Incumbents
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Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors
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Governor of Alabama : Thomas G. Jones (Democratic )Governor of Arkansas : James Philip Eagle (Democratic )Governor of California : Robert Waterman (Republican ) (until January 8), Henry Markham (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of Colorado : Job Adams Cooper (Republican ) (until January 13), John Long Routt (Republican ) (starting January 13)Governor of Connecticut : Morgan G. Bulkeley (Republican )Governor of Delaware : Benjamin T. Biggs (Democratic ) (until January 20), Robert J. Reynolds (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Governor of Florida : Francis P. Fleming (Democratic )Governor of Georgia : William J. Northen (Democratic )Governor of Idaho : N. B. Willey (Republican )Governor of Illinois : Joseph W. Fifer (Republican )Governor of Indiana : Alvin P. Hovey (Republican ) (until November 23), Ira Joy Chase (Republican ) (starting November 23)Governor of Iowa : Horace Boies (Democratic )Governor of Kansas : Lyman U. Humphrey (Republican )Governor of Kentucky : Simon B. Buckner (Democratic ) (until September 2), John Y. Brown (Democratic ) (starting September 2)Governor of Louisiana : Francis T. Nicholls (Democratic )Governor of Maine : Edwin C. Burleigh (Republican )Governor of Maryland : Elihu Emory Jackson (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : John Q. A. Brackett (Republican ) (until January 8), William E. Russell (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Governor of Michigan : Cyrus G. Luce (Republican ) (until January 1), Edwin B. Winans (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Governor of Minnesota : William R. Merriam (Republican )Governor of Mississippi : John M. Stone (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : David R. Francis (Democratic )Governor of Montana : Joseph Toole (Democratic )Governor of Nebraska : John Milton Thayer (Republican )Governor of Nevada : Frank Bell (Republican ) (until January 5), Roswell K. Colcord (Republican ) (starting January 5)Governor of New Hampshire : David H. Goodell (Republican ) (until January 8), Hiram A. Tuttle (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of New Jersey : Leon Abbett (Democratic )Governor of New York : David B. Hill (Democratic ) (until end of December 31)Governor of North Carolina : Daniel Gould Fowle (Democratic ) (until April 7), Thomas Michael Holt (Democratic ) (starting April 7)Governor of North Dakota : John Miller (Republican ) (until January 7), Andrew H. Burke (Republican ) (starting January 7)Governor of Ohio : James E. Campbell (Democratic )Governor of Oregon : Sylvester Pennoyer (Democratic )Governor of Pennsylvania : James A. Beaver (Republican ) (until January 20), Robert E. Pattison (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Governor of Rhode Island : John W. Davis (Democratic ) (until May 26), Herbert W. Ladd (Republican ) (starting May 26)Governor of South Carolina : Benjamin Ryan Tillman (Democratic )Governor of South Dakota : Arthur C. Mellette (Republican )Governor of Tennessee : Robert Love Taylor (Democratic ) (until January 19), John P. Buchanan (Democratic ) (starting January 19)Governor of Texas : Lawrence Sullivan Ross (Democratic ) (until January 20), James Stephen Hogg (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Governor of Vermont : Carroll S. Page (Republican )Governor of Virginia : Philip W. McKinney (Democratic )Governor of Washington : Elisha Peyre Ferry (Republican )Governor of West Virginia : Aretas B. Fleming (Democratic )Governor of Wisconsin : William D. Hoard (Republican ) (until January 5), George W. Peck (Democratic ) (starting January 5)Governor of Wyoming : Amos W. Barber (Republican )
Lieutenant governors
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Lieutenant Governor of California : Stephen M. White (Democratic ) (until January 8), John B. Reddick (Republican ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : William Grover Smith (Republican ) (until January 13), William Story (Republican ) (starting January 13)Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Samuel E. Merwin (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : John S. Gray (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Lyman Ray (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Ira Joy Chase (Republican ) (until November 23), Francis M. Griffith (Republican ) (starting November 23)Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Alfred N. Poyneer (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Andrew J. Felt (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : James William Bryan (Democratic ) (until September 2), Mitchell Cary Alford (Democratic ) (starting September 2)Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : James Jeffries (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : William H. Haile (political party unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : William Ball (Republican ) (until January 1), John Strong (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Albert E. Rice (Republican ) (until January 5), Gideon S. Ives (Republican ) (starting January 5)Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : M. M. Evans (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Stephen Hugh Claycomb (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Montana : John E. Rickards (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : George D. Meiklejohn (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Thomas J. Majors (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Frank Bell (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Joseph Poujade (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of New York : Edward F. Jones (Democratic ) (until end of December 31)Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Thomas M. Holt (Democratic ) (until April 7), vacant (starting April 7)Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Alfred Dickey (Republican ) (until January 7), Roger Allin (Republican ) (starting January 7)Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : William V. Marquis (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : William T. Davies (Republican ) (until January 20), Louis Arthur Watres (Republican ) (starting January 20)Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : William T. C. Wardwell (political party unknown) (until May 26), Henry A. Stearns (political party unknown) (starting May 26)Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Eugene B. Gary (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : James H. Fletcher (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), George H. Hoffman (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Benjamin J. Lea (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), William C. Dismukes (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Thomas B. Wheeler (Democratic ) (until January 19), George Cassety Pendleton (Democratic ) (starting January 19)Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Henry A. Fletcher (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : James Hoge Tyler (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : Charles E. Laughton (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : George W. Ryland (Republican ) (until January 5), Charles Jonas (Democratic ) (starting January 5)
January 2 – A. L. Drummond of New York is appointed Chief of the Treasury Secret Service.
January 5 – Henry B. Brown , of Michigan , is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court .
January 13 – In California , Leland Stanford (Rep.) re-elected Senator .
January 17 – George Bancroft dies at Washington DC at age 91, all government buildings flying flags lower to half mast until after the funeral.
January 20 – Jim Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state.
January 27 – Mammoth Mine disaster
January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii .
March 3
March 14 – In New Orleans , a lynch mob storms the Old Parish Prison and lynches 11 Italians who had been found not guilty of the murder of Police Chief David Hennessy .
March 30 – Shoshone National Forest is established in Wyoming , the first U.S. National Forest .
April 1 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago .
May 5 – The Music Hall in New York (later known as Carnegie Hall ) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.
May 20 – Thomas Edison 's prototype kinetoscope is first displayed at Edison's Laboratory, for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.
June 1 – The Johnstown Inclined Plane opens in Johnstown, Pennsylvania .
June 21 – First long-distance transmission of alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
September 23 – California Institute of Technology in California is founded.
October 1 – Stanford University in California opens its doors.
October 16 – White River National Forest is established in Colorado .
November 28 – The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is organized in St. Louis , Missouri.
December 17 – Drexel University is inaugurated as the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry in Philadelphia .
January–June
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January 1 – Charles Bickford , actor (died 1967 )
January 2 – Charles P. Thompson , actor (died 1979 )
January 7 – Zora Neale Hurston , Harlem Renaissance writer (died 1960 )
January 25 – Wellman Braud , jazz bassist (died 1966 )
January 28 – Bill Doak , baseball player (died 1954 )
January 30 – Walter Beech , aviator and aircraft manufacturer (died 1950 )
February 10 – Elliot Paul , writer (died 1958 )
February 12 – Eugene Millikin , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1941 to 1957 (died 1958 )
February 13 – Grant Wood , painter (died 1942 )
February 15 – Henry J. Knauf , politician (died 1950 )
March 10 – Sam Jaffe , actor (died 1984 )
March 19 – Earl Warren , Chief Justice of the United States (died 1974 )
March 26 – Will Wright , actor (died 1962 )
April 13 – Nella Larsen , novelist (died 1964 )
April 15 – Wallace Reid , actor (died 1923 )
April 19 – W. Alton Jones , industrialist and philanthropist (died 1962 )
April 26 – Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd , mistress of Franklin D. Roosevelt (died 1948 )
May 21 – John Peale Bishop , writer (died 1944 )
May 22 – Eddie Edwards , jazz trombonist (died 1963 )
May 24 – William F. Albright , archeologist and Biblical scholar (died 1971 )
May 26 –
May 30 – Ben Bernie , bandleader (died 1943 )
June 3 – Jim Tully , vagabond, pugilist and writer (died 1947 )
June 8 – Audrey Munson , model and silent film actress (died 1996 )
June 9 – Cole Porter , composer and songwriter (died 1964 )
June 28
June 30 – Man Mountain Dean , wrestler (died 1953 ) July–December
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July 5 – John Howard Northrop , biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 (suicide 1987 )
July 10 – Edith Quimby , medical researcher and physicist (died 1982 )
July 16 – Blossom Seeley , singer and vaudeville performer (died 1974 )
July 18 – Billy Sullivan , actor (died 1946 )
July 26 – William J. Connors , politician (died 1961 )
August 1 – Edward Streeter , humorist (died 1976 )
August 15 – Chief Yowlachie , Native American actor (died 1966 )
August 29 – Joyce Hall , founder of Hallmark Cards (died 1982 )
September 3 – Annie Elizabeth Delany , African American physician and author (died 1995 )
September 28 – Myrtle Gonzalez , silent film actress (died 1918 )
October 7 – Charles R. Chickering , illustrator (died 1970 )
October 25 – Charles Coughlin , antisemitic radio host and Catholic priest (died 1979 )
October 29 – Fanny Brice , actress, comedian and singer (died 1951 )
November 2 – David Townsend , art director (died 1935 )
November 7 – Miriam Cooper , silent film actress (died 1976 )
November 10 – Carl Stalling , cartoon film composer (died 1972 )
November 15 – Vincent Astor , philanthropist (died 1959 )
November 20 – Leon Cadore , baseball pitcher (died 1958 )
December 14
December 26 – Henry Miller , novelist (died 1980 )
January 5 – Emma Abbott , operatic soprano (born 1850 )
January 17 – George Bancroft , historian (born 1800 )
January 29 – William Windom , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1870 to 1881 and from 1881 to 1883 (born 1827 )
February 14 – William Tecumseh Sherman , Civil War general (born 1820 )
February 21 – James Timberlake , law enforcement officer (born 1846 )
February 28 – George Hearst , U.S. Senator from California from 1887 to 1891 (born 1820 )
March 6
March 21 – Joseph E. Johnston , Confederate Army general (born 1807 )
April 2 – Albert Pike , Confederate military officer, attorney, writer and Freemason (born 1809 )
April 7 – P. T. Barnum , showman, businessman, and politician (b. 1810 )
April 14 – Annie Nowlin Savery , suffragist (born 1831 in the United Kingdom )
June 9 – Henry Edwards , entomologist and actor (born 1827 in the United Kingdom )
June 17 – Harrison Ludington , 13th Governor of Wisconsin from 1876 to 1878 (born 1812)
June 21 – Joseph E. McDonald , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1875 to 1881 (born 1819 )
July 4 – Hannibal Hamlin , 15th vice president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (born 1809 )
August 5 – Thomas S. Bocock , U.S. Congressman, Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives (born 1815 )
August 12 – James Russell Lowell , Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat and abolitionist (born 1819 )
August 14
August 27 – Samuel C. Pomeroy , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1861 to 1873 (born 1816 )
September 10 – Charles B. Clark , politician and entrepreneur (born 1844 )
September 28 – Herman Melville , novelist, short story writer and poet (born 1819 )
October 16 – Sarah Winnemucca , Northern Paiute author, activist and educator (born 1844 )
November 6 – J. Gregory Smith , Vermont governor (born 1818 )
November 17 – George H. Cooper , admiral (born 1821 )
December 7 – Mary Crane , activist; mother of writer Stephen Crane (born 1827 )
December 12 – Julia A. Ames , reformer (born 1861 )
December 20 – Preston B. Plumb , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1877 to 1891 (born 1837 )
December 29 – Marion McKinley Bovard , academic administrator, 1st president of the University of Southern California (born 1847 ) See also
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