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List of events
Events from the year
1882 in the United States
.
Incumbents
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Federal government
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Governors
and
lieutenant governors
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Governors
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- Governor of Alabama
:
Rufus W. Cobb
(
Democratic
) (until December 1),
Edward A. O'Neal
(
Democratic
) (starting December 1)
- Governor of Arkansas
:
Thomas James Churchill
(
Democratic
)
- Governor of California
:
George Clement Perkins
(
Republican
)
- Governor of Colorado
:
Frederick Walker Pitkin
(
Republican
)
- Governor of Connecticut
:
Hobart B. Bigelow
(
Republican
)
- Governor of Delaware
:
John W. Hall
(
Democratic
)
- Governor of Florida
:
William D. Bloxham
(
Democratic
)
- Governor of Georgia
:
Alfred H. Colquitt
(
Democratic
) (until November 4),
Alexander H. Stephens
(
Democratic
) (starting November 4)
- Governor of Illinois
:
Shelby Moore Cullom
(
Republican
)
- Governor of Indiana
:
Albert G. Porter
(
Republican
)
- Governor of Iowa
:
John H. Gear
(
Republican
) (until January 12),
Buren R. Sherman
(
Republican
) (starting January 12)
- Governor of Kansas
:
John P. St. John
(
Republican
)
- Governor of Kentucky
:
Luke P. Blackburn
(
Democratic
)
- Governor of Louisiana
:
Samuel D. McEnery
(
Democratic
)
- Governor of Maine
:
Harris M. Plaisted
(
Democratic
)
- Governor of Maryland
:
William T. Hamilton
(
Democratic
)
- Governor of Massachusetts
:
John Davis Long
(
Republican
)
- Governor of Michigan
:
David Jerome
(
Republican
)
- Governor of Minnesota
:
John S. Pillsbury
(
Republican
) (until January 10),
Lucius F. Hubbard
(
Republican
) (starting January 10)
- Governor of Mississippi
:
John M. Stone
(
Democratic
) (until January 29),
Robert Lowry
(
Democratic
) (starting January 29)
- Governor of Missouri
:
Thomas Theodore Crittenden
(
Democratic
)
- Governor of Nebraska
:
Albinus Nance
(
Republican
)
- Governor of Nevada
:
John Henry Kinkead
(
Republican
)
- Governor of New Hampshire
:
Charles H. Bell
(
Republican
)
- Governor of New Jersey
:
George C. Ludlow
(
Democratic
)
- Governor of New York
:
Alonzo B. Cornell
(
Republican
) (until end of December 31)
- Governor of North Carolina
:
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
(
Democratic
)
- Governor of Ohio
:
Charles Foster
(
Republican
)
- Governor of Oregon
:
W. W. Thayer
(
Democratic
) (until September 13),
Z. F. Moody
(
Republican
) (starting September 13)
- Governor of Pennsylvania
:
Henry M. Hoyt
(
Republican
)
- Governor of Rhode Island
:
Alfred H. Littlefield
(
Republican
)
- Governor of South Carolina
:
Johnson Hagood
(
Democratic
) (until December 1),
Hugh Smith Thompson
(
Democratic
) (starting December 1)
- Governor of Tennessee
:
Alvin Hawkins
(
Republican
)
- Governor of Texas
:
Oran M. Roberts
(
Democratic
)
- Governor of Vermont
:
Roswell Farnham
(
Republican
) (until October 5),
John L. Barstow
(
Republican
) (starting October 5)
- Governor of Virginia
:
Frederick W. M. Holliday
(
Democratic
) (until January 1),
William E. Cameron
(
Re-adjuster
) (starting January 1)
- Governor of West Virginia
:
Jacob B. Jackson
(
Democratic
)
- Governor of Wisconsin
:
William E. Smith
(
Republican
) (until January 2),
Jeremiah McLain Rusk
(
Republican
) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant governors
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January?March
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April?June
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July?September
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October?December
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Undated
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Ongoing
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Sport
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Births
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
- January 6 –
Sam Rayburn
, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (died
1961
)
- January 12 –
Milton Sills
, stage and film actor (died
1930
)
- January 30 –
Franklin D. Roosevelt
, 32nd
president of the United States
, served from 1933 to 1945 (died
1945
)
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- February 8 –
Thomas Selfridge
, United States Army officer, first person killed in airplane crash (died
1908
)
- February 18 –
Sonora Smart Dodd
, founder of Father's Day (died
1978
)
- February 28 –
Geraldine Farrar
, operatic soprano and film actress (died
1967
)
- May 9 –
George Barker
, painter (died
1965
)
- May 23 –
James Gleason
, American actor, playwright, and screenwriter (died
1959
)
- July 22 –
Edward Hopper
, painter (died
1967
)
- July 24 –
Lynn Thorndike
, historian of medieval science and alchemy (died
1965
)
- July 26 –
Dixie Bibb Graves
, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1937 to 1938 (died
1965
)
- September 1 –
Georgina Jones
, American tennis player (died
1955
)
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- September 12 –
George L. Berry
, U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1937 to 1938 (died
1948
)
- October 5 –
Robert Goddard
, rocket scientist (died
1945
)
- October 14 –
Eamon de Valera
, third president of Ireland (died
1975 in Ireland
)
- November 20 –
Ethel May Halls
, actress (died
1967
)
- November 29 –
Cattle Annie
, outlaw with
Little Britches
(died
1978
)
Deaths
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- January 3 –
Clement Claiborne Clay
,
U.S. Senator
from
Alabama
from 1853 to 1862,
Confederate States Senator
from
Alabama
from 1862 to 1864 (born
1816
)
- January 30 –
Henry Whitney Bellows
, clergyman of the Unitarian Church (born
1814
)
- February 25 –
James Bates
,
U.S. Representative
from
Maine
from 1831 to 1833 (born
1789
)
- March 4 –
Milton Latham
, U.S. Senator from California from 1860 to 1863 (born
1827
)
- March 24 –
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
, poet and professor, dies of
peritonitis
in his
Cambridge
home (born
1807
)
- April 27 –
Ralph Waldo Emerson
, essayist and poet (born
1803
)
- June 30 –
Charles Guiteau
, assassin of President James A. Garfield (hung) (born
1841
)
- July 16 –
Mary Todd Lincoln
,
First Lady of the United States
(born
1818
)
- July 19 –
George N. Stearns
, founder of
E. C. Stearns & Company
(born
1812
)
- August 8 –
Gouverneur K. Warren
, civil engineer and
Union Army
general in the
American Civil War
(born
1830
)
- August 16 –
Benjamin Harvey Hill
, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1877 to 1882 (born
1823
)
- September 27 –
Fernando C. Beaman
, teacher, lawyer and politician from Michigan (born
1814
)
- November 5 –
Robert Woodward Barnwell
, U.S. Senator from South Carolina from 1862 to 1865 (born
1801
)
- November 8 –
Richard Arnold
,
Union Army
brigadier general (born
1828
)
- December 10 –
Alexander Gardner
, Scottish-born Civil War photographer (born
1821
)
- December 12 –
Robert Morris
, abolitionist and one of the first African American lawyers (born
1823
)
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