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U.S.-related events during the year of 1860
Events from the year 1860 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Andrew B. Moore (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Elias Nelson Conway (
Democratic ) (until November 16),
Henry Massey Rector (
Democratic ) (starting November 16)
Governor of California :
Governor of Connecticut :
William A. Buckingham (
Republican )
Governor of Delaware :
William Burton (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
Madison S. Perry (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
Joseph E. Brown (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
William Henry Bissell (
Republican ) (until March 18),
John Wood (
Republican ) (starting March 18)
Governor of Indiana :
Ashbel P. Willard (
Democratic ) (until October 4),
Abram A. Hammond (
Democratic ) (starting October 4)
Governor of Iowa :
Ralph P. Lowe (
Republican ) (until January 11),
Samuel J. Kirkwood (
Republican ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Kentucky :
Beriah Magoffin (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Robert C. Wickliffe (
Democratic ) (until January 23),
Thomas Overton Moore (
Democratic ) (starting January 23)
Governor of Maine :
Lot M. Morrill (
Democratic )
Governor of Maryland :
Thomas H. Hicks (Know Nothing)/(
Republican )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Nathaniel Prentice Banks (
Republican )
Governor of Michigan :
Moses Wisner (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
Henry H. Sibley (
Democratic ) (until January 2),
Alexander Ramsey (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Mississippi :
John J. Pettus (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Robert Marcellus Stewart (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Ichabod Goodwin (
Republican )
Governor of New Jersey :
William A. Newell (
Republican ) (until January 17),
Charles Smith Olden (
Republican ) (starting January 17)
Governor of New York :
Edwin D. Morgan (
Republican )
Governor of North Carolina :
John Willis Ellis (
Democratic )
Governor of Ohio :
Salmon P. Chase (
Republican ) (until January 9),
William Dennison (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Oregon :
John Whiteaker (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
William F. Packer (
Democratic )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Thomas G. Turner (
Republican ) (until May 29),
William Sprague IV (
Republican ) (starting May 29)
Governor of South Carolina :
William Henry Gist (
Democratic ) (until December 14),
Francis Wilkinson Pickens (
Democratic ) (starting December 14)
Governor of Tennessee :
Isham G. Harris (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Sam Houston (
Independent )
Governor of Vermont :
Hiland Hall (
Republican ) (until October 12),
Erastus Fairbanks (
Republican ) (starting October 12)
Governor of Virginia :
Henry A. Wise (
Democratic ) (until January 1),
John Letcher (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Wisconsin :
Alexander W. Randall (
Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Julius Catlin (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
John Wood (
Republican ) (until March 20), vacant (starting March 20)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Abram A. Hammond (
Democratic ) (until October 3), vacant (starting October 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
Oran Faville (
Republican ) (until January 11),
Nicholas J. Rusch (
Republican ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : William F. Griffin (
Democratic ) (until January 23),
Henry M. Hyams (
Democratic ) (starting January 23)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Eliphalet Trask (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Edmund B. Fairfield (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
William Holcombe (
Democratic ) (until January 2),
Ignatius L. Donnelly (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
Hancock Lee Jackson (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Robert Campbell (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
Martin Welker (
Democratic ) (until January 9),
Robert C. Kirk (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
Isaac Saunders (political party unknown) (until May 29),
J. Russell Bullock (political party unknown) (starting May 29)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
M. E. Carn (
Democratic ) (until December 14), W. W. Harllee (
Democratic ) (starting December 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas :
Edward Clark (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Burnham Martin (
Republican ) (until October 12),
Levi Underwood (
Republican ) (starting October 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
William Lowther Jackson (
Democratic ) (until January 1),
Robert Latane Montague (no political party) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
Erasmus D. Campbell (
Democratic ) (until January 2),
Butler G. Noble (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Events
Abraham Lincoln is elected president with no support from the South
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 1 –
Dan Katchongva , tribal leader and activist (died
1972 )
January 17 –
Charles K. French , actor, film director, and screenwriter (died
1952 )
January 25 –
Charles Curtis , 31st
vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933; U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1915 to 1929 (died
1936 )
February 28 –
Carl Georg Barth , mathematician and mechanical engineer (died
1939 )
February 29 –
Herman Hollerith , pioneer of automated data processing (died
1929 )
March 2 –
Susanna M. Salter , first woman mayor in the U.S. (died 1961)
March 5 –
Sam Thompson , baseball player (died
1922 )
March 8 –
James A. Hemenway , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1905 to 1909 (died
1923 )
March 11 –
Thomas Hastings , architect (died
1929 )
March 19 –
William Jennings Bryan , politician (died
1925 )
March 27 –
Frank Frost Abbott , classical scholar (died
1924 )
April 7 –
Will Keith Kellogg , industrialist, founder of the
Kellogg Company (died
1951 )
May 15 –
Ellen Axson Wilson ,
First Lady of the United States from 1913 to 1914 as wife of
Woodrow Wilson (died
1914 )
May 16 –
Herman Webster Mudgett , serial killer (d.
1896 )
June 22 –
Tom O'Brien , baseball player (died
1921 )
July 3 –
Charlotte Perkins Gilman , feminist novelist (died
1935 )
July 4 –
Idah McGlone Gibson , journalist (died
1933 )
July 14 –
Owen Wister , Western fiction writer and historian (died
1938 )
July 19 –
Lizzie Borden , murder suspect (died
1927 )
August 8 –
Eliza Putnam Heaton , journalist and editor (died
1919 )
August 9 –
Maude Gillette Phillips , author and educator (d. unknown)
August 13 –
Annie Oakley , West show performer (died
1926 )
August 15
September 5 –
Andrew Volstead , politician (died
1947 )
September 6 –
Jane Addams , social worker, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 (died
1935 )
September 7 – "
Grandma Moses ", born Anna Mary Robertson, folk painter (died
1961 )
September 13 –
John J. Pershing , general (died
1948 )
October –
William Edward White , African American baseball player (died
1937 )
October 12 –
Chester I. Long , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1903 to 1909 (died
1934 )
October 23 –
Molly Elliot Seawell , historian (died
1916 )
October 31 –
Juliette Gordon Low , founder of Girl Scouts (died
1927 )
November 2 –
Soapy Smith , con artist and gangster (shot
1898 )
December 4 –
Lillian Russell , singer and actress (died 1922)
December 15 –
Abner Powell ,
Major league baseball player (died
1953 )
December 18 –
Edward MacDowell , pianist and composer (died
1908 )
December 28 –
Harry B. Smith , songwriter (died
1936 )
December 31
Deaths
January 5 –
John Neumann , first United States bishop to be canonized (born
1811 )
January 13 –
William Mason , politician (born
1786 )
January 18 –
John Nelson , lawyer (born
1791 )
February 25 –
Chauncey Allen Goodrich , lexicographer (born
1790 )
April 6 –
James Kirke Paulding , writer and
United States Secretary of the Navy (born
1778 )
May 9 –
Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Peter Parley), children's author (born
1793 )
May 10 –
Theodore Parker , preacher, Transcendentalist and abolitionist (born
1810 )
May 21 –
Phineas Gage , improbable head injury survivor (born
1823 )
May 31 –
Peter Vivian Daniel , Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (born
1784 )
June 6 –
Henry P. Haun , U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (born
1815 )
July 1 –
Charles Goodyear , inventor (born
1800 )
September 12 –
William Walker , filibuster, briefly President of
Nicaragua , executed (born
1824 )
September 19 –
Thomas D. Rice , actor and dancer (born
1808 )
September 29 –
Chapin A. Harris , physician and dentist (born
1806 )
October 3 –
Rembrandt Peale , portrait painter and museum keeper (born
1778 )
October 25 –
James "Grizzly" Adams , mountain man and bear trainer (born
1812 )
See also
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