1895

Events from the year **1895 in the United States**.

* 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)

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: William C. Oates (Democratic)
* Governor of Arkansas: William Meade Fishback (Democratic) (until January 8), James Paul Clarke (Democratic) (starting January 8)
* Governor of California: Henry Markham (Republican) (until January 11), James Budd (Democratic) (starting January 11)
* Governor of Colorado: Davis Hanson Waite (People's) (until January 8), Albert Washington McIntire (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Governor of Connecticut: Luzon B. Morris (Democratic) (until January 9), Owen Vincent Coffin (Republican) (starting January 9)
* Governor of Delaware:
	+ until January 15: Robert J. Reynolds (Democratic)
	+ January 15-April 8: Joshua H. Marvil (Republican)
	+ starting April 8: William T. Watson (Democratic)
* Governor of Florida: Henry L. Mitchell (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: William Yates Atkinson (Democratic)
* Governor of Idaho: William J. McConnell (Republican)
* Governor of Illinois: John Peter Altgeld (Democratic)
* Governor of Indiana: Claude Matthews (Democratic)
* Governor of Iowa: Frank D. Jackson (Republican)
* Governor of Kansas: Lorenzo D. Lewelling (Populist) (until January 14), Edmund N. Morrill (Republican) (starting January 14)
* Governor of Kentucky: John Y. Brown (Democratic) (until December 10), William O. Bradley (Republican) (starting December 10)
* Governor of Louisiana: Murphy James Foster Sr. (Democratic)
* Governor of Maine: Henry B. Cleaves (Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Frank Brown (Democratic)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Frederic T. Greenhalge (Republican)
* Governor of Michigan: John T. Rich (Republican)
* Governor of Minnesota: Knute Nelson (Republican) (until January 31), David M. Clough (Republican) (starting January 31)
* Governor of Mississippi: John M. Stone (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: William Joel Stone (Democratic)
* Governor of Montana: John E. Rickards (Republican)
* Governor of Nebraska: Lorenzo Crounse (Republican) (until January 3), Silas A. Holcomb (Democratic) (starting January 3)
* Governor of Nevada: Roswell K. Colcord (Republican) (until January 7), John Edward Jones (Silver) (starting January 7)
* Governor of New Hampshire: John Butler Smith (Republican) (until January 3), Charles A. Busiel (Republican) (starting January 3)
* Governor of New Jersey: George Theodore Werts (Democratic)
* Governor of New York: Levi P. Morton (Republican)
* Governor of North Carolina: Elias Carr (Democratic)
* Governor of North Dakota: Eli C. D. Shortridge (Democratic) (until January 10), Roger Allin (Republican) (starting January 10)
* Governor of Ohio: William McKinley (Republican)
* Governor of Oregon: Sylvester Pennoyer (Democratic) (until January 14), William Paine Lord (Republican) (starting January 14)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Robert E. Pattison (Democratic) (until January 15), Daniel H. Hastings (Republican) (starting January 15)
* Governor of Rhode Island: D. Russell Brown (Republican) (until May 29), Charles W. Lippitt (Republican) (starting May 29)
* Governor of South Carolina: John Gary Evans (Democratic)
* Governor of South Dakota: Charles H. Sheldon (Republican)
* Governor of Tennessee: Peter Turney (Democratic)
* Governor of Texas: James Stephen Hogg (Democratic) (until January 15), Charles A. Culberson (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Governor of Vermont: Urban A. Woodbury (Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democratic)
* Governor of Washington: John McGraw (Republican)
* Governor of West Virginia: William A. MacCorkle (Democratic)
* Governor of Wisconsin: George Wilbur Peck (Democratic) (until January 7), William H. Upham (Republican) (starting January 7)
* Governor of Wyoming: John E. Osborne (Democratic) (until January 7), William A. Richards (Republican) (starting January 7)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of California:
	+ until January 11: John B. Reddick (Republican)
	+ January 11-October 25: Spencer G. Millard (Republican)
	+ starting October 25: William T. Jeter (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: David Hopkinson Nichols (Democratic) (until January 8), Jared L. Brush (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Ernest Cady (Democratic) (until January 9), Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican) (starting January 9)
* Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: F. B. Willis (Republican) (until January 7), F. J. Mills (Republican) (starting January 7)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Joseph B. Gill (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Mortimer Nye (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Warren S. Dungan (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Percy Daniels (Populist) (until January 14), James Armstrong Troutman (Republican) (starting January 14)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Mitchell Cary Alford (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), William Jackson Worthington (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Hiram R. Lott (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Robert H. Snyder (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Roger Wolcott (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan:
	+ until month and day unknown: J. Wight Giddings (Republican)
	+ month and day unknown: Alfred Milnes (Republican)
	+ starting month and day unknown: Joseph R. McLaughlin (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: David M. Clough (Republican) (until January 31), Frank A. Day (Republican) (starting January 31)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: M. M. Evans (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: John B. O'Meara (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Alexander Campbell Botkin (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Thomas J. Majors (Republican) (until January 3), Robert E. Moore (Democratic) (starting January 3)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Joseph Poujade (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Reinhold Sadler (Silver) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Charles T. Saxton (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Rufus A. Doughton (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Elmer D. Wallace (Democratic) (until January 10), John H. Worst (Republican) (starting January 10)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Andrew L. Harris (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Louis Arthur Watres (Republican) (until January 23), Walter Lyon (Republican) (starting January 23)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Edwin Allen (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Washington H. Timmerman (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Charles N. Herreid (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: William C. Dismukes (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Ernest Pillow (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Martin McNulty Crane (Democratic) (until January 15), George Taylor Jester (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Zophar M. Mansur (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Robert Craig Kent (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Washington: F. H. Luce (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: vacant (until January 7), Emil Baensch (Republican) (starting January 7)

## 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)