1899 in the United States
List of events
This article is intended to provide an overview of notable events from the year 1899 in the United States .
1899 $5 silver certificate
"The beautiful Indian maidens", promotional poster, c. 1899
W. H. Shipman House , Hilo, Hawaii , built in 1899
Incumbents
Garret Hobart (R -New Jersey ) (until November 21)
vacant (starting November 21)
Thomas Brackett Reed (R -Maine ) (until March 4)
David B. Henderson (R -Iowa ) (starting December 4)
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : Joseph F. Johnston (Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas : Daniel Webster Jones (Democratic )
Governor of California : James Budd (Democratic ) (until January 4), Henry Gage (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Colorado : Alva Adams (Democratic ) (until January 10), Charles Spalding Thomas (Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Connecticut : Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican ) (until January 4), George E. Lounsbury (Republican ) (starting January 4)
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 : John W. Leedy (Populist ) (until January 9), William E. Stanley (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Kentucky : William O. Bradley (Republican ) (until December 12), William S. Taylor (Republican ) (starting December 12)
Governor of Louisiana : Murphy James Foster, Sr. (Democratic )
Governor of Maine : Llewellyn Powers (Republican )
Governor of Maryland : Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. (Republican )
Governor of Massachusetts : Roger Wolcott (Republican )
Governor of Michigan : Hazen S. Pingree (Republican )
Governor of Minnesota : David M. Clough (Republican ) (until January 2), John Lind (Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Mississippi : Anselm J. McLaurin (Democratic )
Governor of Missouri : Lon Vest Stephens (Democratic )
Governor of Montana : Robert Burns Smith (Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska : Silas A. Holcomb (Democratic ) (until January 5), William A. Poynter (Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Nevada : Reinhold Sadler (Silver )
Governor of New Hampshire : George A. Ramsdell (Republican ) (until January 5), Frank W. Rollins (Republican ) (starting January 5)
Governor of New Jersey : David Ogden Watkins (Republican ) (until January 17), Foster MacGowan Voorhees (Republican ) (starting January 17)
Governor of New York : Theodore Roosevelt (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina : Daniel Lindsay Russell (Republican )
Governor of North Dakota : Joseph M. Devine (Republican ) (until January 3), Frederick B. Fancher (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Ohio : Asa S. Bushnell (Republican )
Governor of Oregon : William Paine Lord (Republican ) (until January 9), T. T. Geer (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Pennsylvania : Daniel H. Hastings (Republican ) (until January 17), William A. Stone (Republican ) (starting January 17)
Governor of Rhode Island : Elisha Dyer, Jr. (Republican )
Governor of South Carolina : William Haselden Ellerbe (Democratic ) (until June 2), Miles Benjamin McSweeney (Democratic ) (starting June 2)
Governor of South Dakota : Andrew E. Lee (Populist )
Governor of Tennessee : Robert Love Taylor (Democratic ) (until January 16), Benton McMillin (Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Governor of Texas : Charles A. Culberson (Democratic ) (until January 17), Joseph D. Sayers (Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Governor of Utah : Heber Manning Wells (Republican )
Governor of Vermont : Edward Curtis Smith (Republican )
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 : William A. Richards (Republican ) (until January 2), DeForest Richards (Republican ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California : William T. Jeter (Democratic ) (until January 3), Jacob H. Neff (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Jared L. Brush (Republican ) (until January 10), Francis Patrick Carney (Populist) (starting January 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : James D. Dewell (Republican ) (until January 4), Lyman A. Mills (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : George F. Moore (Democratic ) (until January 2), J. H. Hutchinson (Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : William Northcott (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : William S. Haggard (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : James C. Milliman (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Alexander M. Harvey (Populist) (until January 9), Harry E. Richter (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : William Jackson Worthington (Republican ) (until December 12), John Marshall (Republican ) (starting December 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Robert H. Snyder (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Winthrop M. Crane (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Thomas B. Dunstan (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Orrin W. Robinson (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : John L. Gibbs (Republican ) (until January 3), Lyndon A. Smith (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : J. H. Jones (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : August Bolte (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Archibald E. Spriggs (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : James E. Harris (Democratic ) (until January 5), Edward A. Gilbert (Republican ) (starting January 5)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : James R. Judge (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New York : Timothy L. Woodruff (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Charles A. Reynolds (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Asa W. Jones (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Walter Lyon (Republican ) (until January 17), John P. S. Gobin (Republican ) (starting January 17)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : William Gregory (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Miles Benjamin McSweeney (Democratic ) (until June 2), Robert B. Scarborough (Democratic ) (starting June 2)
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Daniel T. Hindman (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), John T. Kean (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : John Thompson (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Seid Waddell (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : George Taylor Jester (Democratic ) (until January 17), James Browning (Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Henry C. Bates (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Edward Echols (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington : Thurston Daniels (Populist)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Emil Baensch (Republican ) (until January 2), Jesse Stone (Republican ) (starting January 2)
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
September 6 – Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late-nineteenth century and the early-twentieth century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note,
September 14 – Henry H. Bliss becomes the first person to be killed by a motor vehicle in the United States. Upon disembarking from a streetcar in New York City , an electric-powered taxicab strikes and crushes him and he dies from his injuries the following morning.
October
November
1899 snowstorm in Washington, D.C.
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 9 – John A. Danaher , U.S. Senator from Connecticut 1939–1945 (died 1990 ).
January 17 – Al Capone , gangster and crime boss (died 1947 ).
February 4 – Virginia M. Alexander , African American physician (died 1949 )[3]
February 22
February 27 – Charles Best , medical scientist (died 1978 in Canada ).
April 11 – Percy Lavon Julian , African American research chemist (died 1975 ).
April 28 – Mary Loveless , née Hewitt, immunologist (died 1991 ).
April 29 – Duke Ellington , jazz musician and composer (died 1974 ).
May 10 – Fred Astaire , né Austerlitz, dancer and singer (died 1987 ).
May 15 – Leonard B. Jordan , U.S. Senator from Idaho 1962–1973 (died 1983 ).
June 4 – Arthur Barker , son of Ma Barker and a member of the Barker-Karpis gang (died 1939 )
July 7
July 6 – Susannah Mushatt Jones , African American supercentenarian , oldest (confirmed) living person 2015–2016 (died 2016 ).
July 17 – James Cagney , film actor (died 1986 ).
July 21
July 23 – Carl G. Fenner , botanist (died 1991 ).
September 9 – Neil Hamilton , actor (died 1984 ).
September 11 – Jimmie Davis , country and gospel singer-songwriter and politician (died 2000 ).
October 3 – Gertrude Berg , American actress, screenwriter and producer (died 1966 )[5]
November 5 – Margaret Atwood Judson , historian and author (died 1991 ).
November 22 – Hoagy Carmichael , composer and singer (died 1981 ).
December 20 – John Sparkman , U.S. Senator from Alabama 1946–1979 (died 1985 ).
December 25 – Humphrey Bogart , film actor (died 1957 ).
Caroline F. Ware , historian and New Deal activist (died 1990 ).
Deaths
January 23 – Daniel O'Connell , journalist, poet and writer (born 1849 )
January 26 – Augustus Hill Garland , U.S. Senator from Arkansas 1885–1889 (born 1832 ).
March 1 – Philip W. McKinney , 41st Governor of Virginia (born 1832).
March 18 – Othniel Charles Marsh , paleontologist (born 1831 ).
March 19 – Patrick Walsh , Irish-born U.S. Senator from Georgia 1894–1895 (born 1840 ).
April 10 – Horace Tabor , U.S. Senator from Colorado in 1883 (born 1830 ).
April 22 – Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr. , founder of the Kentucky Derby (born 1846 )
April 24 – Richard J. Oglesby , U.S. Senator from Illinois 1873–1878 (born 1824 ).
June 7 – Augustin Daly , dramatist and theater manager (born 1838 ).
July 18 – Horatio Alger, Jr. , Unitarian minister and author (born 1832 ).
August 8 – Lucy Pickens , socialite, known during and after her lifetime as the "Queen of the Confederacy " (born 1832 )
August 22 – Caspar Buberl , Bohemian-born sculptor (born 1834).
September 9 – James B. Eustis , U.S. Senator from Louisiana 1876–1879 and 1885–1891 (born 1834 ).
September 12 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II , businessman (born 1843 ).
October 4 – Jimmy Logue , Philadelphia based burglar (born 1837 ).[6]
October 5 – James Harlan , U.S. Senator from Iowa 1865–1866 (born 1820 ).
October 14 – Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston , writer of poems, novels, hymns, and a diary (born 1812 ).
October 18 – Gussie Davis , African American songwriter (born 1863 ).
October 28 – Ottmar Mergenthaler , German-born inventor (born 1854 ).
October 30 – William H. Webb , shipbuilder and philanthropist (born 1816 ).
November 21 – Garret Hobart , 24th vice president of the United States from 1897 to 1899 (born 1844 ).
November 25 – Robert Lowry , Baptist minister and hymn writer (born 1826 ).
December 22 – Dwight L. Moody , preacher and publisher (born 1837 ).
See also
References
^ "Professional Information" . The Major Taylor Society. Archived from the original on February 11, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2012 .
^ "Milestones of the U.S. Archival Profession and the National Archives, 1800-2011" . U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved August 22, 2016 .
^ "Dr. Virginia M. Alexander" . U.S. National Library of Medicine . Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
^ "Hart Crane | American poet" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved July 27, 2021 .
^ "Gertrude Berg | American actress, producer, and screenwriter" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved January 25, 2021 .
^ "Abbreviated Telegrams" . Rock Island Argus . October 6, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved April 3, 2015 – via Chronicling America .
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