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U.S.-related events during the year of 1868
Events from the year 1868 in the United States.
Governors and
lieutenant governors
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Governor of Alabama:
Robert M. Patton (
Democratic) (until July 24),
William Hugh Smith (
Republican) (starting July 24)
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Governor of Arkansas:
Isaac Murphy (
Republican) (until July 2),
Powell Clayton (
Republican) (starting July 2)
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Governor of California:
Henry Huntly Haight (
Democratic)
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Governor of Connecticut:
James E. English (
Democratic)
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Governor of Delaware:
Gove Saulsbury (
Democratic)
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Governor of Florida:
David S. Walker (
Democratic) (until July 4),
Harrison Reed (
Republican) (starting July 4)
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Governor of Georgia:
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Governor of Illinois:
Richard J. Oglesby (
Republican)
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Governor of Indiana:
Conrad Baker (
Republican)
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Governor of Iowa:
William M. Stone (
Republican) (until January 16),
Samuel Merrill (
Republican) (starting January 16)
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Governor of Kansas:
Samuel J. Crawford (
Republican) (until November 4),
Nehemiah Green (
Republican) (starting November 4)
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Governor of Kentucky:
John W. Stevenson (
Democratic)
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Governor of Louisiana:
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Governor of Maine:
Joshua Chamberlain (
Republican)
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Governor of Maryland:
Thomas Swann (
Democratic)
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Governor of Massachusetts:
Alexander H. Bullock (
Republican)
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Governor of Michigan:
Henry H. Crapo (
Republican)
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Governor of Minnesota:
William R. Marshall (
Republican)
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Governor of Mississippi:
Benjamin G. Humphreys (
Democratic) (until June 15),
Adelbert Ames (Military) (starting June 15)
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Governor of Missouri:
Thomas Clement Fletcher (
Republican)
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Governor of Nebraska:
David Butler (
Republican)
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Governor of Nevada:
Henry G. Blasdel (
Republican)
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Governor of New Hampshire:
Walter Harriman (
Republican)
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Governor of New Jersey:
Marcus Lawrence Ward (
Republican)
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Governor of New York:
Reuben Fenton (
Republican) (until end of December 31)
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Governor of North Carolina:
Jonathan Worth (Conservative) (until July 1),
William Woods Holden (
Republican) (starting July 1)
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Governor of Ohio:
Jacob Dolson Cox (
Republican) (until January 13),
Rutherford B. Hayes (
Republican) (starting January 13)
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Governor of Oregon:
George L. Woods (
Republican)
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Governor of Pennsylvania:
John W. Geary (
Republican)
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Governor of Rhode Island:
Ambrose Everett Burnside (
Republican)
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Governor of South Carolina:
James Lawrence Orr (
Democratic) (until July 6),
Robert Kingston Scott (
Republican) (starting July 6)
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Governor of Tennessee:
William G. Brownlow (
Republican)
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Governor of Texas:
Elisha M. Pease (
Republican)
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Governor of Vermont:
John B. Page (
Republican)
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Governor of Virginia:
Francis Harrison Pierpont (
Republican) (until April 4),
Henry H. Wells (
Republican) (starting April 4)
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Governor of West Virginia:
Arthur I. Boreman (
Republican)
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Governor of Wisconsin:
Lucius Fairchild (
Republican)
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- January 31 –
Theodore William Richards, chemist, recipient of
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1914 (died
1928)
- February 3 –
William J. Harris, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1919 to 1932 (died
1932)
- February 5 –
Maxine Elliott, actress and businesswoman (died
1940 in France)
- February 10 –
William Allen White, journalist (died
1944)
- February 16 –
John Rogan, second tallest person in recorded history (died
1905)
- February 20 –
John Nathan Cobb, author, naturalist, conservationist, fisheries researcher and educator (died
1930)
- February 23 –
W. E. B. Du Bois, African American civil rights leader (died
1963)
- April 6 –
Helen Hyde, etcher and engraver (died
1919)
- April 8 –
Herbert Spencer Jennings, zoologist (died
1947)
- April 12
- April 21 –
Alfred Henry Maurer, modernist painter (suicide
1932)
- April 28 –
Hélène de Pourtalès, born Helen Barbey, Olympic sailor (died 1945 in Switzerland)
- March 22 –
Robert Millikan, physicist, recipient of
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 (died
1953)
- May 2 –
Robert W. Wood, optical physicist (died
1955)
- May 10 –
Ed Barrow, baseball player and manager (died
1953)
- June 4 –
Thomas F. Bayard, Jr., U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1922 to 1929 (died
1942)
- June 8 –
Robert Robinson Taylor, first accredited African American architect (died 1942)
- June 28 –
John F. Nugent, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1918 to 1921 (died
1931)
- July 4 –
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer (died
1921)
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- August 21 –
Vess Ossman, ragtime banjo player (died
1923)
- August 23 –
Edgar Lee Masters, poet, biographer, dramatist and lawyer (died
1950)
- September 8 –
Seth Weeks, African American jazz mandolin player, composer, arranger and bandleader (died 1953)
- September 9 –
Mary Hunter Austin, writer (died
1934)
- September 11 –
Henry Justin Allen, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1929 to 1931 (died 1950)
- September 22 –
John T. Raulston, state judge (died
1956)
- October 8 –
Coleman Livingston Blease, U.S. Senator from South Carolina from 1925 to 1931 (died 1942)
- October 10 –
Anne Hazen McFarland, physician and medical journal editor (unknown year of death)
- November 3 –
Harry Grant Dart, cartoonist (died
1938)
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- November 22 –
John Nance Garner, 32nd
vice president of the United States from 1933 to 1941 (died
1967)
- November 23 –
Mary Brewster Hazelton, portrait painter (died 1953)
- November 24 –
Scott Joplin, African American ragtime composer and pianist (died
1917)
- December 14 –
Louise Hammond Willis Snead, artist, writer, and composer (died
1958)
- December 17 –
Frederic M. Sackett, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1925 to 1930 (died
1941)
- December 19 –
Eleanor H. Porter, novelist (died
1920)
- December 25 –
Eugenie Besserer, silent film actress (died
1934)
- date unknown –
Luther Standing Bear, Native American film actor (died
1939)
James Buchanan
- March 4
- May 10 –
Henry Bennett, politician (born
1808)
- May 23 –
Kit Carson, trapper, scout and Indian agent (born
1809)
- May 24 –
Emanuel Leutze, history painter (born 1816 in Germany)
- May 31 –
John J. McRae, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1851 to 1852 (born
1815)
- June 1 –
James Buchanan, 15th
president of the United States from 1857 to 1861 (born
1791)
- June 6 –
Daniel Pierce Thompson, novelist and lawyer (born
1795)
- June 15 –
Warren Ives Bradley, children's author (born
1847)
- June 22 –
Heber C. Kimball, Latter Day Saint leader (born
1801)
- July 15 –
William T. G. Morton, pioneer of anaesthesia (born
1819)
- July 7 –
Edward Coles, planter, politician and the second
governor of Illinois (born
1786)
- August 11 –
Thaddeus Stevens, politician (born
1792)
- September 17 –
Hook Nose, Northern Cheyenne warrior (born c.1823)
- September 19 –
William Sprague, minister and politician from Michigan (born 1809)
- October 9 –
Howell Cobb, politician (born 1815)
- November 27 –
Black Kettle, Southern Cheyenne Peace Chief (born
1803)
- December 25 –
Linus Yale, Jr., inventor (born
1821)