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Events from the year 1885 in the United States .
Incumbents
March 4:
First inauguration of Grover Cleveland
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Edward A. O'Neal (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
James Henderson Berry (
Democratic ) (until January 17),
Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr. (
Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Governor of California :
George Stoneman (
Republican )
Governor of Colorado :
James Benton Grant (
Democratic ) (until January 13),
Benjamin Harrison Eaton (
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Connecticut :
Thomas M. Waller (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
Henry B. Harrison (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Delaware :
Charles C. Stockley (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
William D. Bloxham (
Democratic ) (until January 7),
Edward A. Perry (
Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Georgia :
Henry D. McDaniel (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
John Marshall Hamilton (
Republican ) (until January 30),
Richard J. Oglesby (
Republican ) (starting January 30)
Governor of Indiana :
Albert G. Porter (
Republican ) (until January 12),
Isaac P. Gray (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Iowa :
Buren R. Sherman (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
George W. Glick (
Democratic ) (until January 12),
John A. Martin (
Republican ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Kentucky :
J. Proctor Knott (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Samuel D. McEnery (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
Frederick Robie (
Republican )
Governor of Maryland :
Robert Milligan McLane (
Democratic ) (until March 27),
Henry Lloyd (
Democratic ) (starting March 27)
Governor of Massachusetts :
George D. Robinson (
Republican )
Governor of Michigan :
Josiah Begole (
Democratic ) (until January 1),
Russell Alger (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Minnesota :
Lucius F. Hubbard (
Republican )
Governor of Mississippi :
Robert Lowry (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Thomas Theodore Crittenden (
Democratic ) (until January 12),
John S. Marmaduke (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Nebraska :
James W. Dawes (
Republican )
Governor of Nevada :
Jewett W. Adams (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Samuel W. Hale (
Republican ) (until June 4),
Moody Currier (
Republican ) (starting June 4)
Governor of New Jersey :
Leon Abbett (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
Grover Cleveland (
Democratic ) (until January 6),
David B. Hill (
Democratic ) (starting January 6)
Governor of North Carolina :
Thomas Jordan Jarvis (
Democratic ) (until January 21),
Alfred Moore Scales (
Democratic ) (starting January 21)
Governor of Ohio :
George Hoadly (
Democratic )
Governor of Oregon :
Z. F. Moody (
Republican )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Robert E. Pattison (
Democratic )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Augustus O. Bourn (
Republican ) (until May 26),
George P. Wetmore (
Republican ) (starting May 26)
Governor of South Carolina :
Hugh Smith Thompson (
Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee :
William B. Bate (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
John Ireland (
Democratic )
Governor of Vermont :
Samuel E. Pingree (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
William E. Cameron (
Re-adjuster )
Governor of West Virginia :
Jacob B. Jackson (
Democratic ) (until March 4),
Emanuel Willis Wilson (
Democratic ) (starting March 4)
Governor of Wisconsin :
Jeremiah McLain Rusk (
Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California :
John Daggett (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
William H. Meyer (
Republican ) (until January 13),
Peter W. Breene (
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
George G. Sumner (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
Lorrin A. Cooke (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Florida :
Livingston W. Bethel (
Democratic ) (until January 7),
Milton H. Mabry (
Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
William J. Campbell (
Republican ) (until January 30),
John Smith (
Republican ) (starting January 30)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Thomas Hanna (
Republican ) (until January 12),
Mahlon Dickerson Manson (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
Orlando H. Manning (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
David Wesley Finney (
Republican ) (until January 12),
Alexander P. Riddle (
Republican ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
James R. Hindman (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Clay Knobloch (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Oliver Ames (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Moreau S. Crosby (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Archibald Buttars (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
Charles A. Gilman (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
G. D. Shands (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
Robert Alexander Campbell (
Democratic ) (until January 12),
Albert P. Morehouse (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
Alfred W. Agee (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Hibbard H. Shedd (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada :
Charles E. Laughton (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
James L. Robinson (
Democratic ) (until January 21),
Charles M. Stedman (
Democratic ) (starting January 21)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
John George Warwick (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
Chauncey Forward Black (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
Oscar Rathbun (political party unknown) (until May 26),
Lucius B. Darling (
Republican ) (starting May 26)
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
Chauncey Forward Black (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
John Calhoun Sheppard (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Benjamin F. Alexander (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
Cabell R. Berry (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Francis M. Martin (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
Barnett Gibbs (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
John F. Lewis (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
Sam S. Fifield (
Republican )
Events
March 4:
Grover Cleveland becomes the 22nd U.S. president
Thomas A. Hendricks becomes the 21st U.S. vice president
September 2:
Rock Springs massacre
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Sport
Births
January 7 –
Edwin Swatek , swimmer and water polo player (died
1966 )
January 11 –
Alice Paul , suffragist (died
1977 )
January 15 –
Grover Lowdermilk , baseball player (died
1968 )
January 27
February 7 –
Sinclair Lewis fiction writer, recipient of
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930 (died
1951 in Italy)
February 13 –
Bess Truman ,
First Lady of the United States ,
Second Lady of the United States (died
1982 )
February 17 –
Steve Evans , baseball player (died
1943 )
February 18 –
Richard S. Edwards , admiral (died
1956 )
March 6 –
Ring Lardner , writer (died
1933 )
April 1 –
Wallace Beery , actor (died
1949 )
April 7 –
Bee Ho Gray , Wild West star, silent film actor and vaudeville performer (died
1951 )
April 13 –
Vean Gregg , baseball player (died
1964 )
May 2
May 7 –
George "Gabby" Hayes , Western film character actor (died
1969 )
May 14 –
Ben J. Tarbutton , businessman and politician (died
1962 )
May 30 –
Arthur E. Andersen , accountant (died
1947 )
June 29 –
Andrew Tombes , comedian and character actor (died
1976 )
July 4 –
Louis B. Mayer , film producer (died
1957 )
July 6 –
Charles Wisner Barrell , writer (died
1974 )
July 10 –
Mary O'Hara , author and screenwriter (died
1980 )
[2]
July 15 –
Tom Kennedy , actor (died
1965 )
July 22 –
John Thomas Kennedy , general and Medal Honour recipient (died
1969 )
August 15 –
Edna Ferber , novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died
1968 )
[3]
September 7 –
Elinor Wylie (Elinor Morton Hoyt), poet and novelist (died
1928 )
September 11 –
Julian C. Smith , general (died
1975 )
September 15 –
James P. Boyle , politician (died
1939 )
September 22 –
George Gaul , actor (died
1939 )
October 3 –
Sophie Treadwell , dramatist and journalist (died
1970 )
October 9 –
Raymond DeWalt , inventor and businessman (died
1961 )
October 30 –
Ezra Pound , poet (died
1972 in Italy)
November 1 –
Edgar J. Kaufmann , merchant and patron of
Fallingwater (died
1955 )
November 11 –
George S. Patton , General (died
1945 in Heidelberg, Germany)
November 28 –
John Willard , playwright and actor (d.
1942 )
December 2 –
George Minot , physiologist, recipient of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 (died
1950 )
December 6 –
Ernest Palmer , cinematographer (died
1978 )
December 10 –
Elizabeth Baker , economist and academic (died
1973 )
December 19 –
King Oliver , jazz cornet player and bandleader (died
1938 )
December 26 –
Bazoline Estelle Usher , African American educator (died
1992 )
Full date unknown
Deaths
Ulysses S. Grant
January 13 –
Schuyler Colfax , 17th
vice president of the United States from 1869 to 1873 (born
1823 )
January 24 –
Martin Delany , African American abolitionist, journalist and physician (born
1812 )
February 12 –
Alexandre Mouton , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1843 to 1846 (born
1804 )
March 17 –
Susan Warner (pseudonym Elizabeth Weatherell), religious and children's writer (born
1819 )
May 4 –
Irvin McDowell ,
Union Army officer known for defeat in the
First Battle of Bull Run (born
1818 )
May 17 –
Jonathan Young , U.S. Navy commodore (born
1826 )
May 19 –
Robert Emmet Odlum , swimming instructor, dies as result of becoming the first person to jump from the
Brooklyn Bridge (born
1851 )
May 20 –
Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen , 29th
United States Secretary of State (born
1817 )
July 23 –
Ulysses S. Grant , 18th
president of the United States from 1869 to 1877 (born
1822 )
August 10 –
James W. Marshall , contractor, builder of
Sutter's Mill (born
1810 )
September 3 –
William M. Gwin , U.S. Senator from California from 1850 to 1855 and from 1857 to 1861 (born
1805 )
October 5 –
Thomas C. Durant , railroad financier (born
1820 )
October 29 –
George B. McClellan , soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive and politician (born
1826 )
November 25 –
Thomas A. Hendricks , 21st vice president of the United States from March to November 1885 (born
1819 )
December 8 –
William Henry Vanderbilt , entrepreneur (born
1821 )
December 21 –
George S Patton , General (born
1885 )
December 13 –
Benjamin Gratz Brown , politician (born
1826 )
December 15 –
Robert Toombs , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1853 to 1861 (born
1810 )
December 29 –
James E. Bailey , U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to 1881 (born
1821 )
See also
References
External links