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List of events
Events from the year 1874 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
David P. Lewis (
Republican ) (until November 24),
George S. Houston (
Democratic ) (starting November 24)
Governor of Arkansas :
Elisha Baxter (
Republican ) (until November 12),
Augustus Hill Garland (
Democratic ) (starting November 12)
Governor of California :
Newton Booth (
Republican )
Governor of Connecticut :
Charles R. Ingersoll (
Democratic )
Governor of Delaware :
James Ponder (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
Ossian B. Hart (
Republican ) (until March 18),
Marcellus Stearns (
Republican ) (starting March 18)
Governor of Georgia :
James M. Smith (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
John Lourie Beveridge (
Republican )
Governor of Indiana :
Thomas A. Hendricks (
Democratic )
Governor of Iowa :
Cyrus C. Carpenter (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
Thomas A. Osborn (
Republican )
Governor of Kentucky :
Preston H. Leslie (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
William Pitt Kellogg (
Republican )
Governor of Maine :
Sidney Perham (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Nelson Dingley Jr. (
Republican Party ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Maryland :
William Pinkney Whyte (
Democratic ) (until March 4),
James B. Groome (
Democratic ) (starting March 4)
Governor of Massachusetts :
William B. Washburn (
Republican ) (until April 29),
Thomas Talbot (
Republican ) (starting April 29)
Governor of Michigan :
John J. Bagley (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
Horace Austin (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Cushman K. Davis (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Mississippi :
Ridgley C. Powers (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Adelbert Ames (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Missouri :
Silas Woodson (
Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska :
Robert Wilkinson Furnas (
Republican )
Governor of Nevada :
Lewis R. Bradley (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Ezekiel A. Straw (
Republican ) (until June 3),
James A. Weston (
Democratic ) (starting June 3)
Governor of New Jersey :
Joel Parker (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
John Adams Dix (
Republican ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina :
Tod Robinson Caldwell (
Republican ) (until July 11),
Curtis Hooks Brogden (
Republican ) (starting July 11)
Governor of Ohio :
Edward F. Noyes (
Republican ) (until January 12),
William Allen (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Oregon :
La Fayette Grover (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
John F. Hartranft (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Henry Howard (
Republican )
Governor of South Carolina :
Franklin I. Moses Jr. (
Republican ) (until December 1),
Daniel Henry Chamberlain (
Republican ) (starting December 1)
Governor of Tennessee :
John C. Brown (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Edmund J. Davis (
Republican ) (until January 15),
Richard Coke (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Vermont :
Julius Converse (
Republican ) (until October 8),
Asahel Peck (
Republican ) (starting October 8)
Governor of Virginia :
Gilbert Carlton Walker (
Democratic ) (until January 1),
James L. Kemper (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of West Virginia :
John J. Jacob (
Democratic )/(
Independent )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Cadwallader C. Washburn (
Republican ) (until January 5),
William Robert Taylor (
Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama :
Alexander McKinstry (
Republican ) (until November 26),
Robert F. Ligon (
Democratic ) (starting November 26)
Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas :
Volney V. Smith (
Republican ) (until November 12), abolished thereafter
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Romualdo Pacheco (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
George G. Sill (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Florida :
Marcellus Stearns (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
John Early (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Leonidas Sexton (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
Henry C. Bulis (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Joseph Dysart (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Elias Sleeper Stover (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
John G. Carlisle (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Caesar Antoine (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Thomas Talbot (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Henry H. Holt (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
William H. Yale (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Alphonso Barto (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
Alexander K. Davis (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
Charles Phillip Johnson (
Liberal Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Frank Denver (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Pressly C. Hyman (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
John C. Robinson (
Republican ) (until end of December 31)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
Curtis H. Brogden (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
Jacob Mueller (
Republican ) (until January 12),
Alphonso Hart (
Republican ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
Charles C. Van Zandt (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
Richard Howell Gleaves (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
John C. Vaughn (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), A. T. Lacey (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : vacant (until January 15),
Richard B. Hubbard (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Russell S. Taft (
Republican ) (until October 8),
Lyman G. Hinckley (
Republican ) (starting October 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
John Lawrence Marye Jr. (Conservative) (until January 1),
Robert E. Withers (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : vacant (until January 5),
Charles D. Parker (
Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Events
Undated
Ongoing
Births
Herbert Hoover
January 4 –
John Thomas , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1928 to 1933 and from 1940 to 1945 (died
1945 )
January 7 –
M. M. Logan , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1931 to 1939 (died
1939 )
January 9 –
Helen Tufts Bailie , social reformer and activist (died
1962 )
January 29 –
John D. Rockefeller Jr. , financier and philanthropist, son of
John D. Rockefeller (died
1960 )
February 2 –
William T. Innes , writer, ichthyologist, publisher (died
1969 )
March 4 –
Stephen Victor Graham ,
United States Navy Rear Admiral and 18th
Governor of American Samoa (died
1955 )
March 8 –
Charles Weeghman , restaurateur and owner of Chicago Cubs (died
1938 )
April 5 –
Jesse H. Jones , entrepreneur, 9th
United States Secretary of Commerce (died
1956 )
April 16 –
Frederick Van Nuys , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1933 to 1944 (died
1944 )
March 5 –
Daniel O. Hastings , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1928 to 1937 (died
1966 )
March 26 –
Robert Frost , poet (died
1963 )
March 29 –
Lou Henry Hoover ,
First Lady of the United States as wife of
Herbert Hoover (died
1944 )
May 20 –
Augustine Lonergan , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1933 to 1939 (died
1947 )
July 1 –
Edward P. Costigan , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1931 to 1937 (died
1939 )
July 3 –
Margaret G. Hays , comics writer and artist (died
1925 )
August 5 –
Mayme Schweble , gold miner and politician (died
1943 )
August 10
September 13 –
Henry F. Ashurst , U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1912 to 1941 (died
1962 )
December 4 –
Edwin S. Broussard , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1921 to 1933 (died
1934 )
Deaths
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(November 2011 )
Millard Fillmore
January 7 –
John Burton Thompson , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1853 to 1859 (born
1810 )
January 17 –
Chang and Eng Bunker , Thai-American
conjoined twin brothers (born
1811 )
February 24 –
John Bachman , Lutheran minister, social activist and naturalist (born
1790 )
March 8 –
Millard Fillmore , 13th president of the U.S. from 1850 to 1853, and 12th vice president of the U.S. from 1849 to 1850 (born
1800 )
March 11 –
Charles Sumner , U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1851 to 1874 (born
1811 )
June 8 –
Cochise , one of the greatest leaders of the Apache Indians, dies on the Chiricahua reservation in southeastern Arizona
October 6 –
Samuel M. Kier , industrialist (born
1813 )
November 20 –
Jackson Morton , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1849 to 1855 (born
1794 )
Full date unknown
See also
References
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