Events from the year 1905 in the United States .
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Charles W. Fairbanks (R -Indiana ) (starting March 4)
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Governors
Governor of Alabama : William D. Jelks (Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas : Jeff Davis (Democratic )
Governor of California : George Pardee (Republican )
Governor of Colorado :
Governor of Connecticut : Abiram Chamberlain (Republican ) (until January 4), Henry Roberts (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Delaware : John Hunn (Republican ) (until January 17), Preston Lea (Republican ) (starting January 17)
Governor of Florida : William Sherman Jennings (Democratic ) (until January 3), Napoleon B. Broward (Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Georgia : Joseph M. Terrell (Democratic )
Governor of Idaho : John T. Morrison (Republican ) (until January 2), Frank R. Gooding (Republican ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Illinois : Richard Yates, Jr. (Republican ) (until January 9), Charles S. Deneen (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Indiana : Winfield T. Durbin (Republican ) (until January 9), J. Frank Hanly (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Iowa : Albert B. Cummins (Republican )
Governor of Kansas : Willis J. Bailey (Republican ) (until January 9), Edward W. Hoch (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Kentucky : J. C. W. Beckham (Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana : Newton Crain Blanchard (Democratic )
Governor of Maine : John Fremont Hill (Republican ) (until January 4), William T. Cobb (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Maryland : Edwin Warfield (Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts : John L. Bates (Republican ) (until January 5), William L. Douglas (Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Michigan : Aaron T. Bliss (Republican ) (until January 1), Fred M. Warner (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Minnesota : Samuel Rinnah Van Sant (Republican ) (until January 4), John A. Johnson (Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Mississippi : James K. Vardaman (Democratic )
Governor of Missouri : Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democratic ) (until January 9), Joseph W. Folk (Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Montana : Joseph Toole (Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska : John H. Mickey (Republican )
Governor of Nevada : John Sparks (Silver )
Governor of New Hampshire : Nahum J. Bachelder (Republican ) (until January 5), John McLane (Republican ) (starting January 5)
Governor of New Jersey : Franklin Murphy (Republican ) (until January 17), Edward C. Stokes (Republican ) (starting January 17)
Governor of New York : Frank W. Higgins (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina : Charles Brantley Aycock (Democratic ) (until January 11), Robert Broadnax Glenn (Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of North Dakota : Frank White (Republican ) (until January 4), Elmore Y. Sarles (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Ohio : Myron T. Herrick (Republican )
Governor of Oregon : George Chamberlain (Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania : Samuel W. Pennypacker (Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island : Lucius F. C. Garvin (Democratic ) (until January 4), George H. Utter (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of South Carolina : Duncan Clinch Heyward (Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota : Charles N. Herreid (Republican ) (until January 3), Samuel H. Elrod (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Tennessee : James B. Frazier (Democratic ) (until March 21), John I. Cox (Democratic ) (starting March 21)
Governor of Texas : S. W. T. Lanham (Democratic )
Governor of Utah : Heber Manning Wells (Republican ) (until January 2), John Christopher Cutler (Republican ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Vermont : Charles J. Bell (Republican )
Governor of Virginia : Andrew Jackson Montague (Democratic )
Governor of Washington : Henry McBride (Republican ) (until January 9), Albert E. Mead (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of West Virginia : Albert B. White (Republican ) (until March 4), William M. O. Dawson (Republican ) (starting March 4)
Governor of Wisconsin : Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (Republican )
Governor of Wyoming : Fenimore Chatterton (Republican ) (until January 2), Bryant B. Brooks (Republican ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Russell M. Cunningham (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of California : Alden Anderson (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Henry Roberts (Republican ) (until January 4), Rollin S. Woodruff (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Philip L. Cannon (Republican ) (until January 17), Isaac T. Parker (Republican ) (starting January 17)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : James M. Stevens (Republican ) (until January 2), Burpee L. Steeves (Republican ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : William Northcott (Republican ) (until January 9), Lawrence Sherman (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Newton W. Gilbert (Republican ) (until January 9), Hugh T. Miller (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : John Herriott (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : David J. Hanna (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : William P. Thorne (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Curtis Guild, Jr. (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Alexander Maitland (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Ray W. Jones (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : John Prentiss Carter (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Thomas Lewis Rubey (Democratic ) (until January 9), John C. McKinley (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Frank G. Higgins (political party unknown) (until October 15), Edwin L. Norris (Democratic ) (starting October 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Edmund G. McGilton (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Lemuel Allen (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New York : Matthew Linn Bruce (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Wilfred D. Turner (Democratic ) (until January 11), Francis D. Winston (Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : David Bartlett (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Warren G. Harding (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : William M. Brown (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : George H. Utter (Republican ) (until January 3), Frederick Jackson (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : John Sloan (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : George W. Snow (Republican ) (until January 3), John E. McDougall (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : George D. Neal (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Charles H. Stearns (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Joseph Edward Willard (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington : vacant (until January 9), Charles E. Coon (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : James O. Davidson (Republican )
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March 4: Charles W. Fairbanks becomes the 26th U.S. vice president
May 10: Snyder, Oklahoma tornado
January– June
January 30 – The Supreme Court renders its unanimous decision in the landmark case of Swift & Co. v. United States , allowing the federal government to regulate monopolies.[1]
March 4 – President Theodore Roosevelt begins his first full term. Charles W. Fairbanks is sworn in as Vice President of the United States .
March 10 – In Cleveland, Ohio , Cassie Chadwick is sentenced for 14 years in prison for fraud.
March 17 – Franklin D. Roosevelt marries his fifth cousin Eleanor Roosevelt ; President Roosevelt, the bride's uncle, gives her away.
March 20 – Grover Shoe Factory disaster : A boiler explosion, building collapse and fire in Brockton, Massachusetts kills 58.
March 27 – Plumas National Forest is established.
April 6 – Lochner v. New York : The Supreme Court of the United States invalidates New York's 8-hour-day law.
April 6–July 19 – The 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike ; 21 people die and 416 are injured in the violence.[2]
May–June – John C. Merriam leads the Saurian Expedition , a paleontological research mission in northern Nevada .
May 6 – Klamath National Forest is established.
May 10 – The 1905 Snyder, Oklahoma tornado destroys much of Snyder, Oklahoma , killing at least 97.
May 12 – Gunnison National Forest is established.
May 15 – Las Vegas, Nevada is founded when 110 acres (45 ha) , in what later becomes downtown, are auctioned off.
May 15 – Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery is founded in South Canaan Township in western Wayne County, in the northeastern corner of Pennsylvania.
May 29 – Sawtooth National Forest is established.
June 1–October 14 – The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition is held in Portland, Oregon , celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition .
June 2 – Lassen National Forest is established.
June 3 – San Juan and Payette National Forest is established.
June 14 – Uncompahgre National Forest is established.
June 24 – The founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World , A radical workers union, which had great impact during the first two decades of the 20th century.
January 3 – Anna May Wong , film actress (died 1961 )
January 7 – James Simpson Jr. , race car driver and politician (died 1960 )
January 11 – Dorothy Hale , socialite (suicide 1938 )
January 19 – Oveta Culp Hobby , government official and businesswoman (died 1995 )
January 27 – Howard McNear , actor (died 1969 )[7]
February 6 – Merze Tate , African American academic (died 1996 )
March 15 – Nat Perrin , comedy screenwriter (died 1998 )
March 17 – Lillian Yarbo , actress (died 1996 )[8] [9] [10]
April 9 – J. William Fulbright , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1945 to 1974 (died 1995 )
May 15 – Joseph Cotten , actor (died 1994 )
May 16 – Henry Fonda , actor (died 1982 )[11]
May 18 – Ruth Alexander , pioneering American pilot (died 1930 )
June 10 – Sally Childs , language training specialist (died 1988 )[12]
June 20 – Lillian Hellman , playwright (born 1984 )[13]
July 4 – Irving Johnson , sailor and author (died 1991 )
July 15 – Dorothy Fields , lyricist (died 1974 )
July 18 – Robert Elton Brooker , business executive (died 2000 )
July 21 – David M. Kennedy , U.S. 60th Secretary of Treasury, 8th U.S. Representative to N.A.T.O., Special Representative of The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints (died 1996 )
August 2 – Ruth Nelson , actress (died 1992 )[14]
August 23 – Abbie Rowe , White House photographer (died 1967 )
October 5 – John Hoyt , actor, editorial board member of The Yale Record (died 1991 )
October 6 – Helen Wills , tennis player (died 1998 )
October 7 – Andy Devine , character actor (died 1977 )
October 11 – Fred Trump , real estate developer, father of Donald Trump (died 1999 )
October 23 – Gertrude Ederle , swimmer (died 2003 )[15]
November 1 – Eric Siday , bandleader, electronic composer (died 1976 )
November 3 – Joseph H. Ball , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1940 to 1942 and 1943 to 1949 (died 1993 )
November 4 – Nannie Doss , serial killer who murdered eleven people (died 1965)
November 13 – Frank Levingston , supercentenarian (died 2016 )
November 19
November 26 – Bob Johnson , baseball player (died 1982 )
November 27 – Astrid Allwyn , actress (died 1978 )
December 7 – Leonard Goldenson , television executive (died 1999 )
December 23 – Paul Caraway , general, High Commissioner, United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (died 1985 )
December 24 – Howard Hughes , business magnate, investor, director, pilot, and philanthropist (died 1976 )
January 2 – Clara Augusta Jones Trask , dime novelist (born 1839 )
January 6
January 19 – Benjamin F. Rice , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1873 (born 1828 )
January 22 – Clara Harrison Stranahan , college co-founder and trustee (born 1831 )
January 27 – Watson Heston , cartoonist (born 1846 )
January 28 – Cordelia A. Greene , physician, reformer, benefactor (born 1831 )
February 8 – John Leary , politician, 37th Mayor of Seattle (born 1837 )
February 15 – Lew Wallace , Union general in the American Civil War and politician (born 1827 )
February 20 – Jeremiah W. Farnham , merchant captain (born c. 1828)
February 27 – George S. Boutwell , U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1851 to 1853 (born 1818 )
March 1 – Edward O. Wolcott , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1889 to 1901 (born 1848 )
March 6 – John Henninger Reagan , U.S. Senator from Texas , Acting Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury , Confederate States Postmaster General (born 1818 )
March 9 – William B. Bate , 23rd Governor of Tennessee from 1883 to 1887 and U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1887 to 1905 (born 1826 )
March 18 – Joseph Roswell Hawley , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1881 to 1905 (born 1826)
April 21 – Orville H. Platt , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1879 to 1905 (born 1827 )
April 28 – Fitzhugh Lee , 40th Governor of Virginia, U.S. Army general, Confederate cavalry general (born 1835 )
May 5 – William M. Robbins , U.S. Representative from North Carolina (born 1828 )
May 13 – Sam S. Shubert , theater owner (born 1878 )
May 23 – Mary Livermore , journalist, abolitionist and women's rights advocate (born 1820 )
July 1 – John Hay , author, biographer and 37th United States Secretary of State (born 1838 )
July 24 – Adolf Cluss , engineer architect (born 1825 in Germany)
August 1 – Andrew Wylie , judge (born 1814 )
August 21 – Mary Mapes Dodge , children's author (b. 1831 )
September 5 – Touch the Clouds , Minneconjou chief (b. c. 1838 )
September 12 – John Rogan , second tallest person in recorded history (b. 1868 )
October 6 – Hibbard H. Shedd , politician and novelist (born 1847 )
December 3 – John Bartlett , lexicographer and publisher (born 1820 )
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