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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
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
March 4: Benjamin Harrison becomes the 23rd U.S. President Levi P. Morton becomes the 22nd U.S. Vice PresidentJanuary 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 Vice President of the United States .
March 11
April 22 – At high noon in Oklahoma Territory, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889 . Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed, with populations of at least 10,000.
May 15 – In Samoa , 3 U.S. and 3 German ships sink in a typhoon because the captains refuse to leave before the others; almost 200 drown. The British steamer Calliope saves itself by pushing into the wind with full speed.
May 19 – The first mass at ICC, Greene, New York , by Father Mahon.
May 30 – A tornado crossing West Virginia kills two.[ 1]
May 31 – Johnstown Flood : The South Fork Dam collapses in western Pennsylvania , killing more than 2,200 people in and around Johnstown, Pennsylvania .
June 3 – The first long distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon .
June 6 – The Great Seattle Fire ravages through the downtown area without any fatalities.
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 23 – Victor Fleming , film director, cinematographer , and producer (died 1949 )
February 23 – John Gilbert Winant , American politician (died 1949)
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 8 – Oscar R. Ewing , lawyer, politician, and social reformer (died 1980 )
March 21 – Frederick Osborn , philanthropist and eugenicist (died 1981 )
April 15 – A. Philip Randolph , African American labor union leader (died 1979 )
April 21
May 4 – Francis Spellman , sixth Archbishop of New York from 1939 to 1967 (died 1937 )
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 – James O. McKinsey , accountant and pioneer of management consulting (died 1937 )
June 18 – Prentiss M. Brown , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1936 to 1943 (died 1973 )
July 29 – Vladimir Kosma Zworykin , Russian-American physicist (died 1982 )
August 11 – Ross T. McIntire , naval surgeon (died 1960 )
November 19 – Clifton Webb , actor, dancer and singer (died 1966 )
November 20 – Edwin Hubble , astronomer (died 1953 )
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
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