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Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: James Taylor Ellyson (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Washington:
until January 7: Charles E. Coon (Republican)
January 7-January 27: vacant
January 27-March 28: Marion E. Hay (Republican)
starting March 28: vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: William D. Connor (Republican) (until January 4), John Strange (Republican) (starting January 4)
Events[]
January–March[]
January 1: Lakeview Gusher
February 24: Hudson founded
January 1–31 – Torrential rain in California sees Helena Mine record 71.54 inches (1,817.1 mm) of precipitation for the month, the highest official monthly total in the contiguous United States.[1]
January 1 – Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.
January 28 – U.S. troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish–American War.
February 2 – Centennial anniversary of the foundation of Miami University (Ohio), which is celebrated.
February 12 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
February 13 – Superior National Forest is established
February 22 – The Great White Fleet returns to Hampton Roads, Virginia having circumnavigated the globe.
February 24 – The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.
March 4 – William Howard Taft is sworn in as the 27th President of the United States, and James S. Sherman is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
March 23 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.[2]
April–June[]
April 30 – Palm Beach County was founded, separating from Dade County.
June 9–August 7 – Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. In 59 days, she drives a Maxwell automobile 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California with three non-driving female companions.
June 18 – The strangled body of missionary Elsie Sigel is discovered in a trunk in New York City's Chinatown.
June 22 – Construction begins on the Cape Cod Canal, which will separate Cape Cod from mainland Massachusetts.
July–September[]
August 2 – The United States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the world's first military airplane. They buy the Wright Military Flyer from the Wright Brothers.
August 8 – The Rosicrucian Fellowship is launched at Seattle, Washington.
August 12 – The first event is held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
September – Sigmund Freud, having arrived on August 29 in New York, delivers his only lectures in the United States, on psychoanalysis, at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, giving public recognition to the subject in the anglophone world.
September 27 – The 5.1 MfaWabash River earthquake shook western Indiana with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), causing light damage.
October–December[]
Indianapolis Motor Speedway first season poster
October 11 – The 1909 Florida Keys hurricane makes landfall in the U.S.
November – New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 begins.
November 2 – The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
November 8 – Fire at Robert Morrison fibroid comb factory in New York City kills 9.
November 11 – The U.S. Navy founds a navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
November 13 – Ballinger–Pinchot scandal begins: Collier's Magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskancoal fields.
November 18 – Two United States Navy ships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including 2 Americans) are executed by order of dictator José Santos Zelaya.
^James, Edward T.; Wilson James, Janet; Boyer, Paul S. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 274. ISBN978-0-67462-731-4.