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List of events
Events from the year 1867 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 ) (until December 5),
Henry Huntly Haight (
Democratic ) (starting December 5)
Governor of Connecticut :
Joseph R. Hawley (
Republican ) (until May 1),
James E. English (
Democratic ) (starting May 1)
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 ) (until January 23),
Conrad Baker (
Republican ) (starting January 23)
Governor of Iowa :
William M. Stone (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
Samuel J. Crawford (
Republican )
Governor of Kentucky :
Governor of Louisiana :
James Madison Wells (
Republican ) (until June 3),
Benjamin Franklin Flanders (
Republican ) (starting June 3)
Governor of Maine :
Samuel Cony (
Republican ) (until January 2),
Joshua Chamberlain (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Maryland :
Thomas Swann (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Alexander H. Bullock (
Republican )
Governor of Michigan :
Henry H. Crapo (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
William R. Marshall (
Republican )
Governor of Mississippi :
Benjamin G. Humphreys (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Thomas Clement Fletcher (
Republican )
Governor of Nebraska :
Alvin Saunders (
Republican ) (until March 1),
David Butler (
Republican ) (starting March 1)
Governor of Nevada :
Henry G. Blasdel (
Republican )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Frederick Smyth (
Republican ) (until June 6),
Walter Harriman (
Republican ) (starting June 6)
Governor of New Jersey :
Marcus Lawrence Ward (
Republican )
Governor of New York :
Reuben Fenton (
Republican )
Governor of North Carolina :
Jonathan Worth (Conservative)
Governor of Ohio :
Jacob Dolson Cox (
Republican )
Governor of Oregon :
George L. Woods (
Republican )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Andrew Gregg Curtin (
Republican ) (until January 15),
John W. Geary (
Republican ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Rhode Island :
Ambrose Everett Burnside (
Republican )
Governor of South Carolina :
James Lawrence Orr (
Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee :
William G. Brownlow (
Republican )
Governor of Texas :
James W. Throckmorton (
Democratic ) (until August 8),
Elisha M. Pease (
Republican ) (starting August 8)
Governor of Vermont :
Paul Dillingham (
Republican ) (until October 13),
John B. Page (
Republican ) (starting October 13)
Governor of Virginia :
Francis Harrison Pierpont (
Republican )
Governor of West Virginia :
Arthur I. Boreman (
Republican )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Lucius Fairchild (
Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Events
January–March
March 30:
Alaska Purchase
April–June
July–September
October–December
"A Brush for the Lead", lithograph by
Currier and Ives , 1867
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 1 –
Lew Fields , vaudeville performer (died 1941)
January 8 –
Emily Greene Balch , writer and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (died 1961)
January 14 –
James H. Hughes , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1937 till 1943 (died 1953)
January 17 –
Louise Upton Brumback , landscape painter (died 1929)
February 3 –
Charles Henry Turner , African American entomologist (died 1923)
February 7 –
Laura Ingalls Wilder , novelist (died 1957)
[1]
February 8
February 27 –
Irving Fisher , economist (died 1947)
March 4 –
Charles Pelot Summerall , U.S. Army general (died 1955)
March 6 –
Samuel Cody , aviation pioneer (died 1913)
March 10 –
Lillian Wald , nurse (died 1940)
March 21 –
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. , theatrical producer (died 1932)
March 25 –
Gutzon Borglum , artist, sculptor, creator of the
Mount Rushmore National Memorial (died
1941 )
March 29 –
Cy Young ,
Major League Baseball pitcher (died 1955)
April 11 –
Mark Keppel , Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (died
1928 )
April 16 –
Wilbur Wright , aviation pioneer (died
1912 )
May 21 –
Anne Walter Fearn (died
1939 ), physician.
[2] * May 21 –
Augustus Owsley Stanley , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1919 to 1925 (died
1958 )
May 29 –
Charles A. Rawson , U.S. Senator from Iowa in 1922 (died 1936)
June 6 –
David T. Abercrombie , businessman, co-founder of
Abercrombie & Fitch (died 1931)
June 8 –
Frank Lloyd Wright , architect (died 1959)
June 14 –
John Englehart , Northwest Frontier painter (died 1915)
July 25 –
Alexander Rummler , painter (died 1959)
July 31 –
S. S. Kresge , retailer (died 1966)
September 5 –
Amy Beach , classical composer and pianist (died 1944)
October 6 –
George Horace Lorimer , newspaper editor (died 1937)
October 12 –
Helen Gilman Noyes Brown , philanthropist (died 1942)
October 21 –
Aldred Scott Warthin , cancer geneticist (died 1931)
October 31 –
David Graham Phillips , journalist and novelist (died 1911)
November 16 –
William F. Kirby , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1916 till 1921 (died 1934)
November 24
December 23 –
Madam C. J. Walker , born Sarah Breedlove, African American entrepreneur and philanthropist (died 1919)
December 30 –
Simon Guggenheim , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1907 till 1913 (died 1941)
Deaths
January 20 –
Nathaniel Parker Willis , author, poet and editor (born
1806 )
February 2 –
Forceythe Willson , poet (born
1837 )
March 6 –
Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Ward"), humorist (born
1834 ) (tuberculosis)
March 16 –
Benjamin Hanby , songwriter (born
1833 ) (tuberculosis)
March 29 –
George R. Riddle , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1864 to 1867 (born
1817 )
April 3 –
George W. Randolph , lawyer, planter,
Confederate general, 3rd
Confederate States Secretary of War (born
1818 )
May 11 –
Joseph A. Wright , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1862 to 1863 (born
1810 )
May 27 –
Thomas Bulfinch , collector of myths and legends (born
1796 )
July 3 –
Lazarus W. Powell , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1859 to 1865 (born
1812 )
July 31 –
Catharine Sedgwick , novelist (born
1789 )
September 3 –
James A. McDougall , U.S. Senator from California from 1861 to 1867 (born
1817 )
September 23 –
Michael O'Laughlen , Conspirator in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (born
1840 ) (yellow fever)
September 26 –
James Ferguson , Scottish-born astronomer and engineer (born
1797 )
September 29 –
Sterling Price , 11th
governor of Missouri ,
United States Army brigadier general in the
Mexican–American War ,
Confederate Army major general in the
American Civil War (born
1809 )
October 7 –
Henry Timrod , poet (born
1829 ) (tuberculosis)
November 19 –
Fitz-Greene Halleck , poet (born
1790 )
December 3 –
Margaret Lea Houston , First Lady of the
Republic of Texas (born
1819 )
See also
References
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