1935

Events from the year **1935 in the United States**.

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: Benjamin M. Miller (Democratic) (until January 14), Bibb Graves (Democratic) (starting January 14)
* Governor of Arizona: Benjamin Baker Moeur (Democratic)
* Governor of Arkansas: Junius Marion Futrell (Democratic)
* Governor of California: Frank Merriam (Republican)
* Governor of Colorado: Edwin C. Johnson (Democratic)
* Governor of Connecticut: Wilbur Lucius Cross (Democratic)
* Governor of Delaware: C. Douglass Buck (Republican)
* Governor of Florida: David Sholtz (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: Eugene Talmadge (Democratic)
* Governor of Idaho: C. Ben Ross (Democratic)
* Governor of Illinois: Henry Horner (Democratic)
* Governor of Indiana: Paul V. McNutt (Democratic)
* Governor of Iowa: Clyde L. Herring (Democratic)
* Governor of Kansas: Alfred M. Landon (Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: Ruby Laffoon (Democratic) (until December 10), Happy Chandler (Democratic) (starting December 10)
* Governor of Louisiana: Oscar K. Allen (Democratic)
* Governor of Maine: Louis J. Brann (Democratic)
* Governor of Maryland: Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic) (until January 9), Harry W. Nice (Republican) (starting January 9)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Joseph B. Ely (Democratic) (until January 3), James Michael Curley (Democratic) (starting January 3)
* Governor of Michigan: William Comstock (Democratic) (until January 1), Frank Fitzgerald (Republican) (starting January 1)
* Governor of Minnesota: Floyd B. Olson (Farmer-Labor)
* Governor of Mississippi: Martin Sennett Conner (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: Guy Brasfield Park (Democratic)
* Governor of Montana: Frank Henry Cooney (Democratic) (until December 15), Elmer Holt (Democratic) (starting December 15)
* Governor of Nebraska: Charles W. Bryan (Democratic) (until January 3), Robert Leroy Cochran (Democratic) (starting January 3)
* Governor of Nevada: Morley Griswold (Republican) (until January 7), Richard Kirman Sr. (Democratic) (starting January 7)
* Governor of New Hampshire: John Gilbert Winant (Republican) (until January 3), Styles Bridges (Republican) (starting January 3)
* Governor of New Jersey:
	+ until January 3: A. Harry Moore (Democratic)
	+ January 3-January 8: Clifford Ross Powell (Republican)
	+ starting January 8: Harold G. Hoffman (Republican)
* Governor of New Mexico: Andrew W. Hockenhull (Democratic) (until January 1), Clyde Tingley (Democratic) (starting January 1)
* Governor of New York: Herbert H. Lehman (Democratic)
* Governor of North Carolina: John C. B. Ehringhaus (Democratic)
* Governor of North Dakota:
	+ until January 7: Ole H. Olson (Republican)
	+ January 7-February 2: Thomas H. Moodie (Democratic)
	+ starting February 2: Walter Welford (Republican)
* Governor of Ohio: George White (Democratic) (until January 14), Martin L. Davey (Democratic) (starting January 14)
* Governor of Oklahoma: William H. Murray (Democratic) (until January 14), Ernest W. Marland (Democratic) (starting January 14)
* Governor of Oregon: Julius L. Meier (Independent) (until January 14), Charles H. Martin (Democratic) (starting January 14)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Gifford Pinchot (Republican) (until January 15), George Howard Earle III (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Theodore Francis Green (Democratic)
* Governor of South Carolina: Ibra Charles Blackwood (Democratic) (until January 15), Olin D. Johnston (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Governor of South Dakota: Tom Berry (Democratic)
* Governor of Tennessee: Harry Hill McAlister (Democratic)
* Governor of Texas: Miriam A. Ferguson (Democratic) (until January 15), James V. Allred (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Governor of Utah: Henry H. Blood (Democratic)
* Governor of Vermont: Stanley C. Wilson (Republican) (until January 10), Charles M. Smith (Republican) (starting January 10)
* Governor of Virginia: George C. Peery (Democratic)
* Governor of Washington: Clarence D. Martin (Democratic)
* Governor of West Virginia: Herman G. Kump (Democratic)
* Governor of Wisconsin: Albert G. Schmedeman (Democratic) (until January 7), Philip La Follette (Wisconsin Progressive) (starting January 7)
* Governor of Wyoming: Leslie A. Miller (Democratic)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Hugh D. Merrill (Democratic) (until January 14), Thomas E. Knight (Democratic) (starting January 14)
* Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: William Lee Cazort (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of California: vacant (starting January 8), George J. Hatfield (Republican) (starting January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Raymond Herbert Talbot (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Roy C. Wilcox (Republican) (starting month and day unknown), T. Frank Hayes (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: Roy F. Corley (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: George E. Hill (Democratic) (until January 7), G. P. Mix (Democratic) (starting January 7)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Thomas Donovan (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: M. Clifford Townsend (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Nelson G. Kraschel (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Charles W. Thompson (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Happy Chandler (Democratic) (until December 10), Keen Johnson (Democratic) (starting December 10)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana:
	+ until month and day unknown: John B. Fournet (Democratic)
	+ month and day unknown: Thomas C. Wingate (Democratic)
	+ starting month and day unknown: James A. Noe (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Gaspar G. Bacon (Republican) (until January 3), Joseph L. Hurley (Democratic) (starting January 3)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Allen E. Stebbins (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Thomas Read (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Konrad K. Solberg (Farmer Labor) (until January 8), Hjalmar Petersen (Farmer Labor) (starting January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Dennis Murphree (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Frank Gaines Harris (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Elmer Holt (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), William P. Pilgeram (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Walter H. Jurgensen (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: vacant (until month and day unknown), Fred S. Alward (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: vacant (until January 1), Louis Cabeza de Baca (Democratic) (starting January 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: M. William Bray (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Richard T. Fountain (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota:
	+ until January 2: vacant
	+ January 2-February 7: Walter Welford (Republican)
	+ starting February 7: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Charles W. Sawyer (Democratic) (until January 14), Harold G. Mosier (Democratic) (starting January 14)
* Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: Robert Burns (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), James E. Berry (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Edward C. Shannon (Republican) (until January 15), Thomas Kennedy (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Robert E. Quinn (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Joseph Emile Harley (Democratic) (until January 15), Joseph Emile Harley (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Hans Ustrud (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Robert Peterson (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Albert F. Officer (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), William P. Moss (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Edgar E. Witt (Democratic) (until January 15), Walter Frank Woodul (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Charles M. Smith (Republican) (until January 10), George D. Aiken (Republican) (starting January 10)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: James H. Price (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Washington: Victor A. Meyers (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Thomas J. O'Malley (Democratic)

## Events

### January - March

* January 3 – The trial of Richard Hauptmann, accused of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr., begins in Flemington, New Jersey.
* January 4 – Dry Tortugas National Park is established in the Florida Keys, United States.
* January 11 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
* January 16 – The FBI kills the Barker Gang, including Ma Barker, in a shootout.
* January 19 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first men's briefs, as "jockeys", in Chicago.
* February 7 – First known published use of the term "Ivy League".
* February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the Lindbergh kidnapping.
* February 22 – Airplanes are banned from flying over the White House.
* February 23 – The classic Mickey Mouse cartoon *The Band Concert* is released by United Artists in the United States.
* February 27 – The 7th Academy Awards, hosted by Irvin S. Cobb, are presented at Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, with Frank Capra's *It Happened One Night* becoming the first film to win all of the top five award categories, including Outstanding Production and Best Director. Victor Schertzinger's *One Night of Love* receives the most nominations with six.
* March 2 – Porky Pig makes his debut in Looney Tunes's *I Haven't Got a Hat*.
* March 19 – Harlem riot of 1935: A race riot breaks out in Harlem (New York City), after a rumor circulates that a teenage Puerto Rican shoplifter in the S. H. Kress & Co. department store has been brutally beaten.

### April - June

* April 1 – The North American NA-16, prototype of the North American T-6 Texan or Harvard flying trainer, flies for the first time.
* April 14 – Dust Bowl: The great Black Sunday dust storm (made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads") hits hardest in eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma.
* April 16 – *Fibber McGee and Molly* debuts on NBC Radio.
* May 6 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
* May 24 – The first nighttime Major League Baseball game is played, between the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.
* May 27 – *Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States* (the "Sick Chicken Case"): The Supreme Court of the United States declares that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, is unconstitutional.
* May 30
	+ Eventual Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth appears in his last career game, playing for the Boston Braves in Philadelphia against the Phillies.
	+ 1935 Republican River flood (called "Nebraska's Deadliest Flood")
* June 1 – National Youth Administration established.
* June 10 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by Bill W. (William G. Wilson) and Dr. Dr. Bob (Smith).
* June 12 – Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record, taking 15½ hours and containing 150,000 words.
* June 13 – James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer at Madison Square Garden Bowl in New York City to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.

### July - September

* July 5 – The National Labor Relations Act becomes law.
* July 16 – The world's first parking meters are installed in Oklahoma City.
* July 16 – Deportivo Saprissa is founded by Roberto Fernández in his shoe store in El Barrio Los Angeles in San José, Costa Rica.
* July 24 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures in Chicago to a record-high 109 °F (43 °C)
* July 27 – Federal Writers' Project is established.
* August 2 – The USS *Philadelphia* is raised from Lake Champlain.
* August 5 – The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency opens in Chicago, Illinois.
* August 14 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law.
* August 15 – Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when Post's plane crashes shortly after takeoff near Barrow, Alaska.
* August 31 – As part of United States non-interventionism in the face of growing tensions in Europe, the first of the Neutrality Acts of 1930s is passed.
* September 2 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: The strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States makes landfall in the Upper Florida Keys killing 423. It is rated as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds.
* September 8
	+ Carl Weiss fatally wounds Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana ("The Kingfish"), in a shooting at the Louisiana Capitol Building in Baton Rouge.
	+ Busby Berkeley is involved in three-car accident which kills three people and injures five, leading to charges of second-degree murder.
* September 23 – The Cleveland Torso Murderer begins a 3-year series of killings and beheadings around the Kingsbury Run district of Cleveland, Ohio; the perpetrator is never identified.
* September 24 – Earl W. Bascom and his brother Weldon produce the first night rodeo held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.
* September 30 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam.

### October - December

* October 7 - The Detroit Tigers defeat the Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2, to win their first World Series Title.
* October 18 – The 6.5 Ms  Helena earthquake affected the capital of Montana with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (*Severe*), causing widespread damage and two deaths. A high intensity aftershock claimed an additional two lives on October 31.
* November 15 – Historical Records Survey begins under the Works Progress Administration.
* November 22 – The *China Clipper* takes off from Alameda, California to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean; the aircraft reaches its destination, Manila, and delivers over 110,000 pieces of mail.
* November 30 – The British-made film *Scrooge*, the first all-talking film version of Charles Dickens' classic *A Christmas Carol*, opens in the U.S. after its British release. Seymour Hicks plays Scrooge, a role he has played onstage hundreds of times. The film is criticized by some for not showing all of the ghosts physically, and quickly fades into obscurity. Widespread interest does not surface until the film is shown on television in the 1980s, in very shabby-looking prints. It is eventually restored on DVD.
* December 5 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women.
* December 9 – Newspaper editor Walter Liggett is killed in a gangland murder plot in Minneapolis.
* December 17 – Douglas DST, prototype of the Douglas DC-3 airliner, first flies. More than 16,000 of the model will eventually be produced.
* December 26 – Shenandoah National Park is established within the Virginia.

## Memoriam

* January 1 – Lillian Resler Harford, church organizer, editor (aged 84; Waterville, OH, USA)
* January 15 – Marion Howard Brazier, journalist (aged 84; Westborough, MA, USA)
* January 16
	+ Ma Barker, criminal, leader of the Barker gang (aged 61; Ocklawaha, FL, USA)
	+ Fred Barker, son of Ma Barker and a member of the Barker-Karpis gang (aged 33; Ocklawaha, FL, USA)
* January 19 – Lloyd Hamilton, silent film comedian (aged 43; Hollywood, CA, USA)
* February 15 – Harry Todd, actor (aged 71; Glendale, CA, USA)
* March 6 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (aged 93; Washington, DC, USA)
* March 12 – Mihajlo Pupin, physicist (aged 76; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 23 – Florence Moore, vaudeville and silent film actress (aged 48; Darby, PA, USA)
* April 2 – Bennie Moten, jazz pianist (aged 40; Kansas City, MO, USA)
* April 6 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet (aged 65; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 8 – Adolph Ochs, newspaper publisher (aged 77; Chattanooga, TN, USA)
* April 11 – Anna Katharine Green, crime fiction writer (aged 88; Buffalo, NY, USA)
* May 3 – Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrator (aged 71; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* May 4
	+ Junior Durkin, actor (aged 19; San Diego, CA, USA)
	+ Robert J. Horner, film producer and director (aged 47; El Paso, TX, USA)
* May 11 – Edward Herbert Thompson, archaeologist of the Maya civilization (aged 77; Plainfield, NJ, USA)
* May 13 – John S. Cohen, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1932 to 1933 (aged 65; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* May 19 – Charles Martin Loeffler, violinist and composer (aged 74; Medfield, MA, USA)
* May 21 – Jane Addams, social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (aged 74; Chicago, IL, USA)
* June 5 – John W. Slayton, lecturer and politician (aged 72; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
* July 7 – George Keller, architect (aged 92; Hartford, CT, USA)
* July 17 – Cudjoe Lewis (Oluale Kossola), the last known surviving male victim of Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade (aged 95; Mobile, AL, USA)
* August 5 – David Townsend, art director (aged 43; Sonora, CA, USA)
* August 14 – Harriet Mabel Spalding, litterateur and poet (aged 73; Schenectady, NY, USA)
* August 15
	+ Wiley Post, aviator (aged 36; Point Barrow, AK Territory, USA)
	+ Will Rogers, humorist and actor (aged 55; Point Barrow, AK Territory, USA)
* August 20 – Edith Roberts, silent film actress (aged 36; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* August 25 – Mack Swain, vaudeville actor (aged 59; Tacoma, WA, USA)
* August 27 – Childe Hassam, impressionist painter (aged 75; East Hampton, NY, USA)
* September 10 – Huey Long, politician (aged 42; Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
* September 11 – Charles Norris, medical examiner (aged 67; New York City, NY, USA)
* September 18 – Alice Dunbar Nelson, born Alice Moore, African-American writer and activist (aged 60; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* September 23 – DeWolf Hopper, actor and comedian (aged 77; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 6 – Joshua Levering, prominent Baptist and a candidate (aged 90; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* October 7 – Francis Wilson, stage actor and comedian (aged 81; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 18 – Gaston Lachaise, sculptor (aged 53; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 22 – Tommy Tucker, baseball pioneer (aged 71; Montague, MA, USA)
* October 23
	+ Charles Demuth, painter (aged 51; Lancaster, PA, USA)
	+ Dutch Schultz, gangster (aged 34; Newark, NJ, USA)
* November 6 – Henry Fairfield Osborn, paleontologist (aged 78; Garrison, NY, USA)
* November 8 – Mary Alice Quinn, died at the age of 14 from a chronic heart condition (aged 14; Alsip, IL, USA)
* November 27 – Charlie Green, jazz trombonist (aged 42; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 2 – James Henry Breasted, Egyptologist (aged 70; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 9 – Walter Liggett, newspaper editor (aged 49; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
* December 12 – Mantis James Van Sweringen, financier (aged 54; Cleveland, OH, USA)
* December 14
	+ George Washington Carroll, politician and businessman (aged 80; Beaumont, TX, USA)
	+ Stanley G. Weinbaum, science-fiction author (aged 33; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
* December 16 – Thelma Todd, comedy film actress (aged 29; Pacific Palisades, CA, USA)
* December 17 – Lizette Woodworth Reese, poet (aged 79; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* December 28 – Clarence Day, writer (aged 61; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 30 – Hunter Liggett, general (aged 78; San Francisco, CA, USA)