List of events
Events from the year 1867 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : Robert M. Patton (Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas : Isaac Murphy (Democratic )
Governor of California : Frederick Low (Republican ) (until December 5), Henry Huntly Haight (Democratic ) (starting December 5)
Governor of Connecticut : Joseph R. Hawley (Republican ) (until May 1), James E. English (Democratic ) (starting May 1)
Governor of Delaware : Gove Saulsbury (Democratic )
Governor of Florida : David S. Walker (Democratic )
Governor of Georgia : Charles J. Jenkins (Democratic )
Governor of Illinois : Richard J. Oglesby (Republican )
Governor of Indiana : Oliver P. Morton (Republican ) (until January 23), Conrad Baker (Republican ) (starting January 23)
Governor of Iowa : William M. Stone (Republican )
Governor of Kansas : Samuel J. Crawford (Republican )
Governor of Kentucky :
Governor of Louisiana : James Madison Wells (Republican ) (until June 3), Benjamin Franklin Flanders (Republican ) (starting June 3)
Governor of Maine : Samuel Cony (Republican ) (until January 2), Joshua Chamberlain (Republican ) (starting January 2)
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 )
Governor of Missouri : Thomas Clement Fletcher (Republican )
Governor of Nebraska : Alvin Saunders (Republican ) (until March 1), David Butler (Republican ) (starting March 1)
Governor of Nevada : Henry G. Blasdel (Republican )
Governor of New Hampshire : Frederick Smyth (Republican ) (until June 6), Walter Harriman (Republican ) (starting June 6)
Governor of New Jersey : Marcus Lawrence Ward (Republican )
Governor of New York : Reuben Fenton (Republican )
Governor of North Carolina : Jonathan Worth (Conservative)
Governor of Ohio : Jacob Dolson Cox (Republican )
Governor of Oregon : George L. Woods (Republican )
Governor of Pennsylvania : Andrew Gregg Curtin (Republican ) (until January 15), John W. Geary (Republican ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Rhode Island : Ambrose Everett Burnside (Republican )
Governor of South Carolina : James Lawrence Orr (Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee : William G. Brownlow (Republican )
Governor of Texas : James W. Throckmorton (Democratic ) (until August 8), Elisha M. Pease (Republican ) (starting August 8)
Governor of Vermont : Paul Dillingham (Republican ) (until October 13), John B. Page (Republican ) (starting October 13)
Governor of Virginia : Francis Harrison Pierpont (Republican )
Governor of West Virginia : Arthur I. Boreman (Republican )
Governor of Wisconsin : Lucius Fairchild (Republican )
Lieutenant Governors
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 1 – Lew Fields , vaudeville performer (died 1941)
January 8 – Emily Greene Balch , writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1961)
January 14 – James H. Hughes , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1937 till 1943 (died 1953)
January 17 – Louise Upton Brumback , landscape painter (died 1929)
February 3 – Charles Henry Turner , African American entomologist (died 1923)
February 7 – Laura Ingalls Wilder , novelist (died 1957)[1]
February 8
February 27 – Irving Fisher , economist (died 1947)
March 4 – Charles Pelot Summerall , U.S. Army general (died 1955)
March 6 – Samuel Cody , aviation pioneer (died 1913)
March 10 – Lillian Wald , nurse (died 1940)
March 21 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. , theatrical producer (died 1932)
March 25 – Gutzon Borglum , artist, sculptor, creator of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial (died 1941 )
March 29 – Cy Young , Major League Baseball pitcher (died 1955)
April 16 – Wilbur Wright , aviation pioneer (died 1912 )
May 21 – Augustus Owsley Stanley , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1919 to 1925 (died 1958 )
May 29 – Charles A. Rawson , U.S. Senator from Iowa in 1922 (died 1936)
June 8 – Frank Lloyd Wright , architect (died 1959)
July 31 – S. S. Kresge , retailer (died 1966)
September 5 – Amy Beach , classical composer and pianist (died 1944)
October 6 – George Horace Lorimer , newspaper editor (died 1937)
October 21 – Aldred Scott Warthin , cancer geneticist (died 1931)
October 31 – David Graham Phillips , journalist and novelist (died 1911)
November 16 – William F. Kirby , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1916 till 1921 (died 1934)
November 24
December 23 – Madam C. J. Walker , born Sarah Breedlove, African American entrepreneur and philanthropist (died 1919)
December 30 – Simon Guggenheim , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1907 till 1913 (died 1941)
Deaths
January 20 – Nathaniel Parker Willis , author, poet and editor (born 1806 )
February 2 – Forceythe Willson , poet (born 1837 )
March 6 – Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Ward"), humorist (born 1834 ) (tuberculosis)
March 16 – Benjamin Hanby , songwriter (born 1833 ) (tuberculosis)
March 29 – George R. Riddle , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1864 to 1867 (born 1817 )
April 3 – George W. Randolph , lawyer, planter, Confederate general, 3rd Confederate States Secretary of War (born 1818 )
May 11 – Joseph A. Wright , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1862 to 1863 (born 1810 )
May 27 – Thomas Bulfinch , collector of myths and legends (born 1796 )
July 3 – Lazarus W. Powell , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1859 to 1865 (born 1812 )
July 31 – Catharine Sedgwick , novelist (born 1789 )
September 3 – James A. McDougall , U.S. Senator from California from 1861 to 1867 (born 1817 )
September 23 – Michael O'Laughlen , Conspirator in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (born 1840 ) (yellow fever)
September 26 – James Ferguson , Scottish-born astronomer and engineer (born 1797 )
September 29 – Sterling Price , 11th Governor of Missouri , United States Army brigadier general in the Mexican–American War , Confederate Army major general in the American Civil War (born 1809 )
October 7 – Henry Timrod , poet (born 1829 ) (tuberculosis)
November 19 – Fitz-Greene Halleck , poet (born 1790 )
December 3 – Margaret Lea Houston , First Lady of the Republic of Texas (born 1819 )
See also
References
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