List of events
Events from the year 1858 in the United States.
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
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Governors
- Governor of Alabama: Andrew B. Moore (Democratic)
- Governor of Arkansas: Elias Nelson Conway (Democratic)
- Governor of California: J. Neely Johnson (Know Nothing) (until January 8), John B. Weller (Democratic) (starting January 8)
- Governor of Connecticut: Alexander H. Holley (Republican) (until May 5), William A. Buckingham (Republican) (starting May 5)
- Governor of Delaware: Peter F. Causey (Know Nothing)
- Governor of Florida: Madison S. Perry (Democratic)
- Governor of Georgia: Joseph E. Brown (Democratic)
- Governor of Illinois: William Henry Bissell (Republican)
- Governor of Indiana: Ashbel P. Willard (Democratic)
- Governor of Iowa: James W. Grimes (Whig) (until January 13), Ralph P. Lowe (Republican) (starting January 13)
- Governor of Kentucky: Charles S. Morehead (Know Nothing)
- Governor of Louisiana: Robert C. Wickliffe (Democratic)
- Governor of Maine: Joseph H. Williams (Republican) (until January 6), Lot M. Morrill (Democratic) (starting January 6)
- Governor of Maryland: Thomas W. Ligon (Democratic) (until January 13), Thomas H. Hicks (Know Nothing)/(Republican) (starting January 13)
- Governor of Massachusetts: Henry Gardner (Know Nothing) (until January 7), Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican) (starting January 7)
- Governor of Michigan: Kinsley S. Bingham (Republican)
- Governor of Minnesota: Samuel Medary (Democratic) (until May 24), Henry H. Sibley (Democratic) (starting May 24)
- Governor of Mississippi: William McWillie (Democratic)
- Governor of Missouri: Robert Marcellus Stewart (Democratic)
- Governor of New Hampshire: William Haile (Republican)
- Governor of New Jersey: William A. Newell (Republican)
- Governor of New York: John Alsop King (Republican) (until end of December 31)
- Governor of North Carolina: Thomas Bragg (Democratic)
- Governor of Ohio: Salmon P. Chase (Republican)
- Governor of Pennsylvania: James Pollock (Whig) (until January 19), William F. Packer (Democratic) (starting January 19)
- Governor of Rhode Island: Elisha Dyer (Republican)
- Governor of South Carolina: Robert Francis Withers Allston (Democratic) (until December 10), William Henry Gist (Democratic) (starting December 10)
- Governor of Tennessee: Isham G. Harris (Democratic)
- Governor of Texas: Hardin R. Runnels (Democratic)
- Governor of Vermont: Ryland Fletcher (Republican) (until October 10), Hiland Hall (Republican) (starting October 10)
- Governor of Virginia: Henry A. Wise (Democratic)
- Governor of Wisconsin: Coles Bashford (Republican) (until January 4), Alexander W. Randall (Republican) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governors
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Events
Ongoing
Births
- January 6 – Albert Henry Munsell, painter, teacher of art and inventor of the Munsell color system (died 1918)
- January 9 – Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, botanist (died 1934)
- January 11 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, department store magnate (died 1947)
- February 6 – Jonathan P. Dolliver, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1900 to 1910 (died 1910)
- February 15 – John Joseph Montgomery, glider pioneer (died 1911)
- February 19 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer and co-founder of Boy Scouts of America (died 1939)
- February 28 – Richard P. Ernst, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1921 to 1927 (died 1934)
- March 9 – Gustav Stickley, furniture designer and architect (died 1942)
- March 12 – Adolph Ochs, newspaper publisher (died 1935)
- March 24 – Elia Goode Byington, newspaper proprietor, editor, and manager (died 1936)
- March 30 – DeWolf Hopper, musical theater performer (died 1935)
- April 23 – Leonor F. Loree, railroad executive (died 1940)
- April 29 – Georgia Hopley, journalist, political figure and temperance advocate (died 1944)
- June 17 – Mary F. Hoyt, first woman appointed to the U.S. federal civil service, in 1883 (died 1958)
- June 20 – Charles Waddell Chesnutt, African American author, essayist and political activist (died 1932)
- June 28 – Otis Skinner, actor (died 1943)
- July 1 – Velma Caldwell Melville, editor and writer (died 1924)
- August 18 – Thomas S. Rodgers, admiral (died 1931)
- September 1 – Andrew Jackson Zilker, philanthropist (died 1934)
- September 12 – J. H. Smith, politician and pioneer (died 1956)
- September 30 – Estelle M. H. Merrill, journalist (died 1908)
- October 2 – Emma Amelia Cranmer, prohibition reformer and suffragist (died 1937)
- October 7 – Joseph E. Ransdell, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1913 to 1931 (died 1954)
- October 12 – John L. Sullivan, heavyweight boxer (died 1918)
- October 15 – William Sims, admiral (died 1936)
- October 27 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909, 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901 (died 1919)
- October 30 – Wilson Eyre, architect (died 1944)
- November 8 – Lawrence Yates Sherman, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1913 to 1921 (died 1939)
- November 21 – Charles A. Towne, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1900 to 1901 (died 1928)
- November 26 – Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic foundress, first American canonized as a saint, in 2000 (died 1955)
- December 15 – Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, biographer (died 1923)
- December 24 – Harriet Pritchard Arnold, author (died 1901)
- December 25 – Herman P. Faris, temperance movement leader (died 1936)
- December 31 – Harry Stewart New, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1917 to 1923 (died 1937)
Deaths
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