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List of events
Events from the year 1877 in the United States .
Incumbents
Ulysses S. Grant (
R -
Ohio ) (until March 4)
Rutherford B. Hayes (
R -
Ohio ) (starting March 4)
vacant (until March 4)
William A. Wheeler (
R -
New York ) (starting March 4)
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
George S. Houston (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Augustus Hill Garland (
Democratic ) (until January 11),
William Read Miller (
Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of California :
William Irwin (
Democratic )
Governor of Colorado :
John Long Routt (
Republican )
Governor of Connecticut :
Charles R. Ingersoll (
Democratic ) (until January 3),
Richard D. Hubbard (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Delaware :
John P. Cochran (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
Marcellus Stearns (
Republican ) (until January 2),
George Franklin Drew (
Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Georgia :
James Milton Smith (
Democratic ) (until January 12),
Alfred H. Colquitt (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Illinois :
John Lourie Beveridge (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Shelby Moore Cullom (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Indiana :
Thomas A. Hendricks (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
James D. Williams (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Iowa :
Samuel J. Kirkwood (
Republican ) (until February 1),
Joshua G. Newbold (
Republican ) (starting February 1)
Governor of Kansas :
Thomas A. Osborn (
Republican ) (until January 8),
George T. Anthony (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Kentucky :
James B. McCreary (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Governor of Maine :
Seldon Connor (
Republican )
Governor of Maryland :
John Lee Carroll (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Alexander H. Rice (
Republican )
Governor of Michigan :
John J. Bagley (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Charles Croswell (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Minnesota :
John S. Pillsbury (
Republican )
Governor of Mississippi :
John M. Stone (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Charles Henry Hardin (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
John Smith Phelps (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Nebraska :
Silas Garber (
Republican )
Governor of Nevada :
Lewis R. Bradley (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Person C. Cheney (
Republican ) (until June 7),
Benjamin F. Prescott (
Republican ) (starting June 7)
Governor of New Jersey :
Joseph D. Bedle (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
Lucius Robinson (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
Curtis Hooks Brogden (
Republican ) (until January 1),
Zebulon Baird Vance (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Ohio :
Rutherford B. Hayes (
Republican ) (until March 2),
Thomas L. Young (
Republican ) (starting March 2)
Governor of Oregon :
La Fayette Grover (
Democratic ) (until February 1),
Stephen F. Chadwick (
Democratic ) (starting February 1)
Governor of Pennsylvania :
John F. Hartranft (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Henry Lippitt (
Republican ) (until May 29),
Charles C. Van Zandt (
Republican ) (starting May 29)
Governor of South Carolina :
Wade Hampton III (
Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee :
James D. Porter (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Richard B. Hubbard (
Democratic )
Governor of Vermont :
Horace Fairbanks (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
James L. Kemper (
Democratic )
Governor of West Virginia :
John J. Jacob (
Democratic )/(
Independent ) (until March 4),
Henry M. Mathews (
Democratic ) (starting March 4)
Governor of Wisconsin :
Harrison Ludington (
Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California :
James A. Johnson (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
Lafayette Head (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
George G. Sill (
Republican ) (starting January 3),
Francis Loomis (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Florida : vacant (until month and day unknown),
Noble A. Hull (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
Archibald A. Glenn (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
Andrew Shuman (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Leonidas Sexton (
Republican ) (until January 13),
Isaac P. Gray (
Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
Joshua G. Newbold (
Republican (until February 1), vacant (starting February 1)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Melville J. Salter (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Lyman U. Humphrey (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
John C. Underwood (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Caesar Antoine (
Republican ) (until April 24),
Louis A. Wiltz (
Democratic ) (starting April 24)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Horatio G. Knight (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Henry H. Holt (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Alonzo Sessions (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
James Wakefield (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
John M. Stone (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
Norman Jay Coleman (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
Henry Clay Brockmeyer (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
Othman A. Abbott (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada :
Jewett W. Adams (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
William Dorsheimer (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : vacant (until January 1),
Thomas J. Jarvis (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
Thomas Lowry Young (
Republican ) (until March 2),
H. W. Curtiss (
Republican ) (starting March 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
John Latta (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
Henry Tillinghast Sisson (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Albert Howard (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
William Dunlap Simpson (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Thomas H. Paine (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
Hugh M. McAdoo (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Redfield Proctor (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
Henry Wirtz Thomas (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
Charles D. Parker (
Democratic )
Events
January–March
March 4:
Rutherford B. Hayes becomes the 19th U.S. president
William A. Wheeler becomes the 19th U.S. vice president
April–June
July–September
October–December
Ongoing
Sport
Births
March 7 –
Charles O. Andrews , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1936 to 1946 (died
1946 )
March 9 –
Albert Leo Stevens , balloonist (died
1944 )
March 16 –
Thomas Wyatt Turner , civil rights activist, biologist and educator; first black person ever to receive a doctorate from
Cornell (died
1978 )
April 3 –
Karl C. Schuyler , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1932 to 1933 (died
1933 )
April 23 –
Charles D. Herron , United States Army general (died
1977 )
May 16 –
Joseph M. McCormick , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1919 to 1925 (died
1925 )
May 23 –
Grace Ingalls , youngest sister of author
Laura Ingalls Wilder (died
1941 )
May 26 (probable date) –
Isadora Duncan , dancer (died
1927 in France )
June 12 –
Thomas C. Hart , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1945 to 1946 (died
1971 )
July 1 –
Benjamin O. Davis Sr. , US Army General. First
African-American to rise to the rank of Brigadier General. (died
1970 )
July 2 –
Rinaldo Cuneo , artist, "the painter of San Francisco" (died
1939 )
August 10 –
Frank Marshall , chess player (died
1944 )
August 15 –
Stanley Vestal , historian of the Old West and poet (died
1957 )
August 27 –
Lloyd C. Douglas , novelist and pastor (died
1951 )
September 6 –
Buddy Bolden , African American jazz cornetist (died
1930 )
October 2 –
Carl Hayden , U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1927 to 1969 (died
1972 )
October 13 –
Theodore G. Bilbo , Governor of Mississippi from 1928 to 1932 and from 1935 to 1947 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1935 to 1947 (died
1947 )
October 31 –
Josiah O. Wolcott , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1917 to 1921 (died
1938 )
November 12 –
Warren Austin , U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1931 to 1946 (died
1962 )
November 16 –
Rice W. Means , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1924 to 1927 (died
1949 )
November 24
Deaths
January 3 –
John Joseph Abercrombie ,
Union Army brigadier general (born
1798 )
January 4 –
Cornelius Vanderbilt , entrepreneur (born
1794 )
January 17 –
John Pettit , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1853 to 1855 (born
1807 )
June 17 –
Daniel D. Pratt , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1869 to 1875 (born
1813 )
July 16 –
Samuel McLean ,
congressman from Montana (born
1826 )
August 28 –
Ben DeBar , American actor-manager (born
1812 )
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August 29 –
Brigham Young , Mormon leader (born
1801 )
August 30 –
Raphael Semmes , officer in the
Confederate navy during the
American Civil War (born
1809 )
September 5 –
Crazy Horse , Oglala Lakota chief (born
1840 -45)
September 20 –
Lewis V. Bogy , U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1873 to 1877 (born 1813)
October 29 –
Nathan Bedford Forrest , Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the
Ku Klux Klan (born
1821 )
November 1 –
Oliver P. Morton , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1867 to 1877 (born
1823
See also
References
External links