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Events from the year 1925 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : William W. Brandon (Democratic )
Governor of Arizona : George W. P. Hunt (Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas : Thomas Chipman McRae (Democratic ) (until January 13), Tom Jefferson Terral (Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Governor of California : Friend Richardson (Republican )
Governor of Colorado : William Ellery Sweet (Democratic ) (until January 13), Clarence Morley (Republican ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Connecticut :
Governor of Delaware : William D. Denney (Republican ) (until January 20), Robert P. Robinson (Republican ) (starting January 20)
Governor of Florida : Cary A. Hardee (Democratic ) (until January 6), John W. Martin (Democratic ) (starting January 6)
Governor of Georgia : Clifford Walker (Democratic )
Governor of Idaho : Charles C. Moore (Republican )
Governor of Illinois : Len Small (Republican )
Governor of Indiana : Emmett Forrest Branch (Republican ) (until January 12), Edward L. Jackson (Republican ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Iowa : Nathan E. Kendall (Republican ) (until January 15), John Hammill (Republican ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Kansas : Jonathan M. Davis (Democratic ) (until January 12), Ben S. Paulen (Republican ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Kentucky : William J. Fields (Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana : Henry L. Fuqua (Democratic )
Governor of Maine : Percival Proctor Baxter (Republican ) (until January 7), Owen Brewster (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Maryland : Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts : Channing H. Cox (Republican ) (until January 8), Alvan T. Fuller (Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Michigan : Alex Groesbeck (Republican )
Governor of Minnesota : J. A. O. Preus (Republican ) (until January 6), Theodore Christianson (Republican ) (starting January 6)
Governor of Mississippi : Henry L. Whitfield (Democratic )
Governor of Missouri : Arthur M. Hyde (Republican ) (until January 12), Samuel Aaron Baker (Republican ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Montana : Joseph M. Dixon (Republican ) (until January 4), John E. Erickson (Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Nebraska : Charles W. Bryan (Democratic ) (until January 8), Adam McMullen (Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Nevada : James G. Scrugham (Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire : Fred H. Brown (Democratic ) (until January 1), John Gilbert Winant (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of New Jersey : George Sebastian Silzer (Democratic )
Governor of New Mexico : James F. Hinkle (Democratic ) (until January 1), Arthur T. Hannett (Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of New York : Al Smith (Democratic )
Governor of North Carolina : Cameron Morrison (Democratic ) (until January 14), Angus Wilton McLean (Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Governor of North Dakota : Ragnvald A. Nestos (Republican ) (until January 7), Arthur G. Sorlie (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Ohio : A. Victor Donahey (Democratic )
Governor of Oklahoma : Martin E. Trapp (Democratic )
Governor of Oregon : Walter M. Pierce (Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania : Gifford Pinchot (Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island : William S. Flynn (Democratic ) (until January 6), Aram J. Pothier (Republican ) (starting January 6)
Governor of South Carolina : Thomas Gordon McLeod (Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota : William H. McMaster (Republican ) (until January 6), Carl Gunderson (Republican ) (starting January 6)
Governor of Tennessee : Austin Peay (Democratic )
Governor of Texas : Pat Morris Neff (Democratic ) (until January 20), Miriam A. Ferguson (Democratic ) (starting January 20)
Governor of Utah : Charles R. Mabey (Republican ) (until January 5), George Dern (Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Vermont : Redfield Proctor, Jr. (Republican ) (until January 8), Franklin S. Billings (Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Virginia : Elbert Lee Trinkle (Democratic )
Governor of Washington : Louis Folwell Hart (Republican ) (until January 12), Roland H. Hartley (Republican ) (starting January 12)
Governor of West Virginia : Ephraim F. Morgan (Republican ) (until March 4), Howard M. Gore (Republican ) (starting March 4)
Governor of Wisconsin : John J. Blaine (Republican )
Governor of Wyoming : Frank E. Lucas (Republican ) (until January 5), Nellie Tayloe Ross (Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Lieutenant Governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Charles S. McDowell (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of California : Clement Calhoun Young (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Robert F. Rockwell (Republican ) (until January 13), Sterling Byrd Lacy (Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : J. Danforth Bush (Republican ) (until January 20), James H. Anderson (Republican ) (starting January 20)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : H. C. Baldridge (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Fred E. Sterling (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : James J. Nejdl (Republican ) (until January 12), F. Harold Van Orman (Republican ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : John Hammill (Republican ) (until January 15), Clem F. Kimball (Republican ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Ben Sanford Paulen (Republican ) (until January 12), De Lanson Alson Newton Chase (Republican ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Henry Denhardt (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Oramel H. Simpson (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Alvan T. Fuller (Republican ) (until January 8), Frank G. Allen (Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Thomas Read (Republican ) (until January 1), George W. Welsh (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Louis L. Collins (Republican ) (until January 6), William I. Nolan (Republican ) (starting January 6)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Dennis Murphree (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Hiram Lloyd (Republican ) (until January 12), Philip Allen Bennett (Republican ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Nelson Story Jr. (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), W. S. McCormack (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Fred G. Johnson (Republican ) (until January 8), George A. Williams (Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Maurice J. Sullivan (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : vacant (until January 1), Edward G. Sargent (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of New York : Seymour Lowman (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : William B. Cooper (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Jacob E. Long (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Frank H. Hyland (Republican ) (until January 7), Walter Maddock (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Earl D. Bloom (Democratic ) (until January 12), Charles H. Lewis (Republican ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : David J. Davis (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Felix A. Toupin (Republican ) (until January 6), Nathaniel W. Smith (Republican ) (starting January 6)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : E. B. Jackson (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Carl Gunderson (Republican ) (until January 6), Alva Clark Forney (Republican ) (starting January 6)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Eugene J. Bryan (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Lucius D. Hill (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Thomas Whitfield Davidson (Democratic ) (until January 20), Barry Miller (Democratic ) (starting January 20)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Franklin S. Billings (Republican ) (until January 8), Walter K. Farnsworth (Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Junius Edgar West (Democrat )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington : William J. Coyle (Republican ) (until January 12), W. Lon Johnson (Republican ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : George F. Comings (Republican ) (until January 5), Henry A. Huber (Republican ) (starting January 5)
Events
January–March
March 4: Charles G. Dawes becomes the 30th U.S. Vice President
January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes Governor of Wyoming , the first female governor in the United States. Twelve days later, Miriam A. Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas.
January 27 – February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska , to combat an epidemic .
February 21 – First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published by Gaven Sydnes .[1]
March 4 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio . Charles G. Dawes is sworn in as Vice President of the United States .
March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas (now the University of Central Arkansas ).
March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado rampages through Missouri , Illinois , and Indiana , killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois ; Gorham, Illinois ; Ellington, Missouri ; and Griffin, Indiana . The storm's damage path was indicated at 378 km (235 mi).[2]
March 21 – Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act , prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools.
March 31 – Radio station WOWO in Ft. Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.
April–June
April 1 – Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.
April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby .
April 18 – University of Miami chartered in Coral Gables, Florida .
May 5 – Scopes Trial : Dayton, Tennessee , biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin 's Theory of Evolution .
May 8 – African American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the M.E. Norman , a steamboat sinking in the Mississippi .
June 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler .
June 13 – Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington, D.C. The images are viewed by representatives of the National Bureau of Standards , the U.S. Navy , the Department of Commerce , and others. Jenkins calls this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".
June 27 – The 6.6 Montana earthquake affects the central part of the state with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ). Because the affected area is mostly rural, financial losses are limited to $150,000, though the damage is considered severe.[3]
June 29 – The 6.8 Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead.
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
Lee Van Cleef
Edgar Ray Killen
Paul Newman
Douglas Engelbart
January 1 – Charlie Capps , American politician (d. 2009 )
January 2 – Larry Harmon , American entertainer and television producer (d. 2008 )
January 4 – Henry Gleitman , American academic (d. 2015 )
January 6 – John DeLorean , American car maker (d. 2005 )
January 7 – Harry Stradling Jr. , American cinematographer (d. 2017 )
January 8 – Tharon Musser , American designer (d. 2009 )[7]
January 9 – Lee Van Cleef , American actor (d. 1989 )
January 10 – Elizabeth Virginia Hallanan , American judge (d. 2004 )
January 11
January 12 – Katherine MacGregor , American actress (d. 2018 )
January 13
January 15 – Ruth Slenczynska , American pianist
January 16
January 17
January 18 – Art Paul , American graphic designer (d. 2018 )
January 21 – Charles Aidman , American actor (d. 1993 )
January 22 – Bobby Young , American professional baseball player (d. 1985 )
January 24 – Maria Tallchief , American ballerina (d. 2013 )
January 25 – Barbara Carroll , American jazz pianist (d. 2017 )
January 26
January 29
January 30 – Douglas Engelbart , pioneer in human–computer interaction (d. 2013 )
January 31 – Benjamin Hooks , American civil rights activist, minister, and attorney (d. 2010 )
February
Elaine Stritch
Jack Lemmon
George Kennedy
Robert Altman
March
March 1 – Keith Harvey Miller , American politician (d. 2019 )
March 4 – Dale Barnstable , American basketball player (d. 2019 )
March 6 – Clyde Biggers , American football coach (d. 1976 )
March 7 – Rene Gagnon , U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1979 )
March 8 – John Harland Bryant , American physician (d. 2017 )
March 9 – G. William Miller , American politician (d. 2018 )
March 12 – G. William Whitehurst , American politician
March 13
March 14 – Joseph A. Unanue , American chief executive (d. 2013 )
March 15 – Art Murakowski , American football player (d. 1985 )
March 16 – Mary Hinkson , African-American dancer and choreographer (d. 2014 )
March 19 – Brent Scowcroft , American general and diplomat
March 20 – Romana Acosta Bañuelos , American public servant (d. 2018 )
March 23 – Robie Lester , American Grammy-nominated voice artist and singer (d. 2005 )
March 25 – Flannery O'Connor , American author (d. 1964 )
March 28 – Dorothy DeBorba , American child actress (d. 2010 )
March 31 – John Wesley Hanes III , American civil servant (d. 2018 )
April
April 2 – Hard Boiled Haggerty , professional wrestler and actor (died 2004 )[8]
April 4 – Jan Merlin , actor, screenwriter and author (died 2019 )
April 5 – Donald Burgett , writer and World War II veteran (died 2017 )
April 12
April 14
April 17
April 18 – Bob Hastings , actor (died 2014 )
April 19
April 20
April 24 – Faye Dancer , baseball player (died 2002 )
April 25 – Kay E. Kuter , actor (died 2003 )
April 27 – Joey LaMotta , boxer and manager (died 2020 )
April 28 – John Thorn , headmaster, author and educational consultant
May
Scott Carpenter
Yogi Berra
Malcolm X
May 1 – Scott Carpenter , American astronaut (d. 2013 )
May 4 – Maurice R. Greenberg , American businessman
May 5
May 10 – Pete Babando , American ice hockey player
May 11
May 12 – Yogi Berra , American baseball player (d. 2015 )
May 14
May 16
May 17 – Herb Henson , American country musician (d. 1963 )
May 19 – Malcolm X , African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist (d. 1965 )
May 23
May 27 – Frank Dempsey , American football player (d. 2013 )
May 28 – Lucien Nedzi , American politician
May 29 – Thomas Collier Platt Jr. , American judge (d. 2017 )
May 31 – Julian Beck , American actor, director, poet, and painter (d. 1985 )
June
Tony Curtis
Barbara Bush
Audie Murphy
June Lockhart
Virginia Patton
Cara Williams
June 3 – Tony Curtis , American actor (d. 2010 )
June 5
June 6 – Fitzhugh L. Fulton , American pilot (d. 2015 )
June 7
June 8
June 9
June 10 – Nat Hentoff , American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist (d. 2017 )
June 11 – William Styron , American writer (d. 2006 )
June 12 – Richard Paul Conaboy , American judge (d. 2018 )
June 14 – Pierre Salinger , American politician (d. 2004 )
June 16 – Lewis Morley , American photographer (d. 2013 )
June 17 – Alexander Shulgin , American psychopharmacologist (d. 2014 )
June 19 – Wendell Erickson , American politician (d. 2018 )
June 20 – Audie Murphy , American World War II hero and actor (d. 1971 )
June 21
June 22
June 23
June 24 – Ogden R. Reid , United States Representative from New York (d. 2019 )
June 25
June 26 – Richard X. Slattery , American actor (d. 1997 )
June 27
June 28 – Ray Boyle , American actor
June 29
June 30 – Fred Schaus , American basketball player, head coach and athletic director (d. 2010 )
July
Farley Granger
Merv Griffin
Bill Haley
Gloria DeHaven
August
September
Hank Thompson
B. B. King
Marty Robbins
September 1 – Arvonne Fraser , American women's rights activist (d. 2018 )
September 2 – Ike Franklin Andrews , American politician (d. 2010 )
September 3 – Hank Thompson , American country musician (d. 2007 )
September 8 – Jacqueline Ceballos , American feminist
September 10 – Dick Lucas , American minister and cleric
September 12
September 13
September 15 – Peggy Webber , American actress
September 16
September 19 – Franklin Sousley , U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1945 )
September 25
September 26 – Marty Robbins , American singer-songwriter and racing driver (d. 1982 )
September 28 – Carolyn Morris , American female professional baseball player (d. 1996 )
September 29 – John Tower , American politician (d. 1991 )
October
Art Buchwald
Johnny Carson
Warren Christopher
October 2 – Paul Goldsmith , American NASCAR driver
October 3
October 5
October 6 – Hiroshi H. Miyamura , American Medal of Honour recipient
October 7 – Mildred Earp , American baseball player
October 8 – Eleanor Anne Young , American religious sister, research scientist, and educator (d. 2007 )
October 10
October 11 – Elmore Leonard , American novelist (d. 2013 )
October 13 – Lenny Bruce , comic (d. 1966 )
October 16 – Daniel J. Evans , American politician
October 20
October 22 – Robert Rauschenberg , American painter (d. 2008 )
October 23 – Johnny Carson , American comedian and television host (d. 2005 )
October 24 – Al Feldstein , American comic book artist (d. 2014 )
October 25 – John J. Snyder , Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2019 )
October 27 – Warren Christopher , American diplomat (d. 2011 )
October 29 – Dominick Dunne , American writer (d. 2009 )
October 30 - Robert Clemens, American Veteran (d. 2019 )
October 31 – Robert Rheault , American army officer (d. 2013 )
November
Jonathan Winters
Rock Hudson
Kaye Ballard
Robert F. Kennedy
December
Julie Harris
Sammy Davis Jr.
Dick Van Dyke
December 1 – Martin Rodbell , American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998 )
December 2 – Julie Harris , American actress (d. 2013 )
December 8
December 11
December 13
December 15 – Kasey Rogers , American actress (d. 2006 )
December 19 – Robert B. Sherman , American songwriter (d. 2012 )
December 21
December 23 – Harry Guardino , American actor (d. 1995 )
December 25
December 26 – Jimmy Roselli , American singer (d. 2011 )[10]
December 27 – Wilson Frost , American politician (d. 2018 )
December 29 – Pete Dye , American golf course architect (d. 2020 )
December 30 – Shirley Herz , American Broadway theatre press representative (d. 2013 )
December 31 – Dick Manville , American baseball player (d. 2019 )
Deaths
January 8 – George Bellows , realist painter (born 1882 )
January 22 – Fanny Bullock Workman , geographer, writer and mountain climber (born 1859 )
January 26 – Caspar F. Goodrich , admiral (born 1847 )
January 31 – George Washington Cable , novelist (born 1844 )
February 1 – Ellen Hamlin , Second Lady of the United States as wife of Hannibal Hamlin (born 1835 )
February 7 – Edward Jobson , actor (born 1860 )
February 18 – James Lane Allen , fiction writer (born 1849 )
February 23 – Samuel Berger , Olympic boxer (born 1884 )
March 4 – John Montgomery Ward , baseball player (born 1860)
March 10 – Myer Prinstein , Olympic long jumper (born 1878 in Poland)
March 13 – Lucille Ricksen , silent film actress (born 1910 )
March 14 – Walter Camp , American football coach (born 1859 )
March 30 – William J. McConnell , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1891 (born 1839 )
April 8 – Emma Curtis Hopkins , spiritual writer (born 1849)
April 13 – Elwood Haynes , inventor (born 1857 )
April 14 – John Singer Sargent , portrait painter (born 1856 in Florence; died in London)
April 19 – John Walter Smith , politician (born 1845 )
May 12 – Amy Lowell , poet (born 1874 )
May 15 – Nelson A. Miles , general (born 1839 )
May 20 – Elias M. Ammons , Governor of Colorado (born 1860)
May 25 – Henry W. Petrie , popular music composer (born 1857 )
June 1 – Thomas R. Marshall , 28th Vice President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 (born 1854 )
June 2 – James Ellsworth , mineowner and banker (born 1849)
June 16 – Emmett Hardy , jazz cornet player (born 1903 ; TB)
June 18 – Robert M. La Follette , politician (born 1855 )
June 26 – James A. Barber , Medal of Honor recipient (born 1841 )
July 7 – Clarence Hudson White photographer (born 1871 )
July 26 – William Jennings Bryan , lawyer and politician (born 1860)
July 29 – Mark Fenton , silent film actor (born 1866 )
August 4 – Charles W. Clark , baritone (born 1865 )
August 5 – Jennie Lee , silent film actress (born 1848 )
August 7 – George Gray , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1885 to 1899 (born 1840 )
August 16 – Edna Hicks , blues singer (born 1895 ; killed in fire)
August 17 – Junius George Groves , slave-born potato farmer (born 1859 )
September 13 – Emily Elizabeth Holman , architect (born 1854 )
September 17 – Carl Eytel , painter of the Southwest (born 1862 in Württemberg)
October 7 – Christy Mathewson , baseball player (born 1880 )
October 10 – James Buchanan Duke , tobacco and electric power industrialist (born 1856 )
November 1 – Lester Cuneo , actor (born 1888 )
November 3 – Lucile McVey , silent film comedy actress (born 1890 )
November 21 – Robert Wrenn , tennis player (born 1873 )
December 7 – James O. Barrows , actor (born 1855)
December 8 – Marguerite Marsh , silent film actress (born 1888)
December 22 – Mary Thurman , silent film actress (born 1895)
December 28 – Raymond P. Rodgers , admiral (born 1849 )
December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards director (born 1867 in Canada )
See also
References
^ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year . New York; London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2 .
^ Johns, Robert H. (2013). "The 1925 Tri-State Tornado Damage Path And Associated Storm System". Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Metereology : 1–33.
^ Stover, C. W.; Coffman, J. L. (1993), Seismicity of the United States, 1568–1989 (Revised) – U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527 , United States Government Printing Office , pp. 268–270
^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ; Alaska Precipitation: September
^ Matt Rosenberg . "Largest Cities Through History" . About.com .
^ Evjen, Victor H. (2014). "The Federal Probation System: The Struggle To Achieve It And Its First 25 Years". Federal Probation : 1–17.
^
Notice of Tharon Musser' death, Live Design Online , April 19, 2009 Archived April 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Don Stansauk" . Database Football . Retrieved 2008-01-08 .
^ "The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Volume 6" . Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Incorporated . 2000.
^ Fox, Margalit (July 10, 2011). "Jimmy Roselli, Italian-American Singer, Dies at 85" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2014-05-23 .
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