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List of events
Events from the year 1897 in the United States.
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
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Governors
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Governor of Alabama:
Joseph F. Johnston (
Democratic)
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Governor of Arkansas:
James Paul Clarke (
Democratic) (until January 12),
Daniel Webster Jones (
Democratic) (starting January 12)
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Governor of California:
James Budd (
Democratic)
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Governor of Colorado:
Albert McIntire (
Republican) (until January 12),
Alva Adams (
Democratic) (starting January 12)
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Governor of Connecticut:
Owen Vincent Coffin (
Republican) (until January 6),
Lorrin A. Cooke (
Republican) (starting January 6)
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Governor of Delaware:
William T. Watson (
Democratic) (until January 19),
Ebe W. Tunnell (
Democratic) (starting January 19)
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Governor of Florida:
Henry L. Mitchell (
Democratic) (until January 5),
William D. Bloxham (
Democratic) (starting January 5)
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Governor of Georgia:
William Yates Atkinson (
Democratic)
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Governor of Idaho:
William J. McConnell (
Republican) (until January 4),
Frank Steunenberg (
Democratic) (starting January 4)
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Governor of Illinois:
John Peter Altgeld (
Democratic) (until January 11),
John Riley Tanner (
Republican) (starting January 11)
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Governor of Indiana:
Claude Matthews (
Democratic) (until January 11),
James A. Mount (
Republican) (starting January 11)
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Governor of Iowa:
Francis M. Drake (
Republican)
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Governor of Kansas:
Edmund N. Morrill (
Republican) (until January 11),
John W. Leedy (
Populist) (starting January 11)
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Governor of Kentucky:
William O. Bradley (
Republican)
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Governor of Louisiana:
Murphy James Foster, Sr. (
Democratic)
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Governor of Maine:
Henry B. Cleaves (
Republican) (until January 2),
Llewellyn Powers (
Republican) (starting January 2)
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Governor of Maryland:
Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. (
Republican)
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Governor of Massachusetts:
Roger Wolcott (
Republican)
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Governor of Michigan:
John T. Rich (
Republican) (until January 1),
Hazen S. Pingree (
Republican) (starting January 1)
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Governor of Minnesota:
David M. Clough (
Republican)
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Governor of Mississippi:
Anselm J. McLaurin (
Democratic)
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Governor of Missouri:
William Joel Stone (
Democratic) (until January 11),
Lon Vest Stephens (
Democratic) (starting January 11)
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Governor of Montana:
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Governor of Nebraska:
Silas A. Holcomb (
Democratic)
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Governor of Nevada:
Reinhold Sadler (
Silver)
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Governor of New Hampshire:
Charles A. Busiel (
Republican) (until January 7),
George A. Ramsdell (
Republican) (starting January 7)
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Governor of New Jersey:
John W. Griggs (
Republican)
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Governor of New York:
Frank S. Black (
Republican) (starting January 1)
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Governor of North Carolina:
Elias Carr (
Democratic) (until January 12),
Daniel Lindsay Russell (
Republican) (starting January 12)
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Governor of North Dakota:
Roger Allin (
Republican) (until January 6),
Frank A. Briggs (
Republican) (starting January 6)
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Governor of Ohio:
Asa S. Bushnell (
Republican)
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Governor of Oregon:
William Paine Lord (
Republican)
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Governor of Pennsylvania:
Daniel H. Hastings (
Republican)
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Governor of Rhode Island:
Charles W. Lippitt (
Republican) (until May 25),
Elisha Dyer, Jr. (
Republican) (starting May 25)
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Governor of South Carolina:
John Gary Evans (
Democratic) (until January 18),
William Haselden Ellerbe (
Democratic) (starting January 18)
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Governor of South Dakota:
Charles H. Sheldon (
Republican) (until January 1),
Andrew E. Lee (
Populist) (starting January 1)
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Governor of Tennessee:
Peter Turney (
Democratic) (until January 21),
Robert Love Taylor (
Democratic) (starting January 21)
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Governor of Texas:
Charles A. Culberson (
Democratic)
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Governor of Utah:
Heber Manning Wells (
Republican)
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Governor of Vermont:
Josiah Grout (
Republican)
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Governor of Virginia:
Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (
Democratic)
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Governor of Washington:
John McGraw (
Republican) (until January 11),
John Rankin Rogers (
Populist)/(
Democratic) (starting January 11)
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Governor of West Virginia:
William A. MacCorkle (
Democratic) (until March 4),
George W. Atkinson (
Republican) (starting March 4)
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Governor of Wisconsin:
William H. Upham (
Republican) (until January 4),
Edward Scofield (
Republican) (starting January 4)
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Governor of Wyoming:
William A. Richards (
Republican)
Lieutenant governors
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Lieutenant Governor of California:
William T. Jeter (
Democratic)
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Lieutenant Governor of Colorado:
Jared L. Brush (
Republican)
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Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut:
Lorrin A. Cooke (
Republican) (until January 6),
James D. Dewell (
Republican) (starting January 6)
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Lieutenant Governor of Idaho:
F. J. Mills (
Republican) (until January 4),
George F. Moore (
Democratic) (starting January 4)
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Lieutenant Governor of Illinois:
Joseph B. Gill (
Democratic) (until January 11),
William Northcott (
Republican) (starting January 11)
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Lieutenant Governor of Indiana:
Mortimer Nye (
Democratic) (until January 11),
William S. Haggard (
Republican) (starting January 11)
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Lieutenant Governor of Iowa:
Matt Parrott (
Republican)
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Lieutenant Governor of Kansas:
James A. Troutman (
Republican) (until January 11),
Alexander M. Harvey (Populist) (starting January 11)
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Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky:
William Jackson Worthington (
Republican)
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Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana:
Robert H. Snyder (
Democratic)
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Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: vacant (until month and day unknown),
Winthrop M. Crane (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
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Lieutenant Governor of Michigan:
Joseph R. McLaughlin (
Republican) (until January 1),
Thomas B. Dunstan (
Republican) (starting January 1)
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Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota:
Frank A. Day (
Republican) (until January 5),
John L. Gibbs (
Republican) (starting January 5)
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Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi:
J. H. Jones (
Democratic)
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Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: John B. O'Meara (
Democratic) (until January 11), August Bolte (
Democratic) (starting January 11)
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Lieutenant Governor of Montana:
Alexander Campbell Botkin (
Republican) (until month and day unknown),
Archibald E. Spriggs (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
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Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska:
Robert E. Moore (
Democratic) (until month and day unknown),
James E. Harris (
Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
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Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: vacant (until month and day unknown),
James R. Judge (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
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Lieutenant Governor of New York:
Timothy L. Woodruff (
Republican) (starting January 1)
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Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina:
Rufus A. Doughton (
Democratic) (until January 12),
Charles A. Reynolds (
Republican) (starting January 12)
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Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota:
John H. Worst (
Republican) (until January 6),
Joseph M. Devine (
Republican) (starting January 6)
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Lieutenant Governor of Ohio:
Asa W. Jones (
Republican)
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Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania:
Walter Lyon (
Republican)
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Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island:
Edwin Allen (
Republican) (until May 25),
Aram J. Pothier (
Republican) (starting May 25)
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Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina:
Washington H. Timmerman (
Democratic) (until January 18),
Miles Benjamin McSweeney (
Democratic) (starting January 18)
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Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota:
Charles N. Herreid (
Republican) (until January 1),
Daniel T. Hindman (
Republican) (starting January 1)
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Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee:
Ernest Pillow (
Democratic) (until month and day unknown), John Thompson (
Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
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Lieutenant Governor of Texas:
George Taylor Jester (
Democratic)
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Lieutenant Governor of Vermont:
Nelson W. Fisk (
Republican)
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Lieutenant Governor of Virginia:
Robert Craig Kent (
Democratic)
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Lieutenant Governor of Washington:
F. H. Luce (
Republican) (until January 11),
Thurston Daniels (Populist) (starting January 11)
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Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin:
Emil Baensch (
Republican)
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Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
- January 3 –
Marion Davies, film actress (died
1961)
- February 27 –
Marian Anderson, African American contralto (died
1993)
- March 2 –
Minor Hall, jazz drummer (died
1959)
- March 4 –
Lefty O'Doul, baseball player and restaurateur (died
1969)
- March 8 –
Charles W. Brooks, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1940 to 1949 (died
1957)
- March 11 –
Henry Cowell, composer (died
1965)
- March 24 –
Theodora Kroeber, writer and anthropologist (died
1979)
- April 26 –
Eddie Eagan, Olympic gold medal boxer and bobsledder (died
1967)
- May 6 –
William A. Purtell, U.S. Senator from Connecticut in 1952 and from 1953 to 1959 (died
1978)
- May 14 –
Sidney Bechet, African American jazz saxophonist (died
1959 in France)
- June 6 –
Homer E. Capehart, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1945 to 1963 (died
1979)
- July 9 –
Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. Army general (died
1989)
- July 10 –
John Gilbert, silent film actor (died
1936)
- July 24 –
Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer and author
[4]
- September 24 –
Lee Fenner, American footballer (died
1964)
- September 25 –
William Faulkner, novelist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 (died
1962)
- October 22 –
Marjorie Flack, children's author (died
1958)
[5]
- November 2 –
Richard Russell, Jr., U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1933 to 1971 (died
1971)
- November 8 –
Dorothy Day, journalist and social activist (died
1980)
Deaths
- June 14 1897 Juan Domingo Montoya civil war combat veteran. Mosquero canyon, New Mexico. Valverde, glorieta pass
- April 10 –
Daniel W. Voorhees, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897 (born
1827)
- April 23 –
John Henry Raap, Chicago entrepreneur and retailer (born
1840)
- August 14 –
James Z. George, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1881 to 1897 (born
1826)
- October 3 –
Samuel J. R. McMillan, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1875 to 1887 (born 1826)
- October 11 –
Charles W. Jones, Ireland-born U.S. Senator from Florida from 1875 to 1887 (born
1834)
- October 29 –
- October 31 –
Richard Von Albade Gammon,
University of Georgia football fullback (died from in-game injury) (born
1879)
- November 3 –
Thomas Lanier Clingman, North Carolina congressman, senator and confederate general (born
1812)
See also
References
External links