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The United States on April 6, 1931

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President
Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover R · since Mar 4, 1929
Senate
35 R · 28 D
64 senators · 72nd Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
19 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $21.60
in today's dollars
Public debt
$16.2B
as of Jun 30, 1930
1931-04-06/executiveThe administration
President Herbert Clark Hoover R
since Mar 4, 1929
Vice President Charles Curtis R
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon R
since Mar 9, 1921
Attorney General William D. Mitchell R
since Mar 4, 1929
Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur R
since Mar 5, 1929
Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams III R
since Mar 5, 1929
Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde R
since Mar 6, 1929
Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson R
since Mar 28, 1929
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Clawson Roop R
since Aug 15, 1929
Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley R
since Dec 9, 1929
1931-04-06/congress72nd Congress
Senate · 35 R · 28 D · 1 FL
Hugo Lafayette Black (Democrat, AL)Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (Democrat, AR)Carl Trumbull Hayden (Democrat, AZ)Henry Fountain Ashurst (Democrat, AZ)Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (Democrat, FL)Park Trammell (Democrat, FL)Walter Franklin George (Democrat, GA)George McGill (Democrat, KS)Alben William Barkley (Democrat, KY)Edwin Sidney Broussard (Democrat, LA)David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat, MA)Millard Evelyn Tydings (Democrat, MD)Harry Bartow Hawes (Democrat, MO)Hubert Durrett Stephens (Democrat, MS)Burton Kendall Wheeler (Democrat, MT)Cameron A. Morrison (Democrat, NC)Key Pittman (Democrat, NV)Robert Ferdinand Wagner (Democrat, NY)Royal Samuel Copeland (Democrat, NY)Robert Johns Bulkley (Democrat, OH)John William Elmer Thomas (Democrat, OK)Ellison DuRant Smith (Democrat, SC)Kenneth Douglas McKellar (Democrat, TN)Thomas Terry Connally (Democrat, TX)William Henry King (Democrat, UT)Claude Augustus Swanson (Democrat, VA)Clarence Cleveland Dill (Democrat, WA)John Benjamin Kendrick (Democrat, WY)Henrik Shipstead (Farmer-Labor, MN)Samuel Morgan Shortridge (Republican, CA)Hiram Warren Johnson (Republican, CA)Charles Winfield Waterman (Republican, CO)Hiram Bingham (Republican, CT)Frederic Collin Walcott (Republican, CT)John Gillis Townsend Jr. (Republican, DE)Smith Wildman Brookhart (Republican, IA)John Thomas (Republican, ID)Otis Ferguson Glenn (Republican, IL)James Eli Watson (Republican, IN)Arthur Raymond Robinson (Republican, IN)Phillips Lee Goldsborough (Republican, MD)Frederick Hale (Republican, ME)Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (Republican, MI)Roscoe Conkling Patterson (Republican, MO)Gerald Prentice Nye (Republican, ND)Lynn Joseph Frazier (Republican, ND)Robert Beecher Howell (Republican, NE)George Higgins Moses (Republican, NH)Hamilton Fish Kean (Republican, NJ)Dwight Whitney Morrow (Republican, NJ)Bronson Murray Cutting (Republican, NM)Tasker Lowndes Oddie (Republican, NV)Simeon Davison Fess (Republican, OH)Frederick Steiwer (Republican, OR)David Aiken Reed (Republican, PA)James John Davis (Republican, PA)Felix Hebert (Republican, RI)Peter Norbeck (Republican, SD)Reed Smoot (Republican, UT)Porter Hinman Dale (Republican, VT)Wesley Livsey Jones (Republican, WA)John James Blaine (Republican, WI)Robert Marion La Follette Jr. (Republican, WI)Henry Drury Hatfield (Republican, WV)
House ·
1931-04-06/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
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
Harlan Fiske Stone R
Associate Justice · appointed by Calvin Coolidge · since Feb 5, 1925
Charles Evans Hughes R
Chief Justice · appointed by Herbert Hoover · since Feb 13, 1930
Owen Josephus Roberts R
Associate Justice · appointed by Herbert Hoover · since May 20, 1930
1931-04-06/weekWithin a week · Mar 30, 1931 – Apr 13, 1931
Ruling Hans Rees' Sons, Incorporated v. North Carolina ex rel. Maxwell
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 123
Ruling Interstate Transit, Incorporated v. Lindsey
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 183
Ruling Herron v. Southern Pacific Company
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 91
Ruling Columbus & Greenville Railway Company v. Miller
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 96
Ruling United States v. Wells
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 102
Ruling Smith v. Springdale Amusement Park, Limited
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 121
Ruling Southern Railway Company v. Hussey
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 136
Ruling Eckert v. Burnet
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 140
Ruling First National Bank of Chicago v. United States
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 142
Ruling Burnet v. Whitehouse
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 148
Ruling Buck v. Jewell-Lasalle Realty Company
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 191
Ruling Jewell-Lasalle Realty Company v. Buck
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 202
Ruling Burnet v. Henry
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 229
Ruling Burnet v. Porter
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 230
Ruling Klein v. United States
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 231
Ruling New York Life Insurance Company v. Bowers
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 242
Ruling Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Norwood
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 249
Ruling Bonwit Teller & Company v. United States
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 258
Ruling Pagel v. Maclean
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 266
Ruling United States v. Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 269
Ruling Standard Marine Insurance Company, Limited v. Scottish Metropolitan Assurance Company, Limited
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 284
Ruling United States v. Utah
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 64
Ruling Group No. 1 Oil Corporation v. Bass
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 279
Ruling Susquehanna Power Company v. State Tax Commission of Maryland
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 291
Ruling Susquehanna Power Company v. State Tax Commission of Maryland
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 297
Ruling Burnet v. Thompson Oil & Gas Company
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 301
Ruling Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company v. Martin
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 209
Ruling Standard Oil Company (Indiana) v. United States
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 235
Ruling Maynard v. Elliott
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 273
Ruling Farbwerke Vormals Meister Lucius & Bruning v. Chemical Foundation, Incorporated
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 152
Ruling Burnet v. Houston
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 223
Ruling Standard Oil Company (Indiana) v. United States
Apr 13, 1931 · 283 U.S. 163

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.