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List of events
Events from the year 1900 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Joseph F. Johnston (
Democratic ) (until December 1),
William J. Samford (
Democratic ) (starting December 1)
Governor of Arkansas :
Daniel Webster Jones (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
Henry Gage (
Republican )
Governor of Colorado :
Charles Spalding Thomas (
Democratic )
Governor of Connecticut :
George E. Lounsbury (
Republican )
Governor of Delaware :
Ebe W. Tunnell (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
William D. Bloxham (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
Allen D. Candler (
Democratic )
Governor of Idaho :
Frank Steunenberg (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
John Riley Tanner (
Republican )
Governor of Indiana :
James A. Mount (
Republican )
Governor of Iowa :
Leslie M. Shaw (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
William E. Stanley (
Republican )
Governor of Kentucky :
Governor of Louisiana :
Murphy James Foster, Sr. (
Democratic ) (until May 8),
William Wright Heard (
Democratic ) (starting May 8)
Governor of Maine :
Llewellyn Powers (
Republican )
Governor of Maryland :
Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. (
Republican ) (until January 10),
John Walter Smith (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Massachusetts :
Roger Wolcott (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Winthrop Murray Crane (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Michigan :
Hazen S. Pingree (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
John Lind (
Democratic )
Governor of Mississippi :
Anselm J. McLaurin (
Democratic ) (until January 16),
Andrew H. Longino (
Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Governor of Missouri :
Lon Vest Stephens (
Democratic )
Governor of Montana :
Robert Burns Smith (
Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska :
William A. Poynter (
Democratic )
Governor of Nevada :
Reinhold Sadler (
Silver )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Frank W. Rollins (
Republican )
Governor of New Jersey :
Foster MacGowan Voorhees (
Republican )
Governor of New York :
Theodore Roosevelt (
Republican ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina :
Daniel Lindsay Russell (
Republican )
Governor of North Dakota :
Frederick B. Fancher (
Republican )
Governor of Ohio :
Asa S. Bushnell (
Republican ) (until January 8),
George K. Nash (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Oregon :
T. T. Geer (
Republican )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
William A. Stone (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Elisha Dyer, Jr. (
Republican ) (until May 29),
William Gregory (
Republican ) (starting May 29)
Governor of South Carolina :
Miles Benjamin McSweeney (
Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota :
Andrew E. Lee (
Populist )
Governor of Tennessee :
Benton McMillin (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Joseph D. Sayers (
Democratic )
Governor of Utah :
Heber Manning Wells (
Republican )
Governor of Vermont :
Edward Curtis Smith (
Republican ) (until October 4),
William W. Stickney (
Republican ) (starting October 4)
Governor of Virginia :
James Hoge Tyler (
Democratic )
Governor of Washington :
John Rankin Rogers (
Populist )/(
Democratic )
Governor of West Virginia :
George W. Atkinson (
Republican )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Edward Scofield (
Republican )
Governor of Wyoming :
DeForest Richards (
Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
Galveston Hurricane
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 2 –
William Haines , actor (died
1973 )
January 3 –
C. L. Dellums , co-founder of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (died
1989 )
January 4 –
James Bond , ornithologist (died
1989 )
January 5 –
George Magrill , film actor (died
1952 )
January 6 –
John West Sinclair , silent film actor (died
1945 )
January 8 –
Dorothy Adams , character actress (died
1988 )
January 9 –
Richard Halliburton , adventurer, writer (died
1939 )
January 11
January 15 –
Rogers E. M. Whitaker , an editor at The New Yorker and railroad traveler (died
1981 )
January 27 –
Hyman G. Rickover , admiral (died
1986 )
January 28 –
Alice Neel , portrait painter (died
1984 )
January 31 –
Betty Parsons , painter and gallerist (died
1982 )
February 5 –
Adlai Stevenson II , politician (died
1965 )
February 12 –
Roger J. Traynor , judge (died
1983 )
February 13 –
Wingy Manone , jazz trumpeter and bandleader (died
1982 )
February 25 –
Richard Hollingshead , inventor of the drive-in theatre (died
1975 )
March 3 –
Ruby Dandridge , African American film and radio actress (died
1987 )
March 4 –
Herbert Biberman , screenwriter, film director (died
1971 )
March 8 –
Howard Aiken , computing pioneer (died
1973 )
March 29 –
Oscar Elton Sette , fisheries scientist (died
1972 )
April 1 –
William Benton , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1949 to 1953 (died
1973 )
April 5 –
Spencer Tracy , film actor (died
1967 )
April 10 –
Arnold Orville Beckman , chemist and investor (died
2004 )
April 13 –
Sorcha Boru , born Claire Jones, art deco potter, ceramic sculptor (died
2006 )
April 26 –
Charles Francis Richter , geophysicist, inventor (died
1985 )
May 5 –
Helen Redfield , geneticist (died
1988 )
May 11 –
Thomas H. Robbins Jr. , admiral (died
1972 )
May 12 –
Joseph Rochefort , captain and cryptanalyst (died
1976 )
May 15 –
Ida Rhodes , mathematician, pioneer in computer programming (died
1986 )
May 27 –
Leopold Godowsky Jr. , violinist and chemist, co-inventor of reversal film (died
1983 )
May 28
May 31 –
Lucile Godbold , Olympic athlete (died
1981 )
June 3 –
Adelaide Ames , astronomer (died
1932 )
June 4 –
George Watkins , baseball player (died
1970 )
June 7
June 8 –
Lena Baker , African American maid executed for capital murder, pardoned posthumously (died
1945 )
June 14
June 15 –
Paul Mares , jazz trumpeter (died
1949 )
June 19 –
Laura Z. Hobson , author (died
1986 )
June 22 –
Russell Vis , wrestler (died
1990 )
June 23 –
Blanche Noyes , aviator (died
1981 )
June 24 –
Gene Austin , crooner (died
1972 )
June 25 –
Georgia Hale , silent film actress and real estate investor (died
1985 )
July 2 –
Joe Bennett , baseball player (died
1987 )
July 4 –
Nellie Mae Rowe , African American folk artist (died
1982 )
July 5
July 6 –
Frederica Sagor Maas , playwright, essayist and author (died
2012 viveu pra caralho )
July 7
July 8 –
George Antheil , avant-garde composer (died
1959 )
July 9
July 13
July 20 –
Hunter Lane , baseball player (died
1994 )
July 21 –
Isadora Bennett , theatre manager, modern dance publicity agent (died
1980 )
July 22 –
Edward Dahlberg , novelist and poet (died
1977 )
July 23 –
Julia Davis Adams , author, journalist (died
1993 )
July 29 –
Owen Lattimore , scholar of Asia (died
1989 )
August 3 –
Ernie Pyle , journalist (died
1945 )
August 9 –
Charles Farrell , screen actor (died
1990 )
August 11 –
Philip Phillips , archaeologist (died
1994 )
August 15 –
Estelle Brody , silent film actress (died
1995 )
August 17 –
Quincy Howe , journalist (died
1977 )
August 18 –
Glenn Albert Black , archaeologist (died
1964 )
August 19
August 26 –
Margaret Utinsky , nurse, recipient of the
Medal of Freedom (died
1970 )
September 5 –
Grace Eldering , public health scientist, co-developer of vaccine for whooping cough (died
1988 )
September 8 –
Claude Pepper , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1936 to 1951 (died
1989 )
September 17
September 18 –
Thomas Darden ,
rear admiral , 37th
Governor of American Samoa (died
1961 )
September 22 –
Paul Hugh Emmett , chemical engineer (died
1985 )
September 28 –
Isabel Pell , socialite, member of the
French Resistance during WWII (died
1951 )
October 2 –
Olive Ann Alcorn , dancer, model and silent film actress (died
1975 )
October 6 –
Vivion Brewer , desegregationist (died
1991 )
October 9 –
Frederick Moosbrugger , admiral (died
1974 )
October 10 –
Helen Hayes , actress (died
1993 )
October 17 –
Jean Arthur , comic film actress (died
1991 )
October 18 –
Evelyn Berckman , novelist (died
1978 )
November 5
November 6
November 8
November 11 –
Frederick Lawton , 9th
Director of the Office of Management and Budget (died
1975 )
November 13 –
David Marshall Williams , inventor (died 1975)
November 14 –
Aaron Copland , composer (died
1990 )
November 20 –
Florieda Batson , hurdler (died
1996 )
November 29 –
Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally"), Nazi propaganda broadcaster (died
1988 )
December 6 –
Agnes Moorehead , actress (
Bewitched ) (died
1974 )
December 12 –
Sammy Davis Sr. , dancer (died 1988)
December 19 –
Margaret Brundage , illustrator (died
1976 )
Undated
Deaths
January 2 –
Zenas Bliss ,
Union Army general and
Medal of Honor recipient (born
1835 )
January 22 –
David Edward Hughes , inventor of the
microphone and teleprinter (born
1831 )
February 18 –
Clinton L. Merriam , banker and politician (born
1824 )
February 20 –
Washakie , head chief of the
Eastern Snakes (born c.1798/1810)
February 22 –
Dan Rice , clown (born
1823 )
March 19 –
John Bingham , politician and lawyer (born
1815 )
April 7 –
Frederic Edwin Church , landscape painter (born
1826 )
April 24 –
Andrew Smith Hallidie , inventor and cable car pioneer (born
1836 )
[2]
April 30 –
Casey Jones , legendary train engineer (born
1863 )
May 22 –
Nathaniel P. Hill , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1879 to 1885 (born
1832 )
June 11 –
Maria Isabella Boyd , U.S. Civil War spy for the Confederacy (born
1844 )
June 12 –
Lucretia Peabody Hale , journalist and author (born
1820 )
[3]
July 14 –
John H. Gear , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1895 to 1900 (born
1825 )
August 2 –
John Mason Loomis , lumber tycoon, Union militia colonel in the American Civil War and philanthropist (born
1825 )
August 5 –
Luke Pryor , U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1880 (born
1820 )
August 12 –
James Edward Keeler , astronomer (born
1857 )
August 13 –
Collis P. Huntington , railroad promoter (born
1821 )
August 16 –
John James Ingalls , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1891 (born
1833 )
September 20 –
John Alexander McClernand , lawyer, politician, and Union General during the American Civil War (born
1812 )
September 23 –
William Marsh Rice , philanthropist and founder of
Rice University (born
1816 )
September 25 –
John M. Palmer , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1891 to 1897 (born
1817 )
September 29 –
Samuel Fenton Cary , Congressman and prohibitionist (born
1814 )
October 20 –
Charles Dudley Warner , essayist and novelist (born
1829 )
October 22 –
John Sherman , 32nd
United States Secretary of the Treasury , 35th
United States Secretary of State (born
1823 )
November 27 –
Cushman Kellogg Davis , Governor of Minnesota from 1874 to 1876 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1887 to 1900 (born
1838 )
December 21 –
Roger Wolcott , lawyer and politician, 39th
Governor of Massachusetts (born
1847 )
December 31 –
J.T. Wamelink , Dutch-born composer (born
1827 )
See also
References
^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century . Ecam Publication. p. 10.
ISBN
0-942191-01-3 .
^ Millard, Bailey (1924).
"Andrew Smith Hallidie" . History of the San Francisco Bay Region: History and Biography . Vol. 3. Chicago: American Historical Society. pp. 312–317. Retrieved 10 October 2021 – via Google Books.
^ Kuiper, Kathleen (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature . Springfield: Merriam-Webster. p. 508.
ISBN
978-0-87779-042-6 .
Further reading
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