1901

Events from the year 1901 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: William McKinley (R-OH) (until September 14), Theodore Roosevelt (R-NY) (starting September 14)
* Vice President:
** until March 4: vacant
** March 4–September 14: Theodore Roosevelt (R-NY)
** starting September 14: vacant
* Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (IL)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: David B. Henderson (R-IA)
* Congress: 56th (until March 4), 57th (starting March 4)
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 1 – Pentecostalism is born, at a prayer meeting at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas.
* January 3 – Census Commissioner predicts a U.S. population of at least 300 million by 2001
* January 5 – Typhoid fever breaks out in a Seattle jail, the first of two typhoid outbreaks in the United States during the year.
* January 7 – Alferd Packer is released from prison in the United States after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
* January 10 – In the first great Texas gusher, oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
* January 22 – The Grand Opera House in Cincinnati, Ohio, is destroyed in a fire.
* January 28 – Baseball's American League declares itself a Major League.
* February 4 – Puccini's Tosca makes its U.S. debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
* February 5
** The Hay–Pauncefote Treaty is signed by the United Kingdom and United States, ceding control of the Panama Canal to the United States.
** J. P. Morgan buys mines and steel mills in the United States, marking the first billion-dollar business deal.
** In Evansville, Indiana, a fire burns through the business district, causing $175,000 of damage.
* February 20 – The Hawaii Territory Legislature convenes for the first time.
* February 25 – U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and at some time the world's largest producer of steel, is incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan.
* March 2
** The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
** The Carnegie Steel Company with the Illinois Steel Company & The National Steel Company merged to form the United States Steel Corporation.
* March 4 – President William McKinley begins his second term. Theodore Roosevelt sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
===April - June===
* April 25 – New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.
* May 1 – Monte Ne health resort opens in the Ozarks.
* May 3 – The Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville, Florida, begins.
* May 17 – The U.S. stock market crashes for the first time.
* May 27 – The Edison Storage Battery Company is founded in New Jersey.
* May 28 – Cherry v. Des Moines Leader is decided in the Iowa Supreme Court, upholding the right to publish critical reviews.
* June 12 – Cuba becomes a U.S. protectorate.
* June 22 – The worst heat wave in U.S. history until the 1930s, affecting most areas east of the 100th meridian, is estimated to have killed over 9,500 people.
===July - September===
* July 1 – The Bureau of Chemistry is established, within the United States Department of Agriculture.
* July 24 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving 3 years for embezzlement from the First National Bank in Austin, Texas.
* August 10 – U.S. Steel recognition strike of 1901: Members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers begin a strike against United States Steel Corporation after failing to reach a settlement of their demands, and 14,000 employees walk off of the job.
* September 2 – Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
* September 5 – The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball) is formed in Chicago.
* September 6 – American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.
* September 7 – The Boxer Protocol is signed between the Qing Empire of China and the Eight-Nation Alliance.
* September 14 – Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th President of the United States, upon the death of President William McKinley.
* September 26 – The body of President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.
===October - December===
* October 4 – The American yacht Columbia defeats the Irish Shamrock in the America's Cup yachting race.
* October 16 – President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region.
* October 23 – Yale University celebrates its bicentennial.
* October 24 – Michigan schoolteacher Annie Taylor goes down Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.
* October 29 
** In Amherst, New Hampshire, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
** Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
* November 1 – Sigma Phi Epsilon is founded in Richmond, Virginia.
* November 15 – The Alpha Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at Longwood University.
* November 28 – The new state constitution of Alabama requires voters to have passed literacy tests.
* December 3 – President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits."
==Memoriam==
* January 1 – Ignatius L. Donnelly, congressman, populist writer, and fringe scientist (aged 69; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
* January 6 – James W. Bradbury, U.S. Senator from Maine from 1847 to 1853 (aged 98; Augusta, ME, USA)
* January 16
** Murray Hall, born Mary Anderson, bail bondsman and politician (aged 60; New York City, NY, USA)
** Hiram Rhodes Revels, first African American senator (aged 73; Aberdeen, MS, USA)
* January 21 – Elisha Gray, inventor and co-founder of Western Electric Manufacturing Company (aged 65; Newtonville, MA, USA)
* January 29 – Alexander H. Jones, Congressional Representative from North Carolina (aged 78; Long Beach, CA, USA)
* February 7 – Rowena Granice Steele, first female novelist in California (aged 76; Willows, CA, USA)
* February 18 – Anna Gardner, abolitionist (aged 85; Nantucket, MA, USA)
* February 21 – Stephen M. White, U.S. Senator from California from 1893 to 1899 (aged 48; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* March 13 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893 and U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1881 to 1887 (aged 67; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
* March 18 – Patrick Donahoe, businessman, publisher of the Boston Catholic newspaper The Pilot (aged 90; Boston, MA, USA)
* April 10 – Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff, reformer (aged 72; Washington, DC, USA)
* April 19 – Alfred Horatio Belo, newswriter and businessman, founder of The Dallas Morning News (aged 61; Asheville, NC, USA)
* April 26 – Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey, educator (aged 82; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* June 2 – James A. Herne, playwright and actor (aged 62; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 1 – James H. Kyle, U.S. Senator from South Dakota from 1891 to 1901 (aged 47; Aberdeen, SD, USA)
* July 4
** John Fiske, historian and philosopher (aged 59; Gloucester, MA, USA)
** Julian Scott, artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient (aged 55; Plainfield, NJ, USA)
* July 30 – Herbert Baxter Adams, educator and historian (aged 51; Amherst, MA, USA)
* August 4 – Harriet Pritchard Arnold, author (aged 42; Providence, RI, USA)
* August 24 – Clara Maass, nurse (aged 25; Havana, Cuba)
* September 14 – William McKinley, 25th President of the United States from 1897 to 1901 (aged 58; Buffalo, NY, USA)
* October 10 – Lorenzo Snow, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aged 87; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
* October 12 – James G. Field, politician (aged 75; Gordonsville, VA, USA)
* October 21 – James A. Walker, Confederate general and U.S. Congressman (aged 69; Wytheville, VA, USA)
* October 29 – Leon Czolgosz, Assassin of President William McKinley (aged 28; Auburn, NY, USA)
* November 8 – Mary Ann Bickerdyke, nurse and hospital administrator for Union soldiers (aged 84; Bunker Hill, KS, USA)
* November 24 – Alson Streeter, farmer, miner and politician (aged 78; New Windsor, IL, USA)
* November 26 – John Denny, buffalo soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (aged 55; Washington, DC, USA)
* November 27 – Clement Studebaker, automobile manufacturer (aged 70; South Bend, IN, USA)
==External links==
* 1901 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 13