, PA)David Aiken Reed (Republican, PA)Peter Norbeck (Republican, SD)Reed Smoot (Republican, UT)Porter Hinman Dale (Republican, VT)Frank Lester Greene (Republican, VT)Wesley Livsey Jones (Republican, WA)Irvine Luther Lenroot (Republican, WI)Robert Marion La Follette (Republican, WI)
House ·
1925-03-09/supreme-courtThe bench
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
Harlan Fiske Stone R
Associate Justice · appointed by Calvin Coolidge · since Feb 5, 1925
1925-03-09/weekWithin a week · Mar 2, 1925 – Mar 16, 1925
Calvin Coolidge takes office · Mar 4, 1925
Law Judiciary Act of 1925
Mar 2, 1925
Ruling Flanagan v. Federal Coal Company
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 222
Ruling Buck v. Kuykendall
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 307
Ruling Bush v. Maloy
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 317
Ruling Shewan v. United States
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 86
Ruling Ex parte in the Matter of Philip Grossman
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 87
Ruling Nahmeh v. United States
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 122
Ruling Carroll v. United States
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 132
Ruling Work v. United States ex rel. Rives
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 175
Ruling Samuels v. McCurdy
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 188
Ruling United States v. Steamship Coamo
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 220
Ruling Stein v. Tip-Top Baking Company
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 226
Ruling Kaplan v. Tod
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 228
Ruling A. B. Small Company v. Lamborn & Company
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 248
Ruling Chicago Great Western Railroad Company v. Schendel
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 287
Ruling Fort Smith Light & Traction Company v. Bourland
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 330
Ruling Mitchell v. United States
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 341
Ruling Grayson v. Harris
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 352
Ruling Blundell v. Wallace
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 373
Ruling Pearson v. United States
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 423
Ruling Merritt v. United States
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 338
Ruling United States v. Butterworth-Judson Corporation
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 387
Ruling Browne v. Union Pacific Railroad Company
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 255
Ruling Austin Nichols & Company v. Steamship Isla de Panay
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 260
Ruling United States v. Cornell Steamboat Company
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 281
Ruling Price v. Magnolia Petroleum Company
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 415
Ruling Davis v. Newton Coal Company
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 292
Ruling United States v. Archibald McNeil & Sons Co., Inc.
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 302
Ruling Smyth v. Asphalt Belt Railway Company
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 326
Ruling Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Stroud
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 404
Ruling Fulton National Bank of Atlanta v. Hozie
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 276
Ruling United States and Bowers v. Kaufman
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 408
Ruling Lynch v. Alworth-Stephens Company
Mar 2, 1925 · 267 U.S. 364
Law Helium Act of 1925
Mar 3, 1925 · Pub. L. 68-544
Law River and Harbors Act of 1925
Mar 3, 1925 · Pub. L. 68-585
Law Probation Act of 1925
Mar 4, 1925 · Pub. L. 68-596
Law Establishment of the United States Navy Band
Mar 4, 1925 · Pub. L. 68-611
Ruling Brooks v. United States
Mar 9, 1925 · 267 U.S. 432
Ruling Sanford & Brooks Co. v. United States
Mar 9, 1925 · 267 U.S. 455
Ruling Horowitz v. United States
Mar 9, 1925 · 267 U.S. 458
Ruling Lancaster v. McCarty
Mar 9, 1925 · 267 U.S. 427
Ruling Lewis v. Roberts
Mar 16, 1925 · 267 U.S. 467

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.