List of events
Events from the year 1883 in the United States .
J. Warren Keifer (R -Ohio ) (until March 4) John G. Carlisle (D -Kentucky ) (starting December 3) Governors and lieutenant governors Governor of Alabama : Edward A. O'Neal (Democratic ) Governor of Arkansas : Thomas James Churchill (Democratic ) (until January 13), James Henderson Berry (Democratic ) (starting January 13) Governor of California : George Clement Perkins (Republican ) (until January 10), George Stoneman (Republican ) (starting January 10) Governor of Colorado : Frederick Walker Pitkin (Republican ) (until January 9), James Benton Grant (Democratic ) (starting January 9) Governor of Connecticut : Hobart B. Bigelow (Republican ) (until January 3), Thomas M. Waller (Democratic ) (starting January 3) Governor of Delaware : John W. Hall (Democratic ) (until January 16), Charles C. Stockley (Democratic ) (starting January 16) Governor of Florida : William D. Bloxham (Democratic ) Governor of Georgia : Governor of Illinois : Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican ) (until February 16), John Marshall Hamilton (Republican ) (starting February 16) Governor of Indiana : Albert G. Porter (Republican ) Governor of Iowa : Buren R. Sherman (Republican ) Governor of Kansas : John P. St. John (Republican ) (until January 8), George W. Glick (Democratic ) (starting January 8) Governor of Kentucky : Luke P. Blackburn (Democratic ) (until September 5), J. Proctor Knott (Democratic ) (starting September 5) Governor of Louisiana : Samuel D. McEnery (Democratic ) Governor of Maine : Harris M. Plaisted (Democratic ) (until January 3), Frederick Robie (Republican ) (starting January 3) Governor of Maryland : William T. Hamilton (Democratic ) Governor of Massachusetts : John Davis Long (Republican ) (until January 4), Benjamin F. Butler (Democratic ) (starting January 4) Governor of Michigan : David Jerome (Republican ) (until January 1), Josiah Begole (Democratic ) (starting January 1) Governor of Minnesota : Lucius F. Hubbard (Republican ) Governor of Mississippi : Robert Lowry (Democratic ) Governor of Missouri : Thomas Theodore Crittenden (Democratic ) Governor of Nebraska : Albinus Nance (Republican ) (until January 4), James W. Dawes (Republican ) (starting January 4) Governor of Nevada : John Henry Kinkead (Republican ) (until January 1), Jewett W. Adams (Democratic ) (starting January 1) Governor of New Hampshire : Charles H. Bell (Republican ) (until June 7), Samuel W. Hale (Republican ) (starting June 7) Governor of New Jersey : George C. Ludlow (Democratic ) Governor of New York : Grover Cleveland (Democratic ) (starting January 1) Governor of North Carolina : Thomas Jordan Jarvis (Democratic ) Governor of Ohio : Charles Foster (Republican ) Governor of Oregon : Z. F. Moody (Republican ) Governor of Pennsylvania : Henry M. Hoyt (Republican ) (until January 16), Robert E. Pattison (Democratic ) (starting January 16) Governor of Rhode Island : Alfred H. Littlefield (Republican ) (until May 29), Augustus O. Bourn (Republican ) (starting May 29) Governor of South Carolina : Hugh Smith Thompson (Democratic ) Governor of Tennessee : Alvin Hawkins (Republican ) (until January 15), William B. Bate (Democratic ) (starting January 15) Governor of Texas : Oran M. Roberts (Democratic ) (until January 16), John Ireland (Democratic ) (starting January 16) Governor of Vermont : John L. Barstow (Republican ) Governor of Virginia : William E. Cameron (Re-adjuster ) Governor of West Virginia : Jacob B. Jackson (Democratic ) Governor of Wisconsin : Jeremiah McLain Rusk (Republican ) Lieutenant governors [ edit ] Lieutenant Governor of California : John Mansfield (Republican ) (until January 10), John Daggett (Democratic ) (starting January 10) Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Horace Austin Warner Tabor (Republican ) (until January 9), William H. Meyer (Republican ) (starting January 9) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : William H. Bulkeley (Republican ) (until January 3), George G. Sumner (Democratic ) (starting January 3) Lieutenant Governor of Florida : Livingston W. Bethel (no political party) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : John Marshall Hamilton (Republican ) (until February 6), William J. Campbell (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Thomas Hanna (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Orlando H. Manning (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : David Wesley Finney (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : James E. Cantrill (Democratic ) (until September 5), James R. Hindman (Democratic ) (starting September 5) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : vacant Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Byron Weston (Republican ) (until January 4), Oliver Ames (Republican ) (starting January 4) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Moreau S. Crosby (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Charles A. Gilman (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : G. D. Shands (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Robert Alexander Campbell (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Edmund C. Carns (Republican ) (until January 4), Alfred W. Agee (Republican ) (starting January 4) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Jewett W. Adams (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Charles E. Laughton (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of New York : David B. Hill (Republican ) (starting January 1) Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : James L. Robinson (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Rees G. Richards (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Charles Warren Stone (Republican ) (until January 16), Chauncey Forward Black (Democratic ) (starting January 16) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Henry Fay (political party unknown) (until May 29), Oscar Rathbun (political party unknown) (starting May 29) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : John Calhoun Sheppard (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : George H. Morgan (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Benjamin F. Alexander (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Leonidas J. Storey (Democratic ) (until January 16), Francis M. Martin (Democratic ) (starting January 16) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Samuel E. Pingree (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : John F. Lewis (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Sam S. Fifield (Republican )
May 24: Brooklyn Bridge opens. January 10 January 19 – Waite Phillips , businessman and philanthropist (died 1964 ) January 20 – Enoch L. Johnson , political boss and racketeer (died 1968 ) January 25 – Homer Bone , U.S. Senator from Washington from 1933 to 1944 (died 1970 ) January 30 – Eddie Collins , vaudeville-veteran comic (died 1940 ) March 3 – Edwin Carewe , Native American director (died 1940 ) March 19 – Joseph Stilwell , general (died 1946 ) April 2 – Pearl Doles Bell , film scenarist, novelist and editor (died 1968 ) April 3 – Walter Walker , U.S. Senator from Colorado in 1932 (died 1956 ) April 12 – Imogen Cunningham , photographer (died 1976 ) May 22 – Jane Grey , actress (died 1944 ) May 23 – Douglas Fairbanks , swashbuckling silent film actor (died 1939 ) June 7 – Sylvanus Morley , Mayanist (died 1948 ) June 21 – Richard Remer , athlete (died 1973 ) June 25 – Paul Bartholomew , architect (died 1973 ) June 26 – Mary van Kleeck , labor activist (died 1972 ) July 4 – Rube Goldberg , cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor (died 1970) July 24 – Nelle Wilson Reagan , mother of United States President Ronald Reagan (d. 1962 ) August 18 – Sidney Hatch , athlete (died 1966 ) September 5 – Mel Sheppard , athlete (died 1942 ) September 19 – Mabel Vernon , suffragist (died 1975 ) November 8 – Charles Demuth , painter (died 1935 ) November 25 – Merrill C. Meigs , newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (died 1968 ) November 26 – Belle da Costa Greene , librarian (died 1950 ) December 19 – Barry Byrne , architect (died 1967 ) December 22 – Edna Goodrich , actress (died 1972 ) December 31 – Leo Otis Colbert , admiral and engineer, director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (died 1968 ) January 10 – Samuel Mudd , physician imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (born 1833 ) January 12 – Clark Mills , sculptor (born 1810 ) January 13 – Webster Wagner , inventor, manufacturer and politician (born 1817 ) February 16 – Stephen P. Hempstead , 2nd Governor of Iowa from 1850 to 1854 (born 1812 ) March 4 – Alexander H. Stephens , only vice president of the Confederate States of America (born 1812 ) March 15 – Henry C. Wayne , U.S. Army officer, Confederate brigadier general (born 1815) March 26 – Joseph Saberton, U.S. Army private, Union Army (born 1830) March 28 – Napoleon Bonaparte Buford , general and railroad executive (born 1807 ) April 4 – Peter Cooper , industrialist, inventor, philanthropist and candidate for President of the U.S. (born 1791 ) April 6 – Benjamin Wright Raymond , politician, twice mayor of Chicago (born 1801 ) April 28 – William M. Browne , politician and newsman, Acting Confederate States Secretary of State in 1862 (born 1823 in Ireland ) May 15 – Josiah Gorgas , Northern-born Confederate general (born 1818 ) June 14 July 15 – General Tom Thumb , dwarf performer (born 1838 ) July 22 – Edward Ord , engineer and U.S. Army officer who saw action in the Seminole War , the Indian Wars and the American Civil War (born 1818 ) July 23 – Ginery Twichell , transportation manager and politician (born 1811 ) July 24 – Thomas Swann , politician and president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1847 to 1853 (born 1809 ) July 27 – Montgomery Blair , politician and lawyer (born 1813 ) September 16 – Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. , actor and theatre manager (born 1821 ) October 4 – Henry Farnam , surveyor, railroad president and philanthropist (born 1809 ) October 22 – Thomas Mayne Reid , novelist (born 1818 in Ireland ) November 20 – Augustus C. Dodge , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1848 to 1855 (born 1812 ) November 24 – Albert Fitch Bellows , landscape painter (born 1829 ) November 26 – Sojourner Truth , African American abolitionist and women's rights activist (born c. 1797 ) December 27 – Andrew A. Humphreys , general and civil engineer (born 1810 ) Mary S. B. Shindler , poet (born 1810 )