1867

Events from the year **1867 in the United States**.

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: Robert M. Patton (Democratic)
* Governor of Arkansas: Isaac Murphy (Democratic)
* Governor of California: Frederick Low (Republican) (until December 5), Henry Huntly Haight (Democratic) (starting December 5)
* Governor of Connecticut: Joseph R. Hawley (Republican) (until May 1), James E. English (Democratic) (starting May 1)
* Governor of Delaware: Gove Saulsbury (Democratic)
* Governor of Florida: David S. Walker (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: Charles J. Jenkins (Democratic)
* Governor of Illinois: Richard J. Oglesby (Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: Oliver P. Morton (Republican) (until January 23), Conrad Baker (Republican) (starting January 23)
* Governor of Iowa: William M. Stone (Republican)
* Governor of Kansas: Samuel J. Crawford (Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky:
	+ until September 3: Thomas E. Bramlette (Democratic)
	+ September 3-September 8: John L. Helm (Democratic)
	+ starting September 8: John W. Stevenson (Democratic)
* Governor of Louisiana: James Madison Wells (Republican) (until June 3), Benjamin Franklin Flanders (Republican) (starting June 3)
* Governor of Maine: Samuel Cony (Republican) (until January 2), Joshua Chamberlain (Republican) (starting January 2)
* Governor of Maryland: Thomas Swann (Democratic)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Alexander H. Bullock (Republican)
* Governor of Michigan: Henry H. Crapo (Republican)
* Governor of Minnesota: William R. Marshall (Republican)
* Governor of Mississippi: Benjamin G. Humphreys (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: Thomas Clement Fletcher (Republican)
* Governor of Nebraska: Alvin Saunders (Republican) (until March 1), David Butler (Republican) (starting March 1)
* Governor of Nevada: Henry G. Blasdel (Republican)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Frederick Smyth (Republican) (until June 6), Walter Harriman (Republican) (starting June 6)
* Governor of New Jersey: Marcus Lawrence Ward (Republican)
* Governor of New York: Reuben Fenton (Republican)
* Governor of North Carolina: Jonathan Worth (Conservative)
* Governor of Ohio: Charles Jacob Dolson Cox (Republican)
* Governor of Oregon: George L. Woods (Republican)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Andrew Gregg Curtin (Republican) (until January 15), John W. Geary (Republican) (starting January 15)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Ambrose Everett Burnside (Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: James Lawrence Orr (Democratic)
* Governor of Tennessee: William G. Brownlow (Republican)
* Governor of Texas: James W. Throckmorton (Democratic) (until August 8), Elisha M. Pease (Republican) (starting August 8)
* Governor of Vermont: Paul Dillingham (Republican) (until October 13), John B. Page (Republican) (starting October 13)
* Governor of Virginia: Francis Harrison Pierpont (Republican)
* Governor of West Virginia: Arthur I. Boreman (Republican)
* Governor of Wisconsin: Lucius Fairchild (Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Calvin C. Bliss (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of California: Tim N. Machin (Republican) (until December 5), William Holden (Democratic) (starting December 5)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Oliver F. Winchester (Republican) (until May 1), Ephraim H. Hyde (Democratic) (starting May 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of Florida: William W. J. Kelly (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William Bross (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Conrad Baker (Republican) (until January 23), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Benjamin F. Gue (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: James McGrew (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Nehemiah Green (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky:
	+ until September 3: vacant
	+ September 3-September 8: John White Stevenson (political party unknown)
	+ starting September 8: Preston H. Leslie (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Maryland: Christopher C. Cox (Unionist)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William Clafin (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Ebenezer O. Grosvenor (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Dwight May (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Thomas H. Armstrong (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: George Smith (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: John S. Crosman (Republican) (until month and day unknown), James S. Slingerland (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Stewart L. Woodford (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Andrew McBurney (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: William Greene (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: W. D. Porter (no political party)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: George Washington Jones (Democratic) (until August 8), vacant (starting August 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Abraham B. Gardner (Republican) (until October 13), Stephen Thomas (Republican) (starting October 13)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Leopold Copeland Parker Cowper (Whig)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Wyman Spooner (Republican)

## Events

### January - March

* January 1 – The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world.
* January 8 – African-American men are granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
* February 7
	+ West Virginia University is established in Morgantown, West Virginia.
	+ Laura Ingalls Wilder is born near Pepin, Wisconsin
* March 1 – Nebraska admitted becomes the 37th U.S. state.
* March 2 – The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is established (it opens for classes on March 2, 1868).
* March 30 – Alaska Purchase signed.

### April - June

* May 28 – Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million from Alexander II of Russia, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this "Seward's Folly."
* June 15 – The Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode mine is named in Montana.
* June 29 – Kidder massacre: A Sioux and Cheyenne war party kills U.S. Second Lieutenant Lyman Kidder, along with an Indian scout and ten enlisted men in Kansas.

### July - September

* July 2 – The first elevated railroad in USA begins service in New York.
* July 17 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States.
* September 30 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.

### October - December

* October 18 – U.S. takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, paying $7.2 million.
* October 21 – *Manifest Destiny*: Medicine Lodge Treaty: Near Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas, a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
* November 15 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as The Grange).
* December 2 – In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
* December 18 – 49 people are killed in a train crash in Angola, New York.

## Memoriam

* January 20 – Nathaniel Parker Willis, author, poet and editor (aged 61; Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, USA)
* February 2 – Forceythe Willson, poet (aged 29; Alfred, NY, USA)
* February 6 – Henry Lee, merchant, political economist and politician (aged 85; Boston, MA, USA)
* March 6 – Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Ward"), humorist (aged 32; Southampton, England, UK)
* March 16 – Benjamin Hanby, songwriter (aged 33; Chicago, IL, USA)
* March 29 – George R. Riddle, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1864 to 1867 (aged 50; Washington, DC, USA)
* April 3 – George W. Randolph, lawyer, planter, Confederate general, 3rd Confederate States Secretary of War (aged 49; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
* May 11 – Joseph A. Wright, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1862 to 1863 (aged 57; Berlin, Prussia (Now Germany))
* May 27 – Thomas Bulfinch, collector of myths and legends (aged 70; Boston, MA, USA)
* July 3 – Lazarus W. Powell, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1859 to 1865 (aged 54; Henderson County, KY, USA)
* July 31 – Catharine Sedgwick, novelist (aged 77; Boston, MA, USA)
* September 3 – James A. McDougall, U.S. Senator from California from 1861 to 1867 (aged 49; Albany, NY, USA)
* September 23 – Michael O'Laughlen, Conspirator in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (aged 27; Fort Jefferson, FL, USA)
* September 26 – James Ferguson, Scottish-born astronomer and engineer (aged 70; Washington, DC, USA)
* September 29 – Sterling Price, 11th Governor of Missouri, United States Army brigadier general in the Mexican–American War, Confederate Army major general in the American Civil War (aged 58; Sterling, MO, USA)
* October 7 – Henry Timrod, poet (aged 38; Columbia, SC, USA)
* November 19 – Fitz-Greene Halleck, poet (aged 77; Guilford, CT, USA)
* December 3 – Margaret Lea Houston, First Lady of the Republic of Texas (aged 48; Independence, TX, USA)