Events from the year 1877 in the United States.
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
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Governors
- Governor of Alabama: George S. Houston (Democratic)
- Governor of Arkansas: Augustus Hill Garland (Democratic) (until January 11), William Read Miller (Democratic) (starting January 11)
- Governor of California: William Irwin (Democratic)
- Governor of Colorado: John Long Routt (Republican)
- Governor of Connecticut: Charles R. Ingersoll (Democratic) (until January 3), Richard D. Hubbard (Democratic) (starting January 3)
- Governor of Delaware: John P. Cochran (Democratic)
- Governor of Florida: Marcellus Stearns (Republican) (until January 2), George Franklin Drew (Democratic) (starting January 2)
- Governor of Georgia: James M. Smith (Democratic) (until January 12), Alfred H. Colquitt (Democratic) (starting January 12)
- Governor of Illinois: John Lourie Beveridge (Republican) (until January 8), Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican) (starting January 8)
- Governor of Indiana: Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic) (until January 8), James D. Williams (Democratic) (starting January 8)
- Governor of Iowa: Samuel J. Kirkwood (Republican) (until February 1), Joshua G. Newbold (Republican) (starting February 1)
- Governor of Kansas: Thomas A. Osborn (Republican) (until January 8), George T. Anthony (Republican) (starting January 8)
- Governor of Kentucky: James B. McCreary (Democratic)
- Governor of Louisiana:
- Governor of Maine: Seldon Connor (Republican)
- Governor of Maryland: John Lee Carroll (Democratic)
- Governor of Massachusetts: Alexander H. Rice (Republican)
- Governor of Michigan: John J. Bagley (Republican) (until January 3), Charles Croswell (Republican) (starting January 3)
- Governor of Minnesota: John S. Pillsbury (Republican)
- Governor of Mississippi: John M. Stone (Democratic)
- Governor of Missouri: Charles Henry Hardin (Democratic) (until January 8), John Smith Phelps (Democratic) (starting January 8)
- Governor of Nebraska: Silas Garber (Republican)
- Governor of Nevada: Lewis R. Bradley (Democratic)
- Governor of New Hampshire: Person C. Cheney (Republican) (until June 7), Benjamin F. Prescott (Republican) (starting June 7)
- Governor of New Jersey: Joseph D. Bedle (Democratic)
- Governor of New York: Lucius Robinson (Democratic) (starting January 1)
- Governor of North Carolina: Curtis Hooks Brogden (Republican) (until January 1), Zebulon Baird Vance (Democratic) (starting January 1)
- Governor of Ohio: Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) (until March 2), Thomas L. Young (Republican) (starting March 2)
- Governor of Oregon: La Fayette Grover (Democratic) (until February 1), Stephen F. Chadwick (Democratic) (starting February 1)
- Governor of Pennsylvania: John F. Hartranft (Republican)
- Governor of Rhode Island: Henry Lippitt (Republican) (until May 29), Charles C. Van Zandt (Republican) (starting May 29)
- Governor of South Carolina: Wade Hampton III (Democratic)
- Governor of Tennessee: James D. Porter (Democratic)
- Governor of Texas: Richard B. Hubbard (Democratic)
- Governor of Vermont: Horace Fairbanks (Republican)
- Governor of Virginia: James L. Kemper (Democratic)
- Governor of West Virginia: John J. Jacob (Democratic)/(Independent) (until March 4), Henry M. Mathews (Democratic) (starting March 4)
- Governor of Wisconsin: Harrison Ludington (Republican)
Lieutenant Governors
- Lieutenant Governor of California: James A. Johnson (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Lafayette Head (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: George G. Sill (Republican) (starting January 3), Francis Loomis (Democratic) (starting January 3)
- Lieutenant Governor of Florida: vacant (until month and day unknown), Noble A. Hull (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Archibald A. Glenn (Democratic) (until January 8), Andrew Shuman (Republican) (starting January 8)
- Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Leonidas Sexton (Republican) (until January 13), Isaac P. Gray (Democratic) (starting January 13)
- Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Joshua G. Newbold (Republican (until February 1), vacant (starting February 1)
- Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Melville J. Salter (Republican) (until January 8), Lyman U. Humphrey (Republican) (starting January 8)
- Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: John C. Underwood (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Caesar Antoine (Republican) (until April 24), Louis A. Wiltz (Democratic) (starting April 24)
- Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Horatio G. Knight (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Henry H. Holt (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Alonzo Sessions (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: James Wakefield (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: John M. Stone (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Norman Jay Coleman (Democratic) (until January 8), Henry Clay Brockmeyer (Democratic) (starting January 8)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Othman A. Abbott (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Jewett W. Adams (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of New York: William Dorsheimer (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: vacant (until January 1), Thomas J. Jarvis (Democratic) (starting January 1)
- Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Thomas Lowry Young (Republican) (until March 2), H. W. Curtiss (Republican) (starting March 2)
- Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: John Latta (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Henry Tillinghast Sisson (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Albert Howard (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: William Dunlap Simpson (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Thomas H. Paine (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Hugh M. McAdoo (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of Texas: vacant
- Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Redfield Proctor (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Henry Wirtz Thomas (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Charles D. Parker (Democratic)
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Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
- July 10 – The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
- July 16 – Great railroad strike of 1877: Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore, Maryland lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a Communist government before U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces.
- August 9 – Indian Wars – Battle of Big Hole: Near Big Hole River in Montana, a small band of Nez Percé Indians who refused government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army. The army loses 29 soldiers and Indians lose 89 warriors in a U.S. Army victory.
- August 17 – Arizona blacksmith F.P. Cahill is fatally wounded by Billy the Kid. Cahill dies the next day, becoming the first person killed by the Kid.
- September – The first meeting of the Knights of Reliance in Lampasas County, Texas, which morphed into the Farmers' Alliance and eventually became the Populist Party.
- September 5 – Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier, after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
October–December
Ongoing
Sport
Births
- March 7 – Charles O. Andrews, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1936 to 1946 (died 1946)
- March 16 – Thomas Wyatt Turner, civil rights activist, biologist and educator; first black person ever to receive a doctorate from Cornell (died 1978)
- April 3 – Karl C. Schuyler, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1932 to 1933 (died 1933)
- May 16 – Joseph M. McCormick, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1919 to 1925 (died 1925)
- May 26 (probable date) – Isadora Duncan, dancer (died 1927 in France)
- June 12 – Thomas C. Hart, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1945 to 1946 (died 1971)
- July 2 – Rinaldo Cuneo, artist, "the painter of San Francisco" (died 1939)
- August 10 – Frank Marshall, chess player (died 1944)
- August 15 – Stanley Vestal, historian of the Old West and poet (died 1957)
- August 27 – Lloyd C. Douglas, novelist and pastor (died 1951)
- September 6 – Buddy Bolden, African American jazz cornetist (died 1930)
- October 2 – Carl Hayden, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1927 to 1969 (died 1972)
- October 13 – Theodore G. Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi from 1928 to 1932 and from 1935 to 1947 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1935 to 1947 (died 1947)
- October 31 – Josiah O. Wolcott, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1917 to 1921 (died 1938)
- November 12 – Warren Austin, U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1931 to 1946 (died 1962)
- November 16 – Rice W. Means, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1924 to 1927 (died 1949)
- November 24
Deaths
- January 3 – John Joseph Abercrombie, Union Army brigadier general (born 1798)
- January 4 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (born 1794)
- January 17 – John Pettit, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1853 to 1855 (born 1807)
- June 17 – Daniel D. Pratt, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1869 to 1875 (born 1813)
- August 29 – Brigham Young, Mormon leader (born 1801)
- August 30 – Raphael Semmes, officer in the Confederate navy during the American Civil War (born 1809)
- September 5 – Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota chief (born 1840-45)
- September 20 – Lewis V. Bogy, U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1873 to 1877 (born 1813)
- October 29 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (born 1821)
- November 1 – Oliver P. Morton, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1867 to 1877 (born 1823
See also
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