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List of events
Events from the year 1931 in the United States.
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
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Governors
- Governor of Alabama: Bibb Graves (Democratic) (until January 19), Benjamin M. Miller (Democratic) (starting January 19)
- Governor of Arizona: John Calhoun Phillips (Republican) (until January 5), George W. P. Hunt (Democratic) (starting January 5)
- Governor of Arkansas: Harvey Parnell (Democratic)
- Governor of California: Clement C. Young (Republican) (until January 6), James Rolph Jr. (Republican) (starting January 6)
- Governor of Colorado: Billy Adams (Democratic)
- Governor of Connecticut: John H. Trumbull (Republican) (until January 7), Wilbur Lucius Cross (Democratic) (starting January 7)
- Governor of Delaware: C. Douglass Buck (Republican)
- Governor of Florida: Doyle E. Carlton (Democratic)
- Governor of Georgia: Lamartine G. Hardman (Democratic) (until June 27), Richard Russell, Jr. (Democratic) (starting June 27)
- Governor of Idaho: H. C. Baldridge (Republican) (until January 5), C. Ben Ross (Democratic) (until January 5)
- Governor of Illinois: Louis L. Emmerson (Republican)
- Governor of Indiana: Harry G. Leslie (Republican)
- Governor of Iowa: John Hammill (Republican) (until January 15), Daniel Webster Turner (Republican) (starting January 15)
- Governor of Kansas: Clyde M. Reed (Republican) (until January 12), Harry H. Woodring (Democratic) (starting January 12)
- Governor of Kentucky: Flem D. Sampson (Republican) (until December 8), Ruby Laffoon (Democratic) (starting December 8)
- Governor of Louisiana: Huey P. Long (Democratic)
- Governor of Maine: William Tudor Gardiner (Republican)
- Governor of Maryland: Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic)
- Governor of Massachusetts: Frank G. Allen (Republican) (until January 8), Joseph B. Ely (Democratic) (starting January 8)
- Governor of Michigan: Fred W. Green (Republican) (until January 1), Wilber Marion Brucker (Republican) (starting January 1)
- Governor of Minnesota: Theodore Christianson (Republican) (until January 6), Floyd B. Olson (Farmer-Labor) (starting January 6)
- Governor of Mississippi: Theodore G. Bilbo (Democratic)
- Governor of Missouri: Henry S. Caulfield (Republican)
- Governor of Montana: John E. Erickson (Democratic)
- Governor of Nebraska: Arthur J. Weaver (Republican) (until January 8), Charles W. Bryan (Democratic) (starting January 8)
- Governor of Nevada: Fred B. Balzar (Republican)
- Governor of New Hampshire: Charles W. Tobey (Republican) (until January 1), John Gilbert Winant (Republican) (starting January 1)
- Governor of New Jersey: Morgan Foster Larson (Republican)
- Governor of New Mexico: Richard C. Dillon (Republican) (until January 1), Arthur Seligman (Democratic) (starting January 1)
- Governor of New York: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
- Governor of North Carolina: Oliver Max Gardner (Democratic)
- Governor of North Dakota: George F. Shafer (Republican)
- Governor of Ohio: Myers Y. Cooper (Republican) (until January 12), George White (Democratic) (starting January 12)
- Governor of Oklahoma: William J. Holloway (Democratic) (until January 1), William H. Murray (Democratic) (starting January 1)
- Governor of Oregon: A. W. Norblad (Republican) (until January 12), Julius L. Meier (Independent) (starting January 12)
- Governor of Pennsylvania: John Stuchell Fisher (Republican) (until January 20), Gifford Pinchot (Republican) (starting January 20)
- Governor of Rhode Island: Norman S. Case (Republican)
- Governor of South Carolina: John Gardiner Richards, Jr. (Democratic) (until January 20), Ibra Charles Blackwood (Democratic) (starting January 20)
- Governor of South Dakota: William J. Bulow (Democratic) (until January 6), Warren Green (Republican) (starting January 6)
- Governor of Tennessee: Henry Hollis Horton (Democratic)
- Governor of Texas: Dan Moody (Democratic) (until January 20), Ross S. Sterling (Democratic) (starting January 20)
- Governor of Utah: George Dern (Democratic)
- Governor of Vermont: John E. Weeks (Republican) (until January 8), Stanley C. Wilson (Republican) (starting January 8)
- Governor of Virginia: John Garland Pollard (Democratic)
- Governor of Washington: Roland H. Hartley (Republican)
- Governor of West Virginia: William G. Conley (Republican)
- Governor of Wisconsin: Walter J. Kohler, Sr. (Republican) (until January 5), Philip La Follette (Republican) (starting January 5)
- Governor of Wyoming: Frank C. Emerson (Republican) (until February 18), Alonzo M. Clark (Republican) (starting February 18)
Lieutenant Governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Hugh D. Merrill (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Lawrence Elery Wilson (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of California: H.L. Carnahan (Republican) (until January 6), Frank Merriam (Republican) (starting January 6)
- Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Edwin C. Johnson (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Ernest E. Rogers (Republican) (until January 7), Samuel R. Spencer (Republican) (starting January 7)
- Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: James H. Hazel (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: G. P. Mix (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Fred E. Sterling (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Edgar D. Bush (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Arch W. McFarlane (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Jacob W. Graybill (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James Breathitt, Jr. (Democratic) (until December 8), Happy Chandler (Democratic) (starting December 8)
- Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Paul N. Cyr (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Alvin O. King (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William S. Youngman (political party unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Luren D. Dickinson (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Charles Edward Adams (Republican) (until January 6), Henry M. Arens (Farmer Labor) (starting January 6)
- Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Bidwell Adam (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Edward Henry Winter (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Frank A. Hazelbaker (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: George A. Williams (Republican) (until January 6), Theodore Metcalfe (Republican) (starting January 6)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Morley Griswold (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: Andrew W. Hockenhull (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of New York: Herbert H. Lehman (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Richard T. Fountain (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: John W. Carr (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: William G. Pickrel (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: Robert Burns (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Arthur H. James (Republican) (until January 20), Edward C. Shannon (Republican) (starting January 20)
- Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: James G. Connelly (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Joseph Emile Harley (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: John T. Grigsby (Democratic) (until January 6), Odell K. Whitney (Republican) (starting January 6)
- Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Ambrose B. Broadbent (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Edgar E. Witt (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Benjamin Williams (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: James H. Price (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Washington: John Arthur Gellatly (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Henry A. Huber (Republican)
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Events
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Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
- January 5
- January 6
- January 7 – Mack Mattingly, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1981 to 1987
- January 16 – Ellen Holly, American actress
- January 17 – James Earl Jones, African-American actor
- January 20
- January 22 – Sam Cooke, African-American singer (d. 1964)
- January 25 – Dean Jones, American actor (d. 2015)
- January 27 – Red Bastien, wrestler, trainer and promoter (d. 2012)
- January 29 – Jim Baumer, baseball player and manager (d. 1996)
- January 30 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author (d. 2011)
- January 31
February
March
April
May
June
July
- July 1 – Marilyn Hickey, American televangelist, speaker and author
- July 3
- July 4
- July 6
- July 7 – J. Joseph Curran Jr., American politician
- July 8
- July 9
- July 10
- July 11 – Tab Hunter, American actor, singer (d. 2018)
- July 13
- July 15
- July 16 – Norm Sherry, American Major League Baseball catcher, manager, and coach
- July 18 – Maury Duncan, American quarterback
- July 19
- July 27 – Jerry Van Dyke, American comedian, actor (d. 2018)
August
- August 1 – Hal Connolly, American athlete (d. 2010)
- August 6 – Ron Feiereisel, American basketball player, coach (d. 2000)
- August 7 – Charles E. "Charlie" Rice, American legal scholar, author
- August 10 – Tom Laughlin, American actor (Billy Jack) (d. 2013)
- August 12 – William Goldman, American author (d. 2018)
- August 14 – Frederic Raphael, American screenwriter, novelist and non-fiction author working in the UK
- August 15
- August 16 – William Luce, American writer (d. 2019)
- August 19 – Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
- August 20 – Don King, African-American boxing promoter
- August 23
- August 25
- August 30 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
- August 31
September
- September 1 – Richard Hundley, American pianist, composer (d. 2018)
- September 2 – Alan K. Simpson, American politician
- September 3 – Tom Brewer, American baseball player (d. 2018)
- September 4 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer and dancer
- September 10
- September 12
- September 13 – Barbara Bain, American actress (Mission: Impossible)
- September 16 – Little Willie Littlefield, American R&B pianist and singer (d. 2013)
- September 17 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
- September 19
- September 21
- September 29 – James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1980 (d. 2016)
- September 30
October
- October 1 – Alan Wagner, American opera critic (d. 2007)
- October 2 – Morris Cerullo, American televangelist
- October 3 – Denise Scott Brown, American architect
- October 7 – Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
- October 13 – Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- October 15
- October 16
- October 20 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
- October 22 – Ann Rule, American true-crime writer (d. 2015)
- October 23 – Jim Bunning, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1999 to 2011 (d. 2017)
- October 26
- October 28 – Harold Battiste, American composer, arranger (d. 2015)
- October 30
- October 31
November
December
- December 1
- December 2 – Edwin Meese, American attorney, law professor, and author
- December 3 – Jaye P. Morgan, American singer, chanteuse
- December 7 – Richard N. Goodwin, American writer (d. 2018)
- December 11 – Benny Spellman, American R&B singer (d. 2011)
- December 16 – Ralph Wolfe Cowan, American portrait artist (d. 2018)
- December 20
- December 23 – Ronnie Schell, American actor
- December 24 – Ray Bryant, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (d. 2011)
- December 27
- December 28 – Martin Milner, American actor (Adam-12) (d. 2015)
- December 30
Deaths
- January 4
- January 14 – Hardy Richardson, baseball player (born 1855)
- January 22 – Alma Rubens, actress (born 1897)
- January 31 – Zina P. Young Card, Mormon leader and women's rights activist (born 1850)
- February 14 – Clarence Ransom Edwards, army officer (born 1859)
- February 18 – Louis Wolheim, actor (born 1880)
- February 28
- March 20 – Joseph B. Murdock, United States Navy admiral and New Hampshire politician (born 1851)
- March 24 – Robert Edeson, actor (born 1868)
- March 25 – Ida Wells, African-American lynching crusader
- March 28 – Ban Johnson, baseball executive (born 1864)
- March 31 – Knute Rockne, football coach (born 1888)
- April 9 – Nicholas Longworth, politician, Speaker of the House (born 1869)
- April 26 – George Herbert Mead, philosopher (born 1863)
- May 2 – George Fisher Baker, financier and philanthropist (born 1840)
- May 14 – David Belasco, Broadway impresario, theater owner and playwright (born 1853)
- June 2 – Joseph Farnham, screenwriter (born 1884)
- August 6 – Bix Beiderbecke, jazz trumpeter (born 1903)
- August 27 – Francis Marion Smith, businessman (born 1846)
- September 6 – Juliana Walanika, the "Hawaiian Nightingale", court singer (born 1846 in the Kingdom of Hawaii)
- September 17 – Marvin Hart, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion (born 1876)
- October 6 – Carrie Babcock Sherman, Second Lady of the United States as wife of James S. Sherman (born 1856)
- October 18 – Thomas Edison, inventor (born 1847)
- October 26 – Charles Comiskey, baseball owner (born 1859)
- October 31 – Charles E. Rushmore, businessman, attorney, namesake of Mount Rushmore (born in 1857)
- November 4 – Buddy Bolden, African American musician (born 1877)
- November 6 – Jack Chesbro, baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (born 1874)
- December 5 – Vachel Lindsay, poet (born 1879)
- December 18 – Jack Diamond, gangster (born 1897)
- December 23 – Tyrone Power, Sr., actor (born 1869)
- December 26 – Melvil Dewey, librarian, inventor of Dewey Decimal Classification (born 1851)
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