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List of events
Events from the year 1907 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
William D. Jelks (
Democratic ) (until January 14),
B. B. Comer (
Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Arkansas :
Governor of California :
George Pardee (
Republican ) (until January 9),
James Gillett (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Colorado :
Jesse Fuller McDonald (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Henry Augustus Buchtel (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Connecticut :
Henry Roberts (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Rollin S. Woodruff (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Delaware :
Preston Lea (
Republican )
Governor of Florida :
Napoleon B. Broward (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
Joseph M. Terrell (
Democratic ) (until June 29),
Hoke Smith (
Democratic ) (starting June 29)
Governor of Idaho :
Frank R. Gooding (
Republican )
Governor of Illinois :
Charles S. Deneen (
Republican )
Governor of Indiana :
J. Frank Hanly (
Republican )
Governor of Iowa :
Albert B. Cummins (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
Edward W. Hoch (
Republican )
Governor of Kentucky :
J. C. W. Beckham (
Democratic ) (until December 10),
Augustus E. Willson (
Republican ) (starting December 10)
Governor of Louisiana :
Newton Crain Blanchard (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
William T. Cobb (
Republican )
Governor of Maryland :
Edwin Warfield (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Curtis Guild, Jr. (
Republican )
Governor of Michigan :
Fred M. Warner (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
John A. Johnson (
Democratic )
Governor of Mississippi :
James K. Vardaman (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Joseph W. Folk (
Democratic )
Governor of Montana :
Joseph Toole (
Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska :
John H. Mickey (
Republican ) (until January 3),
George L. Sheldon (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Nevada :
John Sparks (
Silver )
Governor of New Hampshire :
John McLane (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Charles M. Floyd (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of New Jersey :
Edward C. Stokes (
Republican )
Governor of New York :
Charles Evans Hughes (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
Robert Broadnax Glenn (
Democratic )
Governor of North Dakota :
Elmore Y. Sarles (
Republican ) (until January 9),
John Burke (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Ohio :
Andrew L. Harris (
Republican )
Governor of Oklahoma :
Frank Frantz (
Republican ) (until November 16),
Charles N. Haskell (
Democratic ) (starting November 16)
Governor of Oregon :
George Chamberlain (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Samuel W. Pennypacker (
Republican ) (until January 15),
Edwin Sydney Stuart (
Republican ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Rhode Island :
George H. Utter (
Republican ) (until January 1),
James H. Higgins (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of South Carolina :
Duncan Clinch Heyward (
Democratic ) (until January 15),
Martin Frederick Ansel (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of South Dakota :
Samuel H. Elrod (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Coe I. Crawford (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Tennessee :
John I. Cox (
Democratic ) (until January 17),
Malcolm R. Patterson (
Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Governor of Texas :
S. W. T. Lanham (
Democratic ) (until January 15),
Thomas Mitchell Campbell (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Utah :
John Christopher Cutler (
Republican )
Governor of Vermont :
Fletcher D. Proctor (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
Claude A. Swanson (
Democratic )
Governor of Washington :
Albert E. Mead (
Republican )
Governor of West Virginia :
William M. O. Dawson (
Republican )
Governor of Wisconsin :
James O. Davidson (
Republican )
Governor of Wyoming :
Bryant B. Brooks (
Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama :
Russell M. Cunningham (
Democratic ) (until January 14),
Henry B. Gray (
Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Alden Anderson (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Warren R. Porter (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
Fred W. Parks (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Erastus Harper (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Rollin S. Woodruff (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Everett J. Lake (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware :
Isaac T. Parker (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
Burpee L. Steeves (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Ezra A. Burrell (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
Lawrence Sherman (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Hugh T. Miller (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
John Herriott (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Warren Garst (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
David J. Hanna (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
William J. Fitzgerald (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
William P. Thorne (
Democratic ) (until December 10),
William Hopkinson Cox (
Republican ) (starting December 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Eben Sumner Draper (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Alexander Maitland (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Patrick H. Kelley (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
Ray W. Jones (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Adolph Olson Eberhart (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
John Prentiss Carter (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
John C. McKinley (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Montana :
Edwin L. Norris (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
Edmund G. McGilton (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Melville R. Hopewell (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Lemuel Allen (political party unknown) (until May 22),
Denver S. Dickerson (
Silver ) (starting May 22)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
Francis D. Winston (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota :
David Bartlett (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Robert S. Lewis (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma :
George W. Bellamy (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
William M. Brown (
Republican ) (until January 15),
Robert S. Murphy (
Republican ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Frederick Jackson (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : John Sloan (
Democratic ) (until January 15),
Thomas Gordon McLeod (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota :
John E. McDougall (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Howard C. Shober (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
Ernest Rice (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
E. G. Tollett (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : George D. Neal (
Democratic ) (until January 15),
Asbury Bascom Davidson (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
George H. Prouty (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
James Taylor Ellyson (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington :
Charles E. Coon (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : vacant (until January 7),
William D. Connor (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Events
December 16:
Great White Fleet
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
November 16:
Oklahoma
October 1 – Office of the
Superintendent of
Prisons and
Prisoners established within
Department of Justice .
October 22 –
Panic of 1907 : A
bank run forces
New York 's
Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations.
October 24 – A major American financial crisis is averted when
J. P. Morgan ,
E. H. Harriman ,
James Stillman ,
Henry Clay Frick , and other
Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging
New York Stock Exchange , ending the bank
panic of 1907 , a move which ultimately leads to establishment of the
Federal Reserve System .
November 3 – President Roosevelt approves the takeover of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company by J. P. Morgan's
U.S. Steel company in the wake of the
panic of 1907 .
November 7 –
Delta Sigma Pi (a
co-ed
professional business
fraternity ) is founded at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of
New York University in
New York City .
November 16
November 28 –
Johnny Hayes wins the inaugural
Yonkers Marathon .
December 6 –
Monongah Mining Disaster : A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in
Monongah, West Virginia .
December 16 – The
Great White Fleet departs
Hampton Roads, Virginia on a 14-month circumnavigation of the globe.
December 18 –
Ouachita National Forest is established.
December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in
Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239.
December 31 – The first electric ball drops in
Times Square .
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Southern Pine Lumber Company billing clerk's office,
Texarkana, Arkansas , 1907.
Undated
Ongoing
Sport
Births
January 2 –
Gordon L. Allott , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1955 to 1973 (died
1989 )
January 9
January 19 –
Paul Fannin , U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1959 to 1965 (died
2002 )
February 3 –
James A. Michener , novelist (died
1997 )
February 15 –
Cesar Romero , actor (died
1994 )
February 22
February 25 –
Kathryn Wasserman Davis , philanthropist (died
2013 )
February 26 –
Dub Taylor , screen character actor (died 1994)
February 27 –
Mildred Bailey , Native American jazz singer (died
1951 )
February 28 –
Milton Caniff , cartoonist (died
1988 )
March 12 –
Dorrit Hoffleit , astronomer (died
2007 )
April 21 –
Wade Mainer , singer and banjoist (died
2011 )
May 4 –
Lincoln Kirstein , cultural figure (died
1996 )
May 11 –
Kent Taylor , screen actor (died
1987 )
May 12 –
Katharine Hepburn , screen actress (died
2003 )
May 15 –
Thomas J. Dodd , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1959 to 1971 (died
1971 )
May 15 –
Josef Alexander , composer (died
1992 )
May 26 –
John Wayne , film actor and director (died
1979 )
May 27 –
Rachel Carson , environmental writer (died
1964 )
June 6 –
Nate Barragar , American football player and actor (died
1985 )
July 4
July 7 –
Robert A. Heinlein , science fiction author (died
1988 )
August 19 –
Thruston Ballard Morton , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1957 to 1968 (died
1982 )
August 21 –
John G. Trump , electrical engineer, inventor and physicist (died
1985 )
August 29 –
Lurene Tuttle , radio actress (died
1986 )
August 30 –
John Mauchly , computer scientist (died
1980 )
August 31 –
William Shawn , editor of
The New Yorker (died
1992 )
September 1 –
Walter Reuther , union leader, founded
United Auto Workers (died
1970 )
September 17 –
Warren E. Burger , 15th Chief Justice of the United States (died
1995 )
September 19 –
Lewis F. Powell Jr. ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (died
1998 )
October 22 –
Jimmie Foxx , baseball player, coach, and manager (died
1967 )
November 16 –
Burgess Meredith , actor (died
1997 )
December 23 –
James Roosevelt , businessman and politician (died
1991 )
December 25
December 26 –
Albert Gore Sr. , politician and father of
Al Gore (died
1998 )
Deaths
January 2 –
Henry R. Pease , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1874 to 1875 (born
1835 )
January 24 –
Russell A. Alger , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1902 to 1907 (born
1836 )
February 17 –
Henry Steel Olcott , military officer and co-founder of the
Theosophical Society (born
1832 )
March 9 –
James L. Pugh , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1880 to 1897 (born
1820 )
April 14 –
Frank Manly Thorn , lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist, humorist, inventor and 6th Superintendent of the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (born 1836)
April 23 –
Alferd Packer , cannibal (born
1842 )
May 1 –
Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta , poet (born
1834 )
May 4 –
John Watts de Peyster , author, philanthropist and soldier (born
1821 )
May 8 –
Edmund G. Ross , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1866 to 1871 (born
1826 )
May 9 –
Melissa Elizabeth Banta , poet, travel writer (born
1834 )
May 24 –
John Patton, Jr. , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1894 to 1895 (born
1850 )
May 26 –
Ida Saxton McKinley ,
First Lady of the United States (born
1847 )
June 10 –
Stephen Bates , sheriff of
Vergennes, Vermont (born
1842 )
June 11 –
John Tyler Morgan , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1877 to 1907 (born
1824 )
June 12 –
Ellen Russell Emerson , ethnologist (born
1837 )
June 14 –
William Le Baron Jenney , architect and civil engineer (born
1832 )
June 21 –
Lucien Baker , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1895 to 1901 (born
1846 )
July 11 –
Robert Watt , miner (born
1832 )
July 25 –
Peter Anderson , Union Army Medal of Honor recipient (born
1847 )
July 27 –
Edmund Penus , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1897 to 1907 (born 1821)
August 1 –
Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown , physician and writer (born
1843 )
August 3 –
Augustus Saint-Gaudens , Beaux-Arts sculptor (born
1848 in Ireland )
August 14 –
William Birney , Union Army general, abolitionist, attorney and writer (born
1819 )
October 3 –
Jacob Nash Victor , railroad builder (born
1835 )
October 8 –
Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge ,
Second Lady of the United States (born
1826 )
October 30 –
Caroline Dana Howe , author (born
1824 )
November 22 –
Asaph Hall , astronomer (born
1829 )
December 7 – Carrie Clark, model, notably of Muriel's Babies cigar box fame
December 23 –
Stephen Mallory II , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1897 to 1907 (born
1848 )
Sarah Gibson Humphreys , author and suffragist (born
1830 )
See also
References
External links