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Events from the year 1901 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
William J. Samford (
Democratic ) (until June 11),
William D. Jelks (
Democratic ) (starting June 11)
Governor of Arkansas :
Daniel Webster Jones (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
Jeff Davis (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of California :
Henry Gage (
Republican )
Governor of Colorado :
Charles Spalding Thomas (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
James Bradley Orman (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Connecticut :
George E. Lounsbury (
Republican ) (until January 9),
George P. McLean (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Delaware :
Ebe W. Tunnell (
Democratic ) (until January 15),
John Hunn (
Republican ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Florida :
William D. Bloxham (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
William Sherman Jennings (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Georgia :
Allen D. Candler (
Democratic )
Governor of Idaho :
Frank Steunenberg (
Democratic ) (until January 7),
Frank W. Hunt (
Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Illinois :
John Riley Tanner (
Republican ) (until January 14),
Richard Yates Jr. (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Indiana :
James A. Mount (
Republican ) (until January 14),
Winfield T. Durbin (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Iowa :
Leslie M. Shaw (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
William E. Stanley (
Republican )
Governor of Kentucky :
J. C. W. Beckham (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
William Wright Heard (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
Llewellyn Powers (
Republican ) (until January 2),
John Fremont Hill (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Maryland :
John Walter Smith (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Winthrop Murray Crane (
Republican )
Governor of Michigan :
Hazen S. Pingree (
Republican ) (until January 1),
Aaron T. Bliss (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Minnesota :
John Lind (
Democratic ) (until January 7),
Samuel Rinnah Van Sant (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Mississippi :
Andrew H. Longino (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Lon Vest Stephens (
Democratic ) (until January 14),
Alexander Monroe Dockery (
Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Montana :
Robert Burns Smith (
Democratic ) (until January 7),
Joseph Toole (
Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Nebraska :
Governor of Nevada :
Reinhold Sadler (
Silver )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Frank W. Rollins (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Chester B. Jordan (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of New Jersey :
Foster MacGowan Voorhees (
Republican )
Governor of New York :
Benjamin Barker Odell Jr. (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
Daniel Lindsay Russell (
Republican ) (until January 15),
Charles Brantley Aycock (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of North Dakota :
Frederick B. Fancher (
Republican ) (until January 10),
Frank White (
Republican ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Ohio :
George K. Nash (
Republican )
Governor of Oregon :
T. T. Geer (
Republican )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
William A. Stone (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
William Gregory (
Republican ) (until December 16),
Charles D. Kimball (
Republican ) (starting December 16)
Governor of South Carolina :
Miles Benjamin McSweeney (
Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota :
Andrew E. Lee (
Populist ) (until January 8),
Charles N. Herreid (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Tennessee :
Benton McMillin (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Joseph D. Sayers (
Democratic )
Governor of Utah :
Heber Manning Wells (
Republican )
Governor of Vermont :
William W. Stickney (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
James Hoge Tyler (
Democratic )
Governor of Washington :
John Rankin Rogers (
Populist )/(
Democratic ) (until December 26),
Henry McBride (
Republican ) (starting December 26)
Governor of West Virginia :
George W. Atkinson (
Republican ) (until March 4),
Albert B. White (
Republican ) (starting March 4)
Governor of Wisconsin :
Edward Scofield (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Robert M. La Follette Sr. (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Wyoming :
DeForest Richards (
Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Jacob H. Neff (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
Francis Patrick Carney (Populist) (until January 8),
David Courtney Coates (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Lyman A. Mills (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Edwin O. Keeler (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware :
Philip L. Cannon (
Republican ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
J. H. Hutchinson (
Democratic ) (until January 7),
Thomas F. Terrell (
Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
William Northcott (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
William S. Haggard (
Republican ) (until January 14),
Newton W. Gilbert (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
James C. Milliman (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Harry E. Richter (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Albert Estopinal (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
John L. Bates (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Orrin W. Robinson (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
Lyndon A. Smith (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
James T. Harrison (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : August Bolte (
Democratic ) (until January 14),
John Adams Lee (
Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana :
Archibald E. Spriggs (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown),
Frank G. Higgins (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada :
James R. Judge (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Timothy L. Woodruff (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
Charles A. Reynolds (
Republican ) (until January 15),
Wilfred D. Turner (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : vacant (until January 10),
David Bartlett (
Republican ) (starting January 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
John A. Caldwell (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
John P. S. Gobin (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
Charles D. Kimball (
Republican ) (until December 16), vacant (starting December 16)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
Robert B. Scarborough (
Democratic ) (until January 15),
James H. Tillman (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota :
John T. Kean (
Republican ) (until January 8),
George W. Snow (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Seid Waddell (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Newton H. White (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas :
James Browning (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Martin F. Allen (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
Edward Echols (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington :
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
Jesse Stone (
Republican )
Events
January 10: Oil in
Texas .
March 4:
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 25th U.S. vice president
January–March
January 1 –
Pentecostalism is born, at a prayer meeting at
Bethel Bible College in
Topeka, Kansas .
January 3 – Census Commissioner predicts a US population of at least 300 million by 2001
January 5 –
Typhoid fever breaks out in a
Seattle jail, the first of two typhoid outbreaks in the United States during the year.
January 7 –
Alferd Packer is released from prison in the United States after serving 18 years for
cannibalism .
January 10 – In the first great
Texas gusher,
oil is discovered at
Spindletop in
Beaumont, Texas .
January 22 – The Grand Opera House in
Cincinnati , Ohio, is destroyed in a fire.
January 28 –
Baseball 's
American League declares itself a
Major League .
February 4 –
Puccini 's
Tosca makes its U.S. debut at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York.
[1]
February 5
The
Hay–Pauncefote Treaty is signed by the United Kingdom and United States, ceding control of the
Panama Canal to the United States.
J. P. Morgan buys mines and steel mills in the United States, marking the first billion-dollar business deal.
In
Evansville, Indiana , a fire burns through the business district, causing $175,000 of damage.
February 20 – The
Hawaii Territory Legislature convenes for the first time.
February 25 –
U.S. Steel , the first billion-dollar corporation and at some time the world's largest producer of steel, is incorporated by industrialist
J. P. Morgan .
March 2
March 4 – President
William McKinley begins his second term;
Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as
Vice President .
March 9 – The
Olds Motor Co. factory in
Lansing, Michigan , burns to the ground; it is reconstructed with the world's first automobile
assembly line for production of the
Oldsmobile Curved Dash .
[2]
April–June
May 3: The
Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville begins.
July–September
September 6: President
McKinley is shot.
September 14:
"Teddy" Roosevelt succeeds McKinley as the 26th U.S. president.
June 22–July 31 –
The worst heat wave in U.S. history until the 1930s, affecting most areas east of
the 100th meridian , is estimated to have killed over 9,500 people.
July 1 – The
Bureau of Chemistry is established within the
United States Department of Agriculture .
July 24 – Author
O. Henry is released from prison in
Columbus, Ohio after serving 3 years for
embezzlement from the First National Bank in
Austin, Texas .
August 10 –
U.S. Steel recognition strike of 1901 : Members of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers begin a strike against
United States Steel Corporation after failing to reach a settlement of their demands, and 14,000 employees walk off of the job.
[3]
[4]
September 2 –
Vice President
Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a
big stick " at the
Minnesota State Fair .
September 5 – The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed
Minor League Baseball ) is formed in
Chicago .
September 6 – American anarchist
Leon Czolgosz shoots President
William McKinley at the
Pan-American Exposition in
Buffalo, New York .
McKinley dies 8 days later.
September 7 – The
Boxer Protocol is signed between the
Qing Empire of China and the
Eight-Nation Alliance .
September 14 – Vice President
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th
president of the United States , upon the death of President William McKinley.
September 26 – The body of President
Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 2 –
Bob Marshall , wilderness activist, founder of
The Wilderness Society (died
1939 )
January 3 –
Henrietta Bingham , journalist, newspaper executive, horse-breeder and anglophile (died
1968 )
January 4 –
Raoul Berger , Ukrainian-born attorney and law professor (died
2000 )
January 9 –
Chic Young , cartoonist (died
1973 )
February 1
February 8 –
Virginius Dabney , teacher, journalist, writer and editor (died
1995 )
February 9 –
Brian Donlevy , actor (died
1972 )
February 10 –
Stella Adler , actress and teacher (died
1992 )
[6]
March 24 –
Ub Iwerks , animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor and special effects technician (died
1971 )
May 8 –
Turkey Stearnes , baseball player (died
1979 )
[7]
July 3 –
Ruth Crawford Seeger , modernist composer and folk music arranger (died
1953 )
July 9 –
Jester Hairston , actor and composer (died
2000 )
[8]
July 10 –
Daniel V. Gallery , admiral and author (died
1977 )
July 14 –
Lucien Prival , actor (died
1994 )
July 20 –
Heinie Manush , baseball player (died
[1971 )
July 21 –
Albert Hamilton Gordon , businessman and philanthropist (died
2009 )
July 14 –
George Tobias , actor (died
1980 )
July 22 –
Pancho Barnes , pioneer aviator (died
1975 )
July 30 –
John A. Carroll , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1957 to 1963 (died
1983 )
August 3 –
John C. Stennis , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1947 to 1989 (died
1995 )
August 4 –
Louis Armstrong , jazz trumpeter (died
1971 )
August 8 –
Ernest Lawrence , nuclear physicist, winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 (died
1958 )
August 23 –
John Sherman Cooper , U.S. Senator from Kentucky 1946-1949, 1952-1955 and 1956-1973 (died
1991 )
September 24 –
Gerald Warner Brace , writer, educator, sailor and boat builder (died
1978 )
September 28 –
Ed Sullivan , entertainment writer and television host (died
1974 )
December 5 –
Walt Disney , animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and business magnate (died
1966 )
[9]
December 12 –
Fred Barker , criminal member of the
Barker-Karpis gang , son of
Ma Barker (killed
1935 )
December 16 –
Margaret Mead , cultural anthropologist and author (died
1978 )
[10]
Deaths
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
January 6 –
James W. Bradbury , United States Senator from Maine from 1847 to 1853 (born
1802 )
January 16
January 21 –
Elisha Gray , inventor and co-founder of
Western Electric Manufacturing Company (born
1835 )
January 29 –
Alexander H. Jones , Congressional Representative from North Carolina (born
1822 )
February 7 –
Rowena Granice Steele , first female novelist in California (born
1824 )
February 18 –
Anna Gardner , abolitionist (born
1816 )
March 7 –
Ruth Alice Armstrong , American social activist (born
1850 )
March 13 –
Benjamin Harrison , 23rd
president of the United States from 1889 to 1893 and U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1881 to 1887 (born
1833 )
March 18 –
Patrick Donahoe , businessman, publisher of the
Boston
Catholic newspaper
The Pilot (born
1811 )
April 10 –
Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff , reformer (born
1828 )
April 19 –
Alfred Horatio Belo , newswriter and businessman, founder of
The Dallas Morning News (born
1839 )
April 26 –
Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey , educator (born
1819 )
June 2 –
James A. Herne , playwright and actor (born
1839 )
July 4
July 7 –
Eva M. Reed , botanist (born ?)
[11]
July 30 –
Herbert Baxter Adams , educator and historian (born
1850 )
August 4 –
Harriet Pritchard Arnold , author (born
1858 )
August 24 –
Clara Maass , nurse (born
1876 )
[12]
September 14 –
William McKinley , 25th president of the United States from 1897 to 1901 (born
1843 )
October 10 –
Lorenzo Snow , 5th president of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born
1814 )
October 21 –
James A. Walker , Confederate general and US Congressman (born
1832 )
October 29 –
Leon Czolgosz , assassin of President
William McKinley (born
1873 )
November 8 –
Mary Ann Bickerdyke , nurse and hospital administrator for Union soldiers (born
1817 )
November 26 –
John Denny , buffalo soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (born
1846 )
November 27 –
Clement Studebaker , automobile manufacturer (born
1831 )
See also
References
^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century . Ecam Publication. p. 24.
ISBN
0-942191-01-3 .
^ May, George S. (1977). R. E. Olds: Auto Industry Pioneer . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
^ "Order out for All to Strike".
Chicago Daily Tribune . 1901-08-07. p. 1.
^ "Strike Order Is in Full Effect".
Chicago Sunday Tribune . 1901-08-11. p. 1.
^
Views & Reviews . Views & Rewiews Productions. 1971. p. 4.
^
"Stella Adler | American actress | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . Retrieved 10 February 2023 .
^ Johnson, Beatrice (7 October 2020).
"Norman Thomas "Turkey" Stearnes (1901-1979) •" . blackpast.org . Retrieved 14 December 2021 .
^ Mel Watkins (January 30, 2000).
"Jester Hairston, 98, Choral Expert and Actor" .
The New York Times . p. 1 34. Retrieved December 14, 2018 .
^ Ryan, James Gilbert; Schlup, Leonard C. (26 March 2015).
Historical Dictionary of the 1940s . Routledge. p. 107.
ISBN
978-1-317-46865-3 .
^
"Margaret Mead | Biography, Theory, Books, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 16 February 2020 .
^ "Thirteenth Annual Report of the Director". Missouri Botanical Garden Annual Report . 1902 : 22. 1902.
doi :
10.2307/2400120 .
JSTOR
2400120 .
^ Stanton E. Cope. 2011. Clara Maass: An American Heroine. Wing Beats 22(2): 16-19.
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