Events from the year 1907 in the United States .
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governor of Alabama : William D. Jelks (Democratic ) (until January 14), B. B. Comer (Democratic ) (starting January 14)Governor of Arkansas :
Governor of California : George Pardee (Republican ) (until January 9), James Gillett (Republican ) (starting January 9)Governor of Colorado : Jesse Fuller McDonald (Republican ) (until January 8), Henry Augustus Buchtel (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of Connecticut : Henry Roberts (Republican ) (until January 9), Rollin S. Woodruff (Republican ) (starting January 9)Governor of Delaware : Preston Lea (Republican )Governor of Florida : Napoleon B. Broward (Democratic )Governor of Georgia : Joseph M. Terrell (Democratic ) (until June 29), Hoke Smith (Democratic ) (starting June 29)Governor of Idaho : Frank R. Gooding (Republican )Governor of Illinois : Charles S. Deneen (Republican )Governor of Indiana : J. Frank Hanly (Republican )Governor of Iowa : Albert B. Cummins (Republican )Governor of Kansas : Edward W. Hoch (Republican )Governor of Kentucky : J. C. W. Beckham (Democratic ) (until December 10), Augustus E. Willson (Republican ) (starting December 10)Governor of Louisiana : Newton Crain Blanchard (Democratic )Governor of Maine : William T. Cobb (Republican )Governor of Maryland : Edwin Warfield (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : Curtis Guild, Jr. (Republican )Governor of Michigan : Fred M. Warner (Republican )Governor of Minnesota : John A. Johnson (Democratic )Governor of Mississippi : James K. Vardaman (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : Joseph W. Folk (Democratic )Governor of Montana : Joseph Toole (Democratic )Governor of Nebraska : John H. Mickey (Republican ) (until January 3), George L. Sheldon (Republican ) (starting January 3)Governor of Nevada : John Sparks (Silver )Governor of New Hampshire : John McLane (Republican ) (until January 3), Charles M. Floyd (Republican ) (starting January 3)Governor of New Jersey : Edward C. Stokes (Republican )Governor of New York : Charles Evans Hughes (Republican ) (starting January 1)Governor of North Carolina : Robert Broadnax Glenn (Democratic )Governor of North Dakota : Elmore Y. Sarles (Republican ) (until January 9), John Burke (Democratic ) (starting January 9)Governor of Ohio : Andrew L. Harris (Republican )Governor of Oklahoma : Frank Frantz (Republican ) (until November 16), Charles N. Haskell (Democratic ) (starting November 16)Governor of Oregon : George Chamberlain (Democratic )Governor of Pennsylvania : Samuel W. Pennypacker (Republican ) (until January 15), Edwin Sydney Stuart (Republican ) (starting January 15)Governor of Rhode Island : George H. Utter (Republican ) (until January 1), James H. Higgins (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Governor of South Carolina : Duncan Clinch Heyward (Democratic ) (until January 15), Martin Frederick Ansel (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Governor of South Dakota : Samuel H. Elrod (Republican ) (until January 8), Coe I. Crawford (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of Tennessee : John I. Cox (Democratic ) (until January 17), Malcolm R. Patterson (Democratic ) (starting January 17)Governor of Texas : S. W. T. Lanham (Democratic ) (until January 15), Thomas Mitchell Campbell (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Governor of Utah : John Christopher Cutler (Republican )Governor of Vermont : Fletcher D. Proctor (Republican )Governor of Virginia : Claude A. Swanson (Democratic )Governor of Washington : Albert E. Mead (Republican )Governor of West Virginia : William M. O. Dawson (Republican )Governor of Wisconsin : James O. Davidson (Republican )Governor of Wyoming : Bryant B. Brooks (Republican )
Lieutenant governors
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Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Russell M. Cunningham (Democratic ) (until January 14), Henry B. Gray (Democratic ) (starting January 14)Lieutenant Governor of California : Alden Anderson (Republican ) (until January 8), Warren R. Porter (Republican ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Fred W. Parks (Republican ) (until January 8), Erastus Harper (Republican ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Rollin S. Woodruff (Republican ) (until January 9), Everett J. Lake (Republican ) (starting January 9)Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Isaac T. Parker (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : Burpee L. Steeves (Republican ) (until January 7), Ezra A. Burrell (Republican ) (starting January 7)Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Lawrence Sherman (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Hugh T. Miller (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : John Herriott (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Warren Garst (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : David J. Hanna (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), William J. Fitzgerald (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : William P. Thorne (Democratic ) (until December 10), William Hopkinson Cox (Republican ) (starting December 10)Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Eben Sumner Draper (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Alexander Maitland (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Patrick H. Kelley (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Ray W. Jones (Republican ) (until January 7), Adolph Olson Eberhart (Republican ) (starting January 7)Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : John Prentiss Carter (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : John C. McKinley (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Edwin L. Norris (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Edmund G. McGilton (Republican ) (until January 3), Melville R. Hopewell (Republican ) (starting January 3)Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Lemuel Allen (political party unknown) (until May 22), Denver S. Dickerson (Silver ) (starting May 22)Lieutenant Governor of New York : Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Francis D. Winston (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : David Bartlett (Republican ) (until January 9), Robert S. Lewis (Republican ) (starting January 9)Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : vacantLieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : George W. Bellamy (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : William M. Brown (Republican ) (until January 15), Robert S. Murphy (Republican ) (starting January 15)Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Frederick Jackson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : John Sloan (Democratic ) (until January 15), Thomas Gordon McLeod (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : John E. McDougall (Republican ) (until January 8), Howard C. Shober (Republican ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Ernest Rice (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), E. G. Tollett (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Texas : George D. Neal (Democratic ) (until January 15), Asbury Bascom Davidson (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : George H. Prouty (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : James Taylor Ellyson (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : Charles E. Coon (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : vacant (until January 7), William D. Connor (Republican ) (starting January 7)
December 16: Great White Fleet July 1 – The United States Treasury stops collecting interest on the 1879 $10 Refunding Certificates , which have their value set at $21.30.
July 21 – The SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California , resulting in 88 deaths.
July 23 – Chugach National Forest is established.
August 1 – Aeronautical Division established within the U.S. Army Signal Corps .
August 15 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan , first African-American Eastern Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
August 17 – Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington officially opens for business.
August 28 – American Messenger Service, predecessor to UPS , is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington .[ 3]
September 7 – The new passenger liner RMS Lusitania makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
September 10 – The first Neiman Marcus luxury department store opens in Dallas , Texas.
September 29 – A foundation stone is laid for the Washington National Cathedral ; construction will not be fully completed until 1990. November 16: Oklahoma October 1 – Office of the Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners established within Department of Justice .
October 22 – Panic of 1907 : A bank run forces New York 's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations.
October 24 – A major American financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan , E. H. Harriman , James Stillman , Henry Clay Frick , and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange , ending the bank panic of 1907 , a move which ultimately leads to establishment of the Federal Reserve System .
November 3 – President Roosevelt approves the takeover of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company by J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel company in the wake of the panic of 1907 .
November 7 – Delta Sigma Pi (a co-ed professional business fraternity ) is founded at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University in New York City .
November 16
November 28 – Johnny Hayes wins the inaugural Yonkers Marathon .
December 6 – Monongah Mining Disaster : A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia .
December 16 – The Great White Fleet departs Hampton Roads, Virginia on a 14-month circumnavigation of the globe.
December 18 – Ouachita National Forest is established.
December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239.
December 31 – The first electric ball drops in Times Square .[ 4] Southern Pine Lumber Company billing clerk's office, Texarkana, Arkansas , 1907.
January 2 – Gordon L. Allott , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1955 to 1973 (died 1989 )
January 9
January 19 – Paul Fannin , U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1959 to 1965 (died 2002 )
February 3 – James A. Michener , novelist (died 1997 )
February 15 – Cesar Romero , actor (died 1994 )
February 22
February 25 – Kathryn Wasserman Davis , philanthropist (died 2013 )
February 26 – Dub Taylor , screen character actor (died 1994)
February 27 – Mildred Bailey , Native American jazz singer (died 1951 )
February 28 – Milton Caniff , cartoonist (died 1988 )
March 4 – Maria Branyas , American-Spanish supercentenarian, oldest known living person from 17 January 2023 to 19 August 2024 (died 2024 )
March 12 – Dorrit Hoffleit , astronomer (died 2007 )
April 21 – Wade Mainer , singer and banjoist (died 2011 )
May 4 – Lincoln Kirstein , cultural figure (died 1996 )
May 11 – Kent Taylor , screen actor (died 1987 )
May 12 – Katharine Hepburn , screen actress (died 2003 )
May 15 – Thomas J. Dodd , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1959 to 1971 (died 1971 )
May 15 – Josef Alexander , composer (died 1992 )
May 26 – John Wayne , film actor and director (died 1979 )
May 27 – Rachel Carson , environmental writer (died 1964 )
June 6 – Nate Barragar , American football player and actor (died 1985 )
July 4
July 7 – Robert A. Heinlein , science fiction author (died 1988 )
August 19 – Thruston Ballard Morton , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1957 to 1968 (died 1982 )
August 21 – John G. Trump , electrical engineer, inventor and physicist (died 1985 )
August 29 – Lurene Tuttle , radio actress (died 1986 )
August 30 – John Mauchly , computer scientist (died 1980 )
August 31 – William Shawn , editor of The New Yorker 1992 )
September 1 – Walter Reuther , union leader, founded United Auto Workers (died 1970 )
September 17 – Warren E. Burger , 15th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1995 )
September 19 – Lewis F. Powell Jr. , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (died 1998 )
October 22 – Jimmie Foxx , baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1967 )
November 16 – Burgess Meredith , actor (died 1997 )
December 23 – James Roosevelt , businessman and politician (died 1991 )
December 25
December 26 – Albert Gore Sr. , politician and father of Al Gore (died 1998 )
January 2 – Henry R. Pease , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1874 to 1875 (born 1835 )
January 24 – Russell A. Alger , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1902 to 1907 (born 1836 )
February 17 – Henry Steel Olcott , military officer and co-founder of the Theosophical Society (born 1832 )
March 9 – James L. Pugh , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1880 to 1897 (born 1820 )
April 14 – Frank Manly Thorn , lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist, humorist, inventor and 6th Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (born 1836)
April 23 – Alferd Packer , cannibal (born 1842 )
May 1 – Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta , poet (born 1834 )
May 4 – John Watts de Peyster , author, philanthropist and soldier (born 1821 )
May 8 – Edmund G. Ross , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1866 to 1871 (born 1826 )
May 9 – Melissa Elizabeth Banta , poet, travel writer (born 1834 )
May 24 – John Patton, Jr. , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1894 to 1895 (born 1850 )
May 26 – Ida Saxton McKinley , First Lady of the United States (born 1847 )
June 10 – Stephen Bates , sheriff of Vergennes, Vermont (born 1842 )
June 11 – John Tyler Morgan , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1877 to 1907 (born 1824 )
June 12 – Ellen Russell Emerson , ethnologist (born 1837 )
June 14 – William Le Baron Jenney , architect and civil engineer (born 1832 )
June 21 – Lucien Baker , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1895 to 1901 (born 1846 )
July 11 – Robert Watt , miner (born 1832 )
July 25 – Peter Anderson , Union Army Medal of Honor recipient (born 1847 )
July 27 – Edmund Pettus , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1897 to 1907 (born 1821)
August 1 – Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown , physician and writer (born 1843 )
August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens , Beaux-Arts sculptor (born 1848 in Ireland )
August 14 – William Birney , Union Army general, abolitionist, attorney and writer (born 1819 )
October 3 – Jacob Nash Victor , railroad builder (born 1835 )
October 8 – Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge , Second Lady of the United States (born 1826 )
October 30 – Caroline Dana Howe , author (born 1824 )
November 22 – Asaph Hall , astronomer (born 1829 )
December 7 – Carrie Clark, model, notably of Muriel's Babies cigar box fame
December 23 – Stephen Mallory II , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1897 to 1907 (born 1848 )
Sarah Gibson Humphreys , author and suffragist (born 1830 ) 
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