1914

Events from the year **1914 in the United States**.

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: Emmet O'Neal (Democratic)
* 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)
* Governor of Connecticut: Simeon E. Baldwin (Democratic)
* Governor of Delaware: Charles R. Miller (Republican)
* Governor of Florida: Park Trammell (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: John M. Slaton (Democratic)
* Governor of Idaho: John M. Haines (Republican)
* 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)
* Governor of Kentucky: James B. McCreary (Democratic)
* Governor of Louisiana: Luther Egbert Hall (Democratic)
* Governor of Maine: William T. Haines (Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Phillips Lee Goldsborough (Republican)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Eugene Noble Foss (Democratic) (until January 8), David I. Walsh (Democratic) (starting January 8)
* Governor of Michigan: Woodbridge N. Ferris (Democratic)
* Governor of Minnesota: Adolph O. Eberhart (Republican)
* 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)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel D. Felker (Democratic)
* Governor of New Jersey: Leon R. Taylor (Democratic) (until January 20), James Fairman Fielder (Democratic) (starting January 20)
* Governor of New Mexico: William C. McDonald (Democratic)
* Governor of New York: Martin H. Glynn (Democratic)
* Governor of North Carolina: Locke Craig (Democratic)
* Governor of North Dakota: L. B. Hanna (Republican)
* Governor of Ohio: James M. Cox (Democratic)
* 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: Frank M. Byrne (Republican)
* 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: 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)
* Governor of Wyoming: Joseph M. Carey (Democratic)

Lieutenant Governors
* 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: Lyman T. Tingier (Democratic)
* 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)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Edward J. McDermott (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Thomas C. Barret (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: David I. Walsh (Democratic) (until January 8), Edward P. Barry (political party unknown) (starting January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: John Q. Ross (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Joseph A. A. Burnquist (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Theodore G. Bilbo (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: William Rock Painter (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Montana: W. W. McDowell (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Samuel R. McKelvie (Republican)
* 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: Robert F. Wagner (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Elijah L. Daughtridge (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Anton T. Kraabel (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: W. A. Greenlund (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: J. J. McAlester (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: John Merriman Reynolds (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Rosewell Burchard (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Charles Aurelius Smith (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Edward Lincoln Abel (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Newton H. White (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: William Harding Mayes (Democratic) (until August 14), vacant (starting August 14)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Frank E. Howe (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: James Taylor Ellyson (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Washington: Louis Folwell Hart (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Thomas Morris (Republican)

## Events

### January - March

* January 1 – The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the world's first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Anthony Jannus (the first federally licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure.
* January 5 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
* January 9 – The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded at Howard University (a historically black university) in Washington, D.C.
* February 2 – The United States Power Squadrons is formed.
* February 13 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.

### April - June

* April 6 – The American Radio Relay League is founded.
* April 9 – Tampico Affair, involving U.S. Navy sailors in Mexico.
* April 11 – Alpha Rho Chi, a professional architecture fraternity, is founded in the Hotel Sherman in Chicago.
* April 14 – The city of Irving, Texas, is incorporated.
* April 18 – Eccles mine disaster
* April 20
	+ Ludlow Massacre (Colorado Coalfield War): The Colorado National Guard attacks a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, killing 24 people.
	+ President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to use military force in Mexico in reaction to the Tampico Affair.
* April 21 – United States occupation of Veracruz: 2,300 U.S. Navy sailors and Marines from the South Atlantic fleet land in the port city of Veracruz, Mexico, which they will occupy for over 6 months. The *Ypiranga* incident occurs when they attempt to enforce an arms embargo against Mexico by preventing the German cargo steamer SS *Ypiranga* from unloading arms for the Mexican government in the port. On April 22 Mexico for the time being ends diplomatic relations with the U.S.
* April 23 – The baseball stadium Weeghman Park, later known as Wrigley Field, opens in Chicago.
* May 14 – Woodrow Wilson signs a Mother's Day proclamation.
* June 1 – Woodrow Wilson's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

### July - September

* July 1 – Henry Ford sells 248,000 cars.
* July 4 – Lexington Avenue bombing: 4 people are killed in New York City when an anarchist bomb intended to kill John D. Rockefeller explodes prematurely in the plotters' apartment.
* July 11
	+ Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox.
	+ USS *Nevada*, the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought" battleship, is launched.
	+ Over 5,000 attend a rally in Union Square, Manhattan, called by the Anti-Militarist League to commemorate the anarchists killed in the July 4 Lexington Avenue bombing.
* July 18 – The Signal Corps of the United States Army is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.
* August 1 – New York Stock Exchange closed due to war in Europe, where nearly all stock exchanges are already closed.
* August 4 – German troops invade neutral Belgium at 8:02 AM (local time). Britain declares war on Germany for this violation of Belgian neutrality. This move effectively means a declaration of war by the whole British Commonwealth and Empire against Germany. The United States declares neutrality.
* August 15
* The Panama Canal is inaugurated with the passage of the steamship U.S.S. Ancon.
* A dismissed servant kills seven people at architect Frank Lloyd Wright's studio and home, Taliesin in Wisconsin (including Wright's mistress, Mamah Borthwick), and sets it on fire.
* September 1 – The last known passenger pigeon "Martha" dies in the Cincinnati Zoo.
* September 26 – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
* September 30 – The Flying Squadron is established to promote the temperance movement.

### October - December

* October 7 – Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. marries Rose Fitzgerald in Boston.
* November 16 – A year after being created by passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business.
* November 23 – U.S. troops withdraw from Veracruz. Venustiano Carranza's troops take over and Carranza makes the town his headquarters.
* November 28 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
* December 12 – The New York Stock Exchange re-opened, having been closed since August 1, 1914, except for bond trading.
* December 17 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (initially introduced by Francis Burton Harrison).

## Memoriam

* January 8 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, soldier and politician, 30th governor of Kentucky (aged 90; Hart County, KY, USA)
* January 17 – Ambrose Bierce, writer and journalist, lost after this date in Mexican Revolution (aged 72; Chihuahua, Mexico)
* January 28 – Shelby Moore Cullom, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1883 to 1913 (aged 84; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 14 – Augustus Octavius Bacon, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1895 to 1914 (aged 73; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 23 – Henry M. Teller, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1882 and from 1885 to 1909 (aged 83; Denver, CO, USA)
* March 6 – George Washington Vanderbilt II, businessman (aged 51; Washington, DC, USA)
* March 26 – Benjamin Franklin Keith, vaudeville theatre owner (aged 68; Palm Beach, FL, USA)
* March 28 – Randolph McCoy patriarch of the McCoy clan during the Hatfield-McCoy feud (aged 88; Pikeville, KY, USA)
* May 9 – C. W. Post, businessman, founder of Post Foods (aged 59; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
* May 23 – William O'Connell Bradley, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1895 to 1899 (aged 67; Washington, DC, USA)
* June 14 – Adlai Stevenson I, 23rd Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897 (aged 78; Chicago, IL, USA)
* August 6 – Ellen Axson Wilson, First Lady of the United States, wife of Woodrow Wilson (aged 54; Washington, DC, USA)
* August 25 – Powell Clayton, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1871 (aged 81; Washington, DC, USA)
* September 13 – Charles N. Felton, U.S. Senator from California from 1891 to 1893 (aged 82; Menlo Park, CA, USA)
* September 28 – Christian Abraham Fleetwood, U.S. Sergeant Major in the 4th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment during the Civil War (aged 74; Washington, DC, USA)
* November 1 – Adna Chaffee, Lieutenant General (aged 72; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* November 20 or 21 – Thaddeus C. Pound, businessman and politician (aged 81; Chicago, IL, USA)
* December 22 – William Stanley West, U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1914 (aged 65; Valdosta, GA, USA)