1895

Events from the year 1895 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Grover Cleveland (D-NY)
* Vice President: Adlai E. Stevenson I (D-IL)
* Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (IL)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Charles Frederick Crisp (D-GA) (until March 4), Thomas Brackett Reed (R-ME) (starting December 2)
* Congress: 53rd (until March 4), 54th (starting March 4)
==Events==
* February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts.
* March 1 – William Lyne Wilson is appointed United States Postmaster General.
* May 27 – In re Debs: The Supreme Court of the United States decides that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the Pullman Strike.
* June 28 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules that James Reavis's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
* July 4 – Katharine Lee Bates' lyrics for "America the Beautiful" are first published.
* July 6 – Van Cortlandt Golf Course opens in The Bronx as the country's first and oldest public golf course.
* August 19 – American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
* September 3 – The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club (Latrobe wins 12–0).
* September 18 – Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech.
* September 30 – Temple Cup: Cleveland Spiders defeat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 1.
* November 5 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
* November 20 – USS Indiana, the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of this time, is commissioned.
* November 25 – Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City's Times Square district.
* November 28 – Chicago Times-Herald race: The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald. Press coverage first arouses significant U.S. interest in the automobile.
* December 24 – George Washington Vanderbilt II officially opens his Biltmore Estate on Christmas Eve, inviting his family and guests to celebrate his new home in Asheville, North Carolina.
==Memoriam==
* January 9 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, watchmaker (aged 82; West Bromwich, England, UK)
* February 14 – Isaac P. Gray, 18th and 20th Governor of Indiana (aged 66; Mexico City, Mexico)
* February 20 – Frederick Douglass, African American rights activist and former slave (aged 78; Washington, DC, USA)
* March 22 – Henry Coppée, historian and biographer (aged 73; Bethlehem, PA, USA)
* April 9 – William Jennings Demorest, magazine publisher, national prohibition leader, and in collaboration (aged 72; NY, USA)
* April 21 – Charles E. Cunningham, politician (aged 71; Little Rock, AR, USA)
* April 22 – James F. Wilson, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1883 to 1895 (aged 66; Fairfield, IA, USA)
* May 28 – Walter Q. Gresham, politician (aged 63; Washington, DC, USA)
* June 23
** James Renwick Jr., architect (aged 76; New York City, NY, USA)
** Thomas Shaw, buffalo soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (aged 49; Rosslyn, VA, USA)
* June 29 – Green Clay Smith, politician (aged 68; Washington, DC, USA)
* July 28 – Edward Beecher, theologian (aged 91; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* August 1 – Hugh O'Brien, 31st Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (aged 68; MA, USA)
* August 6 – George Frederick Root, composer (aged 74; Bailey Island, ME, USA)
* August 22 – Luzon B. Morris, politician (aged 68; Newtown, CT, USA)
* September 16 – Barzillai J. Chambers, surveyor, lawyer, and politician (aged 77; Cleburne, TX, USA)
* October 2 – Robert Crozier, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1874 (aged 67; Leavenworth, KS, USA)
* October 6 – L. L. Langstroth, beekeeper (aged 85; Dayton, OH, USA)
* October 8 – William Mahone, civil engineer and Confederate Army major general (aged 68; Washington, DC, USA)
* November 4 – Eugene Field, children's author (aged 45; Chicago, IL, USA)
* December 12 – Allen G. Thurman, U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1869 to 1881 (aged 82; Columbus, OH, USA)
* December 13 – John Miley, Methodist theologian (aged 81; Augusta, KY, USA)
==External links==
* 1895 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 12