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List of events
Events from the year 1913 in the United States .
William Howard Taft (
R -
Ohio ) (until March 4)
Woodrow Wilson (
D -
New Jersey ) (starting March 4)
vacant (until March 4)
Thomas R. Marshall (
D -
Indiana ) (starting March 4)
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governor of Alabama :
Emmet O'Neal (
Democratic )
Governor of Arizona :
George W. P. Hunt (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Governor of California :
Hiram Johnson (
Republican )
Governor of Colorado :
John F. Shafroth (
Democratic ) (until January 14),
Elias M. Ammons (
Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Connecticut :
Simeon E. Baldwin (
Democratic )
Governor of Delaware :
Simeon S. Pennewill (
Republican ) (until January 21),
Charles R. Miller (
Republican ) (starting January 21)
Governor of Florida :
Albert W. Gilchrist (
Democratic ) (until January 7),
Park Trammell (
Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Georgia :
Joseph M. Brown (
Democratic ) (until June 28),
John M. Slaton (
Democratic ) (starting June 28)
Governor of Idaho :
James H. Hawley (
Democratic ) (until January 6),
John M. Haines (
Republican ) (starting January 6)
Governor of Illinois :
Charles S. Deneen (
Republican ) (until February 3),
Edward F. Dunne (
Democratic ) (starting February 3)
Governor of Indiana :
Thomas R. Marshall (
Democratic ) (until January 13),
Samuel M. Ralston (
Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Iowa :
Beryl F. Carroll (
Republican ) (until January 16),
George W. Clarke (
Republican ) (starting January 16)
Governor of Kansas :
Walter R. Stubbs (
Republican ) (until January 13),
George H. Hodges (
Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Kentucky :
James B. McCreary (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Luther Egbert Hall (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
Frederick W. Plaisted (
Democratic ) (until January 1),
William T. Haines (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Maryland :
Phillips Lee Goldsborough (
Republican )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Eugene Noble Foss (
Democratic )
Governor of Michigan :
Chase Osborn (
Republican ) (until January 1),
Woodbridge N. Ferris (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Minnesota :
Adolph O. Eberhart (
Republican )
Governor of Mississippi :
Earl L. Brewer (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Herbert S. Hadley (
Republican ) (until January 13),
Elliot Woolfolk Major (
Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Montana :
Edwin L. Norris (
Democratic ) (until January 5),
Sam V. Stewart (
Democratic ) (starting January 6)
Governor of Nebraska :
Chester H. Aldrich (
Republican ) (until January 9),
John H. Morehead (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Nevada :
Tasker L. Oddie (
Republican )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Robert P. Bass (
Republican ) (until January 2),
Samuel D. Felker (
Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Governor of New Jersey :
Governor of New Mexico :
William C. McDonald (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
William Sulzer (
Democratic ) (January 1 – October 17);
Martin H. Glynn (
Democratic ) (starting October 17)
Governor of North Carolina :
William W. Kitchin (
Democratic ) (until January 15),
Locke Craig (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of North Dakota :
John Burke (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
L. B. Hanna (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Ohio :
Judson Harmon (
Democratic ) (until January 13),
James M. Cox (
Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Oklahoma :
Lee Cruce (
Democratic )
Governor of Oregon :
Oswald West (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
John K. Tener (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Aram J. Pothier (
Republican )
Governor of South Carolina :
Coleman Livingston Blease (
Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota :
Robert S. Vessey (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Frank M. Byrne (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Tennessee :
Ben W. Hooper (
Republican )
Governor of Texas :
Oscar Branch Colquitt (
Democratic )
Governor of Utah :
William Spry (
Republican )
Governor of Vermont :
Allen M. Fletcher (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
William Hodges Mann (
Democratic ) (until February 1),
Henry Carter Stuart (
Democratic ) (starting February 1)
Governor of Washington :
Marion E. Hay (
Republican ) (until January 11),
Ernest Lister (
Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of West Virginia :
William E. Glasscock (
Republican ) (until March 14),
Henry D. Hatfield (
Republican ) (starting March 14)
Governor of Wisconsin :
Francis E. McGovern (
Republican )
Governor of Wyoming :
Joseph M. Carey (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama :
Walter D. Seed, Sr. (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of California :
A. J. Wallace (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
Stephen R. Fitzgarrald (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Dennis A. Blakeslee (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Lyman T. Tingier (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware :
John M. Mendinhall (
Republican ) (until January 21),
Colen Ferguson (
Democratic ) (starting January 21)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
Lewis H. Sweetser (
Republican ) (until January 6),
Herman H. Taylor (
Republican ) (starting January 6)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
John G. Oglesby (
Republican ) (until February 3),
Barratt O'Hara (
Democratic ) (starting February 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Frank J. Hall (
Democratic ) (until January 13),
William P. O'Neill (
Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
George W. Clarke (
Republican ) (until January 16),
William L. Harding (
Republican ) (starting January 16)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Richard Joseph Hopkins (
Republican ) (until January 13),
Sheffield Ingalls (
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
Edward J. McDermott (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Thomas C. Barret (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Robert Luce (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
David I. Walsh (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
John Q. Ross (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
Samuel Y. Gordon (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Joseph A. A. Burnquist (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
Theodore G. Bilbo (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
Jacob Friedrich Gmelich (
Republican ) (until January 13),
William Rock Painter (
Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana :
William R. Allen (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown),
W. W. McDowell (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : vacant (until January 9),
Samuel R. McKelvie (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Gilbert C. Ross (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico :
Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Martin H. Glynn (
Democratic ) (until October 17),
Robert F. Wagner (
Democratic ) (starting October 17)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
William C. Newland (
Democratic ) (until January 15),
Elijah L. Daughtridge (
Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota :
Usher L. Burdick (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Anton T. Kraabel (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
Hugh L. Nichols (
Democratic ) (until January 13),
W. A. Greenlund (
Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma :
J. J. McAlester (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
John M. Reynolds (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
Zenas Work Bliss (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Rosewell Burchard (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
Charles Aurelius Smith (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota :
Frank M. Byrne (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Edward Lincoln Abel (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Nathaniel Baxter, Jr. (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Newton H. White (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas :
Asbury Bascom Davidson (
Democratic ) (until January 20),
William Harding Mayes (
Democratic ) (starting January 20)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Frank E. Howe (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
James Taylor Ellyson (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington : vacant (until January 11),
Louis Folwell Hart (
Republican ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
Thomas Morris (
Republican )
March 4:
Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th U.S. president
Thomas R. Marshall becomes the 28th U.S. vice president
January – The magazine
Vanity Fair is relaunched in New York City by
Condé Montrose Nast .
February 1 –
New York City 's
Grand Central Terminal , having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest
train station .
February 3 – The
16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect
income taxes .
February 17 – The
Armory Show opens in
New York City . It displays the works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early twentieth century.
March 3 – The
Woman Suffrage Procession takes place in
Washington, D.C. , initiated and organized by
Alice Paul and led by
Inez Milholland on horseback.
March 4
March 7 – The British freighter
Alum Chine , carrying 343 tons of
dynamite , explodes in
Baltimore harbor .
[1]
March 13 –
Mexican Revolution :
Pancho Villa returns to
Mexico from his self-imposed exile in the United States.
March 25 –
Great Dayton Flood : Four days of rain in the
Miami Valley flood the region and mark the worst natural disaster in
Ohio 's recorded history, killing over 360 people and destroying 20,000 homes, chiefly in
Dayton .
July 3 – The fiftieth anniversary of the
Battle of Gettysburg draws thousands of
American Civil War veterans and their families to
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania .
July 10 – The temperature in
Death Valley ,
California , hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest recorded in the U.S. (as of 2021
[update] ).
August 3 –
Strike action by agricultural workers in
Wheatland, California , degenerates into the "
Wheatland hop riot ", one of the first major farm labor confrontations in the state.
September 8 – The largest commercial office building in the world opens in Saint Louis, Missouri, to great fanfare. The Railroad Exchange building houses 31 acres under one roof, and its central tenant,
Famous-Barr Co., becomes the world's largest department store with over 1,500,000 square feet.
September 19 –
Francis Ouimet wins the
U.S. Open (golf) championship by five strokes, becoming the first amateur to ever win the event.
Gerald Ford , 38th president of the United States (1974–1977)
January 1 –
Norman Rosten , poet, playwright and novelist (died
1995 )
January 6 –
Loretta Young , actress (died
2000 )
January 7 –
Victor H. Krulak , United States Marine Corps general (died
2008 )
January 9 –
Richard Nixon , 37th
president of the United States from 1969 to 1974, 36th
vice president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (died
1994 )
January 11 –
Jean Murrell Capers , judge (died
2017 )
January 15 –
Lloyd Bridges , film and television actor (died
1998 )
January 17 –
Everett Parker , civil rights activist (died
2015 )
January 20 –
W. Cleon Skousen , author and academic (died
2006 )
January 23 –
Wally Parks , founder of the NHRA (died
2007 )
January 29 –
Victor Mature , film actor (died
1999 )
January 31 –
Murray Bowen , psychiatrist, pioneer of family therapy (died
1990 )
February 4
February 8
February 14
February 20 –
Tommy Henrich , baseball player (died
2009 )
February 27 –
Irwin Shaw , playwright, screenwriter and novelist (died
1984 )
March 7 –
Gordon Willey , archaeologist (died
2002 )
March 12 –
Loulie Jean Norman , singer (died
2005 )
March 22 –
Tom McCall , politician and journalist (died
1983 )
March 31 –
Etta Baker , Piedmont blues guitarist (died
2006 )
April 4
April 7
April 8 –
Benedict J. Semmes Jr. , admiral (died
1994 )
May 16 –
Woody Herman , jazz clarinetist and bandleader (died
1987 )
May 24 –
Peter Ellenshaw , matte designer (died
2007 )
May 25 –
Benjamin Melniker , producer (died
2018 )
June 6 –
Carlo L. Golino , scholar (died
1991 )
June 11 –
Vince Lombardi , American football coach (died
1970 )
June 18 –
Sammy Cahn , songwriter (died
1993 )
June 27 –
Richard Pike Bissell , author (died
1977 )
July 1
July 5 –
Smiley Lewis ,
New Orleans rhythm and blues singer, guitarist (died
1966 )
July 6 –
Vance Trimble , journalist (died
2021 )
[3]
July 7
July 8 –
Bill Thompson , voice actor (died
1971 )
July 12
July 13 –
Kay Linaker , actress (died
2008 )
July 14 –
Gerald Ford , 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, 40th vice president of the United States from 1973 to 1974 (died
2006 )
July 15 –
Gene Wettstone , gymnastics coach (died
2013 )
July 16 –
Herman Gundlach , American football offensive lineman (died
2005 )
July 17 –
Bertrand Goldberg , architect (died
1997 )
July 19 –
Fred Agnich , geophysicist and politician (died
2004 )
[6]
July 24 –
Robert Emhardt , actor (died
1994 )
July 30 –
Lou Darvas , cartoonist (died
1987 )
August 8
August 9 –
Herman Talmadge , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1957 to 1981 (died
2002 )
August 16 –
Helen F. Holt , politician (died
2015 )
August 17
August 20 –
Roger Wolcott Sperry , neuropsychologist and neurobiologist, winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1981 (died
1994 )
August 31 –
Helen Levitt , photographer (died
2009 )
September 1 –
Christian Nyby , director and producer (died
1993 )
September 2 –
Alex Lovy , animator (died
1992 )
September 4
September 10 –
Lincoln Gordon , diplomat (died
2009 )
September 11
September 12 –
Jesse Owens , athlete (died
1980 )
September 13 –
Roy Engel , actor (died
1980 )
November 2 –
Burt Lancaster , film actor (died 1994)
November 8 –
Max Desfor , news photographer, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1951 (died
2018 )
November 13
November 14 –
George Smathers , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1951 to 1969 (died
2007 )
December 2 –
Jerry Sohl , scriptwriter (died
2002 )
December 8 –
Delmore Schwartz , poet (died
1966 )
[8]
December 15 –
Muriel Rukeyser , poet (died
1980 )
December 21 –
Arnold Friberg , painter and illustrator (died
2010 )
December 25
December 28 –
Charles Maxwell , actor (died
1993 )
January 16 –
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe , aeronaut, scientist and inventor (born
1832 )
January 30 –
James Henderson Berry , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1885 to 1907 (born
1841 )
February 13 –
Charles Major , novelist (born
1856 )
February 17 –
Joaquin Miller , "Poet of the Sierras" (born
1837 )
March 10 –
Harriet Tubman , African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and Civil War Union spy (born c.
1822 )
March 11 –
John Shaw Billings , military and medical leader (born
1838 )
March 31 –
J. P. Morgan , financier and banker (born
1837 )
May 1 –
John Barclay Armstrong , Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (born
1850 )
May 8 –
Frank O. Briggs , U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1907 to 1913 (born
1851 )
June 1 –
Thomas W. Palmer , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1883 to 1889 (born
1830 )
June 5 –
Chris von der Ahe , brewer and baseball owner (born
1851 in Prussia)
June 19 –
Thomas M. Norwood , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1871 to 1877 (born
1830 )
July 3 –
Horatio Nelson Young , Civil War Union naval hero (born
1845 )
July 13 –
Edward Burd Grubb, Jr. , Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (born
1841 )
August 3
August 7 –
Samuel Franklin Cody , aviation pioneer, dies in aircraft accident in England (born
1867 )
August 8 –
Joseph F. Johnston , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1907 to 1913 (born
1843 )
August 12 –
U. M. Rose , Arkansas lawyer (born
1834 )
September 3 –
John Martin , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1893 to 1895 (born
1833 )
October 16 –
Ralph Rose , field athlete (born
1885 )
October 24 –
Cornelia Cole Fairbanks ,
Second Lady of the United States (died
1852 )
November 20 –
Helen Appo Cook , African American community activist (born
1837 )
November 28 –
George B. Post , architect (born
1837 )
December 7 –
Aaron Montgomery Ward , businessman, inventor of mail order (born
1844 )
December 19 –
Gustav Oelwein , founder of
Oelwein, Iowa (born
1838 )
December 25 –
Letitia Stevenson ,
Second Lady of the United States (born
1843 )
December 26 –
Ambrose Bierce , writer and journalist, lost after this date in
Mexican Revolution (born
1842 )