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Events from the year 1915 in the United States .
President Woodrow Wilson throws out the first pitch at the 1915 World Series . Incumbents [ edit ]
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors [ edit ]
Governor of Alabama : Emmet O'Neal (Democratic ) (until January 18), Charles Henderson (Democratic ) (starting January 18)Governor of Arizona : George W. P. Hunt (Democratic )Governor of Arkansas : George Washington Hays (Democratic )Governor of California : Hiram Johnson (Republican )Governor of Colorado : Elias M. Ammons (Democratic ) (until January 12), George Alfred Carlson (Republican ) (starting January 12)Governor of Connecticut : Simeon E. Baldwin (Democratic ) (until January 6), Marcus H. Holcomb (Republican ) (starting January 6)Governor of Delaware : Charles R. Miller (Republican )Governor of Florida : Park Trammell (Democratic )Governor of Georgia : John M. Slaton (Democratic ) (until June 26), Nathaniel E. Harris (Democratic ) (starting June 26)Governor of Idaho : John M. Haines (Republican ) (until January 4), Moses Alexander (Democratic ) (starting January 4)Governor of Illinois : Edward F. Dunne (Democratic )Governor of Indiana : Samuel M. Ralston (Democratic )Governor of Iowa : George W. Clarke (Republican )Governor of Kansas : George H. Hodges (Democratic ) (until January 11), Arthur Capper (Republican ) (starting January 11)Governor of Kentucky : James B. McCreary (Democratic ) (until December 7), Augustus O. Stanley (Democratic ) (starting December 7)Governor of Louisiana : Luther Egbert Hall (Democratic )Governor of Maine : William T. Haines (Republican ) (until January 6), Oakley C. Curtis (Democratic ) (starting January 6)Governor of Maryland : Phillips Lee Goldsborough (Republican )Governor of Massachusetts : David I. Walsh (Democratic )Governor of Michigan : Woodbridge N. Ferris (Democratic )Governor of Minnesota :
Governor of Mississippi : Earl L. Brewer (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : Elliot Woolfolk Major (Democratic )Governor of Montana : Sam V. Stewart (Democratic )Governor of Nebraska : John H. Morehead (Democratic )Governor of Nevada : Tasker L. Oddie (Republican ) (until January 4), Emmet D. Boyle (Democratic ) (starting January 4)Governor of New Hampshire : Samuel D. Felker (Democratic ) (until January 1), Rolland H. Spaulding (Republican ) (starting January 1)Governor of New Jersey : James Fairman Fielder (Democratic )Governor of New Mexico : William C. McDonald (Democratic )Governor of New York : Charles S. Whitman (Republican ) (starting January 1)Governor of North Carolina : Locke Craig (Democratic )Governor of North Dakota : L. B. Hanna (Republican )Governor of Ohio : James M. Cox (Democratic ) (until January 11), Frank B. Willis (Democratic ) (starting January 11)Governor of Oklahoma : Lee Cruce (Democratic ) (until January 11), Robert L. Williams (Democratic ) (starting January 11)Governor of Oregon : Oswald West (Democratic ) (until January 12), James Withycombe (Republican ) (starting January 12)Governor of Pennsylvania : John K. Tener (Republican ) (until January 19), Martin Grove Brumbaugh (Republican ) (starting January 19)Governor of Rhode Island : Aram J. Pothier (Republican ) (until January 5), R. Livingston Beeckman (Republican ) (starting January 5)Governor of South Carolina :
Governor of South Dakota : Frank M. Byrne (Republican )Governor of Tennessee : Ben W. Hooper (Republican ) (until January 17), Tom C. Rye (Democratic ) (starting January 17)Governor of Texas : Oscar Branch Colquitt (Democratic ) (until January 19), James E. Ferguson (Democratic ) (starting January 19)Governor of Utah : William Spry (Republican )Governor of Vermont : Allen M. Fletcher (Republican ) (until January 7), Charles W. Gates (Republican ) (starting January 7)Governor of Virginia : Henry Carter Stuart (Democratic )Governor of Washington : Ernest Lister (Democratic )Governor of West Virginia : Henry D. Hatfield (Republican )Governor of Wisconsin : Francis E. McGovern (Republican ) (until January 4), Emanuel L. Philipp (Republican ) (starting January 4)Governor of Wyoming : Joseph M. Carey (Democratic ) (until January 4), John B. Kendrick (Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Walter D. Seed, Sr. (Democratic ) (until January 18), Thomas E. Kilby (Democratic ) (starting January 18)Lieutenant Governor of California : A. J. Wallace (Republican ) (until January 5), John Morton Eshleman (Progressive) (starting January 5)Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Stephen R. Fitzgarrald (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Moses E. Lewis (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Lyman T. Tingier (Democratic ) (until January 6), Clifford B. Wilson (Republican ) (starting January 6)Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Colen Ferguson (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : Herman H. Taylor (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Barratt O'Hara (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : William P. O'Neill (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : William L. Harding (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Sheffield Ingalls (Republican ) (until January 11), William Yoast Morgan (Republican ) (starting January 11)Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Edward J. McDermott (Democratic ) (until December 7), James D. Black (Democratic ) (starting December 7)Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Thomas C. Barret (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Edward P. Barry (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Grafton D. Cushing (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : John Q. Ross (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Luren D. Dickinson (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Joseph A. A. Burnquist (Republican ) (until December 30), vacant (starting December 30)Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Theodore G. Bilbo (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : William Rock Painter (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Montana : W. W. McDowell (political party unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Samuel R. McKelvie (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), James Pearson (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Gilbert C. Ross (political party unknown) (until January 4), Maurice J. Sullivan (Democratic ) (starting January 4)Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of New York : Edward Schoeneck (Republican ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Elijah L. Daughtridge (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Anton T. Kraabel (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), John H. Fraine (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : W. A. Greenlund (Democratic ) (until January 11), John H. Arnold (Republican ) (starting January 11)Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : J. J. McAlester (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Martin E. Trapp (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : John M. Reynolds (Republican ) (until January 19), Frank B. McClain (Republican ) (starting January 19)Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Rosewell Burchard (Republican ) (until January 5), Emery J. San Souci (Republican ) (starting January 5)Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Edward Lincoln Abel (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Peter Norbeck (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : vacant (until January 19), William P. Hobby (Democratic ) (starting January 19)Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Frank E. Howe (Republican ) (until January 19), Hale K. Darling (Republican ) (starting January 19)Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : James Taylor Ellyson (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : Louis Folwell Hart (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Thomas Morris (Republican ) (until January 4), Edward F. Dithmar (Republican ) (starting January 4)
January–March [ edit ] Souvenir booklet for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition January – While working as a cook at New York's Sloan Hospital under an assumed name, Typhoid Mary quarantine for life.
January 12
January 21 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit , Michigan .
January 26 – Rocky Mountain National Park is established.
January 28 – An act of the U.S. Congress designates the United States Coast Guard , begun in 1790, as a military branch over 19 years.
February 2 – Vanceboro international bridge bombing
February 8 – The controversial film, The Birth of a Nation D. W. Griffith , premieres in Los Angeles .
February 12 – In Washington, D.C. the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
February 20 – In San Francisco, California the Panama–Pacific International Exposition is opened.
March 3 – NACA , the predecessor of NASA , is founded.
March 25 – The USS F-4 submarine sinks off Hawaii ; 23 are killed.
March 28 – The first Roman Catholic Liturgy is celebrated by Archbishop John Ireland at the newly consecrated Cathedral of Saint Paul in Saint Paul, Minnesota . April–June [ edit ] Ralph DePalma (1882-1956) wins the 1915 Indianapolis 500 on May 31.May 6 – Babe Ruth hits his first career home run off of Jack Warhop .
May 7 – The RMS Lusitania is sunk on passage from New York to Britain by a German U-boat , killing 1,198.
May 22 – Lassen Peak , one of the Cascade Volcanoes in Northern California , erupts, sending an ash plume 30,000 feet in the air and devastating the nearby area with pyroclastic flows and lahars . It is the only volcano to erupt in the contiguous United States between 1900 and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens .
June 9 – U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the Lusitania sinking.
June 12 – "The class the stars fell on " graduates from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York .
June 21 – Guinn v. United States Supreme Court of the United States , finding grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests for voters to be unconstitutional.
June 22 – The Imperial Valley earthquakes shook southeastern Southern California, causing six deaths and financial losses of $900,000. Each shock in this doublet earthquake measured 5.5 Mw and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ). July–September [ edit ] October–December [ edit ] Undated [ edit ] Woodrow Wilson House (Washington, D.C.) , built in 1915Ongoing [ edit ] January 1 – Tom Godwin , science fiction author (died 1980 )January 2 – John Hope Franklin , historian (died 2009 )January 3 – Sid Hudson , baseball player (died 2008 )January 4 – Meg Mundy , English-born actress (died 2016 )January 5 – Arthur H. Robinson , geographer and cartographer (died 2004 )January 6 – Don Edwards , politician (died 2015 )January 9 – Anita Louise , actress (died 1970 )January 14 – Mark Goodson , television game show producer (died 1992 )January 16 – Leslie H. Martinson , television and film director (died 2016 )January 20 – Edward Stewart , set decorator (died 1999 )January 22 – C. L. Franklin , minister and Civil Rights Activist, father of Aretha Franklin (died 1984 )January 24 – Robert Motherwell , painter (died 1991 )January 29 – John Serry, Sr. , musician, composer and arranger (died 2003 )January 30 – Ed Keats , admiral (died 2019 )January 31
February 5 – Robert Hofstadter , physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)February 10 – Karl Winsch , baseball player and manager (died 2001 )February 12
February 14 – Ray Evans , composer (died 2007 )February 16 – Jim O'Hora , college football coach (died 2005 )February 21 – Ann Sheridan film actress (died 1967 )February 23 – Paul Tibbets , World War II bomber pilot (Enola Gay 2007 )February 26 – Preacher Roe , baseball player (died 2008 )February 28 – Zero Mostel , born Samuel Mostel, film and stage actor (died 1977 )March 20
March 29 – Helen Yglesias , novelist (died 2008 )April 4 – Muddy Waters , born McKinley Morganfield, African-American blues musician (died 1983 )April 7
April 16 – Joan Alexander , American actress (died 2009 )May 1 – Archie Williams , athlete (died 1993 )May 2 – Doris Fisher , singer and songwriter (died 2003 )May 5 – Alice Faye , entertainer (died 1998 )May 6 – Orson Welles , actor and director (died 1985 )May 8 – Milton Meltzer , historical writer (died 2009 )May 15 – Paul Samuelson , economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009 )[4] May 26 – Sam Edwards , actor (died 2004 )May 27 – Herman Wouk , novelist (died 2019 )[5] June 10 – Saul Bellow , Canadian-born novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005 )[6] June 12 – David Rockefeller , banker and philanthropist (died 2017 )June 15 – Thomas Huckle Weller , virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008 )June 17 – David "Stringbean" Akeman , country music banjo player (died 1973 )June 19 – Pat Buttram , actor (died 1994 )July 1 – Willie Dixon , blues musician (died 1992 )July 5 – John Woodruff , African-American middle-distance runner (died 2007 )July 7 – Peter H. Dominick , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1963 to 1975 (died 1981 )July 15 – Albert Ghiorso , nuclear scientist (died 2010 )July 17 – Fred Ball , movie studio executive, actor and brother of Lucille Ball (died 2007 )July 18 – Roxana Cannon Arsht , judge (died 2003 )July 28
July 28 – Dick Sprang , comic book artist during the golden age of comics and explorer (died 2000 )August 4 – William Keene , actor (died 1992 )August 5 – Mildred Burke , professional wrestler (died 1989 )August 12 – Michael Kidd , choreographer (died 2007 )August 13 – Katherine Loker , née Bogdanovich, philanthropist (died 2008 )August 14 – Irene Hickson , baseball player (died 1995 )August 19 – Ring Lardner Jr. , film screenwriter (died 2000 )August 25
August 27 – Norman F. Ramsey , physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011 )August 28
September 23 – Clifford Shull , physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2001 )October 1 – Jerome Bruner , developmental and educational psychologist (died 2016 )October 4 – Beverly Loraine Greene , African-American architect (died 1957 )October 24
October 6 – Ralph Tyler Smith , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1969 to 1970 (died 1972 )October 17 – Arthur Miller , playwright and essayist (died 2005 )November 9 – Sargent Shriver , Peace Corps founder (died 2011 )November 14 – Billy Bauer , cool jazz guitarist (died 2005 )November 19 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. , physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974 )November 26 – Earl Wild , pianist (died 2010 )November 29
November 30 – Brownie McGhee , Piedmont blues musician (died 1996 )December 12 – Frank Sinatra , singer and actor (died 1998 )January 19 – Abram J. Buckles , soldier and jurist (born 1846 )
February 18 – Frank James , outlaw (born 1843 )
March 5 – Thomas R. Bard , U.S. Senator from California from 1900 until 1905 (born 1841 )
March 15 – Joseph Ackroyd , member of the New York State Senate (born 1847 )
April 1 – Laura Alberta Linton , American chemist (born 1853 )
April 14 – John Englehart , Northwest Frontier painter (born 1867 )
April 16 – Nelson W. Aldrich , U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1881 until 1911 (born 1841 )
April 26 – John Bunny , silent film comedian (born 1863 )
April 29 – John R. Lindgren , founder of the banking firm Haugan & Lindgren (born 1855 )
May 7 – Sinking of the RMS Lusitania :
June 19 – Benjamin F. Isherwood , admiral (born 1822 )
July 16 – Ellen G. White , co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (born 1827 )
August 25 – Henry Overholser , businessman (born 1846 )
September 13 – Andrew L. Harris , Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (born 1835 )
October 10 – Albert Cashier , born Jennie Hodgers, soldier (born 1843 in Ireland )
November 14 – Booker T. Washington , African-American educator (born 1856 )
November 16 – Julius C. Burrows , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1895 until 1911 (born 1837 )
November 21 – Dixie Haygood , magician (born 1861 )
December 22 – Rose Talbot Bullard , physician (born 1864 ) See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
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