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List of events
Events from the year 1915 in the United States .
President Woodrow Wilson throws out the first pitch at the
1915 World Series .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Emmet O'Neal (
Democratic ) (until January 18),
Charles Henderson (
Democratic ) (starting January 18)
Governor of Arizona :
George W. P. Hunt (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
George Washington Hays (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
Hiram Johnson (
Republican )
Governor of Colorado :
Elias M. Ammons (
Democratic ) (until January 12),
George Alfred Carlson (
Republican ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Connecticut :
Simeon E. Baldwin (
Democratic ) (until January 6),
Marcus H. Holcomb (
Republican ) (starting January 6)
Governor of Delaware :
Charles R. Miller (
Republican )
Governor of Florida :
Park Trammell (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
John M. Slaton (
Democratic ) (until June 26),
Nathaniel E. Harris (
Democratic ) (starting June 26)
Governor of Idaho :
John M. Haines (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Moses Alexander (
Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Illinois :
Edward F. Dunne (
Democratic )
Governor of Indiana :
Samuel M. Ralston (
Democratic )
Governor of Iowa :
George W. Clarke (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
George H. Hodges (
Democratic ) (until January 11),
Arthur Capper (
Republican ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Kentucky :
James B. McCreary (
Democratic ) (until December 7),
Augustus O. Stanley (
Democratic ) (starting December 7)
Governor of Louisiana :
Luther Egbert Hall (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
William T. Haines (
Republican ) (until January 6),
Oakley C. Curtis (
Democratic ) (starting January 6)
Governor of Maryland :
Phillips Lee Goldsborough (
Republican )
Governor of Massachusetts :
David I. Walsh (
Democratic )
Governor of Michigan :
Woodbridge N. Ferris (
Democratic )
Governor of Minnesota :
Governor of Mississippi :
Earl L. Brewer (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Elliot Woolfolk Major (
Democratic )
Governor of Montana :
Sam V. Stewart (
Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska :
John H. Morehead (
Democratic )
Governor of Nevada :
Tasker L. Oddie (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Emmet D. Boyle (
Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Governor of New Hampshire :
Samuel D. Felker (
Democratic ) (until January 1),
Rolland H. Spaulding (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of New Jersey :
James Fairman Fielder (
Democratic )
Governor of New Mexico :
William C. McDonald (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
Charles S. Whitman (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
Locke Craig (
Democratic )
Governor of North Dakota :
L. B. Hanna (
Republican )
Governor of Ohio :
James M. Cox (
Democratic ) (until January 11),
Frank B. Willis (
Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Oklahoma :
Lee Cruce (
Democratic ) (until January 11),
Robert L. Williams (
Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Oregon :
Oswald West (
Democratic ) (until January 12),
James Withycombe (
Republican ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Pennsylvania :
John K. Tener (
Republican ) (until January 19),
Martin Grove Brumbaugh (
Republican ) (starting January 19)
Governor of Rhode Island :
Aram J. Pothier (
Republican ) (until January 5),
R. Livingston Beeckman (
Republican ) (starting January 5)
Governor of South Carolina :
Governor of South Dakota :
Frank M. Byrne (
Republican )
Governor of Tennessee :
Ben W. Hooper (
Republican ) (until January 17),
Tom C. Rye (
Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Governor of Texas :
Oscar Branch Colquitt (
Democratic ) (until January 19),
James E. Ferguson (
Democratic ) (starting January 19)
Governor of Utah :
William Spry (
Republican )
Governor of Vermont :
Allen M. Fletcher (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Charles W. Gates (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Virginia :
Henry Carter Stuart (
Democratic )
Governor of Washington :
Ernest Lister (
Democratic )
Governor of West Virginia :
Henry D. Hatfield (
Republican )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Francis E. McGovern (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Emanuel L. Philipp (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Wyoming :
Joseph M. Carey (
Democratic ) (until January 4),
John B. Kendrick (
Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama :
Walter D. Seed, Sr. (
Democratic ) (until January 18),
Thomas E. Kilby (
Democratic ) (starting January 18)
Lieutenant Governor of California :
A. J. Wallace (
Republican ) (until January 5),
John Morton Eshleman (Progressive) (starting January 5)
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
Stephen R. Fitzgarrald (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
Moses E. Lewis (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Lyman T. Tingier (
Democratic ) (until January 6),
Clifford B. Wilson (
Republican ) (starting January 6)
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware :
Colen Ferguson (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
Herman H. Taylor (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
Barratt O'Hara (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
William P. O'Neill (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
William L. Harding (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Sheffield Ingalls (
Republican ) (until January 11),
William Yoast Morgan (
Republican ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
Edward J. McDermott (
Democratic ) (until December 7),
James D. Black (
Democratic ) (starting December 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Thomas C. Barret (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Edward P. Barry (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
Grafton D. Cushing (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
John Q. Ross (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Luren D. Dickinson (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
Joseph A. A. Burnquist (
Republican ) (until December 30), vacant (starting December 30)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
Theodore G. Bilbo (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
William Rock Painter (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Montana :
W. W. McDowell (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
Samuel R. McKelvie (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
James Pearson (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Gilbert C. Ross (political party unknown) (until January 4),
Maurice J. Sullivan (
Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico :
Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Edward Schoeneck (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
Elijah L. Daughtridge (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota :
Anton T. Kraabel (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
John H. Fraine (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
W. A. Greenlund (
Democratic ) (until January 11),
John H. Arnold (
Republican ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma :
J. J. McAlester (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
Martin E. Trapp (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
John M. Reynolds (
Republican ) (until January 19),
Frank B. McClain (
Republican ) (starting January 19)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
Rosewell Burchard (
Republican ) (until January 5),
Emery J. San Souci (
Republican ) (starting January 5)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota :
Edward Lincoln Abel (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Peter Norbeck (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : vacant (until January 19),
William P. Hobby (
Democratic ) (starting January 19)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Frank E. Howe (
Republican ) (until January 19),
Hale K. Darling (
Republican ) (starting January 19)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
James Taylor Ellyson (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington :
Louis Folwell Hart (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
Thomas Morris (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Edward F. Dithmar (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Events
January–March
Souvenir booklet for the
Panama–Pacific International Exposition
January – While working as a cook at New York's Sloan Hospital under an assumed name,
Typhoid Mary infects 25 people, and is placed in
quarantine for life.
January 12
January 21 –
Kiwanis International is founded in
Detroit ,
Michigan .
January 26 –
Rocky Mountain National Park is established.
January 28 – An act of the
U.S. Congress designates the
United States Coast Guard , begun in 1790, as a military branch over
19 years.
February 2 –
Vanceboro international bridge bombing
February 8 – The controversial film,
The Birth of a Nation , directed by
D. W. Griffith , premieres in
Los Angeles .
February 12 – In Washington, D.C. the first stone of the
Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
February 20 – In
San Francisco, California the
Panama–Pacific International Exposition is opened.
March 3 –
NACA , the predecessor of
NASA , is founded.
March 25 – The
USS F-4 submarine sinks off
Hawaii ; 23 are killed.
March 28 – The first
Roman Catholic
Liturgy is celebrated by
Archbishop
John Ireland at the newly consecrated
Cathedral of Saint Paul in
Saint Paul, Minnesota .
April–June
Ralph DePalma (1882-1956) wins the
1915 Indianapolis 500 on May 31.
May 6 –
Babe Ruth hits his first career home run off of
Jack Warhop .
May 7 – The
RMS Lusitania is sunk on passage from New York to Britain by a German
U-boat , killing 1,198.
May 22 –
Lassen Peak , one of the
Cascade Volcanoes in
Northern California , erupts, sending an ash plume 30,000 feet in the air and devastating the nearby area with
pyroclastic flows and
lahars . It is the only volcano to erupt in the
contiguous United States between 1900 and the
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens .
June 9 – U.S. Secretary of State
William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the Lusitania sinking.
June 12 – "
The class the stars fell on " graduates from the
United States Military Academy at
West Point, New York .
June 21 –
Guinn v. United States is decided by the
Supreme Court of the United States , finding
grandfather clause exemptions to
literacy tests for voters to be unconstitutional.
June 22 – The
Imperial Valley earthquakes shook southeastern Southern California, causing six deaths and financial losses of $900,000. Each shock in this
doublet earthquake measured 5.5 Mw and had a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ).
July–September
October–December
Undated
Woodrow Wilson House (Washington, D.C.) , built in 1915
Ongoing
Births
January 1 –
Tom Godwin , science fiction author (died
1980 )
January 2 –
John Hope Franklin , historian (died
2009 )
January 3 –
Sid Hudson , baseball player (died
2008 )
January 4 –
Meg Mundy , English-born actress (died
2016 )
January 5 –
Arthur H. Robinson , geographer and cartographer (died
2004 )
January 6 –
Don Edwards , politician (died
2015 )
January 9 –
Anita Louise , actress (died
1970 )
January 14 –
Mark Goodson , television game show producer (died
1992 )
January 16 –
Leslie H. Martinson , television and film director (died
2016 )
January 20 –
Edward Stewart , set decorator (died
1999 )
January 22 –
C. L. Franklin , minister and Civil Rights Activist, father of
Aretha Franklin (died
1984 )
January 24 –
Robert Motherwell , painter (died
1991 )
January 29 –
John Serry, Sr. , musician, composer and arranger (died
2003 )
January 30 –
Ed Keats , admiral (died
2019 )
January 31
February 5 –
Robert Hofstadter , physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
February 10 –
Karl Winsch , baseball player and manager (died
2001 )
February 12
February 14 –
Ray Evans , composer (died
2007 )
February 16 –
Jim O'Hora , college football coach (died
2005 )
February 21 –
Ann Sheridan film actress (died
1967 )
February 23 –
Paul Tibbets , World War II bomber pilot (
Enola Gay ) (died
2007 )
February 26 –
Preacher Roe , baseball player (died
2008 )
February 28 –
Zero Mostel , born Samuel Mostel, film and stage actor (died
1977 )
March 20
March 29 –
Helen Yglesias , novelist (died
2008 )
April 4 –
Muddy Waters , born McKinley Morganfield, African-American blues musician (died
1983 )
April 7
April 16 –
Joan Alexander , American actress (died
2009 )
May 1 –
Archie Williams , athlete (died
1993 )
May 2 –
Doris Fisher , singer and songwriter (died
2003 )
May 5 –
Alice Faye , entertainer (died
1998 )
May 6 –
Orson Welles , actor and director (died
1985 )
May 8 –
Milton Meltzer , historical writer (died
2009 )
May 15 –
Paul Samuelson , economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died
2009 )
[4]
May 26 –
Sam Edwards , actor (died
2004 )
May 27 –
Herman Wouk , novelist (died
2019 )
[5]
June 10 –
Saul Bellow , Canadian-born novelist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died
2005 )
[6]
June 12 –
David Rockefeller , banker and philanthropist (died
2017 )
June 15 –
Thomas Huckle Weller , virologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died
2008 )
June 17 –
David "Stringbean" Akeman , country music banjo player (died
1973 )
June 19 –
Pat Buttram , actor (died
1994 )
July 1 –
Willie Dixon , blues musician (died
1992 )
July 5 –
John Woodruff , African-American middle-distance runner (died
2007 )
July 7 –
Peter H. Dominick , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1963 to 1975 (died
1981 )
July 15 –
Albert Ghiorso , nuclear scientist (died
2010 )
July 17 –
Fred Ball , movie studio executive, actor and brother of
Lucille Ball (died
2007 )
July 18 –
Roxana Cannon Arsht , judge (died
2003 )
July 28
July 28 –
Dick Sprang ,
comic book artist during the
golden age of comics and
explorer (died
2000 )
August 4 –
William Keene , actor (died
1992 )
August 5 –
Mildred Burke , professional wrestler (died
1989 )
August 12 –
Michael Kidd , choreographer (died
2007 )
August 13 –
Katherine Loker , née Bogdanovich, philanthropist (died
2008 )
August 14 –
Irene Hickson , baseball player (died
1995 )
August 19 –
Ring Lardner Jr. , film screenwriter (died
2000 )
August 25
August 27 –
Norman F. Ramsey , physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died
2011 )
August 28
September 23 –
Clifford Shull , physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died
2001 )
October 1 –
Jerome Bruner , developmental and educational psychologist (died
2016 )
October 4 –
Beverly Loraine Greene , African-American architect (died
1957 )
October 24
October 6 –
Ralph Tyler Smith , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1969 to 1970 (died
1972 )
October 17 –
Arthur Miller , playwright and essayist (died
2005 )
November 9 –
Sargent Shriver , Peace Corps founder (died
2011 )
November 14 –
Billy Bauer , cool jazz guitarist (died
2005 )
November 19 –
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. , physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died
1974 )
November 26 –
Earl Wild , pianist (died
2010 )
November 29
November 30 –
Brownie McGhee ,
Piedmont blues musician (died
1996 )
December 12 –
Frank Sinatra , singer and actor (died
1998 )
Deaths
January 19 –
Abram J. Buckles , soldier and jurist (born
1846 )
February 18 –
Frank James , outlaw (born
1843 )
March 5 –
Thomas R. Bard , U.S. Senator from California from 1900 until 1905 (born
1841 )
March 15 –
Joseph Ackroyd , member of the New York State Senate (born
1847 )
April 1 –
Laura Alberta Linton , American chemist (born
1853 )
April 14 –
John Englehart , Northwest Frontier painter (born
1867 )
April 16 –
Nelson W. Aldrich , U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1881 until 1911 (born
1841 )
April 26 –
John Bunny , silent film comedian (born
1863 )
April 29 –
John R. Lindgren , founder of the banking firm
Haugan & Lindgren (born
1855 )
May 7 –
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania :
June 19 –
Benjamin F. Isherwood , admiral (born
1822 )
July 16 –
Ellen G. White , co-founder of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church (born
1827 )
August 25 –
Henry Overholser , businessman (born
1846 )
September 13 –
Andrew L. Harris , Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (born
1835 )
October 10 –
Albert Cashier , born Jennie Hodgers, soldier (born
1843 in Ireland )
November 14 –
Booker T. Washington , African-American educator (born
1856 )
November 16 –
Julius C. Burrows , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1895 until 1911 (born
1837 )
November 21 –
Dixie Haygood , magician (born
1861 )
December 22 –
Rose Talbot Bullard , physician (born
1864 )
See also
References
External links