Events from the year 1895 in the United States .
Charles Frederick Crisp (D -Georgia ) (until March 4)Thomas Brackett Reed (R -Maine ) (starting December 2)
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governor of Alabama : William C. Oates (Democratic )Governor of Arkansas : William Meade Fishback (Democratic ) (until January 8), James Paul Clarke (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Governor of California : Henry Markham (Republican ) (until January 11), James Budd (Democratic ) (starting January 11)Governor of Colorado : Davis Hanson Waite (People's) (until January 8), Albert McIntire (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of Connecticut : Luzon B. Morris (Democratic ) (until January 9), Owen Vincent Coffin (Republican ) (starting January 9)Governor of Delaware :
Governor of Florida : Henry L. Mitchell (Democratic )Governor of Georgia : William Yates Atkinson (Democratic )Governor of Idaho : William J. McConnell (Republican )Governor of Illinois : John Peter Altgeld (Democratic )Governor of Indiana : Claude Matthews (Democratic )Governor of Iowa : Frank D. Jackson (Republican )Governor of Kansas : Lorenzo D. Lewelling (Populist ) (until January 14), Edmund N. Morrill (Republican ) (starting January 14)Governor of Kentucky : John Y. Brown (Democratic ) (until December 10), William O. Bradley (Republican ) (starting December 10)Governor of Louisiana : Murphy James Foster, Sr. (Democratic )Governor of Maine : Henry B. Cleaves (Republican )Governor of Maryland : Frank Brown (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : Frederic T. Greenhalge (Republican )Governor of Michigan : John T. Rich (Republican )Governor of Minnesota : Knute Nelson (Republican ) (until January 31), David M. Clough (Republican ) (starting January 31)Governor of Mississippi : John M. Stone (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : William Joel Stone (Democratic )Governor of Montana : John E. Rickards (Republican )Governor of Nebraska : Lorenzo Crounse (Republican ) (until January 3), Silas A. Holcomb (Democratic ) (starting January 3)Governor of Nevada : Roswell K. Colcord (Republican ) (until January 7), John Edward Jones (Silver ) (starting January 7)Governor of New Hampshire : John Butler Smith (Republican ) (until January 3), Charles A. Busiel (Republican ) (starting January 3)Governor of New Jersey : George Theodore Werts (Democratic )Governor of New York : Levi P. Morton (Republican ) (starting January 1)Governor of North Carolina : Elias Carr (Democratic )Governor of North Dakota : Eli C. D. Shortridge (Democratic )/(Independent ) (until January 10), Roger Allin (Republican ) (starting January 10)Governor of Ohio : William McKinley (Republican )Governor of Oregon : Sylvester Pennoyer (Democratic ) (until January 14), William Paine Lord (Republican ) (starting January 14)Governor of Pennsylvania : Robert E. Pattison (Democratic ) (until January 15), Daniel H. Hastings (Republican ) (starting January 15)Governor of Rhode Island : D. Russell Brown (Republican ) (until May 29), Charles W. Lippitt (Republican ) (starting May 29)Governor of South Carolina : John Gary Evans (Democratic )Governor of South Dakota : Charles H. Sheldon (Republican )Governor of Tennessee : Peter Turney (Democratic )Governor of Texas : James Stephen Hogg (Democratic ) (until January 15), Charles A. Culberson (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Governor of Vermont : Urban A. Woodbury (Republican )Governor of Virginia : Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democratic )Governor of Washington : John McGraw (Republican )Governor of West Virginia : William A. MacCorkle (Democratic )Governor of Wisconsin : George W. Peck (Democratic ) (until January 7), William H. Upham (Republican ) (starting January 7)Governor of Wyoming : John E. Osborne (Democratic ) (until January 7), William A. Richards (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant governors
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Lieutenant Governor of California :
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : David Hopkinson Nichols (Democratic ) (until January 8), Jared L. Brush (Republican ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Ernest Cady (Democratic ) (until January 9), Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican ) (starting January 9)Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : F. B. Willis (Republican ) (until January 7), F. J. Mills (Republican ) (starting January 7)Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Joseph B. Gill (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Mortimer Nye (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Warren S. Dungan (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Percy Daniels (Populist) (until January 14), James A. Troutman (Republican ) (starting January 14)Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Mitchell Cary Alford (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), William J. Worthington (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Hiram R. Lott (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Robert H. Snyder (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Roger Wolcott (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : David M. Clough (Republican ) (until January 31), Frank A. Day (Republican ) (starting January 31)Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : M. M. Evans (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : John B. O'Meara (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Alexander Campbell Botkin (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Thomas J. Majors (Republican ) (until January 3), Robert E. Moore (Democratic ) (starting January 3)Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Joseph Poujade (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Reinhold Sadler (Silver ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of New York : Charles T. Saxton (Republican ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Rufus A. Doughton (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Elmer D. Wallace (Democratic ) (until January 10), John H. Worst (Republican ) (starting January 10)Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Andrew L. Harris (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Louis Arthur Watres (Republican ) (until January 23), Walter Lyon (Republican ) (starting January 23)Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Edwin Allen (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Washington H. Timmerman (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Charles N. Herreid (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : William C. Dismukes (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Ernest Pillow (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Martin McNulty Crane (Democratic ) (until January 15), George Taylor Jester (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Zophar M. Mansur (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Robert Craig Kent (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : F. H. Luce (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : vacant (until January 7), Emil Baensch (Republican ) (starting January 7)
February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball , is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts .
March 1 – William Lyne Wilson is appointed United States Postmaster General .
May 27 – In re Debs Supreme Court of the United States decides that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the Pullman Strike .
June 28 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules that James Reavis 's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
July 4 – Katharine Lee Bates ' lyrics for "America the Beautiful " are first published.
July 6 – Van Cortlandt Golf Course opens in The Bronx as the country's first and oldest public golf course.[1]
August 19 – American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas .
September 3 – The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania , between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club (Latrobe wins 12–0).
September 18 – Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech.[2]
November 5 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile .
November 20 – USS Indiana , the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of this time, is commissioned.
November 25 – Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City 's Times Square district.
November 28 – Chicago Times-Herald raceChicago Times-Herald [3]
December 24 – George Washington Vanderbilt II officially opens his Biltmore Estate on Christmas Eve, inviting his family and guests to celebrate his new home in Asheville, North Carolina .
January 1
January 4 – Leroy Grumman , aeronautical engineer, test pilot and industrialist (died 1982 )
January 11 – Laurens Hammond , inventor (died 1973 )
January 23 – Harry Darby , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1949 to 1950 (died 1987 )
February 2 – George Halas , football player (died 1983 )
February 6 – Babe Ruth , baseball player (died 1948 )
February 25 – Lew Andreas , basketball coach (died 1984 )
March 4
March 12 – William C. Lee , general (died 1948 )
March 15 – Virgil Chapman , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1949 to 1951 (died 1951 )
March 27 – Ruth Snyder , murderer (electrocuted 1928 )
March 28
April 20 – Emile Christian , musician (died 1973 )
May 2 – Lorenz Hart , lyricist (died 1943 )
May 11 – William Grant Still , "the Dean" of African American composers (died 1978 )
May 15 – Prescott Bush , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963 (died 1972 )
May 25 – Dorothea Lange , documentary photographer and photojournalist (died 1965 in the United States )
May 28 – Samuel D. Jackson , U.S. Senator from Indiana in 1944 (died 1951)
June 10
June 21 – John Wesley Snyder , businessman and Secretary of the Treasury (died 1985 )
June 24 – Jack Dempsey , heavyweight boxer (died 1983 )
July 1 – Lucy Somerville Howorth , lawyer, feminist and politician (died 1997 )
July 3 – Jean Paige , actress (died 1990 )
July 4 – Irving Caesar , lyricist and theater composer (died 1996 )
July 9 – Joe Gleason , baseball pitcher (died 1990 )
July 10 – Andrew Earl Weatherly , philatelist (died 1981 )
July 12 – Richard Buckminster Fuller , architect (died 1983 )
July 13 – Bradley Kincaid , folk singer (died 1989 )
July 19 – Snake Henry , baseball player (died 1987 )
July 20 – Chapman Revercomb , politician and lawyer (died 1979 )
July 26
July 30 – Joseph DuMoe , football coach (died 1959 )
August 10 – Harry Richman , entertainer (died 1972 )
August 12 – Lynde D. McCormick , admiral (died 1956 )
September 20 – Lloyd W. Bertaud , aviator (died 1927 )
September 22 – Elmer Austin Benson , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1935 to 1936 and 24th Governor of Minnesota from 1937 to 1939 (died 1985 )
September 29 – Joseph Banks Rhine , parapsychologist (died 1980 )
October 4 – Buster Keaton , born Joseph Frank Keaton, silent film comedian (died 1966 )
October 6 – Caroline Gordon , writer and critic (died 1981 )
October 13 – Mike Gazella , baseball player (died 1978 )
October 14 – Silas Simmons , Pre-Negro league baseball player, longest-lived professional baseball player (died 2006 )
October 19 – Lewis Mumford , historian & philosopher of science (died 1990 )
October 22 – Johnny Morrison , baseball player (died 1966 )
October 23 – Clinton Presba Anderson , U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1949 to 1973 (died 1975 )
October 30 – Dickinson W. Richards , physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1973 )
November 10 – John Knudsen Northrop , airplane manufacturer (died 1981 )
November 14 – Walter Freeman , neurologist (died 1972 )
November 29 – Busby Berkeley , film director and choreographer (died 1976 )
December 2 – W. Conway Pierce , chemist (died 1974 )
December 20 – Susanne Langer , philosopher (died 1985 )
December 24 – Marguerite Williams , African American geologist (died 1991 )
December 28 – Carol Ryrie Brink , author (died 1981 )
January 9 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison , watchmaker (born 1812 )
February 20 – Frederick Douglass , African American rights activist and former slave (born 1817 )
March 22 – Henry Coppée , historian and biographer (born 1821 )
April 22 – James F. Wilson , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1883 to 1895. (born 1828 )
May 28 – Walter Q. Gresham , politician (born 1832 )
June 23
June 29 – Green Clay Smith , politician (born 1826 )
July 28 – Edward Beecher , theologian (born 1803 )
August 1 – Hugh O'Brien , 31st Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (born 1827 )
August 6 – George Frederick Root , composer (born 1820 )
August 22 – Luzon B. Morris , politician (born 1827 )
October 2 – Robert Crozier , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1874 (born 1827 )
October 6 – L. L. Langstroth , beekeeper (born 1810 )
October 8 – William Mahone , civil engineer and Confederate Army major general (born 1826 )
October 14 – Clara Doty Bates , poet and children's literature author (born 1838 )
November 4 – Eugene Field , children's author (born 1850 )
Full date unknown – John Miley , Methodist theologian (born 1813 ) 
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