1906

Events from the year **1906 in the United States**.

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: William D. Jelks (Democratic)
* Governor of Arkansas: Jeff Davis (Democratic)
* Governor of California: George Pardee (Republican)
* Governor of Colorado: Jesse Fuller McDonald (Republican)
* Governor of Connecticut: Henry Roberts (Republican)
* Governor of Delaware: Preston Lea (Republican)
* Governor of Florida: Napoleon B. Broward (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: Joseph M. Terrell (Democratic)
* 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)
* Governor of Louisiana: Newton Crain Blanchard (Democratic)
* Governor of Maine: William T. Cobb (Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Edwin Warfield (Democratic)
* Governor of Massachusetts: William L. Douglas (Democratic) (until January 4), Curtis Guild Jr. (Republican) (starting January 4)
* 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)
* Governor of Nevada: John Sparks (Silver)
* Governor of New Hampshire: John McLane (Republican)
* Governor of New Jersey: Edward C. Stokes (Republican)
* Governor of New York: Frank W. Higgins (Republican)
* Governor of North Carolina: Robert Broadnax Glenn (Democratic)
* Governor of North Dakota: Elmore Y. Sarles (Republican)
* Governor of Ohio:
	+ until January 8: Myron T. Herrick (Republican)
	+ January 8-June 18: John M. Pattison (Democratic)
	+ starting June 18: Andrew L. Harris (Republican)
* Governor of Oregon: George Earle Chamberlain (Democratic)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Samuel W. Pennypacker (Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: George H. Utter (Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: Duncan Clinch Heyward (Democratic)
* Governor of South Dakota: Samuel H. Elrod (Republican)
* Governor of Tennessee: John I. Cox (Democratic)
* Governor of Texas: S. W. T. Lanham (Democratic)
* Governor of Utah: John Christopher Cutler (Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: Charles J. Bell (Republican) (until October 3), Fletcher D. Proctor (Republican) (starting October 3)
* Governor of Virginia: Andrew Jackson Montague (Democratic) (until February 1), Claude A. Swanson (Democratic) (starting February 10)
* Governor of Washington: Albert E. Mead (Republican)
* Governor of West Virginia: William M. O. Dawson (Republican)
* Governor of Wisconsin: Robert M. La Follette Sr. (Republican) (until January 1), James O. Davidson (Republican) (starting January 1)
* Governor of Wyoming: Bryant B. Brooks (Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Russell M. Cunningham (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of California: Alden Anderson (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Fred W. Parks (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Rollin S. Woodruff (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: Isaac T. Parker (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: Burpee L. Steeves (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Lawrence Yates Sherman (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Hugh Thomas Miller (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: John Herriott (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: David John Hanna (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William P. Thorne (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Jared Y. Sanders Sr. (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Curtis Guild Jr. (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Eben Sumner Draper (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Alexander Maitland (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Ray W. Jones (Republican)
* 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)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Lemuel Allen (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Matthew Linn Bruce (Republican) (until December 5), John Raines (Republican) (starting December 5)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Francis D. Winston (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: David Bartlett (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio:
	+ until January 8: Warren G. Harding (Republican)
	+ January 8-June 18: Andrew L. Harris (Republican)
	+ starting June 18: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: William M. Brown (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Frederick Jackson (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: John Sloan (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: John E. McDougall (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Ernest Rice (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: George D. Neal (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Charles H. Stearns (Republican) (until October 4), George H. Prouty (Republican) (starting October 4)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Joseph Edward Willard (Democratic) (until February 1), James Taylor Ellyson (Democratic) (starting February 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of Washington: Charles E. Coon (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: James O. Davidson (Republican)

## Events

### January - March

* January 8 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 21 people.
* February 26 – Upton Sinclair publishes *The Jungle*, a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family in Chicago during the early 1900s.
* March 4 – Native American tribal governments are terminated in Indian Territory, a prerequisite for creating the U.S. state of Oklahoma in 1907.

### April - June

* April 5 – The Maryland General Assembly authorizes the erection of the Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Baltimore.
* April 14 – The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles by W. J. Seymour, in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival, an event which launches the Pentecostal movement in Christianity.
* April 18 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3,000 people, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350,000,000 in damages.
* June 6 – Durham and Southern Railway operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina.
* June 8 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
* June 18 - The Lake County Times now The Times of Northwest Indiana begins publication.
* June 25 – Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White at the roof garden theatre of Madison Square Garden (designed by White) in New York City.
* June 28 – Osage Allotment Act allocates land to members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma.
* June 29 – Mesa Verde is declared a National Park.
* June 30 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

### July - September

* July 11 – Murder of Grace Brown, a factory worker whose killing caused a nationwide sensation.
* July 14 – Gary, Indiana is founded by the United States Steel Corporation.
* August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion in the newly formed Cuban Republic, President Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.
* September 5 – Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
* September 22 – Atlanta race riot: Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia result in 27 people killed and the Black-owned business district severely damaged.
* September 24 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower, Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
* September 26 – The first concert of the *Telharmonium*, the first music synthesizer, is presented at Telharmonic Hall, Broadway at 39th St., New York City.
* September 30 – The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon *United States*, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England, UK.

### October - December

* October 1 – The Madeira School, a private boarding school for girls, opens with 28 students attending classes in two buildings on 19th Street, just off Dupont Circle in downtown Washington, D.C.
* October 11 – The San Francisco public school board sparks a United States diplomatic crisis with Japan, by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
* October 14 – The Chicago White Sox win their First World Series by defeating their crosstown rival Chicago Cubs 4 games to 2 at South Side Park.
* November 9 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (the first time a sitting President of the United States makes an official trip outside of the United States).
* December 4 – Alpha Phi Alpha, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter Fraternity established for African Americans, is founded at Cornell University.
* December 8 – The Petrified Forest, Arizona is designated a National Monument.
* December 10 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).

## Memoriam

* January 7 – Elliot Danforth, lawyer and politician (aged 55; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 25
	+ John S. Harris, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1871 (aged 80; Butte, MT, USA)
	+ Joseph Wheeler, U.S. Army general and politician (aged 69; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet and publisher (aged 33; Dayton, OH, USA)
* February 18 – John B. Stetson, hat manufacturer and inventor of the cowboy hat (aged 75; DeLand, FL, USA)
* February 27 – Samuel Langley, astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (aged 71; Aiken, SC, USA)
* March 3 – Jim Hogg, 20th Governor of Texas (aged 54; Houston, TX, USA)
* March 4 – John Schofield, 28th United States Secretary of War and Commanding General of the United States Army (aged 74; St. Augustine, FL, USA)
* March 13 – Susan B. Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist (aged 86; Rochester, NY, USA)
* April 11
	+ James Anthony Bailey, circus ringmaster (aged 58; Mount Vernon, NY, USA)
	+ Francis Pharcellus Church, editor and publisher (aged 67; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 24 – Mary Hunt, temperance activist (aged 75; South Canaan, CT, USA)
* April 25 – John Knowles Paine, composer (aged 67; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* May 12 – Gabriel C. Wharton, civil engineer and Confederate general (aged 81; Radford, VA, USA)
* May 14 – Carl Schurz, German-born statesman (aged 77; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 15 – John K. Bucklyn, Medal of Honor recipient (aged 72; Mystic, CT, USA)
* June 4 – Arthur Pue Gorman, U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1903 to 1906 (aged 67; Washington, DC, USA)
* June 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, chess champion (aged 33; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* June 25 – Stanford White, architect (aged 52; New York City, NY, USA)
* September 20 – Robert R. Hitt, 13th Assistant Secretary of State (aged 72; Narragansett Pier, RI, USA)
* September 21 – Samuel Arnold, conspirator involved in the plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 (aged 72; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* October 6 – Buck Ewing, American baseball player New York Giants and MLB Hall of Famer (aged 47; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
* October 9 – Joseph Glidden, inventor of barbed wire (aged 93; Dekalb, IL, USA)
* October 16 – Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (aged 80; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 17 – James D. Walker, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1879 to 1885 (aged 75; Fayetteville, AR, USA)
* November 4 – John H. Ketcham, politician (aged 73; New York City, NY, USA)
* November 23 – Willard Warner, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1868 to 1871 (aged 80; Chattanooga, TN, USA)
* December 12 – Arthur Brown, U.S. Senator from Utah from 1896 to 1897 (aged 63; Washington, DC, USA)
* December 22 – Richard S. Rust, abolitionist (aged 91; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
* December 30
	+ Thomas M. Bowen, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1883 to 1889 (aged 71; Pueblo, CO, USA)
	+ Donelson Caffery, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1892 to 1901 (aged 71; New Orleans, LA, USA)