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List of events
Events from the year 1858 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Andrew B. Moore (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Elias Nelson Conway (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
J. Neely Johnson (Know Nothing) (until January 8),
John B. Weller (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Connecticut :
Alexander H. Holley (
Republican ) (until May 5),
William A. Buckingham (
Republican ) (starting May 5)
Governor of Delaware :
Peter F. Causey (Know Nothing)
Governor of Florida :
Madison S. Perry (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
Joseph E. Brown (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
William Henry Bissell (
Republican )
Governor of Indiana :
Ashbel P. Willard (
Democratic )
Governor of Iowa :
James W. Grimes (
Whig ) (until January 13),
Ralph P. Lowe (
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Kentucky :
Charles S. Morehead (Know Nothing)
Governor of Louisiana :
Robert C. Wickliffe (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
Joseph H. Williams (
Republican ) (until January 6),
Lot M. Morrill (
Democratic ) (starting January 6)
Governor of Maryland :
Thomas W. Ligon (
Democratic ) (until January 13),
Thomas H. Hicks (Know Nothing)/(
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Massachusetts :
Henry Gardner (Know Nothing) (until January 7),
Nathaniel Prentice Banks (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Michigan :
Kinsley S. Bingham (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
Samuel Medary (
Democratic ) (until May 24),
Henry H. Sibley (
Democratic ) (starting May 24)
Governor of Mississippi :
William McWillie (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Robert Marcellus Stewart (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
William Haile (
Republican )
Governor of New Jersey :
William A. Newell (
Republican )
Governor of New York :
John Alsop King (
Republican ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina :
Thomas Bragg (
Democratic )
Governor of Ohio :
Salmon P. Chase (
Republican )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
James Pollock (
Whig ) (until January 19),
William F. Packer (
Democratic ) (starting January 19)
Governor of Rhode Island :
Elisha Dyer (
Republican )
Governor of South Carolina :
Robert Francis Withers Allston (
Democratic ) (until December 10),
William Henry Gist (
Democratic ) (starting December 10)
Governor of Tennessee :
Isham G. Harris (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Hardin R. Runnels (
Democratic )
Governor of Vermont :
Ryland Fletcher (
Republican ) (until October 10),
Hiland Hall (
Republican ) (starting October 10)
Governor of Virginia :
Henry A. Wise (
Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Coles Bashford (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Alexander W. Randall (
Republican ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant governors
Events
Ongoing
Births
Theodore Roosevelt
January 6 –
Albert Henry Munsell , painter, teacher of art and inventor of the
Munsell color system (died
1918 )
January 9 –
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton , botanist (died
1934 )
January 11 –
Harry Gordon Selfridge , department store magnate (died
1947 )
February 6 –
Jonathan P. Dolliver , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1900 to 1910 (died
1910 )
February 15 –
John Joseph Montgomery , glider pioneer (died
1911 )
February 19 –
Charles Alexander Eastman , Native American author, physician, reformer and co-founder of Boy Scouts of America (died
1939 )
February 28 –
Richard P. Ernst , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1921 to 1927 (died
1934 )
March 9 –
Gustav Stickley , furniture designer and architect (died
1942 )
March 12 –
Adolph Ochs , newspaper publisher (died
1935 )
March 24 –
Elia Goode Byington , newspaper proprietor, editor, and manager (died
1936 )
March 30 –
DeWolf Hopper , musical theater performer (died 1935)
April 23 –
Leonor F. Loree , railroad executive (died
1940 )
April 29 –
Georgia Hopley , journalist, political figure and temperance advocate (died
1944 )
June 17 – Mary F. Hoyt, first woman appointed to the
U.S. federal civil service , in 1883 (died
1958 )
June 20 –
Charles Waddell Chesnutt , African American author, essayist and political activist (died
1932 )
June 28 –
Otis Skinner , actor (died
1943 )
July 1 –
Velma Caldwell Melville , editor and writer (died
1924 )
August 18 –
Thomas S. Rodgers , admiral (died
1931 )
September 1 –
Andrew Jackson Zilker , philanthropist (died
1934 )
September 12 –
J. H. Smith , politician and pioneer (died
1956 )
September 30 –
Estelle M. H. Merrill , journalist (died
1908 )
October 2 –
Emma Amelia Cranmer , prohibition reformer and suffragist (died
1937 )
October 7 –
Joseph E. Ransdell , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1913 to 1931 (died
1954 )
October 12 –
John L. Sullivan , heavyweight boxer (died 1918)
October 15 –
William Sims , admiral (died
1936 )
October 27 –
Theodore Roosevelt , 26th
president of the United States from 1901 to 1909, 25th
vice president of the United States from March to September 1901 (died
1919 )
October 30 –
Wilson Eyre , architect (died
1944 )
November 8 –
Lawrence Yates Sherman , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1913 to 1921 (died 1939)
November 21 –
Charles A. Towne , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1900 to 1901 (died
1928 )
November 26 –
Katharine Drexel ,
Roman Catholic foundress, first American canonized as a
saint , in 2000 (died
1955 )
December 15 –
Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye , biographer (died
1923 )
December 24 –
Harriet Pritchard Arnold , author (died
1901 )
December 25 –
Herman P. Faris , temperance movement leader (died 1936)
December 31 –
Harry Stewart New , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1917 to 1923 (died
1937 )
Unknown –
Sarah Jim Mayo , Washoe basket weaver (died
1918 )
Deaths
See also
References
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"Treaty with the Yankton Sioux, 1858" . Archived from
the original on July 14, 2010. Retrieved October 27, 2009 . Provided by the Oklahoma State University Library from Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (Vol. II) compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, 1904.
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