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List of events
Events from the year 1905 in the United States .
Incumbents
vacant (until March 4)
Charles W. Fairbanks (
R -
Indiana ) (starting March 4)
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
William D. Jelks (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Jeff Davis (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
George Pardee (
Republican )
Governor of Colorado :
Governor of Connecticut :
Abiram Chamberlain (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Henry Roberts (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Delaware :
John Hunn (
Republican ) (until January 17),
Preston Lea (
Republican ) (starting January 17)
Governor of Florida :
William Sherman Jennings (
Democratic ) (until January 3),
Napoleon B. Broward (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Georgia :
Joseph M. Terrell (
Democratic )
Governor of Idaho :
John T. Morrison (
Republican ) (until January 2),
Frank R. Gooding (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Illinois :
Richard Yates, Jr. (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Charles S. Deneen (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Indiana :
Winfield T. Durbin (
Republican ) (until January 9),
J. Frank Hanly (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Iowa :
Albert B. Cummins (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
Willis J. Bailey (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Edward W. Hoch (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Kentucky :
J. C. W. Beckham (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Newton Crain Blanchard (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
John Fremont Hill (
Republican ) (until January 4),
William T. Cobb (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Maryland :
Edwin Warfield (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
John L. Bates (
Republican ) (until January 5),
William L. Douglas (
Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Michigan :
Aaron T. Bliss (
Republican ) (until January 1),
Fred M. Warner (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Minnesota :
Samuel Rinnah Van Sant (
Republican ) (until January 4),
John A. Johnson (
Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Mississippi :
James K. Vardaman (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Alexander Monroe Dockery (
Democratic ) (until January 9),
Joseph W. Folk (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Montana :
Joseph Toole (
Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska :
John H. Mickey (
Republican )
Governor of Nevada :
John Sparks (
Silver )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Nahum J. Bachelder (
Republican ) (until January 5),
John McLane (
Republican ) (starting January 5)
Governor of New Jersey :
Franklin Murphy (
Republican ) (until January 17),
Edward C. Stokes (
Republican ) (starting January 17)
Governor of New York :
Frank W. Higgins (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
Charles Brantley Aycock (
Democratic ) (until January 11),
Robert Broadnax Glenn (
Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of North Dakota :
Frank White (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Elmore Y. Sarles (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Ohio :
Myron T. Herrick (
Republican )
Governor of Oregon :
George Chamberlain (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Samuel W. Pennypacker (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Lucius F. C. Garvin (
Democratic ) (until January 4),
George H. Utter (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of South Carolina :
Duncan Clinch Heyward (
Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota :
Charles N. Herreid (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Samuel H. Elrod (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Tennessee :
James B. Frazier (
Democratic ) (until March 21),
John I. Cox (
Democratic ) (starting March 21)
Governor of Texas :
S. W. T. Lanham (
Democratic )
Governor of Utah :
Heber Manning Wells (
Republican ) (until January 2),
John Christopher Cutler (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Vermont :
Charles J. Bell (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
Andrew Jackson Montague (
Democratic )
Governor of Washington :
Henry McBride (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Albert E. Mead (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of West Virginia :
Albert B. White (
Republican ) (until March 4),
William M. O. Dawson (
Republican ) (starting March 4)
Governor of Wisconsin :
Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (
Republican )
Governor of Wyoming :
Fenimore Chatterton (
Republican ) (until January 2),
Bryant B. Brooks (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama :
Russell M. Cunningham (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Alden Anderson (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Henry Roberts (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Rollin S. Woodruff (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware :
Philip L. Cannon (
Republican ) (until January 17),
Isaac T. Parker (
Republican ) (starting January 17)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
James M. Stevens (
Republican ) (until January 2),
Burpee L. Steeves (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
William Northcott (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Lawrence Sherman (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Newton W. Gilbert (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Hugh T. Miller (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
John Herriott (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
David J. Hanna (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
William P. Thorne (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Curtis Guild, Jr. (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Alexander Maitland (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
Ray W. Jones (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
John Prentiss Carter (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
Thomas Lewis Rubey (
Democratic ) (until January 9),
John C. McKinley (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana :
Frank G. Higgins (political party unknown) (until October 15),
Edwin L. Norris (
Democratic ) (starting October 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
Edmund G. McGilton (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Lemuel Allen (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Matthew Linn Bruce (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
Wilfred D. Turner (
Democratic ) (until January 11),
Francis D. Winston (
Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota :
David Bartlett (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
Warren G. Harding (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
William M. Brown (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
George H. Utter (
Republican ) (until January 3), Frederick Jackson (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : John Sloan (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota :
George W. Snow (
Republican ) (until January 3),
John E. McDougall (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : George D. Neal (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Charles H. Stearns (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
Joseph Edward Willard (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington : vacant (until January 9),
Charles E. Coon (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
James O. Davidson (
Republican )
Events
March 4:
Charles W. Fairbanks becomes the 26th U.S. vice president
May 10:
Snyder, Oklahoma tornado
January–June
January 30 – The Supreme Court renders its unanimous decision in the landmark case of
Swift & Co. v. United States , allowing the federal government to regulate monopolies.
[1]
March 4 – President
Theodore Roosevelt begins his first full term.
Charles W. Fairbanks is sworn in as
Vice President of the United States .
March 10 – In
Cleveland, Ohio ,
Cassie Chadwick is sentenced for 14 years in prison for fraud.
March 17 –
Franklin D. Roosevelt marries his fifth cousin
Eleanor Roosevelt ; President Roosevelt, the bride's uncle, gives her away.
March 20 –
Grover Shoe Factory disaster : A boiler explosion, building collapse and fire in
Brockton, Massachusetts kills 58.
March 27 –
Plumas National Forest is established.
April 6 –
Lochner v. New York : The
Supreme Court of the United States invalidates New York's 8-hour-day law.
April 6–July 19 – The
1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike ; 21 people die and 416 are injured in the violence.
[2]
May–June –
John C. Merriam leads the
Saurian Expedition , a
paleontological research mission in northern
Nevada .
May 6 –
Klamath National Forest is established.
May 10 – The
1905 Snyder, Oklahoma tornado destroys much of
Snyder, Oklahoma , killing at least 97.
May 12 –
Gunnison National Forest is established.
May 15 –
Las Vegas, Nevada is founded when 110 acres (45 ha), in what later becomes downtown, are auctioned off.
May 15 –
Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery is founded in South Canaan Township in western Wayne County, in the northeastern corner of Pennsylvania.
May 29 –
Sawtooth National Forest is established.
June 1–October 14 – The
Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition is held in
Portland, Oregon , celebrating the 100th anniversary of the
Lewis and Clark Expedition .
June 2 –
Lassen National Forest is established.
June 3 –
San Juan and
Payette National Forest is established.
June 14 –
Uncompahgre National Forest is established.
June 24 – The
founding convention of the
Industrial Workers of the World , A radical workers union, which had great impact during the first two decades of the 20th century.
July–December
September 5:
Treaty of Portsmouth
September 11:
Ninth Avenue derailment
Undated
Ongoing
Sport
Births
January 3 –
Anna May Wong , film actress (died
1961 )
January 7 –
James Simpson Jr. , race car driver and politician (died
1960 )
January 11 –
Dorothy Hale , socialite (suicide
1938 )
January 27 –
Howard McNear , actor (died
1969 )
[7]
February 6 –
Merze Tate , African American academic (died
1996 )
March 15 –
Nat Perrin , comedy screenwriter (died
1998 )
March 17 –
Lillian Yarbo , actress (died
1996 )
[8]
[9]
[10]
April 9 –
J. William Fulbright , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1945 to 1974 (died
1995 )
May 15 –
Joseph Cotten , actor (died
1994 )
May 16 –
Henry Fonda , actor (died
1982 )
[11]
May 18 –
Ruth Alexander , pioneering American pilot (died
1930 )
June 10 –
Sally Childs , language training specialist (died
1988 )
[12]
June 20 –
Lillian Hellman , playwright (born
1984 )
[13]
July 4 –
Irving Johnson , sailor and author (died
1991 )
July 15 –
Dorothy Fields , lyricist (died
1974 )
July 18 –
Robert Elton Brooker , business executive (died
2000 )
July 21 –
David M. Kennedy , U.S. 60th Secretary of Treasury, 8th U.S. Representative to N.A.T.O., Special Representative of The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints (died
1996 )
August 2 –
Ruth Nelson , actress (died
1992 )
[14]
August 23 –
Abbie Rowe , White House photographer (died
1967 )
October 5 –
John Hoyt , actor, editorial board member of
The Yale Record (died
1991 )
October 6 –
Helen Wills , tennis player (died
1998 )
October 7 –
Andy Devine , character actor (died
1977 )
October 11 –
Fred Trump , real estate developer, father of
Donald Trump (died
1999 )
October 23 –
Gertrude Ederle , swimmer (died
2003 )
[15]
November 1 –
Eric Siday , bandleader, electronic composer (died
1976 )
November 3 –
Joseph H. Ball , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1940 to 1942 and 1943 to 1949 (died
1993 )
November 4 –
Nannie Doss , serial killer who murdered eleven people (died 1965)
November 13 –
Frank Levingston , supercentenarian (died
2016 )
November 19
November 26 –
Bob Johnson , baseball player (died
1982 )
November 27 –
Astrid Allwyn , actress (died
1978 )
December 7 –
Leonard Goldenson , television executive (died
1999 )
December 23 –
Paul Caraway , general, High Commissioner,
United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (died
1985 )
December 24 –
Howard Hughes , business magnate, investor, director, pilot, and philanthropist (died
1976 )
Deaths
January 2 –
Clara Augusta Jones Trask , dime novelist (born
1839 )
January 6
January 19 –
Benjamin F. Rice ,
U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1873 (born
1828 )
January 22 –
Clara Harrison Stranahan , college co-founder and trustee (born
1831 )
January 27 –
Watson Heston , cartoonist (born
1846 )
January 28 –
Cordelia A. Greene , physician, reformer, benefactor (born
1831 )
February 8 –
John Leary , politician, 37th
Mayor of Seattle (born
1837 )
February 15 –
Lew Wallace ,
Union general in the
American Civil War and politician (born
1827 )
February 20 –
Jeremiah W. Farnham , merchant captain (born c. 1828)
February 27 –
George S. Boutwell , U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1851 to 1853 (born
1818 )
March 1 –
Edward O. Wolcott , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1889 to 1901 (born
1848 )
March 6 –
John Henninger Reagan , U.S. Senator from
Texas , Acting
Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury ,
Confederate States Postmaster General (born
1818 )
March 9 –
William B. Bate , 23rd Governor of Tennessee from 1883 to 1887 and U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1887 to 1905 (born
1826 )
March 18 –
Joseph Roswell Hawley , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1881 to 1905 (born 1826)
April 21 –
Orville H. Platt , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1879 to 1905 (born
1827 )
May 5 –
William M. Robbins , U.S. Representative from North Carolina (born
1828 )
May 13 –
Sam S. Shubert , theater owner (born
1878 )
May 23 –
Mary Livermore , journalist, abolitionist and women's rights advocate (born
1820 )
July 1 –
John Hay , author, biographer and 37th
United States Secretary of State (born
1838 )
July 24 –
Adolf Cluss , engineer architect (born
1825 in Germany)
August 1 –
Andrew Wylie , judge (born
1814 )
August 21 –
Mary Mapes Dodge , children's author (b.
1831 )
September 5 –
Touch the Clouds ,
Minneconjou chief (b. c.
1838 )
September 12 –
John Rogan , second tallest person in recorded history (b.
1868 )
October 6 –
Hibbard H. Shedd , politician and novelist (born
1847 )
December 3 –
John Bartlett , lexicographer and publisher (born
1820 )
See also
References
^
The American Monthly Review of Reviews (March 1905) pp. 283-286.
^ Fitch, Solidarity for Sale, 2006.
^
"A Brief History" . Juilliard School. Retrieved 2019-05-10 .
^
"The "Great Storms" of 1905 and 1913 | Great Lakes Steamship Society" . Archived from
the original on 2019-07-17. Retrieved 2019-07-17 .
^
"Chorus performers from "The Sho-gun" " . digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu .
^ Gregory, Rick (1980).
"Robertson County and the Black Patch War, 1904-1909" . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 39 (3): 341–358.
ISSN
0040-3261 .
JSTOR
42626100 .
^ Ronald L. Smith (1993).
Comic Support: Second Bananas in the Movies . Carol Publishing Group. p. 164.
ISBN
978-0-8065-1399-7 .
^ Smallwood, Bill (March 16, 1947). "Delightful Side". Los Angeles Sentinel . p. 17.
ProQuest
562108876 . Billye [sic] Yarbo and Nat Cole both birthday on the 17th.
^ 1940 United States Federal Census Year: 1940; Census Place: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Roll: m-t0627-00416; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 60-362
^ "Washington Death Index, 1965-2014," database, FamilySearch (
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLWM-FFV7 : 13 July 2017), Lillian M Yarbo, 12 Jun 1996, King, Washington, United States; from the Department of Health, Death Index, 1907-1960; 1965-2014, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives (
https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Collections/TitleInfo/472 : n.d.); Citing Washington State Department of Health.
^ Allan Hunter (1991).
Chambers Film and Television Handbook . Chambers. p. 113.
ISBN
978-0-550-17250-1 .
^ Rawson, Margaret H. "The 1973 Samuel T. Orton Award." Bulletin of the Orton Society XXIV (1974): 7-10.
^
"Lillian Hellman | American playwright" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 14 December 2020 .
^
"Ruth Nelson" .
IBDb . Retrieved November 1, 2022.
^
"Gertrude Ederle | Biography & Facts | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . Retrieved 7 March 2022 .
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