1924

Events from the year **1924 in the United States**.

* Senate Majority Leader: Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA) (until November 9), *vacant* (starting November 9)
* Congress: 68th

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: William W. Brandon (Democratic)
* Governor of Arizona: George W. P. Hunt (Democratic)
* Governor of Arkansas: Thomas Chipman McRae (Democratic)
* Governor of California: Friend Richardson (Republican)
* Governor of Colorado: William Ellery Sweet (Democratic)
* Governor of Connecticut: Charles A. Templeton (Republican)
* Governor of Delaware: William D. Denney (Republican)
* Governor of Florida: Cary A. Hardee (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: Clifford Walker (Democratic)
* Governor of Idaho: Charles C. Moore (Republican)
* Governor of Illinois: Len Small (Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: Warren T. McCray (Republican) (until April 30), Emmett Forrest Branch (Republican) (starting April 30)
* Governor of Iowa: Nathan E. Kendall (Republican)
* Governor of Kansas: Jonathan M. Davis (Democratic)
* Governor of Kentucky: William J. Fields (Democratic)
* Governor of Louisiana: John M. Parker (Democratic) (until May 13), Henry L. Fuqua (Democratic) (starting May 13)
* Governor of Maine: Percival Proctor Baxter (Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Channing H. Cox (Republican)
* Governor of Michigan: Alex Groesbeck (Republican)
* Governor of Minnesota: J. A. O. Preus (Republican)
* Governor of Mississippi:
	+ until January 18: Lee M. Russell (Democratic)
	+ January 18-January 22: vacant
	+ starting January 22: Henry L. Whitfield (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: Arthur M. Hyde (Republican)
* Governor of Montana: Joseph M. Dixon (Republican)
* Governor of Nebraska: Charles W. Bryan (Democratic)
* Governor of Nevada: James G. Scrugham (Democratic)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Fred H. Brown (Democratic)
* Governor of New Jersey: George Sebastian Silzer (Democratic)
* Governor of New Mexico: James F. Hinkle (Democratic)
* Governor of New York: Al Smith (Democratic)
* Governor of North Carolina: Cameron A. Morrison (Democratic)
* Governor of North Dakota: Ragnvald A. Nestos (Republican)
* 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)
* Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Gordon McLeod (Democratic)
* Governor of South Dakota: William H. McMaster (Republican)
* Governor of Tennessee: Austin Peay (Democratic)
* Governor of Texas: Pat Morris Neff (Democratic)
* Governor of Utah: Charles R. Mabey (Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: Redfield Proctor Jr. (Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: Elbert Lee Trinkle (Democratic)
* Governor of Washington: Louis Folwell Hart (Republican)
* Governor of West Virginia: Ephraim F. Morgan (Republican)
* Governor of Wisconsin: John J. Blaine (Republican)
* Governor of Wyoming: William B. Ross (Democratic) (until October 2), Frank E. Lucas (Republican) (starting October 2)

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)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Hiram Bingham (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: J. Danforth Bush (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: H. C. Baldridge (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Fred E. Sterling (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Emmett Forrest Branch (Republican) (until April 30), James J. Nejdl (Republican) (starting April 30)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: John Hammill (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Ben Sanford Paulen (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Henry Denhardt (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana:
	+ until month and day unknown: Hewitt Bouanchaud (Democratic)
	+ month and day unknown: Delos R. Johnson (Democratic)
	+ starting month and day unknown: Oramel H. Simpson (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Alvan T. Fuller (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Thomas Read (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Louis L. Collins (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Homer H. Casteel (Democratic) (until January 22), Dennis Murphree (Democratic) (starting January 22)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Hiram Lloyd (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Nelson Story Jr. (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Fred Gustus Johnson (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Maurice J. Sullivan (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: Jose A. Baca (Democratic) (until May), vacant (starting May)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: George R. Lunn (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: William B. Cooper (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Frank H. Hyland (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Earl D. Bloom (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: David J. Davis (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Felix A. Toupin (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: E. B. Jackson (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Carl Gunderson (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Eugene J. Bryan (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Thomas Whitfield Davidson (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Franklin S. Billings (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Junius Edgar West (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Washington: William J. Coyle (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: George F. Comings (Republican)

## Events

### January - March

* February 7 – Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
* February 12 – *Rhapsody in Blue*, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City at Aeolian Hall.
* February 14 – *IBM* is founded in New York State.
* February 16 – Dock strikes break out in various U.S. harbors.
* February 22 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
* March 8 – The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah, United States.

### April - June

* April 16 – American media company *Metro Goldwyn Mayer* (*MGM*) is founded in Los Angeles, California.
* May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska.
* May 10 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
* May 21 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks, in a thrill killing.
* May 26 – The Asian Exclusion Act is enacted, banning all Asian immigration to the United States. It was a slap in the face to Japan after their participation as a principal ally in WWI, and is seen as the spark that spurred Japan's alliance with Germany and down the path to World War II.
* June 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
* June 12 – Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois; the robbery is later found to have been an inside job.
* June 23 – American airman Russell L. Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit.
* June 24 – The 1924 Democratic National Convention begins takes a record 103 ballots, to nominate John Davis for President.

### July - September

* July 9 – The 1924 Democratic National Convention ends.
* September 9 – The Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

### October - December

* October 9 – Soldier Field, the home of the Chicago Bears opens.
* October 10
	+ The Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago.
	+ The Washington Senators defeat the New York Giants, 4 games to 3.
* November 4
	+ U.S. presidential election, 1924: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette
	+ Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
* November 15 – In Los Angeles, silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") meets publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst to work out a deal. When Ince dies a few days later, reportedly of a heart attack, rumors soon surface that he was murdered by Hearst.
* November 27 – In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
* December 1 – George Gershwin's *Lady Be, Good*, including the song "Fascinating Rhythm", (book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin) premieres in New York City.

## Memoriam

* January 4 – John Peters, baseball shortstop (aged 73; St. Louis, MO, USA)
* January 12 – William V. Allen, U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1893 to 1899 (aged 76; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* January 13 – Albert Abrams, quack doctor (aged 50; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* January 14 – Luther Emmett Holt, pediatrician (aged 68; Peking, China)
* February 1 – Maurice Prendergast, painter (aged 65; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and historian (aged 67; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 16
	+ Henry Bacon, Beaux-Arts architect of the Lincoln Memorial (aged 57; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ John William Kendrick, railroad executive (aged 70; Chicago, IL, USA)
* March 9 – Daniel Ridgway Knight, painter (aged 84; Paris, France)
* March 13 – Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, African American civil rights campaigner and publisher (aged 81; Boston, MA, USA)
* April 1 – Frank Capone, gangster, shot by police (aged 28; Chicago, IL, USA)
* April 7 – Marcus A. Smith, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1912 to 1921 (aged 73; Washington, DC, USA)
* April 19 – Paul Boyton, extreme water sports pioneer (aged 76; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 14 – Louis Sullivan, architect, "father of skyscrapers" (aged 67; Chicago, IL, USA)
* April 18 – Frank Xavier Leyendecker, illustrator (aged 48; New Rochelle, NY, USA)
* April 20 – Caroline Ingalls, pioneer, mother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (aged 84; De Smet, SD, USA)
* April 21 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (aged 65; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
* April 23 – Bertram Goodhue, neo-gothic architect (aged 54; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 24 – G. Stanley Hall, psychologist (aged 78; Worcester, MA, USA)
* April 27 – Maecenas Eason Benton, U.S. Representative from Missouri (aged 76; Springfield, MO, USA)
* May 5 – Kate Claxton, stage actress (aged 75; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 10 – George Kennan, explorer (aged 79; Medina, NY, USA)
* May 11 – Moses Fleetwood Walker, baseball pitcher and Black nationalist (aged 67; Cleveland, OH, USA)
* May 31 – Charles Stockton, admiral (aged 78; Washington, DC, USA)
* July 6 – Black Benny, bass drummer (aged 34; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* July 14 – Isabella Stewart Gardner, art collector and philanthropist (aged 84; Boston, MA, USA)
* July 23 – Frank Frost Abbott, classical scholar (aged 64; Montreux, Switzerland)
* August 7 – John Edward Bruce ("Bruce Grit"), African American slave and historian (aged 68; New York City, NY, USA)
* August 25 – Velma Caldwell Melville, editor and writer (aged 66; Gainesville, FL, USA)
* September 1 – Samuel Baldwin Marks Young, general, first Chief of Staff of the United States Army (aged 84; Helena, MT, USA)
* September 15 – Frank Chance, baseball player (aged 47; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* September 17 – John Martin Schaeberle, German-born astronomer (aged 71; Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
* September 25 – Lotta Crabtree, stage actress (aged 76; Boston, MA, USA)
* October 25 – Laura Jean Libbey, novelist (aged 62; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 27 – Percy Haughton, baseball player and coach (aged 48; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 29 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, children's novelist (aged 74; Plandome Manor, NY, USA)
* November 3 – Cornelius Cole, U.S. Senator from California from 1867 to 1873 (aged 102; Hollywood, CA, USA)
* November 9 – Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1893 to 1924 (aged 74; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* November 10 – Dean O'Banion, gangster, killed (aged 32; Chicago, IL, USA)
* November 19 – Thomas H. Ince, silent film producer, "father of the Western" (aged 44; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
* November 21 – Florence Harding, née Kling, First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 as wife of Warren G. Harding, 29th President (aged 64; Marion, OH, USA)
* December 6 – Gene Stratton-Porter, novelist and naturalist (aged 61; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* December 13 – Samuel Gompers, labor leader (aged 74; San Antonio, TX, USA)
* December 15
	+ T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey from 1921 to 1923 (aged 60; Baltimore, MD, USA)
	+ William Herbert Carruth, linguist and poet (aged 65; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
* December 19 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (aged 65; Washington, DC, USA)