1922

Events from the year **1922 in the United States**.

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: Thomas Kilby (Democratic)
* Governor of Arizona: Thomas Edward Campbell (Republican)
* Governor of Arkansas: Thomas Chipman McRae (Democratic)
* Governor of California: William Stephens (Republican)
* Governor of Colorado: Oliver Henry Shoup (Republican)
* Governor of Connecticut: Everett J. Lake (Republican)
* Governor of Delaware: William D. Denney (Republican)
* Governor of Florida: Cary A. Hardee (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: Thomas W. Hardwick (Democratic)
* Governor of Idaho: D. W. Davis (Republican)
* Governor of Illinois: Len Small (Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: Warren T. McCray (Republican)
* Governor of Iowa: Nathan E. Kendall (Republican)
* Governor of Kansas: Henry Justin Allen (Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: Edwin P. Morrow (Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: John M. Parker (Democratic)
* 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: Lee M. Russell (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: Arthur M. Hyde (Republican)
* Governor of Montana: Joseph M. Dixon (Republican)
* Governor of Nebraska: Samuel R. McKelvie (Republican)
* Governor of Nevada: Emmet D. Boyle (Democratic)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Albert O. Brown (Republican)
* Governor of New Jersey: Edward I. Edwards (Democratic)
* Governor of New Mexico: Merritt C. Mechem (Republican)
* Governor of New York: Nathan L. Miller (Republican)
* Governor of North Carolina: Cameron A. Morrison (Democratic)
* Governor of North Dakota: Ragnvald A. Nestos (Republican)
* Governor of Ohio: Harry L. Davis (Republican)
* Governor of Oklahoma: James B. A. Robertson (Democratic)
* Governor of Oregon: Ben W. Olcott (Republican)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: William Cameron Sproul (Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Emery J. San Souci (Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: Robert Archer Cooper (Democratic) (until May 20), Wilson Godfrey Harvey (Democratic) (starting May 20)
* Governor of South Dakota: William H. McMaster (Republican)
* Governor of Tennessee: Alfred A. Taylor (Republican)
* Governor of Texas: Pat Morris Neff (Democratic)
* Governor of Utah: Charles R. Mabey (Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: James Hartness (Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: Westmoreland Davis (Democratic) (until February 1), Elbert Lee Trinkle (Democratic) (starting February 1)
* 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: Robert D. Carey (Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Nathan Lee Miller (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of California: Clement Calhoun Young (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Earl Cooley (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Charles A. Templeton (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: J. Danforth Bush (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: Charles C. Moore (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Fred E. Sterling (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Emmett Forrest Branch (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: John Hammill (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Charles Solomon Huffman (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: S. Thruston Ballard (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Hewitt Bouanchaud (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)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Hiram Lloyd (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Nelson Story Jr. (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Pelham A. Barrows (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Maurice J. Sullivan (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: William H. Duckworth (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Jeremiah Wood (Republican) (until September 26), Clayton R. Lusk (Republican) (starting September 26)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: William B. Cooper (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Howard R. Wood (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Clarence J. Brown Sr. (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: Martin E. Trapp (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Edward E. Beidleman (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Harold Gross (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Wilson Godfrey Harvey (Democratic) (until May 20), vacant (starting May 20)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Carl Gunderson (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: William West Bond (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Lynch Davidson (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Abram W. Foote (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Benjamin Franklin Buchanan (Democratic) (until February 1), Junius Edgar West (Democratic) (starting February 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of Washington: William J. Coyle (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: George F. Comings (Republican)

## Events

### January - March

* January 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie ice cream bar.
* January 28 – Snowfall from the Knickerbocker storm, the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C., causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98.
* February 1 – Irish American film director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered at his home in Los Angeles; the case is never solved.
* February 2 – *The Ring* boxing magazine is first published.
* February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of *Reader's Digest*.
* February 7 – Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between United States, Britain, Italy, Japan and France
* February 10 – President of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
* February 24 – *Leser v. Garnett*: A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
* March 20 – The USS *Langley* is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier, having been converted at Norfolk Naval Shipyard from fleet collier *Jupiter*. On October 17, Lt. Virgil C. Griffin pilots the first plane, a Vought VE-7, launched from her decks.

### April - June

* April 1 - The Illinois General Assembly creates the Illinois State Police.
* April 7 – Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
* April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
* April 22 – The Lambda Chapter of the Joe Whelan Sorority, Incorporated (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.
* May 5 – In the Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
* May 11 – Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii.
* May 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia.
* May 30 – In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
* June 11 – Première of Robert J. Flaherty's *Nanook of the North*, the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film.
* June 14 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.

### July - September

* July 11 – The Hollywood Bowl open-air music venue opens.
* July 25 – The United States recognizes Albania as a country.
* July 28 – The United States recognizes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as countries.
* July 30 – Radio station WMT (AM) begins broadcasting as WJAM in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
* August 1 – The California grizzly bear is hunted to extinction.

### October - December

* October 3 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia becomes the first female United States Senator, when the governor of Georgia gives her a temporary appointment, pending the election of a replacement for Senator Thomas Watson, who has died suddenly. She will not take office till November 21, and will thus serve for only one day.
* November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by 7 educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

## Memoriam

* January 17 – George B. Selden, patent lawyer and inventor (aged 75; Rochester, NY, USA)
* January 21 – John Kendrick Bangs, fiction writer (aged 59; Atlantic City, NJ, USA)
* January 27 – Nellie Bly, journalist (aged 57; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 4 – Bert Williams, entertainer (aged 47; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 6 – Webb C. Ball, jeweler and watchmaker from Fredericktown, Ohio (aged 73; Cleveland Heights, OH, USA)
* March 10 – Harry Kellar, magician (aged 72; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* April 14 – Cap Anson, baseball player (aged 69; Chicago, IL, USA)
* May 4 – Asle Gronna, U.S. Senator from North Dakota from 1911 to 1921 (aged 63; Lakota, ND, USA)
* May 12 – John Martin Poyer, U.S. Navy Commander, 12th Governor of American Samoa (aged 61; Washington, DC, USA)
* June 6
	+ Richard A. Ballinger, politician (aged 63; Seattle, WA, USA)
	+ Lillian Russell, singer and actress (aged 61; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
* June 8 – Augustus Van Wyck, judge and politician (aged 71; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 22 – Newton C. Blanchard, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1894 to 1897 (aged 73; Shreveport, LA, USA)
* July 12 – George Washington Steele, lawyer, soldier, and politician (aged 82; Marion, IN, USA)
* August 1 – Francis S. White, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1914 to 1915 (aged 75; Birmingham, AL, USA)
* August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of telephone (aged 75; Beinn Bhreagh, NS, Canada)
* August 5 – Tommy McCarthy, baseball player (aged 59; Boston, MA, USA)
* August 13 – John G. Woolley, politician, lawyer, and public speaker (aged 72; Granada, Spain)
* August 14 – Rebecca Cole, physician and social reformer (aged 76; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* August 23 – Albert J. Hopkins, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1903 to 1909 (aged 76; Aurora, IL, USA)
* September 5 – Sarah Winchester, builder of the Winchester Mystery House (aged 83; San Jose, CA, USA)
* September 7 – William Stewart Halsted, surgeon (aged 69; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* September 26 – Thomas E. Watson, Populist politician (aged 66; Washington, DC, USA)
* October 27 – Rita Fornia, opera singer (aged 44; Paris, France)
* November 3 – Alva Adams, 3-time Governor of Colorado (aged 72; Battle Creek, MI, USA)
* November 6 – Morgan Bulkeley, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1905 to 1911 (aged 84; Hartford, CT, USA)
* November 7 – Sam Thompson, baseball player (aged 62; Detroit, MI, USA)
* November 14 – Godfrey Chevalier, naval aviation pioneer (aged 33; Norfolk, VA, USA)
* December 12 – John Wanamaker, businessman (aged 84; Philadelphia, PA, USA)