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USA-related events during the year of 1868
Events from the year 1868 in the United States .
Incumbents Federal Government
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : Robert M. Patton (Democratic ) (until July 24), William Hugh Smith (Republican ) (starting July 24)Governor of Arkansas : Isaac Murphy (Republican ) (until July 2), Powell Clayton (Republican ) (starting July 2)Governor of California : Henry Huntly Haight (Democratic )Governor of Connecticut : James E. English (Democratic )Governor of Delaware : Gove Saulsbury (Democratic )Governor of Florida : David S. Walker (Democratic ) (until July 4), Harrison Reed (Republican ) (starting July 4)Governor of Georgia :
Governor of Illinois : Richard J. Oglesby (Republican )Governor of Indiana : Conrad Baker (Republican )Governor of Iowa : William M. Stone (Republican ) (until January 16), Samuel Merrill (Republican ) (starting January 16)Governor of Kansas : Samuel J. Crawford (Republican ) (until November 4), Nehemiah Green (Republican ) (starting November 4)Governor of Kentucky : John W. Stevenson (Democratic )Governor of Louisiana :
Governor of Maine : Joshua Chamberlain (Republican )Governor of Maryland : Thomas Swann (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : Alexander H. Bullock (Republican )Governor of Michigan : Henry H. Crapo (Republican )Governor of Minnesota : William R. Marshall (Republican )Governor of Mississippi : Benjamin G. Humphreys (Democratic ) (until June 15), Adelbert Ames (Military) (starting June 15)Governor of Missouri : Thomas Clement Fletcher (Republican )Governor of Nebraska : David Butler (Republican )Governor of Nevada : Henry G. Blasdel (Republican )Governor of New Hampshire : Walter Harriman (Republican )Governor of New Jersey : Marcus Lawrence Ward (Republican )Governor of New York : Reuben Fenton (Republican ) (until end of December 31)Governor of North Carolina : Jonathan Worth (Conservative) (until July 1), William Woods Holden (Republican ) (starting July 1)Governor of Ohio : Jacob Dolson Cox (Republican ) (until January 13), Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican ) (starting January 13)Governor of Oregon : George L. Woods (Republican )Governor of Pennsylvania : John W. Geary (Republican )Governor of Rhode Island : Ambrose Everett Burnside (Republican )Governor of South Carolina : James Lawrence Orr (Democratic ) (until July 6), Robert Kingston Scott (Republican ) (starting July 6)Governor of Tennessee : William G. Brownlow (Republican )Governor of Texas : Elisha M. Pease (Republican )Governor of Vermont : John B. Page (Republican )Governor of Virginia : Francis Harrison Pierpont (Republican ) (until April 4), Henry H. Wells (Republican ) (starting April 4)Governor of West Virginia : Arthur I. Boreman (Republican )Governor of Wisconsin : Lucius Fairchild (Republican )
Lieutenant Governors
Events January–March April–June April 1 – The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute is established in Hampton, Virginia .
April 29 – After pursuing a policy of total war on the Plain Indians , General William Tecumseh Sherman brokers the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) .
May 9 – The city of Reno, Nevada is founded.
May 16 and 26 – President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate .
May 30 – Memorial Day is observed in the United States for the first time (it was proclaimed on May 5 by General John A. Logan ).
June 3 – Crown Point, Indiana is incorporated a town.
June 25 – Florida , Alabama , Louisiana , North Carolina , and South Carolina are all readmitted to the U.S.
June 27 – Lowell, Indiana is incorporated a town. July–September October–December Undated Ongoing Births Early ? (or November 24?) – Scott Joplin , African American ragtime composer and pianist (died 1917 )
January 31 – Theodore William Richards , chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1914 (died 1928 )
February 3 – William J. Harris , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1919 to 1932 (died 1932 )
February 5 – Maxine Elliott , actress and businesswoman (died 1940 in France )
February 10 – William Allen White , journalist (died 1944 )
February 16 – John Rogan , second tallest person in recorded history (died 1905 )
February 20 – John Nathan Cobb , author, naturalist, conservationist, fisheries researcher and educator (died 1930 )
February 23 – W. E. B. Du Bois , African American civil rights leader (died 1963 )
April 6 – Helen Hyde , etcher and engraver (died 1919 )
April 8 – Herbert Spencer Jennings , zoologist (died 1947 )
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April 21 – Alfred Henry Maurer , modernist painter (suicide 1932 )
April 28 – Hélène de Pourtalès , born Helen Barbey, Olympic sailor (died 1945 in Switzerland)
March 22 – Robert Millikan , physicist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 (died 1953 )
May 2 – Robert W. Wood , optical physicist (died 1955 )
May 10 – Ed Barrow , baseball player and manager (died 1953 )
June 4 – Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1922 to 1929 (died 1942 )
June 8 – Robert Robinson Taylor , first accredited African American architect (died 1942)
June 28 – John F. Nugent , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1918 to 1921 (died 1931 )
July 4 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt , astronomer (died 1921 )[2]
August 21 – Vess Ossman , ragtime banjo player (died 1923 )
August 23 – Edgar Lee Masters , poet, biographer, dramatist and lawyer (died 1950 )
September 8 – Seth Weeks , African American jazz mandolin player, composer, arranger and bandleader (died 1953)
September 9 – Mary Hunter Austin , writer (died 1934 )
September 11 – Henry Justin Allen , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1929 to 1931 (died 1950)
September 22 – John T. Raulston , state judge (died 1956 )
October 8 – Coleman Livingston Blease , U.S. Senator from South Carolina from 1925 to 1931 (died 1942)
October 10 – Anne Hazen McFarland , physician and medical journal editor (unknown year of death)
November 3 – Harry Grant Dart , cartoonist (died 1938 )[3]
November 22 – John Nance Garner , 32nd Vice President of the United States from 1933 to 1941 (died 1967 )
November 23 – Mary Brewster Hazelton , portrait painter (died 1953)
December 17 – Frederic M. Sackett , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1925 to 1930 (died 1941 )
December 19 – Eleanor H. Porter , novelist (died 1920 )
December 25 – Eugenie Besserer , silent film actress (died 1934 )
date unknown – Luther Standing Bear , Native American film actor (died 1939 )Deaths March 4
May 10 – Henry Bennett , politician (born 1808 )
May 23 – Kit Carson , trapper, scout and Indian agent (born 1809 )
May 24 – Emanuel Leutze , history painter (born 1816 in Germany)
May 31 – John J. McRae , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1851 to 1852 (born 1815 )
June 1 – James Buchanan , 15th President of the United States from 1857 to 1861 (born 1791 )
June 6 – Daniel Pierce Thompson , novelist and lawyer (born 1795 )
June 15 – Warren Ives Bradley , children's author (born 1847 )
June 22 – Heber C. Kimball , Latter Day Saint leader (born 1801 )
July 15 – William T. G. Morton , pioneer of anaesthesia (born 1819 )
July 7 – Edward Coles , planter, politician and the second governor of Illinois (born 1786 )
August 11 – Thaddeus Stevens , politician (born 1792 )
September 17 – Hook Nose , Northern Cheyenne warrior (born c.1823)
September 19 – William Sprague , minister and politician from Michigan (born 1809)
October 9 – Howell Cobb , politician (born 1815)
November 27 – Black Kettle , Southern Cheyenne Peace Chief (born 1803 )
December 25 – Linus Yale, Jr. , inventor (born 1821 ) See also References External links
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