Events from the year 1860 in the United States .
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Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : Andrew B. Moore (Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas : Elias Nelson Conway (Democratic ) (until November 16), Henry Massey Rector (Democratic ) (starting November 16)
Governor of California :
Governor of Connecticut : William A. Buckingham (Republican )
Governor of Delaware : William Burton (Democratic )
Governor of Florida : Madison S. Perry (Democratic )
Governor of Georgia : Joseph E. Brown (Democratic )
Governor of Illinois : William Henry Bissell (Republican ) (until March 18), John Wood (Republican ) (starting March 18)
Governor of Indiana : Ashbel P. Willard (Democratic ) (until October 4), Abram A. Hammond (Democratic ) (starting October 4)
Governor of Iowa : Ralph P. Lowe (Republican ) (until January 11), Samuel J. Kirkwood (Republican ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Kentucky : Beriah Magoffin (Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana : Robert C. Wickliffe (Democratic ) (until January 23), Thomas Overton Moore (Democratic ) (starting January 23)
Governor of Maine : Lot M. Morrill (Democratic )
Governor of Maryland : Thomas H. Hicks (Know Nothing)/(Republican )
Governor of Massachusetts : Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican )
Governor of Michigan : Moses Wisner (Republican )
Governor of Minnesota : Henry H. Sibley (Democratic ) (until January 2), Alexander Ramsey (Republican ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Mississippi : John J. Pettus (Democratic )
Governor of Missouri : Robert Marcellus Stewart (Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire : Ichabod Goodwin (Republican )
Governor of New Jersey : William A. Newell (Republican ) (until January 17), Charles Smith Olden (Republican ) (starting January 17)
Governor of New York : Edwin D. Morgan (Republican )
Governor of North Carolina : John Willis Ellis (Democratic )
Governor of Ohio : Salmon P. Chase (Republican ) (until January 9), William Dennison (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Oregon : John Whiteaker (Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania : William F. Packer (Democratic )
Governor of Rhode Island : Thomas G. Turner (Republican ) (until May 29), William Sprague IV (Republican ) (starting May 29)
Governor of South Carolina : William Henry Gist (Democratic ) (until December 14), Francis Wilkinson Pickens (Democratic ) (starting December 14)
Governor of Tennessee : Isham G. Harris (Democratic )
Governor of Texas : Sam Houston (Independent )
Governor of Vermont : Hiland Hall (Republican ) (until October 12), Erastus Fairbanks (Republican ) (starting October 12)
Governor of Virginia : Henry A. Wise (Democratic ) (until January 1), John Letcher (Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Wisconsin : Alexander W. Randall (Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Julius Catlin (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : John Wood (Republican ) (until March 20), vacant (starting March 20)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Abram A. Hammond (Democratic ) (until October 3), vacant (starting October 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Oran Faville (Republican ) (until January 11), Nicholas J. Rusch (Republican ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : William F. Griffin (Democratic ) (until January 23), Henry M. Hyams (Democratic ) (starting January 23)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Eliphalet Trask (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Edmund B. Fairfield (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : William Holcombe (Democratic ) (until January 2), Ignatius L. Donnelly (Republican ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Hancock Lee Jackson (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of New York : Robert Campbell (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Martin Welker (Democratic ) (until January 9), Robert C. Kirk (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Isaac Saunders (political party unknown) (until May 29), J. Russell Bullock (political party unknown) (starting May 29)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : M. E. Carn (Democratic ) (until December 14), W. W. Harllee (Democratic ) (starting December 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Edward Clark (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Burnham Martin (Republican ) (until October 12), Levi Underwood (Republican ) (starting October 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : William Lowther Jackson (Democratic ) (until January 1), Robert Latane Montague (no political party) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Erasmus D. Campbell (Democratic ) (until January 2), Butler G. Noble (Republican ) (starting January 2)
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president with no support from the South
January 1 – Dan Katchongva , tribal leader and activist (died 1972 )
January 17 – Charles K. French , actor, film director, and screenwriter (died 1952 )
January 25 – Charles Curtis , 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933; U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1915 to 1929 (died 1936 )
February 28 – Carl Georg Barth , mathematician and mechanical engineer (died 1939 )
February 29 – Herman Hollerith , pioneer of automated data processing (died 1929 )
March 2 – Susanna M. Salter , first woman mayor in the U.S. (died 1961)
March 5 – Sam Thompson , baseball player (died 1922 )
March 8 – James A. Hemenway , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1905 to 1909 (died 1923 )
March 11 – Thomas Hastings , architect (died 1929 )
March 19 – William Jennings Bryan , politician (died 1925 )
March 27 – Frank Frost Abbott , classical scholar (died 1924 )
April 7 – Will Keith Kellogg , industrialist, founder of the Kellogg Company (died 1951 )
May 15 – Ellen Axson Wilson , First Lady of the United States from 1913 to 1914 as wife of Woodrow Wilson (died 1914 )
May 16 – Herman Webster Mudgett , serial killer (d. 1896 )
June 22 – Tom O'Brien , baseball player (died 1921 )
July 3 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman , feminist novelist (died 1935 )
July 4 – Idah McGlone Gibson , journalist (died 1933 )
July 14 – Owen Wister , Western fiction writer and historian (died 1938 )
July 19 – Lizzie Borden , murder suspect (died 1927 )
August 8 – Eliza Putnam Heaton , journalist and editor (died 1919 )
August 9 – Maude Gillette Phillips , author and educator (d. unknown)
August 13 – Annie Oakley , West show performer (died 1926 )
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September 5 – Andrew Volstead , politician (died 1947 )
September 6 – Jane Addams , social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 (died 1935 )
September 7 – "Grandma Moses ", born Anna Mary Robertson, folk painter (died 1961 )
September 13 – John J. Pershing , general (died 1948 )
October – William Edward White , African American baseball player (died 1937 )
October 12 – Chester I. Long , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1903 to 1909 (died 1934 )
October 23 – Molly Elliot Seawell , historian (died 1916 )
October 31 – Juliette Gordon Low , founder of Girl Scouts (died 1927 )
November 2 – Soapy Smith , con artist and gangster (shot 1898 )
December 4 – Lillian Russell , singer and actress (died 1922)
December 15 – Abner Powell , Major league baseball player (died 1953 )
December 18 – Edward MacDowell , pianist and composer (died 1908 )
December 28 – Harry B. Smith , songwriter (died 1936 )
December 31
January 5 – John Neumann , first United States bishop to be canonized (born 1811 )
January 13 – William Mason , politician (born 1786 )
January 18 – John Nelson , lawyer (born 1791 )
February 25 – Chauncey Allen Goodrich , lexicographer (born 1790 )
April 6 – James Kirke Paulding , writer and United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1778 )
May 9 – Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Peter Parley), children's author (born 1793 )
May 10 – Theodore Parker , preacher, Transcendentalist and abolitionist (born 1810 )
May 21 – Phineas Gage , improbable head injury survivor (born 1823 )
May 31 – Peter Vivian Daniel , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (born 1784 )
June 6 – Henry P. Haun , U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (born 1815 )
July 1 – Charles Goodyear , inventor (born 1800 )
September 12 – William Walker , filibuster, briefly President of Nicaragua , executed (born 1824 )
September 19 – Thomas D. Rice , actor and dancer (born 1808 )
September 29 – Chapin A. Harris , physician and dentist (born 1806 )
October 3 – Rembrandt Peale , portrait painter and museum keeper (born 1778 )
October 25 – James "Grizzly" Adams , mountain man and bear trainer (born 1812 )