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The United States on October 17, 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
32 R · 28 D
61 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 ≈ $19.04
in today's dollars
Public debt
$20.5B
as of Jun 30, 1925
1925-10-17/executiveThe administration
President Calvin Coolidge R
since Mar 4, 1925
Vice President Charles Gates Dawes R
Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover R
since Mar 5, 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
Secretary of Agriculture William Marion Jardine R
since Mar 5, 1925
Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg R
since Mar 5, 1925
Attorney General John G. Sargent R
since Mar 7, 1925
Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis Sr. R
since Oct 14, 1925
1925-10-17/congress69th Congress
Senate · 32 R · 28 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)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)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)
House ·
1925-10-17/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
1925-10-17/weekWithin a week · Oct 10, 1925 – Oct 24, 1925
Ruling United States v. Tyler
Oct 12, 1925 · 269 U.S. 13
Ruling Agnello v. United States
Oct 12, 1925 · 269 U.S. 20
Ruling Patterson v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co.
Oct 12, 1925 · 269 U.S. 1
Ruling Druggan v. Anderson
Oct 19, 1925 · 269 U.S. 36

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.