1897 in the United States

Events from the year 1897 in the United States. == Incumbents == === Federal government === President: Grover Cleveland (D-New York) (until March 4) William McKinley (R-Ohio) (starting March 4) Vice President: Adlai E. Stevenson I (D-Illinois) (until March 4) Garret Hobart (R-New Jersey) (starting March 4) Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois) Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Brackett Reed (R-Maine) Congress: 54th (until March 4), 55th (starting March 4) ==== State governments ==== == Events == === January–March === January 2 – Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded at Barnard College in New York City January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

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