Events from the year 1885 in the United States .
March 4: First inauguration of Grover Cleveland Chester A. Arthur (R -New York ) (until March 4)Grover Cleveland (D -New York ) (starting March 4)vacant (until March 4)Thomas A. Hendricks (D -Indiana ) (March 4 – November 25)vacant (starting November 25)
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governor of Alabama : Edward A. O'Neal (Democratic )Governor of Arkansas : James Henderson Berry (Democratic ) (until January 17), Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr. (Democratic ) (starting January 17)Governor of California : George Stoneman (Republican )Governor of Colorado : James Benton Grant (Democratic ) (until January 13), Benjamin Harrison Eaton (Republican ) (starting January 13)Governor of Connecticut : Thomas M. Waller (Democratic ) (until January 8), Henry B. Harrison (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of Delaware : Charles C. Stockley (Democratic )Governor of Florida : William D. Bloxham (Democratic ) (until January 7), Edward A. Perry (Democratic ) (starting January 7)Governor of Georgia : Henry D. McDaniel (Democratic )Governor of Illinois : John Marshall Hamilton (Republican ) (until January 30), Richard J. Oglesby (Republican ) (starting January 30)Governor of Indiana : Albert G. Porter (Republican ) (until January 12), Isaac P. Gray (Democratic ) (starting January 12)Governor of Iowa : Buren R. Sherman (Republican )Governor of Kansas : George W. Glick (Democratic ) (until January 12), John A. Martin (Republican ) (starting January 12)Governor of Kentucky : J. Proctor Knott (Democratic )Governor of Louisiana : Samuel D. McEnery (Democratic )Governor of Maine : Frederick Robie (Republican )Governor of Maryland : Robert Milligan McLane (Democratic ) (until March 27), Henry Lloyd (Democratic ) (starting March 27)Governor of Massachusetts : George D. Robinson (Republican )Governor of Michigan : Josiah Begole (Democratic ) (until January 1), Russell Alger (Republican ) (starting January 1)Governor of Minnesota : Lucius F. Hubbard (Republican )Governor of Mississippi : Robert Lowry (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : Thomas Theodore Crittenden (Democratic ) (until January 12), John S. Marmaduke (Democratic ) (starting January 12)Governor of Nebraska : James W. Dawes (Republican )Governor of Nevada : Jewett W. Adams (Democratic )Governor of New Hampshire : Samuel W. Hale (Republican ) (until June 4), Moody Currier (Republican ) (starting June 4)Governor of New Jersey : Leon Abbett (Democratic )Governor of New York : Grover Cleveland (Democratic ) (until January 6), David B. Hill (Democratic ) (starting January 6)Governor of North Carolina : Thomas Jordan Jarvis (Democratic ) (until January 21), Alfred Moore Scales (Democratic ) (starting January 21)Governor of Ohio : George Hoadly (Democratic )Governor of Oregon : Z. F. Moody (Republican )Governor of Pennsylvania : Robert E. Pattison (Democratic )Governor of Rhode Island : Augustus O. Bourn (Republican ) (until May 26), George P. Wetmore (Republican ) (starting May 26)Governor of South Carolina : Hugh Smith Thompson (Democratic )Governor of Tennessee : William B. Bate (Democratic )Governor of Texas : John Ireland (Democratic )Governor of Vermont : Samuel E. Pingree (Republican )Governor of Virginia : William E. Cameron (Re-adjuster )Governor of West Virginia : Jacob B. Jackson (Democratic ) (until March 4), Emanuel Willis Wilson (Democratic ) (starting March 4)Governor of Wisconsin : Jeremiah McLain Rusk (Republican )
Lieutenant governors
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Lieutenant Governor of California : John Daggett (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : William H. Meyer (Republican ) (until January 13), Peter W. Breene (Republican ) (starting January 13)Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : George G. Sumner (Democratic ) (until January 8), Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Florida : Livingston W. Bethel (Democratic ) (until January 7), Milton H. Mabry (Democratic ) (starting January 7)Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : William J. Campbell (Republican ) (until January 30), John Smith (Republican ) (starting January 30)Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Thomas Hanna (Republican ) (until January 12), Mahlon Dickerson Manson (Democratic ) (starting January 12)Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Orlando H. Manning (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : David Wesley Finney (Republican ) (until January 12), Alexander P. Riddle (Republican ) (starting January 12)Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : James R. Hindman (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Clay Knobloch (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Oliver Ames (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Moreau S. Crosby (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Archibald Buttars (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Charles A. Gilman (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : G. D. Shands (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Robert Alexander Campbell (Democratic ) (until January 12), Albert P. Morehouse (Democratic ) (starting January 12)Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Alfred W. Agee (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Hibbard H. Shedd (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Charles E. Laughton (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : James L. Robinson (Democratic ) (until January 21), Charles M. Stedman (Democratic ) (starting January 21)Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : John George Warwick (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Chauncey Forward Black (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Oscar Rathbun (political party unknown) (until May 26), Lucius B. Darling (Republican ) (starting May 26)Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Chauncey Forward Black (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : John Calhoun Sheppard (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Benjamin F. Alexander (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Cabell R. Berry (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Francis M. Martin (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Barnett Gibbs (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : John F. Lewis (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Sam S. Fifield (Republican )
January 7 – Edwin Swatek , swimmer and water polo player (died 1966 )
January 11 – Alice Paul , suffragist (died 1977 )
January 15 – Grover Lowdermilk , baseball player (died 1968 )
January 27
February 7 – Sinclair Lewis fiction writer, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930 (died 1951 in Italy)
February 13 – Bess Truman , First Lady of the United States , Second Lady of the United States (died 1982 )
February 17 – Steve Evans , baseball player (died 1943 )
February 18 – Richard S. Edwards , admiral (died 1956 )
March 6 – Ring Lardner , writer (died 1933 )
April 1 – Wallace Beery , actor (died 1949 )
April 7 – Bee Ho Gray , Wild West star, silent film actor and vaudeville performer (died 1951 )
April 13 – Vean Gregg , baseball player (died 1964 )
May 2
May 7 – George "Gabby" Hayes , Western film character actor (died 1969 )
May 14 – Ben J. Tarbutton , businessman and politician (died 1962 )
May 30 – Arthur E. Andersen , accountant (died 1947 )
June 29 – Andrew Tombes , comedian and character actor (died 1976 )
July 4 – Louis B. Mayer , film producer (died 1957 )
July 6 – Charles Wisner Barrell , writer (died 1974 )
July 10 – Mary O'Hara , author and screenwriter (died 1980 )[ 2]
July 15 – Tom Kennedy , actor (died 1965 )
July 22 – John Thomas Kennedy , general and Medal Honour recipient (died 1969 )
August 15 – Edna Ferber , novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1968 )[ 3]
September 7 – Elinor Wylie (Elinor Morton Hoyt), poet and novelist (died 1928 )
September 11 – Julian C. Smith , general (died 1975 )
September 15 – James P. Boyle , politician (died 1939 )
September 22 – George Gaul , actor (died 1939 )
October 3 – Sophie Treadwell , dramatist and journalist (died 1970 )
October 9 – Raymond DeWalt , inventor and businessman (died 1961 )
October 30 – Ezra Pound , poet (died 1972 in Italy)
November 1 – Edgar J. Kaufmann , merchant and patron of Fallingwater (died 1955 )
November 11 – George S. Patton , General (died 1945 in Heidelberg, Germany)
November 28 – John Willard , playwright and actor (d. 1942 )
December 2 – George Minot , physiologist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 (died 1950 )
December 6 – Ernest Palmer , cinematographer (died 1978 )
December 10 – Elizabeth Baker , economist and academic (died 1973 )
December 19 – King Oliver , jazz cornet player and bandleader (died 1938 )
December 26 – Bazoline Estelle Usher , African American educator (died 1992 )
Ulysses S. Grant January 13 – Schuyler Colfax , 17th vice president of the United States from 1869 to 1873 (born 1823 )
January 24 – Martin Delany , African American abolitionist, journalist and physician (born 1812 )
February 12 – Alexandre Mouton , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1843 to 1846 (born 1804 )
March 17 – Susan Warner (pseudonym Elizabeth Weatherell), religious and children's writer (born 1819 )
May 4 – Irvin McDowell , Union Army officer known for defeat in the First Battle of Bull Run (born 1818 )
May 17 – Jonathan Young , U.S. Navy commodore (born 1826 )
May 19 – Robert Emmet Odlum , swimming instructor, dies as result of becoming the first person to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge (born 1851 )
May 20 – Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen , 29th United States Secretary of State (born 1817 )
July 23 – Ulysses S. Grant , 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877 (born 1822 )
August 10 – James W. Marshall , contractor, builder of Sutter's Mill (born 1810 )
September 3 – William M. Gwin , U.S. Senator from California from 1850 to 1855 and from 1857 to 1861 (born 1805 )
October 5 – Thomas C. Durant , railroad financier (born 1820 )
October 29 – George B. McClellan , soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive and politician (born 1826 )
November 25 – Thomas A. Hendricks , 21st vice president of the United States from March to November 1885 (born 1819 )
December 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt , entrepreneur (born 1821 )
December 21 – George S Patton , General (born 1885 )
December 13 – Benjamin Gratz Brown , politician (born 1826 )
December 15 – Robert Toombs , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1853 to 1861 (born 1810 )
December 29 – James E. Bailey , U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to 1881 (born 1821 ) 
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