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List of events
Events from the year 1882 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors and
lieutenant governors
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Governors
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Governor of Alabama:
Rufus W. Cobb (
Democratic) (until December 1),
Edward A. O'Neal (
Democratic) (starting December 1)
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Governor of Arkansas:
Thomas James Churchill (
Democratic)
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Governor of California:
George Clement Perkins (
Republican)
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Governor of Colorado:
Frederick Walker Pitkin (
Republican)
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Governor of Connecticut:
Hobart B. Bigelow (
Republican)
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Governor of Delaware:
John W. Hall (
Democratic)
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Governor of Florida:
William D. Bloxham (
Democratic)
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Governor of Georgia:
Alfred H. Colquitt (
Democratic) (until November 4),
Alexander H. Stephens (
Democratic) (starting November 4)
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Governor of Illinois:
Shelby Moore Cullom (
Republican)
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Governor of Indiana:
Albert G. Porter (
Republican)
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Governor of Iowa:
John H. Gear (
Republican) (until January 12),
Buren R. Sherman (
Republican) (starting January 12)
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Governor of Kansas:
John P. St. John (
Republican)
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Governor of Kentucky:
Luke P. Blackburn (
Democratic)
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Governor of Louisiana:
Samuel D. McEnery (
Democratic)
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Governor of Maine:
Harris M. Plaisted (
Democratic)
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Governor of Maryland:
William T. Hamilton (
Democratic)
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Governor of Massachusetts:
John Davis Long (
Republican)
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Governor of Michigan:
David Jerome (
Republican)
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Governor of Minnesota:
John S. Pillsbury (
Republican) (until January 10),
Lucius F. Hubbard (
Republican) (starting January 10)
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Governor of Mississippi:
John M. Stone (
Democratic) (until January 29),
Robert Lowry (
Democratic) (starting January 29)
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Governor of Missouri:
Thomas Theodore Crittenden (
Democratic)
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Governor of Nebraska:
Albinus Nance (
Republican)
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Governor of Nevada:
John Henry Kinkead (
Republican)
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Governor of New Hampshire:
Charles H. Bell (
Republican)
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Governor of New Jersey:
George C. Ludlow (
Democratic)
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Governor of New York:
Alonzo B. Cornell (
Republican) (until end of December 31)
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Governor of North Carolina:
Thomas Jordan Jarvis (
Democratic)
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Governor of Ohio:
Charles Foster (
Republican)
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Governor of Oregon:
W. W. Thayer (
Democratic) (until September 13),
Z. F. Moody (
Republican) (starting September 13)
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Governor of Pennsylvania:
Henry M. Hoyt (
Republican)
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Governor of Rhode Island:
Alfred H. Littlefield (
Republican)
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Governor of South Carolina:
Johnson Hagood (
Democratic) (until December 1),
Hugh Smith Thompson (
Democratic) (starting December 1)
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Governor of Tennessee:
Alvin Hawkins (
Republican)
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Governor of Texas:
Oran M. Roberts (
Democratic)
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Governor of Vermont:
Roswell Farnham (
Republican) (until October 5),
John L. Barstow (
Republican) (starting October 5)
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Governor of Virginia:
Frederick W. M. Holliday (
Democratic) (until January 1),
William E. Cameron (
Re-adjuster) (starting January 1)
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Governor of West Virginia:
Jacob B. Jackson (
Democratic)
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Governor of Wisconsin:
William E. Smith (
Republican) (until January 2),
Jeremiah McLain Rusk (
Republican) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant governors
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Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Sport
Births
- January 6 –
Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (died
1961)
- January 12 –
Milton Sills, stage and film actor (died
1930)
- January 30 –
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd
president of the United States, served from 1933 to 1945 (died
1945)
[6]
- February 8 –
Thomas Selfridge, United States Army officer, first person killed in airplane crash (died
1908)
- February 18 –
Sonora Smart Dodd, founder of Father's Day (died
1978)
- February 28 –
Geraldine Farrar, operatic soprano and film actress (died
1967)
- May 9 –
George Barker, painter (died
1965)
- May 23 –
James Gleason, American actor, playwright, and screenwriter (died
1959)
- July 22 –
Edward Hopper, painter (died
1967)
- July 24 –
Lynn Thorndike, historian of medieval science and alchemy (died
1965)
- July 26 –
Dixie Bibb Graves, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1937 to 1938 (died
1965)
- September 1 –
Georgina Jones, American tennis player (died
1955)
[7]
- September 12 –
George L. Berry, U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1937 to 1938 (died
1948)
- October 5 –
Robert Goddard, rocket scientist (died
1945)
- October 14 –
Éamon de Valera, third president of Ireland (died
1975 in Ireland)
- November 20 –
Ethel May Halls, actress (died
1967)
- November 29 –
Cattle Annie, outlaw with
Little Britches (died
1978)
Deaths
- January 3 –
Clement Claiborne Clay,
U.S. Senator from
Alabama from 1853 to 1862,
Confederate States Senator from
Alabama from 1862 to 1864 (born
1816)
- January 30 –
Henry Whitney Bellows, clergyman of the Unitarian Church (born
1814)
- February 25 –
James Bates,
U.S. Representative from
Maine from 1831 to 1833 (born
1789)
- March 4 –
Milton Latham, U.S. Senator from California from 1860 to 1863 (born
1827)
- March 24 –
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet and professor, dies of
peritonitis in his
Cambridge home (born
1807)
- April 27 –
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet (born
1803)
- June 30 –
Charles Guiteau, assassin of President James A. Garfield (hung) (born
1841)
- July 16 –
Mary Todd Lincoln,
First Lady of the United States (born
1818)
- July 19 –
George N. Stearns, founder of
E. C. Stearns & Company (born
1812)
- August 8 –
Gouverneur K. Warren, civil engineer and
Union Army general in the
American Civil War (born
1830)
- August 16 –
Benjamin Harvey Hill, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1877 to 1882 (born
1823)
- September 27 –
Fernando C. Beaman, teacher, lawyer and politician from Michigan (born
1814)
- November 5 –
Robert Woodward Barnwell, U.S. Senator from South Carolina from 1862 to 1865 (born
1801)
- November 8 –
Richard Arnold,
Union Army brigadier general (born
1828)
- December 10 –
Alexander Gardner, Scottish-born Civil War photographer (born
1821)
- December 12 –
Robert Morris, abolitionist and one of the first African American lawyers (born
1823)
See also
References
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