1874 in the United States

1874 in the United States
Years:	1871 1872 1873 – 1874 – 1875 1876 1877
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Events from the year 1874 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

President: Ulysses S. Grant (R-Ohio)
Vice President: Henry Wilson (R-Massachusetts)
Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (originally now residing in from of the U.S. state of Ohio) (starting March 4)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: James G. Blaine (R-Maine)
Congress: 43rd

Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors Governor of Alabama: David P. Lewis (Republican) (until November 24), George S. Houston (Democratic) (starting November 24) Governor of Arkansas: Elisha Baxter (Republican) (until November 12), Augustus Hill Garland (Democratic) (starting November 12) Governor of California: Newton Booth (Republican) Governor of Connecticut: Charles R. Ingersoll (Democratic) Governor of Delaware: James Ponder (Democratic) Governor of Florida: Ossian B. Hart (Republican) (until March 18), Marcellus Stearns (Republican) (starting March 18) Governor of Georgia: James M. Smith (Democratic) Governor of Illinois: John Lourie Beveridge (Republican) Governor of Indiana: Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic) Governor of Iowa: Cyrus C. Carpenter (Republican) Governor of Kansas: Thomas A. Osborn (Republican) Governor of Kentucky: Preston H. Leslie (Democratic) Governor of Louisiana: William Pitt Kellogg (Republican) Governor of Maine: Sidney Perham (Republican) (until January 7), Nelson Dingley, Jr. (Republican Party) (starting January 7) Governor of Maryland: William Pinkney Whyte (Democratic) (until March 4), James B. Groome (Democratic) (starting March 4) Governor of Massachusetts: William B. Washburn (Republican) (until April 29), Thomas Talbot (Republican) (starting April 29) Governor of Michigan: John J. Bagley (Republican) Governor of Minnesota: Horace Austin (Republican) (until January 7), Cushman K. Davis (Republican) (starting January 7) Governor of Mississippi: Ridgley C. Powers (Republican) (until January 4), Adelbert Ames (Republican) (starting January 4) Governor of Missouri: Silas Woodson (Democratic) Governor of Nebraska: Robert Wilkinson Furnas (Republican) Governor of Nevada: Lewis R. Bradley (Democratic) Governor of New Hampshire: Ezekiel A. Straw (Republican) (until June 3), James A. Weston (Democratic) (starting June 3) Governor of New Jersey: Joel Parker (Democratic) Governor of New York: John Adams Dix (Republican) (until end of December 31) Governor of North Carolina: Tod Robinson Caldwell (Republican) (until July 11), Curtis Hooks Brogden (Republican) (starting July 11) Governor of Ohio: Edward F. Noyes (Republican) (until January 12), William Allen (Democratic) (starting January 12) Governor of Oregon: La Fayette Grover (Democratic) Governor of Pennsylvania: John F. Hartranft (Republican) Governor of Rhode Island: Henry Howard (Republican) Governor of South Carolina: Franklin I. Moses, Jr. (Republican) (until December 1), Daniel Henry Chamberlain (Republican) (starting December 1) Governor of Tennessee: John C. Brown (Democratic) Governor of Texas: Edmund J. Davis (Republican) (until January 15), Richard Coke (Democratic) (starting January 15) Governor of Vermont: Julius Converse (Republican) (until October 8), Asahel Peck (Republican) (starting October 8) Governor of Virginia: Gilbert Carlton Walker (Democratic) (until January 1), James L. Kemper (Democratic) (starting January 1) Governor of West Virginia: John J. Jacob (Democratic)/(Independent) Governor of Wisconsin: Cadwallader C. Washburn (Republican) (until January 5), William Robert Taylor (Democratic) (starting January 5) Lieutenant Governors Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Alexander McKinstry (Republican) (until November 26), Robert F. Ligon (Democratic) (starting November 26) Lieutenant Governor of California: Romualdo Pacheco (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: George G. Sill (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Florida: Marcellus Stearns (Republican) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: John Early (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Leonidas Sexton (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Henry C. Bulis (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Joseph Dysart (Republican) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Elias Sleeper Stover (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: John G. Carlisle (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Caesar Antoine (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Thomas Talbot (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Henry H. Holt (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: William H. Yale (Republican) (until January 9), Alphonso Barto (Republican) (starting January 9) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Alexander K. Davis (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Charles Phillip Johnson (Liberal Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Frank Denver (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Pressly C. Hyman (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of New York: John C. Robinson (Republican) (until end of December 31) Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Curtis H. Brogden (Republican) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Jacob Mueller (Republican) (until January 12), Alphonso Hart (Republican) (starting January 12) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles C. Van Zandt (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Richard Howell Gleaves (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: John C. Vaughn (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), A. T. Lacey (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Texas: vacant (until January 15), Richard B. Hubbard (Democratic) (starting January 15) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Russell S. Taft (Republican) (until October 8), Lyman G. Hinckley (Republican) (starting October 8) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: John Lawrence Marye, Jr. (Conservative) (until January 1), Robert E. Withers (Democratic) (starting January 1) Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: vacant (until January 5), Charles D. Parker (Democratic) (starting January 5)

Events

January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx.
February 21 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.
March 18 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
March – The Young Men's Hebrew Association in Manhattan (which still operates today as the 92nd Street Y) is founded.
May 20 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. The price is $13.50 per dozen.
July 1
- Philadelphia Zoo opens, the first public zoo in the U.S.
- Four-year-old Charley Ross, America's first major kidnapping for Ransom victim is taken from his home in Philadelphia.
- Sholes and Glidden typewriter, with cylindrical platen and QWERTY keyboard, first marketed.
November 4 – Democrats regain the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since 1860.
November 7 – Harper's Weekly publishes a cartoon by Thomas Nast considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party. .
November 11 – The Gamma Phi Beta sorority is founded at Syracuse University. This is the first women's Greek letter organization to be called a sorority.
November 25 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party, made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.

Undated

The San Diego Natural History Museum is founded.

Ongoing

Reconstruction era (1865–1877)
Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
Depression of 1873–79 (1873–1879)

Births

January 4 – John W. Thomas, United States Senator from Idaho from 1928 till 1933 and from 1940 till 1945. Died in 1945.
January 7 – M. M. Logan, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1931 till 1939. (died 1939)
April 16 – Frederick Van Nuys, United States Senator from Indiana from 1933 to 1944. Died in 1944.
March 5 – Daniel O. Hastings, United States Senator from Delaware from 1928 till 1937. Died in 1966.
May 20 – Augustine Lonergan, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1933 till 1939. Died in 1947.
July 1 – Edward P. Costigan, United States Senator from Colorado from 1931 till 1937. Died in 1939.
September 13 – Henry F. Ashurst, United States Senator from Arizona from 1912 until 1941. Died in 1962.
December 4 – Edwin S. Broussard, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1921 till 1933. Died in 1934.

Deaths

January 7 - John Burton Thompson, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1853 till 1859. (born 1810)
March 8 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States of America (born 1800)
October 6 – Samuel M. Kier, industrialist (born 1813)
November 20 - Jackson Morton, United States Senator from Florida from 1849 till 1855. (born 1794)

External links

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1874 in North America

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