1896 in the United States

1896 in the United States
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Events from the year 1896 in the United States.

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court who decided Plessy v. Ferguson.

Incumbents

Federal Government

President: Grover Cleveland (D-New York)
Vice President: Adlai E. Stevenson I (D-Illinois)
Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (originally now residing in from of the U.S. state of Illinois)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Brackett Reed (R-Maine)
Congress: 54th

Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors Governor of Alabama: William C. Oates (Democratic) (until December 1), Joseph F. Johnston (Democratic) (starting December 1) Governor of Arkansas: James Paul Clarke (Democratic) Governor of California: James Budd (Democratic) Governor of Colorado: Albert Washington McIntire (Republican) Governor of Connecticut: Owen Vincent Coffin (Republican) Governor of Delaware: William T. Watson (Democratic) Governor of Florida: Henry L. Mitchell (Democratic) Governor of Georgia: William Yates Atkinson (Democratic) Governor of Idaho: William J. McConnell (Republican) Governor of Illinois: John Peter Altgeld (Democratic) Governor of Indiana: Claude Matthews (Democratic) Governor of Iowa: Frank D. Jackson (Republican) (until January 16), Francis M. Drake (Republican) (starting January 16) Governor of Kansas: Edmund N. Morrill (Republican) Governor of Kentucky: William O. Bradley (Republican) Governor of Louisiana: Murphy James Foster, Sr. (Democratic) Governor of Maine: Henry B. Cleaves (Republican) Governor of Maryland: Frank Brown (Democratic) (until January 8), Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. (Republican) (starting January 8) Governor of Massachusetts: Frederic T. Greenhalge (Republican) (until March 5), Roger Wolcott (Republican) (starting March 5) Governor of Michigan: John T. Rich (Republican) Governor of Minnesota: David M. Clough (Republican) Governor of Mississippi: John M. Stone (Democratic) (until January 20), Anselm J. McLaurin (Democratic) (starting January 20) Governor of Missouri: William Joel Stone (Democratic) Governor of Montana: John E. Rickards (Republican) Governor of Nebraska: Silas A. Holcomb (Democratic) Governor of Nevada: John Edward Jones (Silver) (until April 10), Reinhold Sadler (Silver) (starting April 10) Governor of New Hampshire: Charles A. Busiel (Republican) Governor of New Jersey: George Theodore Werts (Democratic) (until January 21), John W. Griggs (Republican) (starting January 21) Governor of New York: Levi P. Morton (Republican) (until end of December 31) Governor of North Carolina: Elias Carr (Democratic) Governor of North Dakota: Roger Allin (Republican) Governor of Ohio: William McKinley (Republican) (until January 13), Asa S. Bushnell (Republican) (starting January 13) Governor of Oregon: William Paine Lord (Republican) Governor of Pennsylvania: Daniel H. Hastings (Republican) Governor of Rhode Island: Charles W. Lippitt (Republican) Governor of South Carolina: John Gary Evans (Democratic) Governor of South Dakota: Charles H. Sheldon (Republican) Governor of Tennessee: Peter Turney (Democratic) Governor of Texas: Charles A. Culberson (Democratic) Governor of Utah: until January 4: Caleb Walton West (political party unknown) January 4-January 6: vacant starting January 6: Heber Manning Wells (Republican) Governor of Vermont: Urban A. Woodbury (Republican) (until October 8), Josiah Grout (Republican) (starting October 8) Governor of Virginia: Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democratic) Governor of Washington: John McGraw (Republican) Governor of West Virginia: William A. MacCorkle (Democratic) Governor of Wisconsin: William H. Upham (Republican) Governor of Wyoming: William A. Richards (Republican) Lieutenant Governors Lieutenant Governor of California: William T. Jeter (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Jared L. Brush (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: F. J. Mills (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Joseph B. Gill (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Mortimer Nye (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Warren S. Dungan (Republican) (until January 16), Matt Parrott (Republican) (starting January 16) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: James A. Troutman (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William J. Worthington (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Robert H. Snyder (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Roger Wolcott (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Joseph R. McLaughlin (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Frank A. Day (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: M. M. Evans (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), J. H. Jones (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: John B. O'Meara (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Alexander Campbell Botkin (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Robert E. Moore (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Reinhold Sadler (Silver) (until April 10), vacant (starting April 10) Lieutenant Governor of New York: Charles T. Saxton (Republican) (until end of December 31) Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Rufus A. Doughton (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: John H. Worst (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Andrew L. Harris (Republican) (until January 13), Asa W. Jones (Republican) (starting January 13) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Walter Lyon (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Edwin Allen (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: W. H. Timmerman (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Charles N. Herreid (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Ernest Pillow (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Texas: George Taylor Jester (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Zophar M. Mansur (Republican) (until October 8), Nelson W. Fisk (Republican) (starting October 8) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Robert Craig Kent (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Washington: F. H. Luce (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Emil Baensch (Republican)

Events

January–March

January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state (see History of Utah).
February 5 - August 12 – Yaqui Uprising in Arizona and Mexico.
March 23 – The New York State Legislature passes the Raines Law, restricting Sunday alcoholic beverage sales to hotels.

April–June

April 9 – The National Farm School (later Delaware Valley College) is chartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
May 18 – Plessy v. Ferguson: The U.S. Supreme Court introduces the "separate but equal" doctrine and upholds segregation.
May 26 – Eleven years after its foundation, a group of 12 purely industrial stocks were chosen to form the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index was composed entirely of industrial shares for the first time.^[1]
May 27 – The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, incurring $2.9 billion (1997 USD) in normalized damages, killing more than 255 and injuring over 1,000 people.
June 4 – The Ford Quadricycle, the first Ford vehicle ever developed, is completed, eventually leading Henry Ford to build the empire that "put America on wheels".
June 28 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania resulted in a massive cave-in that killed 58 miners.^[2]^[3]^[4]

July–September

July 9 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech at the Democratic National Convention, which nominates him for President of the United States.
July 30 – Shortly after 6:30 pm, at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, two trains collide, crushing five loaded passenger coaches, killing 50 and seriously injuring approximately 60, in the 1896 Atlantic City rail crash.
September 15 – The Crash at Crush train wreck stunt is held in Texas.

October–December

October 30 – Augusta, Kentucky: The Augusta High School cornerstone is laid, marking the end of the Augusta Methodist College.
November 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1896: Republican William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan. This is later regarded as a realigning election, starting the Fourth Party System in which Republicans dominate politics until about 1932.
November 30 – The St. Augustine Monster, a large carcass later postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, is found washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida.
December 7 – The 54th United States Congress began its second session.
December 25 – John Philip Sousa composes his magnum opus, the "Stars and Stripes Forever".

Undated

The New York Telephone Company is formed.

Ongoing

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

Births

January 4 – Everett Dirksen, United States Senator from Illinois from 1951 till 1969. (died 1969)
January 21 – J. Carrol Naish, actor (died 1973)
February 25 – John Little McClellan, United States Senator from Arkansas from 1943 till 1977. (died 1977)
April 26 – Edward John Thye, 26th Governor of Minnesota from 1943 till 1947 and United States Senator from Minnesota from 1947 till 1959. (died 1969)
July 20 – Eunice Sanborn, supercentenarian (died 2011)
July 21 – Bourke B. Hickenlooper, United States Senator from Iowa from 1945 till 1969. (died 1971)
September 24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, author (died 1940)
September 29 – George H. Bender, United States Senator from Ohio from 1954 till 1957. (died 1961)
October 22 – Earle C. Clements, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1950 till 1957. (died 1985)

Deaths

January 11 – George G. Wright, United States Senator from Iowa from 1871 till 1877. (born 1820)
April 19 – Arthur I. Boreman, United States Senator from West Virginia from 1869 to 1875. (born 1823)
May 31 – Homer V.M. Miller, United States Senator in Georgia from 1871. (born 1814)
June 2 – Ozora P. Stearns, United States Senator from Minnesota in 1871. (born 1831)
June 13 – Alpheus Felch, 5th Governor of Michigan from 1846 till 1847 and United States Senator from Michigan from 1847 till 1853. (born 1804)
June 25 – Lyman Trumbull, United States Senator from Illinois from 1855 till 1873. (born 1813)
July 22 – George W. Jones, United States Senator from Iowa from 1848 till 1859. (born 1804)
August 9 – Alonzo J. Edgerton, United States Senator from Minnesota in 1881. (born 1827)
October 13 – Thomas W. Ferry, United States Senator from Michigan from 1871 till 1883. (born 1827)
Date Unknown – Asahel C. Beckwith, United States Senator from Wyoming in 1893. (born 1827)

References

External links

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1896 in North America

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