CalendarZ

  1. Home
  2. On This Day
  3. February
  4. 1
  5. Jerome F. Donovan

Births on February 1

Jerome F. Donovan
1872Feb, 1

Jerome F. Donovan

Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (d. 1949)
Jerome Francis Donovan (February 1, 1872 – November 2, 1949) was a United States Representative from New York.

References

Choose Another Date

Events on 1872

  • 5Mar

    Railway air brake

    George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
  • 22Mar

    Gender equality

    Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
  • 22May

    Amnesty Act

    Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
  • 18Nov

    United States presidential election, 1872

    Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for illegal voting in the United States presidential election of 1872.
  • 9Dec

    P. B. S. Pinchback

    In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.