From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of events
Events from the year 1889 in the United States . Four
states —
North Dakota ,
South Dakota ,
Montana , and
Washington —were created this year, making this the busiest year for state creation since
1788 .
Incumbents
Grover Cleveland (
D -
New York ) (until March 4)
Benjamin Harrison (
R -
Indiana ) (starting March 4)
vacant (until March 4)
Levi P. Morton (
R -
New York ) (starting March 4)
John G. Carlisle (
D -
Kentucky ) (until March 4)
Thomas Brackett Reed (
R -
Maine ) (starting December 2)
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Thomas Seay (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr. (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
James Philip Eagle (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of California :
Robert Waterman (
Republican )
Governor of Colorado :
Alva Adams (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
Job Adams Cooper (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Connecticut :
Phineas C. Lounsbury (
Republican ) (until January 10),
Morgan G. Bulkeley (
Republican ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Delaware :
Benjamin T. Biggs (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
Edward A. Perry (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
Francis P. Fleming (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Georgia :
John B. Gordon (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
Richard J. Oglesby (
Republican ) (until January 14),
Joseph W. Fifer (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Indiana :
Isaac P. Gray (
Democratic ) (until January 14),
Alvin P. Hovey (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Iowa :
William Larrabee (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
John A. Martin (
Republican ) (until January 14),
Lyman U. Humphrey (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Kentucky :
Simon B. Buckner (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Francis T. Nicholls (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
Sebastian Streeter Marble (
Republican ) (until January 2),
Edwin C. Burleigh (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Maryland :
Elihu Emory Jackson (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Oliver Ames (
Republican )
Governor of Michigan :
Cyrus G. Luce (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
Andrew R. McGill (
Republican ) (until January 9),
William R. Merriam (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Mississippi :
Robert Lowry (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Albert P. Morehouse (
Democratic ) (until January 14),
David R. Francis (
Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Montana :
Benjamin F. White (
Republican ) (until November 8),
Joseph Toole (
Democratic ) (starting November 8)
Governor of Nebraska :
John Milton Thayer (
Republican )
Governor of Nevada :
Charles C. Stevenson (
Republican )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Charles H. Sawyer (
Republican ) (until June 6),
David H. Goodell (
Republican ) (starting June 6)
Governor of New Jersey :
Robert Stockton Green (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
David B. Hill (
Democratic )
Governor of North Carolina :
Alfred Moore Scales (
Democratic ) (until January 17),
Daniel Gould Fowle (
Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Governor of North Dakota : vacant (until November 20),
John Miller (
Republican ) (starting November 20)
Governor of Ohio :
Joseph B. Foraker (
Republican )
Governor of Oregon :
Sylvester Pennoyer (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
James A. Beaver (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Royal C. Taft (
Republican ) (until May 28),
Herbert W. Ladd (
Republican ) (starting May 28)
Governor of South Carolina :
John Peter Richardson III (
Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota :
Arthur C. Mellette (
Republican ) (starting November 2)
Governor of Tennessee :
Robert Love Taylor (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Lawrence Sullivan Ross (
Democratic )
Governor of Vermont :
William P. Dillingham (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
Fitzhugh Lee (
Democratic )
Governor of Washington :
Governor of West Virginia :
Emanuel Willis Wilson (
Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Jeremiah McLain Rusk (
Republican ) (until January 7),
William D. Hoard (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Stephen M. White (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
Norman H. Meldrum (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
William Grover Smith (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
James L. Howard (
Republican ) (until January 10),
Samuel E. Merwin (
Republican ) (starting January 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Florida :
Milton H. Mabry (
Democratic ) (until January 8), vacant (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
John Smith (
Republican ) (until January 14),
Lyman Ray (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Robert S. Robertson /
Alonzo G. Smith (
Republican /
Democratic ) (until January 14),
Ira Joy Chase (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
John A. T. Hull (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Alexander P. Riddle (
Republican ) (until January 14),
Andrew J. Felt (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
James William Bryan (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
James Jeffries (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
John Q. A. Brackett (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
James H. MacDonald (
Republican ) (until January 19),
William Ball (
Republican ) (starting January 19)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
Albert E. Rice (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
G. D. Shands (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : vacant (until January 14),
Stephen Hugh Claycomb (
Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana :
John E. Rickards (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
Hibbard H. Shedd (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
George D. Meiklejohn (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Samuel W. Chubbuck (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown),
Frank Bell (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Edward F. Jones (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
Charles M. Stedman (
Democratic ) (until January 17),
Thomas M. Holt (
Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota :
Alfred Dickey (
Republican ) (starting November 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
William C. Lyon (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
William T. Davies (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
Enos Lapham (political party unknown) (until May 28),
Daniel Littlefield (
Republican ) (starting May 28)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
William L. Mauldin (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota :
James H. Fletcher (
Republican ) (starting November 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Z. W. Ewing (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
Benjamin J. Lea (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas :
Thomas B. Wheeler (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Urban A. Woodbury (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
John Edward "Parson" Massey (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington :
Charles E. Laughton (
Republican ) (starting November 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
George W. Ryland (
Republican )
Events
January–March
March 4:
Benjamin Harrison becomes the 23rd U.S. president
Levi P. Morton becomes the 22nd U.S. vice president
January 1 – A
total solar eclipse is seen over parts of
California and
Nevada .
January 4 – An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by President
Grover Cleveland . It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers as a predecessor to the current
U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps .
January 15 – The
Coca-Cola Company , at this time known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is
incorporated in
Atlanta ,
Georgia .
January 22 –
Columbia Phonograph is formed in
Washington, DC .
February 15 – The
Secretary of Agriculture is raised to a
Cabinet -level position.
February 22 – President
Grover Cleveland signs the
Enabling Act admitting
North Dakota ,
South Dakota ,
Montana and
Washington as
U.S. states .
March – A
German naval force shells a village in
Samoa , destroying some American property; three American warships enter the Samoan harbor and prepare to fire on the three German warships found there. Before guns are fired, a hurricane blows in and sinks all the ships, American and German. A compulsory
armistice is called because of the lack of warships.
March 2 – Congress proclaims the entire
Bering Sea , an important
seal breeding area, to be under US control.
March 4 –
Benjamin Harrison is sworn in as the 23rd
president of the United States , and
Levi P. Morton is sworn in as the 22nd
vice president of the United States .
March 11
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Sport
Births
January 1 –
Charles Bickford , actor (died
1967 )
January 2 –
Walter Baldwin , character actor (died
1977 )
January 11 –
Calvin Bridges , geneticist (died
1938 )
January 20 –
Allan Lockheed , aviation pioneer and engineer (died
1969 )
February 12 –
Edward Hanson , 28th
Governor of American Samoa (died
1959 )
February 23
February 25 –
Homer S. Ferguson , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1943 to 1955 (died
1982 )
March 4 –
Oren E. Long , U.S. Senator from Hawaii from 1959 to 1963 (died
1965 )
March 7 –
Godfrey Chevalier , naval aviation pioneer (died
1922 )
March 8 –
Oscar R. Ewing , lawyer, politician, and social reformer (died
1980 )
March 21 –
Frederick Osborn , philanthropist and eugenicist (died
1981 )
March 31 –
Muriel Hazel Wright , Oklahoma author and historian (died
1975 )
April 15 –
A. Philip Randolph , African American labor union leader (died
1979 )
April 18 –
Harold Saxton Burr , scientist (died
1973 )
April 21
May 4 –
Francis Spellman , sixth
Archbishop of New York from 1939 to 1967 (died
1967 )
May 18 –
Thomas Midgley Jr. , mechanical and chemical engineer (died
1944 )
May 20 –
Felix Arndt , pianist and composer (died
1918 )
June 1 –
James Daugherty , author, illustrator and painter (died
1974 )
June 4
June 18 –
Prentiss M. Brown , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1936 to 1943 (died
1973 )
June 28 –
Frank Mayo , actor (died
1963 )
July 3 –
Richard Cramer , actor (died
1960 )
July 19 –
William Andrew Paton , accountancy scholar (died
1991 )
July 29 –
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin , Russian-American physicist (died
1982 )
August 11 –
Ross T. McIntire , naval surgeon (died
1960 )
September 2 –
George H. Plympton , screenwriter (died
1972 )
October 1 –
Dutch Sterrett , baseball player (died
1965 )
November 19 –
Clifton Webb , actor, dancer and singer (died
1966 )
November 20 –
Edwin Hubble , astronomer (died
1953 )
December 11 –
Walter Knott , farmer, creator of
Knott's Berry Farm (died
1981 )
Deaths
January 13 –
Solomon Bundy , politician (born
1823 )
February 3 –
Belle Starr , outlaw (born
1848 )
February 11 –
Henry Jackson Hunt , Chief of Artillery in the
Army of the Potomac during the
American Civil War (born
1819 )
March 8 –
John Ericsson , mechanical engineer and inventor (born
1803 in Sweden )
March 14 –
Adonijah Welch , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1868 to 1869 (born
1821 )
March 15 –
Melville Reuben Bissell , entrepreneur, inventor of the
Carpet sweeper (born
1843 )
April 30 –
William Henry Barnum , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1876 to 1879 (born
1818 )
May 9 –
William S. Harney , general (born
1800 )
June 26
July 10 –
Joseph Projectus Machebeuf , French-American Catholic missionary and first
Bishop of Denver (born
1812 )
September 16 –
Bob Younger , outlaw (born
1853 )
November 24 –
George H. Pendleton , politician (born
1825 )
December 6 –
Jefferson Davis , only
president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1847 to 1851 and from 1857 to 1861 (born
1808 )
See also
References
External links