1887 in the United States

1887 in the United States
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Events from the year 1887 in the United States.မအ

Incumbents

Federal Government

President: Grover Cleveland (D-New York)
Vice President: vacant
Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (originally now residing in from of the U.S. state of Ohio)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: John G. Carlisle (D-Kentucky)
Congress: 49th (until March 4), 50th (starting March 4)

Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors Governor of Alabama: Thomas Seay (Democratic) Governor of Arkansas: Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr. (Democratic) Governor of California: until January 8: George Stoneman (Republican) January 8-September 12: Washington Bartlett (Democratic) starting September 12: Robert Waterman (Republican) Governor of Colorado: Benjamin Harrison Eaton (Republican) (until January 11), Alva Adams (Democratic) (starting January 11) Governor of Connecticut: Henry B. Harrison (Republican) (until January 7), Phineas C. Lounsbury (Republican) (starting January 7) Governor of Delaware: Charles C. Stockley (Democratic) (until January 18), Benjamin T. Biggs (Democratic) (starting January 18) Governor of Florida: Edward A. Perry (Democratic) Governor of Georgia: John B. Gordon (Democratic) Governor of Illinois: Richard J. Oglesby (Republican) Governor of Indiana: Isaac P. Gray (Democratic) Governor of Iowa: William Larrabee (Republican) Governor of Kansas: John A. Martin (Republican) Governor of Kentucky: J. Proctor Knott (Democratic) (until August 30), Simon B. Buckner (Democratic) (starting August 30) Governor of Louisiana: Samuel D. McEnery (Democratic) Governor of Maine: until January 5: Frederick Robie (Republican) January 5-December 15: Joseph R. Bodwell (Republican) starting December 15: Sebastian Streeter Marble (Republican) Governor of Maryland: Henry Lloyd (Democratic) Governor of Massachusetts: George D. Robinson (Republican) (until January 6), Oliver Ames (Republican) (starting January 6) Governor of Michigan: Russell Alger (Republican) (until January 1), Cyrus G. Luce (Republican) (starting January 1) Governor of Minnesota: Lucius F. Hubbard (Republican) (until January 5), Andrew R. McGill (Republican) (starting January 5) Governor of Mississippi: Robert Lowry (Democratic) Governor of Missouri: John S. Marmaduke (Democratic) (until December 28), Albert P. Morehouse (Democratic) (starting December 28) Governor of Nebraska: James W. Dawes (Republican) (until January 6), John Milton Thayer (Republican) (starting January 6) Governor of Nevada: Jewett W. Adams (Democratic) (until January 3), Charles C. Stevenson (Democratic) (starting January 3) Governor of New Hampshire: Moody Currier (Democratic) (until June 2), Charles H. Sawyer (Democratic) (starting June 2) Governor of New Jersey: Leon Abbett (Democratic) (until January 18), Robert Stockton Green (Democratic) (starting January 18) Governor of New York: David B. Hill (Democratic) Governor of North Carolina: Alfred Moore Scales (Democratic) Governor of Ohio: Joseph B. Foraker (Republican) Governor of Oregon: Z. F. Moody (Republican) (until January 12), Sylvester Pennoyer (Democratic) (starting January 12) Governor of Pennsylvania: Robert E. Pattison (Democratic) (until January 18), James A. Beaver (Republican) (starting January 18) Governor of Rhode Island: George P. Wetmore (Republican) (until May 29), John W. Davis (Democratic) (starting May 29) Governor of South Carolina: John Peter Richardson III (Democratic) Governor of Tennessee: William B. Bate (Democratic) (until January 17), Robert Love Taylor (Democratic) (starting January 17) Governor of Texas: John Ireland (Democratic) (until January 20), Lawrence Sullivan Ross (Democratic) (starting January 20) Governor of Vermont: Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (Republican) Governor of Virginia: Fitzhugh Lee (Democratic) Governor of West Virginia: Emanuel Willis Wilson (Democratic) Governor of Wisconsin: Jeremiah McLain Rusk (Republican) Lieutenant Governors Lieutenant Governor of California: until January 8: John Daggett (Democratic) January 8-September 13: Robert Whitney Waterman (Republican) starting September 13: Stephen M. White (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Peter W. Breene (Republican) (until January 11), Norman H. Meldrum (Democratic) (starting January 11) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican) (until January 8), James L. Howard (Republican) (starting January 8) Lieutenant Governor of Florida: Milton H. Mabry (no political party) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: John Smith (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: vacant Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: John A. T. Hull (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Alexander P. Riddle (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James R. Hindman (Democratic) (until August 30), James William Bryan (Democratic) (starting August 30) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Clay Knobloch (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Oliver Ames (Republican) (until January 4), John Q. A. Brackett (political party unknown) (starting January 4) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Archibald Buttars (Republican) (until month and day unknown), James H. MacDonald (Republican) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Charles A. Gilman (Republican) (until January 4), Albert E. Rice (Republican) (starting January 4) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: G. D. Shands (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Albert P. Morehouse (Democratic) (until December 28), vacant (starting December 28) Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Hibbard H. Shedd (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Charles H. Laughton (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Henry C. Davis (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of New York: Edward F. Jones (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Charles M. Stedman (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Robert P. Kennedy (Republican) (until March 3), Silas A. Conrad (Republican) (starting March 3) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Chauncey Forward Black (Democratic) (until January 20), William T. Davies (Republican) (starting January 20) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Lucius B. Darling (political party unknown) (until May 29), Samuel R. Honey (political party unknown) (starting May 29) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: William Mauldin (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Cabell R. Berry (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Z. W. Ewing (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Barnett Gibbs (Democratic) (until January 18), Thomas B. Wheeler (Democratic) (starting January 18) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Levi K. Fuller (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: John Edward "Parson" Massey (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Sam S. Fifield (Republican) (until January 3), George W. Ryland (Republican) (starting January 3)

Events

January 20 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
January 28 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
February 2 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act, passed by Congress, is signed into law, with the intention of regulating the railroad industry.
March 3 – Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller.
March 7 – North Carolina State University is established as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
March 19 – Cogswell College is established as a high school by Dr. Henry D. Cogswell in San Francisco, the first technical training institution in the West (the school opens in 1888).
April 4 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the U.S.
May 14 – The cornerstone of the new Stanford University, in northern California, is laid (the college opens in 1891).
June 28 – Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city.
August – The U.S. National Institutes of Health is founded at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, New York, as the Laboratory of Hygiene.

Undated

Teachers College, later part of Columbia University, is founded.

Ongoing

Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)

Births

January 22 – David W. Stewart, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1926 to 1927 (died 1974)
February 6 – Ernest Gruening, U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1959 to 1969 (died 1974)
April 9 – Florence Price, African American classical composer (died 1953)
September 8 – Jacob L. Devers, U.S. Army general (died 1979)
December 19 – George R. Swift, U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1946 (died 1972)

Deaths

March 8 – Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman and reformer (born 1813)
May 19 – Charles E. Stuart, United States Senator from Michigan from 1853 till 1859. (born 1810)
June 25 – James Speed, U.S. Attorney General from 1864 till 1866 under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. (born 1812)
August 14 – Aaron A. Sargent, United States Senator from California from 1873 till 1879. (born 1827)

External links

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1887 in North America

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