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List of events
Events from the year 1869 in the United States.
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
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Governors
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Governor of Alabama:
William Hugh Smith (
Republican)
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Governor of Arkansas:
Powell Clayton (
Republican)
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Governor of California:
Henry Huntly Haight (
Democratic)
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Governor of Connecticut:
James E. English (
Democratic) (until May 5),
Marshall Jewell (
Republican) (starting May 5)
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Governor of Delaware:
Gove Saulsbury (
Democratic)
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Governor of Florida:
Harrison Reed (
Republican)
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Governor of Georgia:
Rufus Bullock (
Republican)
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Governor of Illinois:
Richard J. Oglesby (
Republican) (until January 11),
John M. Palmer (
Republican) (starting January 11)
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Governor of Indiana:
Conrad Baker (
Republican)
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Governor of Iowa:
Samuel Merrill (
Republican)
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Governor of Kansas:
Nehemiah Green (
Republican) (until January 11),
James M. Harvey (
Republican) (starting January 11)
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Governor of Kentucky:
John W. Stevenson (
Democratic)
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Governor of Louisiana:
Henry C. Warmoth (
Republican)
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Governor of Maine:
Joshua Chamberlain (
Republican)
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Governor of Maryland:
Thomas Swann (
Democratic) (until January 13),
Oden Bowie (
Democratic) (starting January 13)
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Governor of Massachusetts:
Alexander H. Bullock (
Republican) (until January 7),
William Claflin (
Republican) (starting January 7)
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Governor of Michigan:
Henry H. Crapo (
Republican) (until January 6),
Henry P. Baldwin (
Republican) (starting January 6)
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Governor of Minnesota:
William R. Marshall (
Republican)
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Governor of Mississippi:
Adelbert Ames (Military)
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Governor of Missouri:
Thomas Clement Fletcher (
Republican) (until January 12),
Joseph W. McClurg (
Republican) (starting January 12)
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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) (until June 3),
Onslow Stearns (
Republican) (starting June 3)
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Governor of New Jersey:
Marcus Lawrence Ward (
Republican) (until January 19),
Theodore Fitz Randolph (
Democratic) (starting January 19)
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Governor of New York:
John Thompson Hoffman (
Democratic) (starting January 1)
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Governor of North Carolina:
William Woods Holden (
Republican)
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Governor of Ohio:
Rutherford B. Hayes (
Republican)
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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) (until May 25),
Seth Padelford (
Republican) (starting May 25)
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Governor of South Carolina:
Robert Kingston Scott (
Republican)
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Governor of Tennessee:
William G. Brownlow (
Republican) (until February 25),
Dewitt Clinton Senter (
Republican) (starting February 25)
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Governor of Texas:
Elisha M. Pease (
Republican) (until September 30), vacant (starting September 30)
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Governor of Vermont:
John B. Page (
Republican) (until October 15),
Peter T. Washburn (
Republican) (starting October 15)
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Governor of Virginia:
Henry H. Wells (
Republican) (until September 21),
Gilbert Carlton Walker (
Democratic) (starting September 21)
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Governor of West Virginia:
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Governor of Wisconsin:
Lucius Fairchild (
Republican)
Lieutenant governors
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Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Sport
Births
- January 4 –
Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (died
1960)
- January 10 –
Rachel Davis Harris, African American librarian (died
1969)
- February 2 –
Smith W. Brookhart, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1922 to 1926 (died
1944)
- February 19 –
Frederic C. Walcott, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1929 to 1935 (died
1949)
- February 29 –
Thomas Walter Bickett, governor of North Carolina (died
1921)
- March 13 –
Fairfax Harrison, lawyer and businessman (died
1938)
- April 2 –
Hughie Jennings, baseball player (died
1928)
- April 4 –
Mary Colter, architect (died
1958)
- April 6 –
John W. Brady, Texas judge and murderer (died
1943)
- April 8 –
Harvey Cushing, neurosurgeon (died
1939)
- April 9 –
James Thomas Heflin, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1920 to 1931 (died
1951)
- May 3 –
Warren Terhune, U.S. Navy
Commander and 13th
Governor of American Samoa (died
1920)
- May 23 –
Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, poet and journalist (died
1944)
- June 10 –
William Kenyon, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1909 to 1922 (died
1933)
- July 14 –
Bruno Albert Forsterer, Marine Sergeant,
Medal of Honor recipient (died
1957)
- July 17 –
Mariette Rheiner Garner, wife of
John Nance Garner,
Second Lady of the United States (died
1948)
- July 20 –
Howard Thurston, stage magician (died
1936)
- August 5 –
J. C. W. Beckham, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1915 to 1921 (died
1940)
- August 9 –
Annie Malone, née Turnbo, African American millionaire businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist (died
1957)
- September 11 –
Charles Kilpatrick, one-legged trick cyclist (died
1927)
- November 20 –
Alma Webster Hall Powell, opera singer, suffragist, and inventor (died
1930)
- December 16 –
Bertha Lamme, electrical engineer (died
1943)
- December 22
Deaths
- January 1 –
Martin W. Bates, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1857 to 1859 (born
1786)
- January 11 –
Sophia Dallas, wife of
George M. Dallas,
Second Lady of the United States (born
1798)
- February 18 –
Walker Brooke, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1852 to 1853 (born
1813)
- March 13 –
James Guthrie, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1865 to 1868 (born
1792)
- April 13 –
Isaiah Rogers, architect (born
1800)
- May 23 –
Alexander O. Anderson, U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1840 to 1841 (born
1794)
- July 18 –
Laurent Clerc, advocate for the deaf (born
1785)
- July 22 –
John A. Roebling, bridge engineer (born 1806 in Prussia)
- July 30 –
Isaac Toucey, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1851 to 1857 (born 1792)
- August 6 –
David J. Baker, U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1830 (born 1792)
- September 10 –
John Bell, U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1847 to 1859 (born
1796)
- October 8 –
Franklin Pierce, 14th
president of the United States from 1853 to 1857 (born
1804)
- October 15 – William Hamlin, engraver (born 1772 in Rhode Island)
- November 11 –
Hiram Bingham I, missionary to
Hawaii (born
1789)
- November 21 –
Benjamin Fitzpatrick, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1848 to 1849 and 1853 to 1861 (born
1802)
- December 18 –
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer and pianist (born
1829)
- December 24 –
Edwin Stanton, 27th United States Secretary of War (born
1814)
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Sandy Cornish, freed slave and farmer (born
1793)
See also
Further reading
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