1907

Events from the year **1907 in the United States**.

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: William D. Jelks (Democratic) (until January 14), B. B. Comer (Democratic) (starting January 14)
* Governor of Arkansas:
	+ until January 8: Jeff Davis (Democratic)
	+ January 8-February 15: John Sebastian Little (Democratic)
	+ February 15-May 14: John Isaac Moore (Democratic)
	+ starting May 14: Xenophon Overton Pindall (Democratic)
* Governor of California: George Pardee (Republican) (until January 9), James Gillett (Republican) (starting January 9)
* Governor of Colorado: Jesse Fuller McDonald (Republican) (until January 8), Henry Augustus Buchtel (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Governor of Connecticut: Henry Roberts (Republican) (until January 9), Rollin S. Woodruff (Republican) (starting January 9)
* Governor of Delaware: Preston Lea (Republican)
* Governor of Florida: Napoleon B. Broward (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: Joseph M. Terrell (Democratic) (until June 29), Hoke Smith (Democratic) (starting June 29)
* Governor of Idaho: Frank R. Gooding (Republican)
* Governor of Illinois: Charles S. Deneen (Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: J. Frank Hanly (Republican)
* Governor of Iowa: Albert B. Cummins (Republican)
* Governor of Kansas: Edward W. Hoch (Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: J. C. W. Beckham (Democratic) (until December 10), Augustus E. Willson (Republican) (starting December 10)
* Governor of Louisiana: Newton Crain Blanchard (Democratic)
* Governor of Maine: William T. Cobb (Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Edwin Warfield (Democratic)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Curtis Guild Jr. (Republican)
* Governor of Michigan: Fred M. Warner (Republican)
* Governor of Minnesota: John Albert Johnson (Democratic)
* Governor of Mississippi: James K. Vardaman (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: Joseph W. Folk (Democratic)
* Governor of Montana: Joseph Toole (Democratic)
* Governor of Nebraska: John H. Mickey (Republican) (until January 3), George L. Sheldon (Republican) (starting January 3)
* Governor of Nevada: John Sparks (Silver)
* Governor of New Hampshire: John McLane (Republican) (until January 3), Charles M. Floyd (Republican) (starting January 3)
* Governor of New Jersey: Edward C. Stokes (Republican)
* Governor of New York: Charles Evans Hughes (Republican)
* Governor of North Carolina: Robert Broadnax Glenn (Democratic)
* Governor of North Dakota: Elmore Y. Sarles (Republican) (until January 9), John Burke (Democratic) (starting January 9)
* Governor of Ohio: Andrew L. Harris (Republican)
* Governor of Oklahoma: Frank Frantz (Republican) (until November 16), Charles N. Haskell (Democratic) (starting November 16)
* Governor of Oregon: George Earle Chamberlain (Democratic)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Samuel W. Pennypacker (Republican) (until January 15), Edwin Sydney Stuart (Republican) (starting January 15)
* Governor of Rhode Island: George H. Utter (Republican) (until January 1), James H. Higgins (Democratic) (starting January 1)
* Governor of South Carolina: Duncan Clinch Heyward (Democratic) (until January 15), Martin Frederick Ansel (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Governor of South Dakota: Samuel H. Elrod (Republican) (until January 8), Coe I. Crawford (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Governor of Tennessee: John I. Cox (Democratic) (until January 17), Malcolm R. Patterson (Democratic) (starting January 17)
* Governor of Texas: S. W. T. Lanham (Democratic) (until January 15), Thomas Mitchell Campbell (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Governor of Utah: John Christopher Cutler (Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: Fletcher D. Proctor (Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: Claude A. Swanson (Democratic)
* Governor of Washington: Albert E. Mead (Republican)
* Governor of West Virginia: William M. O. Dawson (Republican)
* Governor of Wisconsin: James O. Davidson (Republican)
* Governor of Wyoming: Bryant B. Brooks (Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Russell M. Cunningham (Democratic) (until January 14), Henry B. Gray (Democratic) (starting January 14)
* Lieutenant Governor of California: Alden Anderson (Republican) (until January 8), Warren R. Porter (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Fred W. Parks (Republican) (until January 8), Erastus Harper (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Rollin S. Woodruff (Republican) (until January 9), Everett J. Lake (Republican) (starting January 9)
* Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: Isaac T. Parker (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: Burpee L. Steeves (Republican) (until January 7), Ezra A. Burrell (Republican) (starting January 7)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Lawrence Yates Sherman (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Hugh Thomas Miller (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: John Herriott (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Warren Garst (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: David John Hanna (Republican) (until month and day unknown), William James Fitzgerald (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William P. Thorne (Democratic) (until December 10), William Hopkinson Cox (Republican) (starting December 10)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Jared Y. Sanders Sr. (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Eben Sumner Draper (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Alexander Maitland (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Patrick H. Kelley (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Ray W. Jones (Republican) (until January 7), Adolph Olson Eberhart (Republican) (starting January 7)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: John Prentiss Carter (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: John C. McKinley (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Edwin L. Norris (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Edmund G. McGilton (Republican) (until January 3), Melville R. Hopewell (Republican) (starting January 3)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Lemuel Allen (political party unknown) (until May 22), Denver S. Dickerson (Silver) (starting May 22)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Francis D. Winston (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: David Bartlett (Republican) (until January 9), Robert S. Lewis (Republican) (starting January 9)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: George W. Bellamy (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: William M. Brown (Republican) (until January 15), Robert S. Murphy (Republican) (starting January 15)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Frederick Jackson (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: John Sloan (Democratic) (until January 15), Thomas Gordon McLeod (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: John E. McDougall (Republican) (until January 8), Howard C. Shober (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Ernest Rice (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), E. G. Tollett (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: George D. Neal (Democratic) (until January 15), Asbury Bascom Davidson (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: George H. Prouty (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: James Taylor Ellyson (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Washington: Charles E. Coon (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: vacant (until January 7), William D. Connor (Republican) (starting January 7)

## Events

### January - March

* January 1 – Daniel J. Tobin becomes president of the Teamsters, beginning a 45-year presidency.
* January 23 – Charles Curtis from Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
* February 6 – Nantahala National Forest is established.
* February 12 – The steamship *Larchmont* collides with the *Harry Hamilton* in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost.
* February 26 – President Theodore Roosevelt appoints Col. George Washington Goethals as chief engineer of the Panama Canal.
* March 1 – Colville National Forest is established.
* March 2 – Umpqua and Custer National Forest are established.
* March 9 – Reclamation Service within the Department of the Interior.

### April - June

* April – This month's issue of *Good Housekeeping* magazine displays the cover price *One Dollar a Year* (under the title).
* April 7 – Hersheypark opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
* April 15 – Triangle Fraternity, for engineering and related majors, is founded at Pennsylvania State University.
* April 17 – Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration through Ellis Island; this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving.
* April 18 – The USS *Kansas* (BB-21), a *Connecticut*-class battleship, is commissioned.
* May 25 – Inyo National Forest is established.

### July - September

* July 21 – The SS *Columbia* sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner *San Pedro* off Shelter Cove, California, resulting in 88 deaths.
* July 23 – Chugach National Forest is established.
* August 1 – Aeronautical Division established within the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
* August 15 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Eastern Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
* August 17 – Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington officially opens for business.
* August 28 – UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
* September 7 – The new passenger liner RMS *Lusitania* makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
* September 10 – The first Neiman Marcus luxury department store opens in Dallas, Texas.
* September 29 – A foundation stone is laid for the Washington National Cathedral; construction will not be fully completed until 1990.

### October - December

* October 1 – Office of the Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners established within Department of Justice.
* October 22 – Panic of 1907: A bank run forces New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations.
* October 24 – A major American financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick, and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907, a move which ultimately leads to establishment of the Federal Reserve System.
* November 3 – President Roosevelt approves the takeover of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company by J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel company in the wake of the panic of 1907.
* November 7 – Delta Sigma Pi (a co-ed professional business fraternity) is founded at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University in New York City.
* November 16
	+ Oklahoma admitted becomes the 46th U.S. state, after Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory were combined.
	+ Passenger liner RMS *Mauretania*, the world's largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool (England) to New York.
* November 19 – The Osage Nation retains mineral rights in reservation lands.
* November 28 – Johnny Hayes wins the inaugural Yonkers Marathon.
* December 6 – Monongah Mining Disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
* December 16 – The Great White Fleet departs Hampton Roads, Virginia on a 14-month circumnavigation of the globe.
* December 18 – Ouachita National Forest is established.
* December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239.
* December 31 – The first electric ball drops in Times Square.

## Sport

* November 23 - Yale Bulldogs win their first IAAUS (later NCAA) College Football National Championship.

## Memoriam

* January 2 – Henry R. Pease, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1874 to 1875 (aged 71; Watertown, SD, USA)
* January 24 – Russell A. Alger, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1902 to 1907 (aged 70; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 17 – Henry Steel Olcott, military officer and co-founder of the Theosophical Society (aged 74; Adyar, India)
* March 9 – James L. Pugh, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1880 to 1897 (aged 86; Washington, DC, USA)
* March 31 – Galusha A. Grow, politician, lawyer, writer and businessman (aged 83; Scranton, PA, USA)
* April 14 – Frank Manly Thorn, lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist, humorist, inventor and 6th Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (aged 70; Orchard Park, NY, USA)
* April 23 – Alferd Packer, cannibal (aged 65; Jefferson County, CO, USA)
* May 1 – Melissa Elizabeth Banta, poet (aged 73; Chicago, IL, USA)
* May 4 – John Watts de Peyster, author, philanthropist and soldier (aged 86; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 8 – Edmund G. Ross, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1866 to 1871 (aged 80; Albuquerque, NM Territory, USA)
* May 24 – John Patton Jr., U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1894 to 1895 (aged 56; Grand Rapids, MI, USA)
* May 26 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States as wife of William McKinley (aged 59; Canton, OH, USA)
* May 31 – Sarah Gibson Humphreys, author and suffragist (aged 77; Lexington, KY, USA)
* June 11 – John Tyler Morgan, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1877 to 1907 (aged 82; Washington, DC, USA)
* June 12 – Ellen Russell Emerson, ethnologist (aged 70; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* June 14 – William Le Baron Jenney, architect and civil engineer (aged 74; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* June 21 – Lucien Baker, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1895 to 1901 (aged 61; Leavenworth, KS, USA)
* July 11 – Robert Watt, miner (aged 75; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* July 25 – Peter Anderson, Union Army Medal of Honor recipient (aged 60; Newell, IA, USA)
* July 27 – Edmund Pettus, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1897 to 1907 (aged 86; Hot Springs, NC, USA)
* August 1 – Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown, physician and writer (aged 63; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Beaux-Arts sculptor (aged 59; Cornish, NH, USA)
* August 14 – William Birney, Union Army general, abolitionist, attorney and writer (aged 88; Forest Glen, MD, USA)
* October 3 – Jacob Nash Victor, railroad builder (aged 72; San Bernardino, CA, USA)
* October 8 – Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge, Second Lady of the United States as wife of John C. Breckinridge (aged 81; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 30 – Caroline Dana Howe, author (aged 83; Portland, ME, USA)
* November 22 – Asaph Hall, astronomer (aged 78; Annapolis, MD, USA)
* December 7 – Carrie Clark, model, notably of Muriel's Babies cigar box fame (aged 59; VA, USA)
* December 23 – Stephen Mallory II, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1897 to 1907 (aged 59; Pensacola, FL, USA)