1893 in the United States

1893 in the United States
Years:	1890 1891 1892 – 1893 – 1894 1895 1896
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Events from the year 1893 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

President: Benjamin Harrison (R-Indiana) (until March 4), Grover Cleveland (D-New York) (starting March 4)
Vice President: Levi P. Morton (R-New York) (until March 4), Adlai E. Stevenson I (D-Illinois) (starting March 4)
Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (originally now residing in from of the U.S. state of Illinois)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Charles Frederick Crisp (D-Georgia)
Congress: 52nd (until March 4), 53rd (starting March 4)

Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors Governor of Alabama: Thomas G. Jones (Democratic) Governor of Arkansas: James Philip Eagle (Democratic) (until January 10), William Meade Fishback (Democratic) (starting January 10) Governor of California: Henry Markham (Republican) Governor of Colorado: John Long Routt (Republican) (until January 10), Davis Hanson Waite (People's) (starting January 10) Governor of Connecticut: Morgan G. Bulkeley (Republican) (until January 4), Luzon B. Morris (Democratic) (starting January 4) Governor of Delaware: Robert J. Reynolds (Democratic) Governor of Florida: Francis P. Fleming (Democratic) (until January 3), Henry L. Mitchell (Democratic) (starting January 3) Governor of Georgia: William J. Northen (Democratic) Governor of Idaho: N. B. Willey (Republican) (until January 2), William J. McConnell (Republican) (starting January 2) Governor of Illinois: Joseph W. Fifer (Republican) (until January 10), John Peter Altgeld (Democratic) (starting January 10) Governor of Indiana: Ira Joy Chase (Republican) (until January 9), Claude Matthews (Democratic) (starting January 9) Governor of Iowa: Horace Boies (Democratic) Governor of Kansas: Lyman U. Humphrey (Republican) (until January 8), Lorenzo D. Lewelling (Populist) (starting January 8) Governor of Kentucky: John Y. Brown (Democratic) Governor of Louisiana: Murphy James Foster, Sr. (Democratic) Governor of Maine: Edwin C. Burleigh (Republican) (until January 4), Henry B. Cleaves (Republican) (starting January 4) Governor of Maryland: Frank Brown (Democratic) Governor of Massachusetts: William E. Russell (Democratic) Governor of Michigan: Edwin B. Winans (Democratic) (until January 1), John T. Rich (Republican) (starting January 1) Governor of Minnesota: William R. Merriam (Republican) (until January 9), Knute Nelson (Republican) (starting January 9) Governor of Mississippi: John M. Stone (Democratic) Governor of Missouri: David R. Francis (Democratic) (until January 9), William Joel Stone (Democratic) (starting January 9) Governor of Montana: Joseph Toole (Democratic) (until January 1), John E. Rickards (Republican) (starting January 1) Governor of Nebraska: James E. Boyd (Democratic) (until January 13), Lorenzo Crounse (Republican) (starting January 13) Governor of Nevada: Roswell K. Colcord (Republican) Governor of New Hampshire: Hiram A. Tuttle (Republican) (until January 5), John Butler Smith (Republican) (starting January 5) Governor of New Jersey: Leon Abbett (Democratic) (until January 17), George Theodore Werts (Democratic) (starting January 17) Governor of New York: Roswell P. Flower (Democratic) Governor of North Carolina: Thomas Michael Holt (Democratic) (until January 18), Elias Carr (Democratic) (starting January 18) Governor of North Dakota: Andrew H. Burke (Republican) (until January 3), Eli C. D. Shortridge (Democratic)/(Independent) (starting January 3) Governor of Ohio: William McKinley (Republican) Governor of Oregon: Sylvester Pennoyer (Democratic) Governor of Pennsylvania: Robert E. Pattison (Democratic) Governor of Rhode Island: D. Russell Brown (Republican) Governor of South Carolina: Benjamin Ryan Tillman (Democratic) Governor of South Dakota: Arthur C. Mellette (Republican) (until January 3), Charles H. Sheldon (Republican) (starting January 3) Governor of Tennessee: John P. Buchanan (Farm-Labor) (until January 16), Peter Turney (Democratic) (starting January 16) Governor of Texas: James Stephen Hogg (Democratic) Governor of Vermont: Levi K. Fuller (Republican) Governor of Virginia: Philip W. McKinney (Democratic) Governor of Washington: Elisha Peyre Ferry (Republican) (until January 4), John McGraw (Republican) (starting January 4) Governor of West Virginia: Aretas B. Fleming (Democratic) (until March 4), William A. MacCorkle (Democratic) (starting March 4) Governor of Wisconsin: George W. Peck (Democratic) Governor of Wyoming: Amos W. Barber (Republican) (until January 2), John E. Osborne (Democratic) (starting January 2) Lieutenant Governors Lieutenant Governor of California: John B. Reddick (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: William Story (Republican) (until January 10), David Hopkinson Nichols (Democratic) (starting January 10) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Samuel E. Merwin (Republican) (until January 4), Ernest Cady (Democratic) (starting January 4) Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: John S. Gray (Republican) (until January 2), F. B. Willis (Republican) (starting January 2) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Lyman Ray (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Joseph B. Gill (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Francis M. Griffith (Republican) (until January 9), Mortimer Nye (Democratic) (starting January 9) Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Samuel L. Bestow (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Andrew J. Felt (Republican) (until January 8), Percy Daniels (Populist) (starting January 8) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Mitchell Cary Alford (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Charles Parlange (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Hiram R. Lott (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William H. Haile (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Roger Wolcott (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: John Strong (Democratic) (until January 1), J. Wight Giddings (Republican) (starting January 1) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Gideon S. Ives (Republican) (until January 3), David M. Clough (Republican) (starting January 3) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: M. M. Evans (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Stephen H. Claycomb (Democratic) (until January 9), John B. O'Meara (Democratic) (starting January 9) Lieutenant Governor of Montana: John E. Rickards (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Alexander Campbell Botkin (Republican) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Thomas J. Majors (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Joseph Poujade (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of New York: William F. Sheehan (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: vacant (until January 18), Rufus A. Doughton (Democratic) (starting January 18) Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Roger Allin (Republican) (until January 3), Elmer D. Wallace (Democratic) (starting January 3) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Andrew L. Harris (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Louis Arthur Watres (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Melville Bull (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Eugene Cary (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: George H. Hoffman (Republican) (until January 3), Charles N. Herreid (Republican) (starting January 3) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: William C. Dismukes (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Texas: George Cassety Pendleton (Democratic) (until January 17), Martin McNulty Crane (Democratic) (starting January 17) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: F. Stewart Stranahan (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: James Hoge Tyler (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Washington: Charles E. Laughton (Republican) (until January 9), F. H. Luce (Republican) (starting January 9) Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Charles Jonas (Democratic)

Events

January–March

March 4: Grover Cleveland becomes President

January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
January 17 – The U.S. Marines intervene in Hawaii, resulting in overthrow of the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii.
January 21 – The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa.
February 1 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
February 24 – American University is established by an Act of Congress in Washington, D.C.
March 4 – President of the United States Benjamin Harrison is succeeded by Grover Cleveland.

April–June

April 1 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer is established in the United States Navy.
April 8 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania between the Geneva College Covenanters and the New Brighton YMCA.
May 1 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA. The first United States commemorative postage stamps are issued for the Exposition.
May 5 – Panic of 1893: A crash on the New York Stock Exchange starts a depression.
May 9 – Edison's 1½ inch system of Kinetoscope is first demonstrated in public at the Brooklyn Institute.

Mildred and Patty hill's good morning is retitled Happy Birthday to you and gets copyrighted

July–September

July 1 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland has a secret operation to remove cancer in his mouth.
July 6 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa is nearly destroyed by a tornado; 71 people are killed and 200 injured.
July 12 – Frederick Jackson Turner gives a lecture titled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before the American Historical Association in Chicago.^[1]
August 27 – The Sea Islands Hurricane hits Savannah, Charleston, and the Sea Islands, killing 1,000–2,000.
September 11–27 – The World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
September 11 – Standing ovation to Hindu monk Swami Vivekanda for his address in Response to the welcome at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
September 19 – Swami Vivekananda delivers an inspiring speech on his paper at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
September 21 – Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea drive the first gasoline-powered motorcar in America on public roads in Springfield, Massachusetts.
September 23 – The Bahá'í Faith is first publicly mentioned in the United States at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.

October–December

October 11 – Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire is officially dedicated.
November 7 – Colorado women are granted the right to vote.

Undated

1893 beer bottle, found in Arizona with a prohibition booklet wrapped around it.

The American National Sculpture Society (NSS) is founded.
T.M.I.: The Episcopal School of Texas is founded.
Colored High becomes the first African American high school in Houston, Texas; its name is later changed to Booker T. Washington High School.
Evergreen Park, Illinois is founded.
The American Council on Alcohol Problems is established, along with the Anti-Saloon League and the Committee of Fifty for the Study of the Liquor Problem.
American Temperance University is opened.
Garza Revolution in Texas and Mexico from 1891 to 1893.

Ongoing

Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
Gay Nineties (1890–1899)
Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
Panic of 1893 (1893–1894)

Births

January 18 – Thomas E. Martin, United States Senator from Iowa from 1955 till 1961. (died 1971)
January 23 – Frank Carlson, United States Senator from Kansas from 1950 till 1969. (died 1987)
March 27 – G. Lloyd Spencer, United States Senator from Arkansas from 1941 till 1943. (died 1981)
August 20 – Robert Humphreys, United States Senator from Kentucky in 1956. (died 1977)
August 30 – Huey Long, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1932 till 1935. (died 1935)
August 31 – Raymond E. Baldwin, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1946 till 1949. (died 1986)
September 6 – John W. Bricker, United States Senator from Ohio from 1947 to 1959. (died 1986)

Deaths

January 17 – Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 19th President of the United States from 1877 till 1881. (born 1822)
January 27 – James G. Blaine, United States Senator from Maine from 1876 till 1881 and United States Secretary of State in 1881 and from 1889 till 1892. (born 1830)
February 1 – Joseph P. Comegys, United States Senator from Delaware from 1856 till 1857. (born 1813)
February 19 – George Spencer, United States Senator from Alabama from 1868 till 1879. (born 1836)
March 2 – Richard M. Bishop, 34th Governor of Ohio from 1878 till 1880. (born 1812)
March 18 – David H. Armstrong, Canadian-born United States Senator from Missouri from 1877 till 1879. (born 1812)
March 22 – Eli M. Saulsbury, United States Senator from Delaware from 1871 till 1889. (born 1817)
April 4 – David Meriwether, United States Senator from Kentucky in 1852. (born 1800)
June 21 – Leland Stanford, United States Senator from California from 1885 till 1893. (born 1824)
September 29 – Willis Benson Machen, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1872 till 1873. (born 1810)
November 11 – Charles Henry Bell, United States Senator from New Hampshire in 1879. (born 1823)

References

↑ Catherine Cocks; et al. (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6293-7.

External links

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1893 in North America

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