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1882 in the United States
Summary
Events from the year
1882 in the United States
.
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1881
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Decades:
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900s
See also:
History of the United States (1865–1918)
Timeline of United States history (1860–1899)
List of years in the United States
Incumbents
edit
Federal government
edit
President
:
Chester A. Arthur
(
R
-
New York
)
Vice President
:
vacant
Chief Justice
:
Morrison Waite
(
Ohio
)
Speaker of the House of Representatives
:
J. Warren Keifer
(
R
-
Ohio
)
Congress
:
47th
Governors
and
lieutenant governors
Governors
edit
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
edit
Lieutenant Governor of California
:
John Mansfield
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
:
Horace Austin Warner Tabor
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
:
William H. Bulkeley
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Florida
:
Livingston W. Bethel
(no political party)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
:
John Marshall Hamilton
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
:
Thomas Hanna
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa
:
Frank T. Campbell
(
Republican
) (until January 12),
Orlando H. Manning
(
Republican
) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas
:
David Wesley Finney
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
:
James E. Cantrill
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
:
George L. Walton
(
Democratic
) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
:
Byron Weston
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
:
Moreau S. Crosby
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
:
Charles A. Gilman
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
:
William H. Sims
(
Democratic
) (until month and day unknown),
G. D. Shands
(
Democratic
) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
:
Robert Alexander Campbell
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska
:
Edmund C. Carns
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
:
Jewett W. Adams
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of New York
:
George Gilbert Hoskins
(
Republican
) (until end of December 31)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
: vacant (until month and day unknown),
James L. Robinson
(
Democratic
) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
:
Andrew Hickenlooper
(
Republican
) (until January 9),
Rees G. Richards
(
Republican
) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
:
Charles Warren Stone
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island
: Henry Fay (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
:
John D. Kennedy
(
Democratic
) (until December 1),
John Calhoun Sheppard
(
Democratic
) (starting December 1)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee
: George H. Morgan (
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas
: Leonidas J. Storey (
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
:
John L. Barstow
(
Republican
) (until October 5),
Samuel E. Pingree
(
Republican
) (starting October 5)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
:
James A. Walker
(
Democratic
) (until January 1),
John F. Lewis
(
Republican
) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
:
James M. Bingham
(
Republican
) (until January 2),
Sam S. Fifield
(
Republican
) (starting January 2)
Events
edit
January–March
edit
January 2
The
Standard Oil
Trust (monopoly)
is secretly created to control multiple corporations set up by
John D. Rockefeller
and his associates.
[1]
Oscar Wilde
arrives in the
United States
for an extended lecture tour.
[2]
January 5 –
Charles J. Guiteau
is found guilty of the
assassination of James A. Garfield
(
President of the United States
), despite an
insanity defense
raised by his lawyer.
[3]
January 13 – A
train collision in New York City
kills eight, including
Webster Wagner
, a
New York state senator
and founder of the luxury sleeper-car company bearing his name.
March 18 –
Morgan Earp
is assassinated by
outlaws
while playing billiards in
Tombstone, Arizona
.
March 22 –
Polygamy
is made a felony by the
Edmunds Act
passed by the
United States Congress
.
March 29 – The
Knights of Columbus
, a
Catholic
fraternal service organization
, is incorporated in
New Haven, Connecticut
by Father
Michael J. McGivney
.
April–June
edit
April 3 –
Old West
outlaw
Jesse James
is shot in the back of the head and killed by fellow outlaw
Robert Ford
in his home at
St. Joseph, Missouri
for reward.
May 6 – The
Chinese Exclusion Act
is the first significant law that restricts immigration into the U.S.
June 30 –
Charles J. Guiteau
, the assassin of President
James A. Garfield
, is hanged.
July–September
edit
August 3 – The
U.S. Congress
passes the
1882 Immigration Act
.
August 5 –
Standard Oil of New Jersey
is established.
September 4 –
Thomas Edison
starts the U.S.'s first commercial electrical power plant, lighting one square mile of
lower Manhattan
.
[4]
September 5 – The first United States
Labor Day
parade is held in
New York City
.
September 30 – The
Vulcan Street Plant
, the first
hydroelectric
central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, comes on stream in
Appleton, Wisconsin
.
September – Redpath's McGee Illustrated Weekly newspaper changes its name to
Redpath's Illustrated Weekly
.
[5]
October–December
edit
October 5 – The Society for Ethical Culture of
Chicago
(the modern-day Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago) is founded by
Felix Adler
.
October 16 – The
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
("Nickel Plate Road") runs its first trains over the entire system between
Buffalo, New York
, and
Chicago
. Nine days later the
Seney Syndicate
sells the road to
William Henry Vanderbilt
for US$7.2 million.
November 14 –
Franklyn Leslie
shoots
Billy Claiborne
dead in the streets of
Tombstone, Arizona
.
December 22 – First string of
Christmas lights
created by
Thomas Edison
.
Undated
edit
Carolyn Merrick
is elected president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
.
Ongoing
edit
Gilded Age
(1869–c. 1896)
Depression of 1882–85
(1882–1885)
Sport
edit
October 7 – The
Chicago White Stockings
even their series with the
Cincinnati Red Stockings
with a 2–0 victory. Cincinnati will drop out of the series under threats of expulsion by the
American Association
.
December 6 – The
National League
formally admits the
New York Gothams
and the
Philadelphia Quakers
.
Births
edit
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
)
[6]
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
)
[7]
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 –
Éamon 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
edit
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
)
See also
edit
Timeline of United States history (1860–1899)
References
edit
^
Whitten, David O.; Whitten, Bessie Emrick (1990).
Handbook of American Business History: Manufacturing
. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 182.
^
Cooper, John. "Oscar Wilde's 1882 American Lecture Tour".
Oscar Wilde in America
. Retrieved
2018-11-12
.
^
Johnson, John W. (2001).
Historic U.S. Court Cases
. U.S.: Taylor & Francis. p. 54.
^
In January he opened the
Holborn Viaduct power station
in London.
^
Collection/American Catholic Historical Society/Newspapers and Magazines/Redpath Weekly/RedpathWeekly-00001.xml "Redpath's Illustrated Weekly", July 22, 1882. Retrieved 2011-2-17.
^
Burns, James MacGregor (1956).
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox
. Easton Press. p. 7.
ISBN
978-0-15-678870-0
.
^
"Olympedia – Georgina Jones".
www.olympedia.org
. Retrieved
20 July
2021
.
External links
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