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List of events
Events from the year 1866 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Robert M. Patton (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Isaac Murphy (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
Frederick Low (
Republican )
Governor of Connecticut :
William A. Buckingham (
Republican ) (until May 2),
Joseph R. Hawley (
Republican ) (starting May 2)
Governor of Delaware :
Gove Saulsbury (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
David S. Walker (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
Charles J. Jenkins (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
Richard J. Oglesby (
Republican )
Governor of Indiana :
Oliver P. Morton (
Republican )
Governor of Iowa :
William M. Stone (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
Samuel J. Crawford (
Republican )
Governor of Kentucky :
Thomas E. Bramlette (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
James Madison Wells (
Republican )
Governor of Maine :
Samuel Cony (
Republican )
Governor of Maryland :
Augustus Bradford (
Unionist ) (until January 10),
Thomas Swann (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Massachusetts :
John Albion Andrew (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Alexander H. Bullock (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Michigan :
Henry H. Crapo (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
Stephen Miller (
Republican ) (until January 11),
William R. Marshall (
Republican ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Mississippi :
Benjamin G. Humphreys (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Thomas Clement Fletcher (
Republican )
Governor of Nevada :
Henry G. Blasdel (
Republican )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Frederick Smyth (
Republican )
Governor of New Jersey :
Joel Parker (
Democratic ) (until January 16),
Marcus Lawrence Ward (
Republican ) (starting January 16)
Governor of New York :
Reuben Fenton (
Republican )
Governor of North Carolina :
Jonathan Worth (Conservative)
Governor of Ohio :
Charles Anderson (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Jacob Dolson Cox (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Oregon :
A. C. Gibbs (
Republican ) (until September 12),
George L. Woods (
Republican ) (starting September 12)
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Andrew Gregg Curtin (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
James Y. Smith (
Republican ) (until May 29),
Ambrose Everett Burnside (
Republican ) (starting May 29)
Governor of South Carolina :
James Lawrence Orr (
Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee :
William G. Brownlow (
Republican )
Governor of Texas :
Andrew J. Hamilton (
Democratic ) (until August 9),
James W. Throckmorton (
Democratic ) (starting August 9)
Governor of Vermont :
Paul Dillingham (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
Francis Harrison Pierpont (
Republican )
Governor of West Virginia :
Arthur I. Boreman (
Republican )
Governor of Wisconsin :
James T. Lewis (
Republican ) (until January 1),
Lucius Fairchild (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant governors
Events
May 16 – U.S.
nickel coin approved
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 5 –
William B. Hanna , sportswriter (died
1930 )
January 6 –
Caro Dawes , wife of
Charles G. Dawes ,
Second Lady of the United States (died
1957 )
January 15 –
Horatio Dresser ,
New Thought religious leader and writer (died
1954 )
January 23 –
Lydia Field Emmet , painter and designer (died
1952 )
January 30 –
Gelett Burgess , humorist (died
1951 )
February 9 –
George Ade , writer, newspaper columnist and playwright (died
1944 )
February 23 –
Joseph Miller Huston , architect working in Pennsylvania (died
1940 )
March 3 –
William Marmaduke Kavanaugh , U.S. Senator from Arkansas in 1913 (died
1915 )
March 17 –
Pierce Butler ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died
1939 )
March 30 –
George Van Haltren , baseball player (died
1945 )
April 13 –
Butch Cassidy , born Robert Leroy Parker, outlaw (killed 1909 in Bolivia)
April 14 –
Anne Sullivan , tutor of Helen Keller (died
1936 )
April 24 –
Claude C. Hopkins , advertising executive (died
1932 )
April 30 –
Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel , pioneer dentist (died
1936 )
May 22 –
Charles F. Haanel ,
New Thought author and businessman (died
1949 )
May 23 –
Edgar J. Banks ,
antiquarian (died
1945 )
June 25 –
Bertha Fowler , educator (died
1952 )
July 22 –
Mary Onahan Gallery , critic (died
1941 )
August 1 –
Claude Fayette Bragdon , architect (died
1946 )
August 8 –
Matthew Henson , African-American explorer (died
1955 )
September 1 –
James J. Corbett , heavyweight boxer (died
1933 )
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September 2 –
Hiram Johnson , U.S. Senator from California from 1917 to 1945 (died
1945 )
September 16 –
Joe Vila , sportswriter (died
1934 )
September 22
September 25 –
Thomas Hunt Morgan , geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 (died
1944 )
November 1 –
John Sheridan Weller , attorney and politician (died
1944 )
November 27 –
George H. Reed , African-American screen actor (died
1952 )
November 28
Deaths
January 16 –
Phineas Quimby , physician (born
1802 )
January 31 –
Thomas B. Marsh , leader of the
Latter Day Saint movement (born
1800 )
February 13 –
John Bernard Fitzpatrick , Catholic Bishop of Boston (born
1812 )
February 21 –
Stephen Elliott Jr. ,
Confederate brigadier general (born
1830 )
March 4 –
Alexander Campbell ,
Scotch-Irish American founder of the
Disciples of Christ (born
1788 )
March 9 –
James F. Trotter , U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1838 (born
1802 )
March 28 –
Solomon Foot , politician (born 1802)
April 1 –
Chester Harding , portrait painter (born
1792 )
May 11 –
George Edmund Badger , U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1846 to 1855 (born
1795 )
May 16 –
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau , son of
Sacagawea , American explorer, guide, fur trapper, trader, and Military Scout. (born
1805 )
May 26 –
Henry Darwin Rogers , geologist (born
1808 )
May 29 –
Winfield Scott , presidential candidate in 1853, Union Civil War General (born
1786 ; died at
West Point, New York )
June 7 –
Chief Seattle , Native American leader (born c. 1786)
June 17 –
Lewis Cass , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1845 to 1848 and from 1849 to 1857 (born
1782 )
July 11 –
James H. Lane , Union Civil War General and U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1861 to 1866 (born
1814 )
July 25 –
Floride Calhoun , wife of
John C. Calhoun ,
Second Lady of the U.S. (born
1792 )
August 1 –
John Ross ,
Principal Chief of the Cherokee (born
1790 )
August 5 –
William Burton , 39th
Governor of Delaware from 1859 to 1863 (born
1789 )
September 7 –
Clement Comer Clay , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1837 to 1841 (born
1789 )
October 13 –
Celadon Leeds Daboll , merchant and inventor (born
1818 )
December 20 –
James Semple , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1843 till 1847 (born
1798 )
See also
References
^ Alexander, Leslie, ed. (2010). "Civil Rights Act of 1866". Encyclopedia of African American History . Vol. 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 699.
^ Reynolds, Donald E. (1964).
"The New Orleans Riot of 1866, Reconsidered" . Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association . 5 (1): 5–27.
ISSN
0024-6816 .
^
"Fast Facts" . The College of Wooster. Archived from
the original on April 19, 2013. Retrieved April 8, 2013 .
^ Orso, Miranda (2002).
"Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller" . Archived from
the original on May 15, 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2013 .
^
"James J. Corbett | American boxer" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved August 8, 2021 .
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