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List of events
Events from the year 1895 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
William C. Oates (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
William Meade Fishback (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
James Paul Clarke (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of California :
Henry Markham (
Republican ) (until January 11),
James Budd (
Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Colorado :
Davis Hanson Waite (People's) (until January 8),
Albert McIntire (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Connecticut :
Luzon B. Morris (
Democratic ) (until January 9),
Owen Vincent Coffin (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Delaware :
Governor of Florida :
Henry L. Mitchell (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
William Yates Atkinson (
Democratic )
Governor of Idaho :
William J. McConnell (
Republican )
Governor of Illinois :
John Peter Altgeld (
Democratic )
Governor of Indiana :
Claude Matthews (
Democratic )
Governor of Iowa :
Frank D. Jackson (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
Lorenzo D. Lewelling (
Populist ) (until January 14),
Edmund N. Morrill (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Kentucky :
John Y. Brown (
Democratic ) (until December 10),
William O. Bradley (
Republican ) (starting December 10)
Governor of Louisiana :
Murphy James Foster, Sr. (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
Henry B. Cleaves (
Republican )
Governor of Maryland :
Frank Brown (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Frederic T. Greenhalge (
Republican )
Governor of Michigan :
John T. Rich (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
Knute Nelson (
Republican ) (until January 31),
David M. Clough (
Republican ) (starting January 31)
Governor of Mississippi :
John M. Stone (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
William Joel Stone (
Democratic )
Governor of Montana :
John E. Rickards (
Republican )
Governor of Nebraska :
Lorenzo Crounse (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Silas A. Holcomb (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Nevada :
Roswell K. Colcord (
Republican ) (until January 7),
John Edward Jones (
Silver ) (starting January 7)
Governor of New Hampshire :
John Butler Smith (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Charles A. Busiel (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of New Jersey :
George Theodore Werts (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
Levi P. Morton (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
Elias Carr (
Democratic )
Governor of North Dakota :
Eli C. D. Shortridge (
Democratic )/(
Independent ) (until January 10),
Roger Allin (
Republican ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Ohio :
William McKinley (
Republican )
Governor of Oregon :
Sylvester Pennoyer (
Democratic ) (until January 14),
William Paine Lord (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Robert E. Pattison (
Democratic ) (until January 15),
Daniel H. Hastings (
Republican ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Rhode Island :
D. Russell Brown (
Republican ) (until May 29),
Charles W. Lippitt (
Republican ) (starting May 29)
Governor of South Carolina :
John Gary Evans (
Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota :
Charles H. Sheldon (
Republican )
Governor of Tennessee :
Peter Turney (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
James Stephen Hogg (
Democratic ) (until January 15),
Charles A. Culberson (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Vermont :
Urban A. Woodbury (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (
Democratic )
Governor of Washington :
John McGraw (
Republican )
Governor of West Virginia :
William A. MacCorkle (
Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin :
George W. Peck (
Democratic ) (until January 7),
William H. Upham (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Wyoming :
John E. Osborne (
Democratic ) (until January 7),
William A. Richards (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
David Hopkinson Nichols (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
Jared L. Brush (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Ernest Cady (
Democratic ) (until January 9),
Lorrin A. Cooke (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
F. B. Willis (
Republican ) (until January 7),
F. J. Mills (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
Joseph B. Gill (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Mortimer Nye (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
Warren S. Dungan (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Percy Daniels (Populist) (until January 14),
James A. Troutman (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
Mitchell Cary Alford (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
William J. Worthington (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Hiram R. Lott (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
Robert H. Snyder (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Roger Wolcott (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
David M. Clough (
Republican ) (until January 31),
Frank A. Day (
Republican ) (starting January 31)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
M. M. Evans (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : John B. O'Meara (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Montana :
Alexander Campbell Botkin (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
Thomas J. Majors (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Robert E. Moore (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Joseph Poujade (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown),
Reinhold Sadler (
Silver ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Charles T. Saxton (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
Rufus A. Doughton (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Elmer D. Wallace (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
John H. Worst (
Republican ) (starting January 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
Andrew L. Harris (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
Louis Arthur Watres (
Republican ) (until January 23),
Walter Lyon (
Republican ) (starting January 23)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
Edwin Allen (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
Washington H. Timmerman (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota :
Charles N. Herreid (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
William C. Dismukes (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
Ernest Pillow (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas :
Martin McNulty Crane (
Democratic ) (until January 15),
George Taylor Jester (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Zophar M. Mansur (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
Robert Craig Kent (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington :
F. H. Luce (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : vacant (until January 7),
Emil Baensch (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Events
February 9 – Mintonette, later known as
volleyball , is created by
William G. Morgan at
Holyoke, Massachusetts .
March 1 –
William Lyne Wilson is appointed
United States Postmaster General .
May 27 –
In re Debs : The
Supreme Court of the United States decides that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the
Pullman Strike .
June 28 – The
United States Court of Private Land Claims rules that
James Reavis 's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
July 4 –
Katharine Lee Bates ' lyrics for "
America the Beautiful " are first published.
July 6 –
Van Cortlandt Golf Course opens in
The Bronx as the country's first and oldest public golf course.
[1]
August 19 –
American frontier murderer and outlaw
John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a
saloon in
El Paso, Texas .
September 3 – The first professional
American football game is played, in
Latrobe, Pennsylvania , between the Latrobe
YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club (Latrobe wins 12–0).
September 18 –
Booker T. Washington delivers the
Atlanta Compromise speech.
[2]
November 5 –
George B. Selden is granted the first U.S.
patent for an
automobile .
November 20 –
USS Indiana , the first
battleship in the
United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of this time, is commissioned.
November 25 –
Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in
New York City 's
Times Square district.
November 28 –
Chicago Times-Herald race : The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the
Chicago Times-Herald . Press coverage first arouses significant U.S. interest in the automobile.
[3]
December 24 –
George Washington Vanderbilt II officially opens his
Biltmore Estate on Christmas Eve, inviting his family and guests to celebrate his new home in
Asheville, North Carolina .
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 1
January 4 –
Leroy Grumman , aeronautical engineer, test pilot and industrialist (died
1982 )
January 11 –
Laurens Hammond , inventor (died
1973 )
January 23 –
Harry Darby , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1949 to 1950 (died
1987 )
February 2 –
George Halas , football player (died
1983 )
February 6 –
Babe Ruth , baseball player (died
1948 )
February 25 –
Lew Andreas , basketball coach (died
1984 )
March 4
March 12 –
William C. Lee , general (died
1948 )
March 15 –
Virgil Chapman , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1949 to 1951 (died
1951 )
March 27 –
Ruth Snyder , murderer (electrocuted
1928 )
March 28
April 20 –
Emile Christian , musician (died
1973 )
May 2 –
Lorenz Hart , lyricist (died
1943 )
May 11 –
William Grant Still , "the Dean" of African American composers (died
1978 )
May 15 –
Prescott Bush , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963 (died
1972 )
May 25 –
Dorothea Lange , documentary photographer and photojournalist (died
1965 in the United States )
May 28 –
Samuel D. Jackson , U.S. Senator from Indiana in 1944 (died 1951)
June 10
June 21 –
John Wesley Snyder , businessman and Secretary of the Treasury (died
1985 )
June 24 –
Jack Dempsey , heavyweight boxer (died
1983 )
July 1 –
Lucy Somerville Howorth , lawyer, feminist and politician (died
1997 )
July 3 –
Jean Paige , actress (died
1990 )
July 4 –
Irving Caesar , lyricist and theater composer (died
1996 )
July 9 –
Joe Gleason , baseball pitcher (died
1990 )
July 10 –
Andrew Earl Weatherly , philatelist (died
1981 )
July 12 –
Richard Buckminster Fuller , architect (died
1983 )
July 13 –
Bradley Kincaid , folk singer (died
1989 )
July 19 –
Snake Henry , baseball player (died
1987 )
July 20 –
Chapman Revercomb , politician and lawyer (died
1979 )
July 26
July 30 –
Joseph DuMoe , football coach (died
1959 )
August 10 –
Harry Richman , entertainer (died
1972 )
August 12 –
Lynde D. McCormick , admiral (died
1956 )
September 20 –
Lloyd W. Bertaud , aviator (died
1927 )
September 22 –
Elmer Austin Benson , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1935 to 1936 and 24th Governor of Minnesota from 1937 to 1939 (died
1985 )
September 29 –
Joseph Banks Rhine , parapsychologist (died
1980 )
October 4 –
Buster Keaton , born Joseph Frank Keaton, silent film comedian (died
1966 )
October 6 –
Caroline Gordon , writer and critic (died
1981 )
October 13 –
Mike Gazella , baseball player (died
1978 )
October 14 –
Silas Simmons , Pre-Negro league baseball player, longest-lived professional baseball player (died
2006 )
October 19 –
Lewis Mumford , historian & philosopher of science (died
1990 )
October 22 –
Johnny Morrison , baseball player (died
1966 )
October 23 –
Clinton Presba Anderson , U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1949 to 1973 (died
1975 )
October 30 –
Dickinson W. Richards , physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died
1973 )
November 10 –
John Knudsen Northrop , airplane manufacturer (died
1981 )
November 14 –
Walter Freeman , neurologist (died
1972 )
November 29 –
Busby Berkeley , film director and choreographer (died
1976 )
December 2 –
W. Conway Pierce , chemist (died
1974 )
December 20 –
Susanne Langer , philosopher (died
1985 )
December 24 –
Marguerite Williams , African American geologist (died
1991 )
December 28 –
Carol Ryrie Brink , author (died
1981 )
Deaths
January 9 –
Aaron Lufkin Dennison , watchmaker (born
1812 )
February 20 –
Frederick Douglass , African American rights activist and former slave (born
1817 )
March 22 –
Henry Coppée , historian and biographer (born
1821 )
April 22 –
James F. Wilson , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1883 to 1895. (born
1828 )
May 28 –
Walter Q. Gresham , politician (born
1832 )
June 23
June 29 –
Green Clay Smith , politician (born
1826 )
July 28 –
Edward Beecher , theologian (born
1803 )
August 1 –
Hugh O'Brien , 31st Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (born
1827 )
August 6 –
George Frederick Root , composer (born
1820 )
August 22 –
Luzon B. Morris , politician (born
1827 )
October 2 –
Robert Crozier , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1874 (born
1827 )
October 6 –
L. L. Langstroth , beekeeper (born
1810 )
October 8 –
William Mahone , civil engineer and
Confederate Army major general (born
1826 )
October 14 –
Clara Doty Bates , poet and children's literature author (born
1838 )
November 4 –
Eugene Field , children's author (born
1850 )
Full date unknown –
John Miley , Methodist theologian (born
1813 )
See also
References
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