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List of events
Events from the year 1883 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Edward A. O'Neal (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Thomas James Churchill (
Democratic ) (until January 13),
James Henderson Berry (
Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Governor of California :
George Clement Perkins (
Republican ) (until January 10),
George Stoneman (
Republican ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Colorado :
Frederick Walker Pitkin (
Republican ) (until January 9),
James Benton Grant (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Connecticut :
Hobart B. Bigelow (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Thomas M. Waller (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Delaware :
John W. Hall (
Democratic ) (until January 16),
Charles C. Stockley (
Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Governor of Florida :
William D. Bloxham (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
Governor of Illinois :
Shelby Moore Cullom (
Republican ) (until February 16),
John Marshall Hamilton (
Republican ) (starting February 16)
Governor of Indiana :
Albert G. Porter (
Republican )
Governor of Iowa :
Buren R. Sherman (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
John P. St. John (
Republican ) (until January 8),
George W. Glick (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Kentucky :
Luke P. Blackburn (
Democratic ) (until September 5),
J. Proctor Knott (
Democratic ) (starting September 5)
Governor of Louisiana :
Samuel D. McEnery (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
Harris M. Plaisted (
Democratic ) (until January 3),
Frederick Robie (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Maryland :
William T. Hamilton (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
John Davis Long (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Benjamin F. Butler (
Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Michigan :
David Jerome (
Republican ) (until January 1),
Josiah Begole (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Minnesota :
Lucius F. Hubbard (
Republican )
Governor of Mississippi :
Robert Lowry (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Thomas Theodore Crittenden (
Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska :
Albinus Nance (
Republican ) (until January 4),
James W. Dawes (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Nevada :
John Henry Kinkead (
Republican ) (until January 1),
Jewett W. Adams (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of New Hampshire :
Charles H. Bell (
Republican ) (until June 7),
Samuel W. Hale (
Republican ) (starting June 7)
Governor of New Jersey :
George C. Ludlow (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
Grover Cleveland (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
Thomas Jordan Jarvis (
Democratic )
Governor of Ohio :
Charles Foster (
Republican )
Governor of Oregon :
Z. F. Moody (
Republican )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Henry M. Hoyt (
Republican ) (until January 16),
Robert E. Pattison (
Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Governor of Rhode Island :
Alfred H. Littlefield (
Republican ) (until May 29),
Augustus O. Bourn (
Republican ) (starting May 29)
Governor of South Carolina :
Hugh Smith Thompson (
Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee :
Alvin Hawkins (
Republican ) (until January 15),
William B. Bate (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Texas :
Oran M. Roberts (
Democratic ) (until January 16),
John Ireland (
Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Governor of Vermont :
John L. Barstow (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
William E. Cameron (
Re-adjuster )
Governor of West Virginia :
Jacob B. Jackson (
Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Jeremiah McLain Rusk (
Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California :
John Mansfield (
Republican ) (until January 10),
John Daggett (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
Horace Austin Warner Tabor (
Republican ) (until January 9),
William H. Meyer (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
William H. Bulkeley (
Republican ) (until January 3),
George G. Sumner (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Florida :
Livingston W. Bethel (no political party)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
John Marshall Hamilton (
Republican ) (until February 6),
William J. Campbell (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Thomas Hanna (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
Orlando H. Manning (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
David Wesley Finney (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
James E. Cantrill (
Democratic ) (until September 5),
James R. Hindman (
Democratic ) (starting September 5)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Byron Weston (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Oliver Ames (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Moreau S. Crosby (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
Charles A. Gilman (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
G. D. Shands (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
Robert Alexander Campbell (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
Edmund C. Carns (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Alfred W. Agee (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada :
Jewett W. Adams (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
Charles E. Laughton (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
David B. Hill (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
James L. Robinson (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
Rees G. Richards (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
Charles Warren Stone (
Republican ) (until January 16),
Chauncey Forward Black (
Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
Henry Fay (political party unknown) (until May 29),
Oscar Rathbun (political party unknown) (starting May 29)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
John Calhoun Sheppard (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : George H. Morgan (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Benjamin F. Alexander (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Leonidas J. Storey (
Democratic ) (until January 16), Francis M. Martin (
Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Samuel E. Pingree (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
John F. Lewis (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
Sam S. Fifield (
Republican )
Events
May 24:
Brooklyn Bridge opens.
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Sport
Births
January 10
January 19 –
Waite Phillips , businessman and philanthropist (died
1964 )
January 20 –
Enoch L. Johnson , political boss and racketeer (died
1968 )
January 25 –
Homer Bone , U.S. Senator from Washington from 1933 to 1944 (died
1970 )
January 30 –
Eddie Collins , vaudeville-veteran comic (died
1940 )
March 3 –
Edwin Carewe , Native American director (died
1940 )
March 19 –
Joseph Stilwell , general (died
1946 )
April 2 –
Pearl Doles Bell , film scenarist, novelist and editor (died
1968 )
April 3 –
Walter Walker , U.S. Senator from Colorado in 1932 (died
1956 )
April 12 –
Imogen Cunningham , photographer (died
1976 )
May 22 –
Jane Grey , actress (died
1944 )
May 23 –
Douglas Fairbanks , swashbuckling silent film actor (died
1939 )
June 7 –
Sylvanus Morley ,
Mayanist (died
1948 )
June 21 –
Richard Remer , athlete (died
1973 )
June 25 –
Paul Bartholomew , architect (died
1973 )
June 26 –
Mary van Kleeck , labor activist (died
1972 )
July 4 –
Rube Goldberg , cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor (died 1970)
July 24 –
Nelle Wilson Reagan , mother of
United States President
Ronald Reagan (d.
1962 )
August 18 –
Sidney Hatch , athlete (died
1966 )
September 5 –
Mel Sheppard , athlete (died
1942 )
September 19 –
Mabel Vernon , suffragist (died
1975 )
November 8 –
Charles Demuth , painter (died
1935 )
November 25 –
Merrill C. Meigs , newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (died
1968 )
November 26 –
Belle da Costa Greene , librarian (died
1950 )
December 19 –
Barry Byrne , architect (died
1967 )
December 22 –
Edna Goodrich , actress (died
1972 )
December 31 –
Leo Otis Colbert , admiral and engineer, director of the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (died
1968 )
Deaths
January 10 –
Samuel Mudd , physician imprisoned for conspiring with
John Wilkes Booth in the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln (born
1833 )
January 12 –
Clark Mills , sculptor (born
1810 )
January 13 –
Webster Wagner , inventor, manufacturer and politician (born
1817 )
February 16 –
Stephen P. Hempstead , 2nd Governor of Iowa from 1850 to 1854 (born
1812 )
March 4 –
Alexander H. Stephens , only vice president of the
Confederate States of America (born
1812 )
March 15 –
Henry C. Wayne , U.S. Army officer,
Confederate brigadier general (born 1815)
March 26 – Joseph Saberton, U.S. Army private,
Union Army (born 1830)
March 28 –
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford , general and railroad executive (born
1807 )
April 4 –
Peter Cooper , industrialist, inventor, philanthropist and candidate for President of the U.S. (born
1791 )
April 6 –
Benjamin Wright Raymond , politician, twice mayor of Chicago (born
1801 )
April 28 –
William M. Browne , politician and newsman, Acting
Confederate States Secretary of State in 1862 (born
1823 in Ireland )
May 15 –
Josiah Gorgas , Northern-born
Confederate general (born
1818 )
June 14
July 15 –
General Tom Thumb , dwarf performer (born
1838 )
July 22 –
Edward Ord , engineer and U.S. Army officer who saw action in the
Seminole War , the
Indian Wars and the
American Civil War (born
1818 )
July 23 –
Ginery Twichell , transportation manager and politician (born
1811 )
July 24 –
Thomas Swann , politician and president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1847 to 1853 (born
1809 )
July 27 –
Montgomery Blair , politician and lawyer (born
1813 )
September 16 –
Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. , actor and theatre manager (born
1821 )
October 4 –
Henry Farnam , surveyor, railroad president and philanthropist (born
1809 )
October 22 –
Thomas Mayne Reid , novelist (born
1818 in Ireland )
November 20 –
Augustus C. Dodge , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1848 to 1855 (born
1812 )
November 24 –
Albert Fitch Bellows , landscape painter (born
1829 )
November 26 –
Sojourner Truth , African American abolitionist and women's rights activist (born c.
1797 )
December 27 –
Andrew A. Humphreys , general and civil engineer (born
1810 )
Mary S. B. Shindler , poet (born
1810 )
See also
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