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 22 – Ruth Cox Adams , abolitionist (born 1818 )
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 .
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