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List of events
Events from the year 1909 in the United States .
Incumbents
March 4:
William Howard Taft becomes the 27th U.S. president
James S. Sherman becomes the 27th U.S. vice president
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
B. B. Comer (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Governor of California :
James Gillett (
Republican )
Governor of Colorado :
Henry Augustus Buchtel (
Republican ) (until January 12),
John F. Shafroth (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Connecticut :
Governor of Delaware :
Preston Lea (
Republican ) (until January 19),
Simeon S. Pennewill (
Republican ) (starting January 19)
Governor of Florida :
Napoleon B. Broward (
Democratic ) (until January 5),
Albert W. Gilchrist (
Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Georgia :
Hoke Smith (
Democratic ) (until June 26),
Joseph M. Brown (
Democratic ) (starting June 26)
Governor of Idaho :
Frank R. Gooding (
Republican ) (until January 4),
James H. Brady (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Illinois :
Charles S. Deneen (
Republican )
Governor of Indiana :
J. Frank Hanly (
Republican ) (until January 11),
Thomas R. Marshall (
Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Iowa :
Warren Garst (
Republican ) (until January 14),
Beryl F. Carroll (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Kansas :
Edward W. Hoch (
Republican ) (until January 11),
Walter R. Stubbs (
Republican ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Kentucky :
Augustus E. Willson (
Republican )
Governor of Louisiana :
Jared Young Sanders, Sr. (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
William T. Cobb (
Republican ) (until January 6),
Bert M. Fernald (
Republican ) (starting January 6)
Governor of Maryland :
Austin Lane Crothers (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Curtis Guild, Jr. (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Eben Sumner Draper (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Michigan :
Fred M. Warner (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
John A. Johnson (
Democratic ) (until September 21),
Adolph O. Eberhart (
Republican ) (starting September 21)
Governor of Mississippi :
Edmond Noel (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Joseph W. Folk (
Democratic ) (until January 11),
Herbert S. Hadley (
Republican ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Montana :
Edwin L. Norris (
Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska :
George L. Sheldon (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Ashton C. Shallenberger (
Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Nevada :
Denver S. Dickerson (
Silver )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Charles M. Floyd (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Henry B. Quinby (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of New Jersey :
John Franklin Fort (
Republican )
Governor of New York :
Charles Evans Hughes (
Republican )
Governor of North Carolina :
Robert Broadnax Glenn (
Democratic ) (until January 12),
William Walton Kitchin (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Governor of North Dakota :
John Burke (
Democratic )
Governor of Ohio :
Andrew L. Harris (
Republican ) (until January 11),
Judson Harmon (
Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Oklahoma :
Charles N. Haskell (
Democratic )
Governor of Oregon :
George Chamberlain (
Democratic ) (until March 1),
Frank W. Benson (
Republican ) (starting March 1)
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Edwin Sydney Stuart (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
James H. Higgins (
Democratic ) (until January 5),
Aram J. Pothier (
Republican ) (starting January 5)
Governor of South Carolina :
Martin Frederick Ansel (
Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota :
Coe I. Crawford (
Republican ) (until January 5),
Robert S. Vessey (
Republican ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Tennessee :
Malcolm R. Patterson (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Thomas Mitchell Campbell (
Democratic )
Governor of Utah :
John Christopher Cutler (
Republican ) (until January 4),
William Spry (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Vermont :
George H. Prouty (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
Claude A. Swanson (
Democratic )
Governor of Washington :
Governor of West Virginia :
William M. O. Dawson (
Republican ) (until March 4),
William E. Glasscock (
Republican ) (starting March 4)
Governor of Wisconsin :
James O. Davidson (
Republican )
Governor of Wyoming :
Bryant B. Brooks (
Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama :
Henry B. Gray (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Warren R. Porter (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
Erastus Harper (
Republican ) (until January 12),
Stephen R. Fitzgarrald (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware :
Isaac T. Parker (
Republican ) (until January 19),
John M. Mendinhall (
Republican ) (starting January 19)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
Ezra A. Burrell (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Lewis H. Sweetser (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
Lawrence Sherman (
Republican ) (until January 18),
John G. Oglesby (
Republican ) (starting January 18)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Hugh T. Miller (
Republican ) (until January 11),
Frank J. Hall (
Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : vacant (until month and day unknown),
George W. Clarke (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
William J. Fitzgerald (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
William Hopkinson Cox (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Paul M. Lambremont (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Eben Sumner Draper (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Louis A. Frothingham (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Patrick H. Kelley (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
Luther Manship (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
John C. McKinley (
Republican ) (until January 11),
Jacob Friedrich Gmelich (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana :
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
Melville R. Hopewell (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada :
Denver S. Dickerson (
Silver ) (until May 22), vacant (starting May 22)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Horace White (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
Francis D. Winston (
Democratic ) (until January 12),
William C. Newland (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota :
Robert S. Lewis (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : vacant (until January 11),
Francis W. Treadway (
Republican ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma :
George W. Bellamy (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
Robert S. Murphy (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Ralph Watrous (
Republican ) (until January 5),
Arthur W. Dennis (
Republican ) (starting January 5)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
Thomas Gordon McLeod (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota :
Howard C. Shober (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
E. G. Tollett (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), William Kinney (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas :
Asbury Bascom Davidson (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
John A. Mead (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
James Taylor Ellyson (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington :
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
William D. Connor (
Republican ) (until January 4),
John Strange (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Events
January–March
January 1:
Lakeview Gusher
February 24:
Hudson founded
April–June
July–September
October–December
Indianapolis Motor Speedway first season poster
Undated
Ongoing
Births
Barry Goldwater
January 1 –
Dana Andrews , film actor (died
1992 )
January 2 –
Barry Goldwater , U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1953 to 1965 and from 1969 to 1987 (died
1998 )
January 4 –
J. R. Simplot , businessman, founded the
Simplot Company (died
2008 )
January 5 –
Stephen Cole Kleene , mathematician (died
1994 )
February 11
January 30 –
Saul Alinsky , community organizer (died
1972 )
February 9 –
Dean Rusk , politician (died
1994 )
February 18 –
Warren Elliot Henry ,
African American physicist (died
2001 )
February 24 –
August Derleth , writer and anthologist (died
1971 )
March 4 –
Harry Helmsley , real estate entrepreneur (died
1997 )
March 7 –
Roger Revelle , scientist (died
1991 )
March 12 –
Virginia McLaurin , community worker and supercentenarian (died
2022 )
March 24 –
Clyde Barrow , outlaw (died
1934 )
April 13 –
Eudora Welty , fiction writer (died
2001 )
May 7 –
Edwin H. Land , camera inventor (died
1991 )
May 15 –
J. Caleb Boggs , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1961 to 1973 (died
1993 )
May 27 –
Dolores Hope , born Dolores L. DeFina, singer and philanthropist (died
2011 )
May 30 –
Benny Goodman , jazz clarinetist and bandleader (died
1986 )
June 3 –
Ira D. Wallach , businessman and philanthropist (died
2007 )
June 12 –
Archie Bleyer , song arranger and bandleader (died
1989 )
June 14 –
Burl Ives , folk singer (died
1995 in the United States )
July 11 –
Irene Hervey , actress (died
1998 )
July 29 –
Chester Himes , fiction writer (died
1984 )
August 1 –
Sibyl M. Rock , mathematician (died
1981 )
August 10 –
Leo Fender , guitar inventor and manufacturer (died
1991 )
September 12 –
Lawrence Brooks , army veteran and supercentenarian (died
2022 )
September 28 –
Al Capp , cartoonist (died
1979 )
October 1 –
Everett Sloane , character actor (died
1965 )
October 13 –
Herblock , editorial cartoonist (died
2001 )
October 15 –
Robert Trout , journalist (died
2000 )
October 14 –
Dorothy Kingsley , screenwriter and producer (died
1997 )
[4]
November 7 –
Ruby Hurley , civil rights activist (died
1980 )
[5]
November 18 –
Johnny Mercer , songwriter (died
1976 )
November 20 –
Alan Bible , U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1954 to 1974 (died
1988 )
November 27 –
James Agee , writer (died
1955 )
December 9 –
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. , film actor (died
2000 )
December 14 –
Edward Lawrie Tatum , geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died
1975 )
Deaths
January 10
April 9 –
Francis Marion Crawford , novelist (born
1854 )
April 21 –
David Turpie , U.S. Senator from Indiana in 1863 and from 1887 to 1899 (born
1828 )
April 23 –
Franklin Bartlett , Representative from New York (born
1847 )
April 28 –
Frederick Holbrook , 27th Governor of Vermont from 1861 to 1863 (born
1813 )
May 17 –
Helge Alexander Haugan , Norwegian-born banking executive (born
1847 )
June 10 –
Gideon T. Stewart , educator and politician (born
1824 )
June 24 –
Sarah Orne Jewett , writer (born
1849 )
[6]
June 29 –
George B. Cosby ,
Confederate general in the
American Civil War (born
1830 )
August 21 –
George Cabot Lodge , poet (born
1873 )
September 4 –
Clyde Fitch , dramatist (born
1865 )
October 15 –
William Lindsay , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1893 to 1901 (born
1835 )
October 26 –
Oliver Otis Howard ,
Union general and
United States Army officer (born
1830 )
December 10 –
Red Cloud ,
Oglala Lakota Chief (born
1822 )
December 20 –
William Alexander Harris , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1897 to 1903 (born
1841 )
December 24 –
Jean Clemens , youngest child of
Mark Twain (born
1880 )
December 26
See also
References
External links