1925

Events from the year **1925 in the United States**.

* Vice President: *vacant* (until March 4), Charles G. Dawes (R-IL) (starting March 4)
* Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (OH)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-MA) (until March 4), Nicholas Longworth (R-OH) (starting December 7)
* Senate Majority Leader: *vacant* (until March 4), Charles Curtis (R-KS) (starting March 4)
* Congress: 68th (until March 4), 69th (starting March 4)

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: William W. Brandon (Democratic)
* Governor of Arizona: George W. P. Hunt (Democratic)
* Governor of Arkansas: Thomas Chipman McRae (Democratic) (until January 13), Tom Jefferson Terral (Democratic) (starting January 13)
* Governor of California: Friend Richardson (Republican)
* Governor of Colorado: William Ellery Sweet (Democratic) (until January 13), Clarence Morley (Republican) (starting January 13)
* Governor of Connecticut:
	+ until January 7: Charles A. Templeton (Republican)
	+ January 7-January 8: Hiram Bingham III (Republican)
	+ starting January 8: John H. Trumbull (Republican)
* Governor of Delaware: William D. Denney (Republican) (until January 20), Robert P. Robinson (Republican) (starting January 20)
* Governor of Florida: Cary A. Hardee (Democratic) (until January 6), John W. Martin (Democratic) (starting January 6)
* Governor of Georgia: Clifford Walker (Democratic)
* Governor of Idaho: Charles C. Moore (Republican)
* Governor of Illinois: Len Small (Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: Emmett Forrest Branch (Republican) (until January 12), Edward L. Jackson (Republican) (starting January 12)
* Governor of Iowa: Nathan E. Kendall (Republican) (until January 15), John Hammill (Republican) (starting January 15)
* Governor of Kansas: Jonathan M. Davis (Democratic) (until January 12), Ben S. Paulen (Republican) (starting January 12)
* Governor of Kentucky: William J. Fields (Democratic)
* Governor of Louisiana: Henry L. Fuqua (Democratic)
* Governor of Maine: Percival Proctor Baxter (Republican) (until January 7), Owen Brewster (Republican) (starting January 7)
* Governor of Maryland: Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Channing H. Cox (Republican) (until January 8), Alvan T. Fuller (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Governor of Michigan: Alex Groesbeck (Republican)
* Governor of Minnesota: J. A. O. Preus (Republican) (until January 6), Theodore Christianson (Republican) (starting January 6)
* Governor of Mississippi: Henry L. Whitfield (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: Arthur M. Hyde (Republican) (until January 12), Samuel Aaron Baker (Republican) (starting January 12)
* Governor of Montana: Joseph M. Dixon (Republican) (until January 4), John E. Erickson (Democratic) (starting January 4)
* Governor of Nebraska: Charles W. Bryan (Democratic) (until January 8), Adam McMullen (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Governor of Nevada: James G. Scrugham (Democratic)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Fred H. Brown (Democratic) (until January 1), John Gilbert Winant (Republican) (starting January 1)
* Governor of New Jersey: George Sebastian Silzer (Democratic)
* Governor of New Mexico: James F. Hinkle (Democratic) (until January 1), Arthur T. Hannett (Democratic) (starting January 1)
* Governor of New York: Al Smith (Democratic)
* Governor of North Carolina: Cameron A. Morrison (Democratic) (until January 14), Angus Wilton McLean (Democratic) (starting January 14)
* Governor of North Dakota: Ragnvald A. Nestos (Republican) (until January 7), Arthur G. Sorlie (Republican) (starting January 7)
* Governor of Ohio: A. Victor Donahey (Democratic)
* Governor of Oklahoma: Martin E. Trapp (Democratic)
* Governor of Oregon: Walter M. Pierce (Democratic)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Gifford Pinchot (Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: William S. Flynn (Democratic) (until January 6), Aram J. Pothier (Republican) (starting January 6)
* Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Gordon McLeod (Democratic)
* Governor of South Dakota: William H. McMaster (Republican) (until January 6), Carl Gunderson (Republican) (starting January 6)
* Governor of Tennessee: Austin Peay (Democratic)
* Governor of Texas: Pat Morris Neff (Democratic) (until January 20), Miriam A. Ferguson (Democratic) (starting January 20)
* Governor of Utah: Charles R. Mabey (Republican) (until January 5), George Dern (Democratic) (starting January 5)
* Governor of Vermont: Redfield Proctor Jr. (Republican) (until January 8), Franklin S. Billings (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Governor of Virginia: Elbert Lee Trinkle (Democratic)
* Governor of Washington: Louis Folwell Hart (Republican) (until January 12), Roland H. Hartley (Republican) (starting January 12)
* Governor of West Virginia: Ephraim F. Morgan (Republican) (until March 4), Howard M. Gore (Republican) (starting March 4)
* Governor of Wisconsin: John J. Blaine (Republican)
* Governor of Wyoming: Frank E. Lucas (Republican) (until January 5), Nellie Tayloe Ross (Democratic) (starting January 5)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Charles S. McDowell (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of California: Clement Calhoun Young (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Robert F. Rockwell (Republican) (until January 13), Sterling Byrd Lacy (Democratic) (starting January 13)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut:
	+ until January 7: Hiram Bingham (Republican)
	+ January 7-January 8: John H. Trumbull (Republican)
	+ starting January 8: J. Edwin Brainard (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: J. Danforth Bush (Republican) (until January 20), James H. Anderson (Republican) (starting January 20)
* Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: H. C. Baldridge (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Fred E. Sterling (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: James J. Nejdl (Republican) (until January 12), F. Harold Van Orman (Republican) (starting January 12)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: John Hammill (Republican) (until January 15), Clem F. Kimball (Republican) (starting January 15)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Ben Sanford Paulen (Republican) (until January 12), De Lanson Alson Newton Chase (Republican) (starting January 12)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Henry Denhardt (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Oramel H. Simpson (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Alvan T. Fuller (Republican) (until January 8), Frank G. Allen (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Thomas Read (Republican) (until January 1), George W. Welsh (Republican) (starting January 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Louis L. Collins (Republican) (until January 6), William I. Nolan (Republican) (starting January 6)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Dennis Murphree (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Hiram Lloyd (Republican) (until January 12), Philip Allen Bennett (Republican) (starting January 12)
* Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Nelson Story Jr. (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), W. S. McCormack (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Fred Gustus Johnson (Republican) (until January 8), George A. Williams (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Maurice J. Sullivan (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: vacant (until January 1), Edward G. Sargent (Republican) (starting January 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Seymour Lowman (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: William B. Cooper (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Jacob E. Long (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Frank H. Hyland (Republican) (until January 7), Walter Maddock (Republican) (starting January 7)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Earl D. Bloom (Democratic) (until January 12), Charles H. Lewis (Republican) (starting January 12)
* Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: David J. Davis (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Felix A. Toupin (Republican) (until January 6), Nathaniel W. Smith (Republican) (starting January 6)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: E. B. Jackson (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Carl Gunderson (Republican) (until January 6), Alva Clark Forney (Republican) (starting January 6)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Eugene J. Bryan (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Lucius D. Hill (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Thomas Whitfield Davidson (Democratic) (until January 20), Barry Miller (Democratic) (starting January 20)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Franklin S. Billings (Republican) (until January 8), Walter K. Farnsworth (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Junius Edgar West (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Washington: William J. Coyle (Republican) (until January 12), W. Lon Johnson (Republican) (starting January 12)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: George F. Comings (Republican) (until January 5), Henry A. Huber (Republican) (starting January 5)

## Events

### January - March

* January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes Governor of Wyoming, the first female governor in the United States. Twelve days later, Miriam A. Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas.
* January 27 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska, to combat an epidemic.
* February 21 – First issue of *The New Yorker* magazine is published by Gaven Sydnes.
* March 4 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio. Charles G. Dawes is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
* March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas (now the University of Central Arkansas).
* March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana. The storm's damage path was indicated at 378 km (235 mi).
* March 21 – Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools.
* March 31 – Radio station WOWO in Ft. Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.

### April - June

* April 1 – Frank Heath and his horse *Gypsy Queen* leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.
* April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes *The Great Gatsby*.
* April 18 – University of Miami chartered in Coral Gables, Florida.
* May 5 – Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology school teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
* May 8 – African American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the *M.E. Norman*, a steamboat sinking in the Mississippi.
* June 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
* June 13 – Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington, D.C. The images are viewed by representatives of the National Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Department of Commerce, and others. Jenkins calls this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".
* June 27 – The 6.6 Mw Montana earthquake affects the central part of the state with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (*Severe*). Because the affected area is mostly rural, financial losses are limited to $150,000, though the damage is considered severe.
* June 29 – The 6.8 Mw Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (*Violent*), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead.

### July - September

* July 10 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
* July 21 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
* August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
* September 3 – The U.S. Navy dirigible *Shenandoah* breaks up in a squall line over Ohio en route to Scottfield, St. Louis; 14 crewmen are killed.
* September 30 – In the first year for which statewide data are reliable, this month with a statewide average water equivalent of 7.54 inches (191.5 mm) remains Alaska's wettest calendar month on record.

### October - December

* October 15 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Washington Senators, 4 games to 3, to win their 2nd World Series Title.
* November 21 – Lava Beds National Monument is established.
* November 28 – The weekly country music radio program *Grand Ole Opry* is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "WSM Barn Dance".
* December 16 – Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, is founded at Lafayette College.

## Memoriam

* January 4 – Nellie Cashman, Irish-born prospector (aged 79; Victoria, BC, Canada)
* January 5 – Alexander D. Henderson, businessman (aged 59; Suffern, NY, USA)
* January 8 – George Bellows, realist painter (aged 42; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 20 – Grace Meigs Crowder, physician and public health official (aged 43; Chicago, IL, USA)
* January 22 – Fanny Bullock Workman, geographer, writer and mountain climber (aged 66; Cannes, France)
* January 26 – Caspar F. Goodrich, admiral (aged 78; Princeton, NJ, USA)
* January 31 – George Washington Cable, novelist (aged 81; St. Petersburg, FL, USA)
* February 1 – Ellen Hamlin, Second Lady of the United States as wife of Hannibal Hamlin (aged 89; Bangor, ME, USA)
* February 7 – Edward Jobson, actor (aged 64; San Jose, CA, USA)
* February 18 – James Lane Allen, fiction writer (aged 75; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 23 – Samuel Berger, Olympic boxer (aged 40; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* March 4 – John Montgomery Ward, baseball player (aged 65; Augusta, GA, USA)
* March 10 – Myer Prinstein, Olympic long jumper (aged 46; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, silent film actress (aged 14; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* March 14 – Walter Camp, American football coach (aged 65; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 30 – William J. McConnell, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1891 (aged 85; Moscow, ID, USA)
* April 8 – Emma Curtis Hopkins, spiritual writer (aged 75; Killingly, CT, USA)
* April 13 – Elwood Haynes, inventor (aged 67; Kokomo, IN, USA)
* April 14 – John Singer Sargent, portrait painter (aged 69; London, England, UK)
* April 19 – John Walter Smith, politician (aged 80; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* May 12 – Amy Lowell, poet (aged 51; Brookline, MA, USA)
* May 15 – Nelson A. Miles, general (aged 85; Washington, DC, USA)
* May 20 – Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado (aged 64; Denver, CO, USA)
* May 25 – Henry W. Petrie, popular music composer (aged 66; Paw Paw, MI, USA)
* June 1 – Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 (aged 71; Washington, DC, USA)
* June 2 – James Ellsworth, mineowner and banker (aged 75; Florence, Italy)
* June 16 – Emmett Hardy, jazz cornet player (aged 22; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* June 18 – Robert M. La Follette, politician (aged 70; Washington, DC, USA)
* June 26 – James A. Barber, Medal of Honor recipient (aged 83; Westerly, RI, USA)
* July 7 – Clarence Hudson White, photographer (aged 54; Mexico City, Mexico)
* July 26 – William Jennings Bryan, lawyer and politician (aged 65; Dayton, TN, USA)
* July 29 – Mark Fenton, silent film actor (aged 58; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* August 4 – Charles W. Clark, baritone (aged 59; Chicago, IL, USA)
* August 5 – Jennie Lee, silent film actress (aged 76; Hollywood, CA, USA)
* August 7 – George Gray, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1885 to 1899 (aged 85; Wilmington, DE, USA)
* August 8 – John Temple Graves, newspaper editor (aged 68; Washington, DC, USA)
* August 16 – Edna Hicks, blues singer (aged 33; Chicago, IL, USA)
* August 17 – Junius George Groves, slave-born potato farmer (aged 66; Edwardsville, KS, USA)
* August 27 – Thomas L. Hisgen, petroleum producer and politician (aged 66; Miami, FL, USA)
* September 13 – Emily Elizabeth Holman, architect (aged 71; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* September 17 – Carl Eytel, painter of the Southwest (aged 63; Banning, CA, USA)
* October 7 – Christy Mathewson, baseball player (aged 45; Saranac Lake, NY, USA)
* October 10 – James Buchanan Duke, tobacco and electric power industrialist (aged 68; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 17 – John I. Beggs, businessman (aged 78; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
* October 26 – Job Harriman, agnostic and socialist (aged 64; Sierra Madre, CA, USA)
* November 1 – Lester Cuneo, actor (aged 37; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* November 3 – Lucille McVey, silent film comedy actress (aged 35; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* November 21 – Robert Wrenn, tennis player (aged 52; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 7 – James O. Barrows, actor (aged 70; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, silent film actress (aged 37; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 22 – Mary Thurman, silent film actress (aged 30; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 28 – Raymond P. Rodgers, admiral (aged 76; Monte Carlo, Monaco)
* December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards director (aged 58; New York City, NY, USA)