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Events from the year 1874 in the United States.

## Incumbents

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### Federal government

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* President: Ulysses S. Grant (R-Illinois)
* Vice President: Henry Wilson (R-Massachusetts)
* Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (Ohio) (starting March 4)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: James G. Blaine (R-Maine)
* Congress: 43rd

Governors and lieutenant governors

### Governors

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* Governor of Alabama: David P. Lewis (Republican) (until November 24), George S. Houston (Democratic) (starting November 24)
* Governor of Arkansas: Elisha Baxter (Republican) (until November 12), Augustus Hill Garland (Democratic) (starting November 12)
* Governor of California: Newton Booth (Republican)
* Governor of Connecticut: Charles R. Ingersoll (Democratic)
* Governor of Delaware: James Ponder (Democratic)
* Governor of Florida: Ossian B. Hart (Republican) (until March 18), Marcellus Stearns (Republican) (starting March 18)
* Governor of Georgia: James M. Smith (Democratic)
* Governor of Illinois: John Lourie Beveridge (Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic)
* Governor of Iowa: Cyrus C. Carpenter (Republican)
* Governor of Kansas: Thomas A. Osborn (Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: Preston H. Leslie (Democratic)
* Governor of Louisiana: William Pitt Kellogg (Republican)
* Governor of Maine: Sidney Perham (Republican) (until January 7), Nelson Dingley Jr. (Republican Party) (starting January 7)
* Governor of Maryland: William Pinkney Whyte (Democratic) (until March 4), James B. Groome (Democratic) (starting March 4)
* Governor of Massachusetts: William B. Washburn (Republican) (until April 29), Thomas Talbot (Republican) (starting April 29)
* Governor of Michigan: John J. Bagley (Republican)
* Governor of Minnesota: Horace Austin (Republican) (until January 7), Cushman K. Davis (Republican) (starting January 7)
* Governor of Mississippi: Ridgley C. Powers (Republican) (until January 4), Adelbert Ames (Republican) (starting January 4)
* Governor of Missouri: Silas Woodson (Democratic)
* Governor of Nebraska: Robert Wilkinson Furnas (Republican)
* Governor of Nevada: Lewis R. Bradley (Democratic)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Ezekiel A. Straw (Republican) (until June 3), James A. Weston (Democratic) (starting June 3)
* Governor of New Jersey: Joel Parker (Democratic)
* Governor of New York: John Adams Dix (Republican) (until end of December 31)
* Governor of North Carolina: Tod Robinson Caldwell (Republican) (until July 11), Curtis Hooks Brogden (Republican) (starting July 11)
* Governor of Ohio: Edward F. Noyes (Republican) (until January 12), William Allen (Democratic) (starting January 12)
* Governor of Oregon: La Fayette Grover (Democratic)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: John F. Hartranft (Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Henry Howard (Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: Franklin I. Moses Jr. (Republican) (until December 1), Daniel Henry Chamberlain (Republican) (starting December 1)
* Governor of Tennessee: John C. Brown (Democratic)
* Governor of Texas: Edmund J. Davis (Republican) (until January 15), Richard Coke (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Governor of Vermont: Julius Converse (Republican) (until October 8), Asahel Peck (Republican) (starting October 8)
* Governor of Virginia: Gilbert Carlton Walker (Democratic) (until January 1), James L. Kemper (Democratic) (starting January 1)
* Governor of West Virginia: John J. Jacob (Democratic)/(Independent)
* Governor of Wisconsin: Cadwallader C. Washburn (Republican) (until January 5), William Robert Taylor (Democratic) (starting January 5)

### Lieutenant governors

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* Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Alexander McKinstry (Republican) (until November 26), Robert F. Ligon (Democratic) (starting November 26)
* Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Volney V. Smith (Republican) (until November 12), abolished thereafter
* Lieutenant Governor of California: Romualdo Pacheco (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: George G. Sill (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Florida: Marcellus Stearns (Republican) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: John Early (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Leonidas Sexton (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Henry C. Bulis (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Joseph Dysart (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Elias Sleeper Stover (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: John G. Carlisle (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Caesar Antoine (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Thomas Talbot (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Henry H. Holt (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: William H. Yale (Republican) (until January 9), Alphonso Barto (Republican) (starting January 9)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Alexander K. Davis (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Charles Phillip Johnson (Liberal Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Frank Denver (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Pressly C. Hyman (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: John C. Robinson (Republican) (until end of December 31)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Curtis H. Brogden (Republican) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Jacob Mueller (Republican) (until January 12), Alphonso Hart (Republican) (starting January 12)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles C. Van Zandt (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Richard Howell Gleaves (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: John C. Vaughn (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), A. T. Lacey (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: vacant (until January 15), Richard B. Hubbard (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Russell S. Taft (Republican) (until October 8), Lyman G. Hinckley (Republican) (starting October 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: John Lawrence Marye Jr. (Conservative) (until January 1), Robert E. Withers (Democratic) (starting January 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: vacant (until January 5), Charles D. Parker (Democratic) (starting January 5)

## Events

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* January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx.
* February 21 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.
* March 18 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
* March – The Young Men's Hebrew Association in Manhattan (which still operates today as the 92nd Street Y) is founded.
* May 16 – The Mill River dam collapses in Massachusetts, killing 139 people.
* July 1
* Philadelphia Zoo opens, the first public zoo in the U.S.
* Four-year-old Charley Ross, America's first major kidnapping for ransom victim, is taken from his home in Philadelphia.
* The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, with cylindrical platen and QWERTY keyboard, is first marketed.
* November 3 - George S. Houston is elected the 24th governor of Alabama defeating David P. Lewis.
* November 4 – Democrats regain the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since 1860.
* November 7 – Harper's Weekly publishes a political cartoon by Thomas Nast considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party.[1]
* November 9 – The Sigma Kappa sorority is founded at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, by Mary Caffrey Low, Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Ida Fuller, Frances Mann, and Louise Helen Coburn.
* November 11 – The Gamma Phi Beta sorority is founded at Syracuse University. This is the first women's Greek letter organization to be called a sorority.
* November 24
* Inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire.
* George S. Houston is sworn in as the 24th governor of Alabama replacing David P. Lewis.[2]
* November 25 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a "National Independent" political party, composed primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.
* November 28 – King Kalākaua's 1874–75 state visit to the United States begins when the ship carrying him from Hawaii, USS Benicia, docks in San Francisco.

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* The San Diego Natural History Museum is founded.[3]
* Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is completed.

### Ongoing

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* Reconstruction era (1865–1877)
* Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
* Depression of 1873–79 (1873–1879)

## Births

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Herbert Hoover

* January 4 - John Thomas, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1928 to 1933 and from 1940 to 1945 (died 1945)
* January 7 - M. M. Logan, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1931 to 1939 (died 1939)
* January 9 - Helen Tufts Bailie, social reformer and activist (died 1962)
* January 29 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., financier and philanthropist, son of John D. Rockefeller (died 1960)
* February 2 - William T. Innes, writer, ichthyologist, publisher (died 1969)
* March 4 - Stephen Victor Graham, United States Navy Rear Admiral and 18th Governor of American Samoa (died 1955)
* March 8 - Charles Weeghman, restaurateur and owner of Chicago Cubs (died 1938)
* April 5 - Jesse H. Jones, entrepreneur, 9th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1956)
* April 16 - Frederick Van Nuys, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1933 to 1944 (died 1944)
* March 5 - Daniel O. Hastings, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1928 to 1937 (died 1966)
* March 26 - Robert Frost, poet (died 1963)
* March 29 - Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States as wife of Herbert Hoover (died 1944)
* May 20 - Augustine Lonergan, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1933 to 1939 (died 1947)
* July 1 - Edward P. Costigan, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1931 to 1937 (died 1939)
* July 3 - Margaret G. Hays, comics writer and artist (died 1925)
* August 5 - Mayme Schweble, gold miner and politician (died 1943)
* August 10
* Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (died 1964)
* Tod Sloan, jockey (died 1933)
* September 13 - Henry F. Ashurst, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1912 to 1941 (died 1962)
* December 4 - Edwin S. Broussard, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1921 to 1933 (died 1934)

## Deaths

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* January 7 - John Burton Thompson, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1853 to 1859 (born 1810)
* January 17 - Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai-American conjoined twin brothers (born 1811)
* February 24 - John Bachman, Lutheran minister, social activist and naturalist (born 1790)
* March 8 - Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the U.S. from 1850 to 1853, and 12th vice president of the U.S. from 1849 to 1850 (born 1800)
* March 11 - Charles Sumner, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1851 to 1874 (born 1811)
* June 8 - Cochise, one of the greatest leaders of the Apache Indians, dies on the Chiricahua reservation in southeastern Arizona
* October 6 - Samuel M. Kier, industrialist (born 1813)
* November 20 - Jackson Morton, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1849 to 1855 (born 1794)
* December 12 - Eugène Hilarian Abadie, U.S. Army Surgeon (born 1810)
* Full date unknown
* Paul Jennings, slave of James Madison, writer (born 1799)
* Eliza Seymour Lee, pastry chef and restaurateur (born 1800)

## See also

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* Timeline of United States history (1860–1899)

## References

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1. ^ "On This Day: November 7, 1874". The New York Times. 2001. Retrieved November 17, 2018.
2. ^ Ala. General Assembly. Journal of the House of Representatives. 1874-1875 sess., 56, accessed July 28, 2023
3. ^ Hile, Kevin (September 19, 2016). The Handy California Answer Book. Visible Ink Press. p. 146\. ISBN 978-1-57859-622-5.

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