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The United States on November 1, 1927

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
34 D · 30 R
65 senators · 70th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
19 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $19.36
in today's dollars
Public debt
$18.5B
as of Jun 30, 1927
1927-11-01/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
1927-11-01/congress70th Congress
Senate · 34 D · 30 R · 1 FL
James Thomas Heflin (Democrat, AL)Joseph Taylor Robinson (Democrat, AR)Henry Fountain Ashurst (Democrat, AZ)Thomas Francis Bayard Jr. (Democrat, DE)Park Trammell (Democrat, FL)William Julius Harris (Democrat, GA)Daniel Frederic Steck (Democrat, IA)Joseph Eugene Ransdell (Democrat, LA)David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat, MA)William Cabell Bruce (Democrat, MD)Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (Democrat, MI)James Alexander Reed (Democrat, MO)Hubert Durrett Stephens (Democrat, MS)Byron Patton Harrison (Democrat, MS)Burton Kendall Wheeler (Democrat, MT)Thomas James Walsh (Democrat, MT)Furnifold McLendel Simmons (Democrat, NC)Edward Irving Edwards (Democrat, NJ)Andrieus Aristieus Jones (Democrat, NM)Sam Gilbert Bratton (Democrat, NM)Key Pittman (Democrat, NV)Royal Samuel Copeland (Democrat, NY)Peter Goelet Gerry (Democrat, RI)Coleman Livingston Blease (Democrat, SC)Kenneth Douglas McKellar (Democrat, TN)Lawrence Davis Tyson (Democrat, TN)Earle Bradford Mayfield (Democrat, TX)Morris Sheppard (Democrat, TX)William Henry King (Democrat, UT)Claude Augustus Swanson (Democrat, VA)Carter Glass (Democrat, VA)Clarence Cleveland Dill (Democrat, WA)Matthew Mansfield Neely (Democrat, WV)John Benjamin Kendrick (Democrat, WY)Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor, MN)Hiram Warren Johnson (Republican, CA)Lawrence Cowle Phipps (Republican, CO)Charles Winfield Waterman (Republican, CO)George Payne McLean (Republican, CT)Thomas Coleman du Pont (Republican, DE)William Edgar Borah (Republican, ID)Charles Samuel Deneen (Republican, IL)Arthur Raymond Robinson (Republican, IN)Arthur Capper (Republican, KS)Frederic Mosley Sackett (Republican, KY)Frederick Huntington Gillett (Republican, MA)Frederick Hale (Republican, ME)Arthur Robinson Gould (Republican, ME)James Couzens (Republican, MI)Thomas David Schall (Republican, MN)Lynn Joseph Frazier (Republican, ND)Robert Beecher Howell (Republican, NE)George William Norris (Republican, NE)Henry Wilder Keyes (Republican, NH)Walter Evans Edge (Republican, NJ)Simeon Davison Fess (Republican, OH)William Bliss Pine (Republican, OK)Charles Linza McNary (Republican, OR)David Aiken Reed (Republican, PA)Jesse Houghton Metcalf (Republican, RI)William Henry McMaster (Republican, SD)Frank Lester Greene (Republican, VT)Robert Marion La Follette Jr. (Republican, WI)Guy Despard Goff (Republican, WV)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House ·
1927-11-01/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
1927-11-01/weekWithin a week · Oct 25, 1927 – Nov 8, 1927
Ruling Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Southwell
Oct 31, 1927 · 275 U.S. 64
Ruling Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company v. Goodman
Oct 31, 1927 · 275 U.S. 66

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.