Events from the year 1919 in the United States .
Champ Clark (D -Missouri ) (until March 4)Frederick H. Gillett (R -Massachusetts ) (starting May 19)
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governor of Alabama : Charles Henderson (Democratic ) (until January 20), Thomas Kilby (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Governor of Arizona : George W. P. Hunt (Democratic ) (until January 6), Thomas Edward Campbell (Republican ) (starting January 6)Governor of Arkansas : Charles Hillman Brough (Democratic )Governor of California : William Stephens (Republican )Governor of Colorado : Julius Caldeen Gunter (Democratic ) (until January 14), Oliver Henry Shoup (Republican ) (starting January 14)Governor of Connecticut : Marcus H. Holcomb (Republican )Governor of Delaware : John G. Townsend Jr. (Republican )Governor of Florida : Sidney Johnston Catts (Prohibition )Governor of Georgia : Hugh M. Dorsey (Democratic )Governor of Idaho : Moses Alexander (Democratic ) (until January 6), D. W. Davis (Republican ) (starting January 6)Governor of Illinois : Frank O. Lowden (Republican )Governor of Indiana : James P. Goodrich (Republican )Governor of Iowa : William L. Harding (Republican )Governor of Kansas : Arthur Capper (Republican ) (until January 13), Henry J. Allen (Republican ) (starting January 13)Governor of Kentucky :
Governor of Louisiana : Ruffin G. Pleasant (Democratic )Governor of Maine : Carl E. Milliken (Republican )Governor of Maryland : Emerson C. Harrington (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : Samuel W. McCall (Republican ) (until January 2), Calvin Coolidge (Republican ) (starting January 2)Governor of Michigan : Albert Sleeper (Republican )Governor of Minnesota : J. A. A. Burnquist (Republican )Governor of Mississippi : Theodore G. Bilbo (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : Frederick D. Gardner (Democratic )Governor of Montana : Sam V. Stewart (Democratic )Governor of Nebraska : Keith Neville (Democratic ) (until January 9), Samuel R. McKelvie (Republican ) (starting January 9)Governor of Nevada : Emmet D. Boyle (Democratic )Governor of New Hampshire : Henry W. Keyes (Republican ) (until January 6), John H. Bartlett (Republican ) (starting January 6)Governor of New Jersey : Walter Evans Edge (Republican ) (until May 16), William Nelson Runyon (Republican ) (starting May 16)Governor of New Mexico : Washington E. Lindsey (Republican ) (until January 1), Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo (Republican ) (starting January 1)Governor of New York : Al Smith (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Governor of North Carolina : Thomas Walter Bickett (Democratic )Governor of North Dakota : Lynn Frazier (Republican )Governor of Ohio : James M. Cox (Democratic )Governor of Oklahoma : Robert L. Williams (Democratic ) (until January 13), James B. A. Robertson (Democratic ) (starting January 13)Governor of Oregon : James Withycombe (Republican ) (until March 3), Ben W. Olcott (Republican ) (starting March 3)Governor of Pennsylvania : Martin Grove Brumbaugh (Republican ) (until January 21), William Cameron Sproul (Republican ) (starting January 21)Governor of Rhode Island : R. Livingston Beeckman (Republican )Governor of South Carolina : Richard Irvine Manning III (Democratic ) (until January 21), Robert Archer Cooper (Democratic ) (starting January 21)Governor of South Dakota : Peter Norbeck (Republican )Governor of Tennessee : Tom C. Rye (Democratic ) (until January 15), A. H. Roberts (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Governor of Texas : William P. Hobby (Democratic )Governor of Utah : Simon Bamberger (Democratic )Governor of Vermont : Horace F. Graham (Republican ) (until January 9), Percival W. Clement (Republican ) (starting January 9)Governor of Virginia : Westmoreland Davis (Democratic )Governor of Washington : Ernest Lister (Democratic ) (until February 13), Louis Folwell Hart (Republican ) (starting February 13)Governor of West Virginia : John J. Cornwell (Democratic )Governor of Wisconsin : Emanuel L. Philipp (Republican )Governor of Wyoming : Frank L. Houx (Democratic ) (until January 6), Robert D. Carey (Republican ) (starting January 6)
Lieutenant governors
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Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Thomas E. Kilby (Democratic ) (until January 20), Nathan Lee Miller (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Lieutenant Governor of California : vacant (until January 6), Clement Calhoun Young (Republican ) (starting January 6)Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : James A. Pulliam (Democratic ) (until January 14), George Stepham (Republican ) (starting January 14)Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Clifford B. Wilson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Lewis E. Eliason (Democratic ) (until May 2), vacant (starting May 2)Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : Ernest L. Parker (Democratic ) (until January 6), Charles C. Moore (Republican ) (starting January 6)Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : John G. Oglesby (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Edgar D. Bush (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Ernest Robert Moore (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : William Yoast Morgan (Republican ) (until January 13), Charles S. Huffman (Republican ) (starting January 13)Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Fernand Mouton (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Calvin Coolidge (Republican ) (until January 6), Channing H. Cox (Republican ) (starting January 6)Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Luren D. Dickinson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Thomas Frankson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Lee Maurice Russell (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Wallace Crossley (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Montana : W. W. McDowell (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Edgar Howard (Democratic ) (until January 9), Pelham A. Barrows (Republican ) (starting January 9)Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Maurice J. Sullivan (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : vacant (until January 1), Benjamin F. Pankey (Republican ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of New York : Harry C. Walker (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Oliver Max Gardner (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Anton T. Kraabel (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Howard R. Wood (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Earl D. Bloom (Democratic ) (until January 12), Clarence J. Brown Sr. (Republican ) (starting January 12)Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : Martin E. Trapp (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Frank B. McClain (Republican ) (until January 20), Edward E. Beidleman (Republican ) (starting January 20)Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Emery J. San Souci (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Andrew Bethea (Democratic ) (until January 21), J. T. Liles (Democratic ) (starting January 21)Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : William H. McMaster (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : W. R. Crabtree (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Andrew L. Todd Sr. (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Texas : vacant (until January 21), Willard Arnold Johnson (Democratic ) (starting January 21)Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Roger W. Hulburd (Republican ) (until January 9), Mason S. Stone (Republican ) (starting January 9)Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Benjamin Franklin Buchanan (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : Louis Folwell Hart (Republican ) (until February 13), vacant (starting February 13)Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Edward F. Dithmar (Republican )
May 1 – Riots break out on International Labor Day in Cleveland, Ohio ; 2 people are killed, 40 injured, and 116 arrested.
May 9 – The United States recognizes the independence of Finland .[ 3]
May 10 – Charleston riot in Charleston, South Carolina killing three black men; beginning of Red Summer .
May 16 – A U.S. Navy Curtiss aircraft (NC-4 ), commanded by Albert Cushing Read , departs Trepassey, Newfoundland , for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight .
May 23 – The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is established as the Southern Branch of the University of California, making it the second-oldest undergraduate campus of the ten-campus University of California system. The school's motto is Fiat lux , "Let there be light." July 7–September 6: The First Transcontinental Motor Convoy November 1 – The Coal Strike of 1919 begins in the United States by the United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis. Final agreement comes on December 10.
November 7 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution . Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 different U.S. cities.
November 9 – Felix the Cat appears in Feline Follies , making him the first cartoon character.
November 10 – The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (until November 12).
November 11 – The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results in the deaths of four members of the American Legion , and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
November 14 – Sigma Delta Pi , the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society (La Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica), was established at the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley, California.
November 19 – The Treaty of Versailles fails a critical ratification vote in the United States Senate . It will never be ratified by the US.
November 27 – Kappa Kappa Psi , National Honorary Band Fraternity, is established at Oklahoma A&M College (now named Oklahoma State University ) in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Robert Stack Jackie Robinson January 1 – J. D. Salinger , author notable for the novel Catcher in the Rye 2010 )
January 2 – Charles Willeford , writer (died 1988 )
January 3
January 4 – Lester L. Wolff , politician (died 2021)[ 9]
January 7 – Steve Belichick , American football player, coach and scout (died 2005 )
January 10 – Amzie Strickland , actress (died 2006 )
January 13 – Robert Stack , actor (The Untouchables ) (died 2003 )
January 14 – Andy Rooney , journalist (60 Minutes ) (died 2011 )
January 23 – Ernie Kovacs , American comedian (died 1962)
January 24 – Leon Kirchner , American composer (d. 2009 )
January 25
January 27 – Ross Bagdasarian Sr. , actor, pianist, singer, songwriter, record producer and creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks (died 1972 )
January 28 – Gabby Gabreski , American fighter ace (d. 2002 )
January 30
January 31 – Jackie Robinson , African-American baseball player (d. 1972 ) February 7 – Desmond Doss , American combat medic (died 2006 )
February 9, Protestant ecumenical theologian (died 2004 )
February 12 – Forrest Tucker , actor (F Troop ) (died 1986 )
February 15 – Norman Garbo , author and lecturer (died 2017 )
February 13
February 16 – Charlie Parlato , musician (died 2007 )
February 18 – Jack Palance , actor (died 2006 )
February 19 – William Gianelli , politician (died 2020 )
February 21 – Malcolm E. Beard , politician (died 2019 )
February 25 – Monte Irvin , African-American baseball player (died 2016 )
February 26 – Mason Adams , actor (died 2005 ) March 2 – Jennifer Jones , actress (died 2009 )
March 4 – Buck Baker , racecar driver (died 2002 )
March 5 – Myron H. Bright , U.S. federal judge (died 2016 )
March 7 – Mary Ann Hawkins , surfing pioneer, diver, swimmer and stunt double (died 1993 )
March 13 – Jack P. Lewis , Biblical scholar (died 2018 )
March 14 – Max Shulman , comedic writer (died 1988 )
March 15 – Lawrence Tierney , actor (died 2002 )
March 17 – Nat King Cole , African-American singer (died 1965 )
March 24
March 25 – Jeanne Cagney , actress (died 1984 )
March 26 – Strother Martin , actor (died 1980 )
March 27 – John Kotz , basketball player (died 1999 )
March 28 – Dewey F. Bartlett , U.S. Senator from Oklahoma from 1967 to 1971 (died 1979 )
March 29 – Eileen Heckart , actress (died 2001 )
March 30 – McGeorge Bundy , U.S. National Security Advisor (died 1996 ) April 1 – Joseph Murray , transplant surgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012 )
April 3 – Ervin Drake , songwriter (died 2015 )
April 4 – Charles O. Porter , politician (died 2006 )
April 6 – Caren Marsh Doll , actress and dancer
April 12 – Billy Vaughn , singer, multi-instrumentalist and orchestra leader (died 1991 )
April 13
April 16
April 18 – Samuel L. Myers Sr. , economist (died 2021 )
April 22 – Donald J. Cram , chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001 )
April 27 – Victor Wouk , scientist (died 2005 ) May 1 – Lewis Hill , broadcaster, co-founder of Pacifica Radio (d. 1957 )
May 3
May 4 – Dory Funk , professional wrestler (died 1973 )
May 8 – Lex Barker , actor (died 1973 )
May 10 – Daniel Bell , sociologist (died 2011 )
May 16 – Liberace , pianist (died 1987 )
May 17 – Ronald Verlin Cassill , novelist, short story writer, editor, painter, and lithographer (died 2002 )
May 20 – George Gobel , comedian (died 1991 )
May 21 – Wense Grabarek , politician (died 2019 )
May 30 – Joe McQueen , jazz saxophonist (died 2019 )
May 31 – Vance Hartke , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1959 to 1977 (died 2003 ) June 6 – Doris Merrick , actress and model (died 2019 )
June 7 – George Glamack , basketball player (died 1987 )
June 9 – Jimmy Newberry , baseball player (died 1983 )
June 11 – Helen Tobias-Duesberg , Estonian-American pianist and composer (died 2010 )
June 14 – Gene Barry , actor (died 2009 )
June 15 – Charles Kaman , aeronautical engineer (died 2011 )
June 19 – Pauline Kael , film critic (died 2001 )
June 22 – Clifton McNeely , basketball player and coach (died 2003 )
June 23 – R. C. Pitts , basketball player (died 2011 )
June 24
June 26
June 28 – Joseph P. Lordi , government official (died 1983 )
June 30 – Ed Yost , inventor (died 2007 ) October 3 – James M. Buchanan , economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013 )
October 11 – Art Blakey , jazz drummer (died 1990 )
October 12
October 13 – Jackie Ronne , born Edith Maslin, Antarctic explorer (died 2009 )
October 14 – Edward L. Feightner , U.S. navy officer (d. 2020 )
October 15 – Chuck Stevenson , race car driver (died 1995 )
October 16 – Kathleen Winsor , writer (died 2003 )
October 17 – Charles Y. Glock , sociologist (died 2018 )
October 18 – Anita O'Day , jazz singer (died 2006 )
October 21 – Donald West VanArtsdalen , federal judge (died 2019 )
October 25 – Norman A. Erbe , 35th Governor of Iowa (died 2000 )
October 26
October 27 – Jeremiah Stamler , cardiologist (died 2018 )
October 30 – Takuma Tanada , Japanese-American biologist (died 2018 ) December 1 – Charles Steen , geologist and businessman (died 2006 )
December 2 – Norma Miller , African-American dancer, choreographer, actress, author and comedian (died 2019 )
December 7 – Charles McGee , member of the Tuskegee Airmen, served as a USAF officer until 1973 (died 2022 )
December 8 – Lorraine H. Morton , politician (died 2018 )
December 9
December 14 – Margie Stewart , model and actress (died 2012 )
December 15 – Max Yasgur , farmer (died 1973 )[ 17]
December 21
December 27 – Charles Sweeney , WWII pilot (died 2004 )
December 31 – Recy Taylor , activist (died 2017 )
Theodore Roosevelt January 2 – Eliza Putnam Heaton , journalist and editor (born 1860 )
January 6
January 7 – Henry Ware Eliot , industrialist and philanthropist (born 1843 )
January 8 – Jim O'Rourke , baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (born 1850 )
January 14 – Shelley Hull , stage & film actor, husband of Josephine Hull , brother of Henry Hull (born 1884 )
January 31 – Nat C. Goodwin , veteran stage star & silent film actor (born 1857 ; apoplexy)[ 18]
January 27 – French Ensor Chadwick , admiral (born 1844 )
February 18 – Henry Ragas , jazz pianist (born 1891 )
March 23 – Henry Blossom , lyricist (born 1866 )
April 8 – Frank Winfield Woolworth , businessman (born 1852 )
April 9
April 15 – Jane Delano , nurse and founder or the American Red Cross Nursing Service (born 1862 )
May 6 – L. Frank Baum , author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker (The Wizard of Oz ) (born 1856 )
May 14 – Henry John Heinz , businessman (born 1844 )
May 12 – D. M. Canright , Seventh-day Adventist minister and author, later one of the church's severest critics (born 1840 )
May 13 – Helen Hyde , etcher and engraver (born 1868 )
May 21 – Lamar Johnstone , silent film actor and director (born 1885 )
May 25 – Madam C. J. Walker , African American entrepreneur and philanthropist (born 1867 )
c. June 1 – Caroline Still Anderson , African American physician, educator and activist (born 1848 )
July 8 – John Fox Jr. , journalist, novelist and short story writer (born 1862 ; pneumonia)
August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I , musical theatre impresario (born 1847)
August 9 – Ralph Albert Blakelock , American painter (born 1847 )
August 11 – Andrew Carnegie , industrialist (born 1835 in Scotland )[ 19]
September 20 – Cy Seymour , baseball player (born 1872 )
September 27 – Gardner Dow , college football player (born 1898 )
October 30 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox , author and poet (born 1850 )
November 23 – Henry Gantt , project engineer (born 1861 )
November 24 – William Stowell , silent film actor and director (born 1885 )
December 2 – Henry C. Frick , industrialist (born 1849 )
December 7 – J. Thompson Baker , politician from New Jersey (born 1847 )
December 10 – William E. Miller soldier and Pennsylvania State Senator (born 1836 )
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