1910

Events from the year **1910 in the United States**.

* Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (IL) (until July 4), Edward Douglass White (LA) (starting December 19)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-IL)
* Congress: 61st

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: B. B. Comer (Democratic)
* Governor of Arkansas: George Washington Donaghey (Democratic)
* Governor of California: James Gillett (Republican)
* Governor of Colorado: John F. Shafroth (Democratic)
* Governor of Connecticut: Frank B. Weeks (Republican)
* Governor of Delaware: Simeon S. Pennewill (Republican)
* Governor of Florida: Albert W. Gilchrist (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: Joseph M. Brown (Democratic)
* Governor of Idaho: James H. Brady (Republican)
* Governor of Illinois: Charles S. Deneen (Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: Thomas R. Marshall (Democratic)
* Governor of Iowa: Beryl F. Carroll (Republican)
* Governor of Kansas: Walter R. Stubbs (Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: Augustus E. Willson (Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: Jared Young Sanders Sr. (Democratic)
* Governor of Maine: Bert M. Fernald (Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Austin Lane Crothers (Democratic)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Eben Sumner Draper (Republican)
* Governor of Michigan: Fred M. Warner (Republican)
* Governor of Minnesota: Adolph O. Eberhart (Republican)
* Governor of Mississippi: Edmond Noel (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: Herbert S. Hadley (Republican)
* Governor of Montana: Edwin L. Norris (Democratic)
* Governor of Nebraska: Ashton C. Shallenberger (Democratic)
* Governor of Nevada: Denver S. Dickerson (Silver)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Henry B. Quinby (Republican)
* Governor of New Jersey: John Franklin Fort (Republican)
* Governor of New York: Charles Evans Hughes (Republican) (until October 6), Horace White (Republican) (starting October 6)
* Governor of North Carolina: William Walton Kitchin (Democratic)
* Governor of North Dakota: John Burke (Democratic)
* Governor of Ohio: Judson Harmon (Democratic)
* Governor of Oklahoma: Charles N. Haskell (Democratic)
* Governor of Oregon: Frank W. Benson (Republican) (until June 17), Jay Bowerman (Republican) (starting June 17)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Edwin Sydney Stuart (Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Aram J. Pothier (Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: Martin Frederick Ansel (Democratic)
* Governor of South Dakota: Robert S. Vessey (Republican)
* Governor of Tennessee: Malcolm R. Patterson (Democratic)
* Governor of Texas: Thomas Mitchell Campbell (Democratic)
* Governor of Utah: William Spry (Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: George H. Prouty (Republican) (until October 5), John A. Mead (Republican) (starting October 5)
* Governor of Virginia: Claude A. Swanson (Democratic) (until February 10), William Hodges Mann (Democratic) (starting February 10)
* Governor of Washington: Marion E. Hay (Republican)
* Governor of West Virginia: William E. Glasscock (Republican)
* Governor of Wisconsin: James O. Davidson (Republican)
* Governor of Wyoming: Bryant B. Brooks (Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Henry B. Gray (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of California: Warren R. Porter (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Stephen R. Fitzgarrald (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: John M. Mendinhall (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: Lewis H. Sweetser (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: John G. Oglesby (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Frank J. Hall (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: George W. Clarke (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: William James Fitzgerald (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William Hopkinson Cox (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Paul M. Lambremont (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Louis A. Frothingham (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Patrick H. Kelley (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Edward Everett Smith (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Luther Manship (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Jacob Friedrich Gmelich (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Montana: William R. Allen (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Melville R. Hopewell (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Horace White (Republican) (until October 6), George H. Cobb (Republican) (starting October 6)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: William C. Newland (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Robert S. Lewis (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Francis W. Treadway (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: George W. Bellamy (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Robert S. Murphy (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Arthur W. Dennis (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Zenas Work Bliss (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Gordon McLeod (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Howard C. Shober (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: William Kinney (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Asbury Bascom Davidson (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: John A. Mead (Republican) (until October 5), Leighton P. Slack (Republican) (starting October 5)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: James Taylor Ellyson (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Washington: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: John Strange (Republican) (starting January 4)

## Events

### January - March

* January 1 – Henry Ford sells 10,000 cars.
* January 10
	+ The 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field is held near Los Angeles, California (the first aviation meet to be held in the United States).
	+ Joyce Hall founds Hallmark Cards.
* January 20 – The 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field ends.
* January 24 - Dyer, Indiana is incorporated.
* February 8 – The Boy Scouts of America youth organization is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
* February 16 – The state of Ohio is crippled by a snowstorm.
* March 9 – The 17-month-long Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–11, which at its peak will involve 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers across 65 mines, begins in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
* March 14 – The Lakeview Gusher is vented into the atmosphere.
* March 19 – Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence committee membership.
* March 30 – The Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi.

### April - June

* April 6 – Wildwood Crest, New Jersey is incorporated as a borough of Cape May County, New Jersey.
* May 11 – The U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
* May 16 – The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
* June 19 – The first unofficial Father's Day is observed.
* June 25
	+ The Mann Act, known popularly as the "White Slave Traffic Act", is passed by the U.S. Congress, prohibiting the transportation of women across state lines for "immoral purposes".
	+ The U.S. Parole Commission is created, making it possible for the first time for persons convicted of a federal crime to be paroled before the end of their sentences. Prior to this, a federal prisoner could only secure an early release by commutation or pardon by the President of the U.S.
	+ The United States Postal Savings System is created by law, adapting, for the U.S. a system that had been used in European nations for people to deposit up to $2,500 into an interest-bearing (2%) account at their local post office. The system will continue in some form until 1985.
	+ The Pickett Act becomes law, giving the President of the U.S. authority to withdraw government-owned land from public use, as necessary, for government projects.
	+ The "direct system" of public land surveying begins in the U.S., replacing the system of contracting with private surveyors.

### July - September

* July 4 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats white boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
* July 12 – World Peace Foundation established.
* July 22 – A wireless telegraph sent from the S.S. *Montrose* results in the identification and later arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Hawley Crippen.
* July 24 – James MacGillivray publishes the first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.
* August 20 – The Great Fire of 1910 wildfire burns about 3 million acres (12,000 km2) in northeast Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana over 2 days and kills 86 people (believed to be the largest fire in recorded United States history).
* August 21 – The Great Fire of 1910 ends.

### October - December

* October 1 – *Los Angeles Times* bombing: A bomb explodes at the *Los Angeles Times* building, leaving 21 dead and several injured; brothers James B. and John Joseph McNamara are later arrested and sentenced.
* October 10 – Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity is founded by ten Jewish men at Columbia University as a response to the existence of similar organizations which would not admit Jewish members.
* October 11 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first former president to ride in an airplane.
* November 1 – John Lomax's pioneering collection *Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads* is published by Sturgis and Walton with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.
* November 4 – Antonio Rodríguez is burned at the stake near Rocksprings, Texas after being arrested a few days earlier for the murder of Mrs. Lem Henderson at her ranch. His murder incites race riots in both Texas and Mexico.
* November 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight is made between Dayton and Columbus, both in Ohio, by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. Philip Parmalee was the pilot.
* November 17 – Ralph Johnstone, a pilot for the Wright Exhibition Team, dies at Denver, Colorado after his machine breaks apart in mid-air in full view of about 5,000 spectators. Johnstone becomes the first American pilot to die in the crash of an airplane in the United States.
* November 22 – U.S. Senator Aldrich and A.P. Andrews (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department), along with many of the country's leading financiers, who together represent about 1/6 of the world's wealth, are witnessed leaving Hoboken, New Jersey on a train together. They later arrive at the Jekyll Island Club to discuss monetary policy and the banking system, an event which some say is the impetus for the creation of the Federal Reserve
* November 26 – Following Japanese annexation of Korea in August, Japanese journalist Kioshi Kawakami publishes propaganda article in November edition of "World Today" attempting to justify Japanese colonization of Korea.
* December 12 – New York City socialite Dorothy Arnold disappears. Her family does not notify the police until 6 weeks later, after their own investigations fail to produce any results.
* December 19 – Edward Douglass White is sworn in as the 9th Chief Justice of the United States.
* December 31 – Two of America's premier pioneer aviators are killed on this day: John Moisant in New Orleans and Wright pilot Arch Hoxsey in Los Angeles.

## Memoriam

### January to June

* January 12 – Bass Reeves, one of the first black Deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River (aged 71; Muskogee, OK, USA)
* January 24 – Ben Hanford, politician (aged 49; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* January 25 – Lotta Faust, Broadway actress (aged 29; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 19 – Neil Burgess, comedian (aged 64; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 27 – Alexander Agassiz, scientist (aged 74; North Atlantic Ocean)
* March 28 – William Paul Roberts, Confederate brigadier general (aged 68; Norfolk, VA, USA)
* March 29 – Thomas L. Rosser, Confederate major general (aged 73; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
* April 12 – William G. Sumner, social scientist, Yale professor (aged 69; Englewood, NJ, USA)
* April 21 – Mark Twain, writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer (aged 74; Redding, CT, USA)
* May 3 – Howard Taylor Ricketts, pathologist (aged 39; Mexico City, Mexico)
* May 31 – Elizabeth Blackwell, physician (aged 89; Hastings, England, UK)
* June 5 – O. Henry, novelist (aged 47; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 23 – John McGraw, 2nd Governor of Washington (aged 59; Seattle, WA, USA)
* June 28 – Samuel D. McEnery, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1897 to 1910 (aged 73; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* June 29 – John W. Daniel, U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1887 to 1910 (aged 67; Lynchburg, VA, USA)

### July to September

* July 5 – Melville Fuller, Chief Justice (aged 77; Sorrento, ME, USA)
* July 31 – John G. Carlisle, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1890 to 1893 (aged 75; New York City, NY, USA)
* August 10 – Joe Gans, professional boxer, World Lightweight Champion from 1902-1908 (aged 35; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* August 24 – Wilkinson Call, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1879 to 1897 (aged 76; Washington, DC, USA)
* August 26 – William James, psychologist and philosopher (aged 68; Tamworth, NH, USA)
* September 5 – Julian Edwards, composer (aged 54; Yonkers, NY, USA)
* September 11 – Isaac L. Ellwood, businessman, rancher and inventor (aged 77; DeKalb, IL, USA)
* September 29 – Winslow Homer, painter (aged 74; Prouts Neck, ME, USA)

### October to December

* October 3
* Rufus Blodgett, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1887 to 1893 (aged 75; Long Branch, NJ, USA)
* Lucy Hobbs Taylor, dentist and teacher (aged 77; Lawrence, KS, USA)
* October 15
	+ Byron Andrews, journalist, statesman, author and businessman (aged 57; Evansville, WI, USA)
	+ Stanley Ketchel, boxer (aged 24; Springfield, MO, USA)
* October 17
	+ Julia Ward Howe, abolitionist and poet (aged 91; Portsmouth, RI, USA)
	+ William Vaughn Moody, dramatist and poet (aged 41; Colorado Springs, CO, USA)
* October 20 – David B. Hill, 29th Governor of New York (aged 67; Albany, NY, USA)
* November 17 – Ralph Johnstone, aviator (aged 30; Denver, CO, USA)
* November 18 – William A. B. Branch, politician (aged 63; Washington, NC, USA)
* November 23 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, murderer, executed in the United Kingdom (aged 48; London, England, UK)
* December 3 – Mary Baker Eddy, Christian science founder (aged 89; Newton, MA, USA)
* December 17 – Simon Wing, daguerreotypist and camera inventor and socialist politician (aged 84; Charlestown, MA, USA)
* December 31
	+ Archibald Hoxsey, aviator (aged 26; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ John Moisant, aviator (aged 42; Harahan, LA, USA)