Events from the year 1930 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

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Governors

• Governor of Alabama: Bibb Graves (Democratic) • Governor of Arizona: John Calhoun Phillips (Republican) • Governor of Arkansas: Harvey Parnell (Democratic) • Governor of California: Clement C. Young (Republican) • Governor of Colorado: Billy Adams (Democratic) • Governor of Connecticut: John H. Trumbull (Republican) • Governor of Delaware: C. Douglass Buck (Republican) • Governor of Florida: Doyle E. Carlton (Democratic) • Governor of Georgia: Lamartine G. Hardman (Democratic) • Governor of Idaho: H. C. Baldridge (Republican) • Governor of Illinois: Louis L. Emmerson (Republican) • Governor of Indiana: Harry G. Leslie (Republican) • Governor of Iowa: John Hammill (Republican) • Governor of Kansas: Clyde M. Reed (Republican) • Governor of Kentucky: Flem D. Sampson (Republican) • Governor of Louisiana: Huey P. Long (Democratic) • Governor of Maine: William Tudor Gardiner (Republican) • Governor of Maryland: Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic) • Governor of Massachusetts: Frank G. Allen (Republican) • Governor of Michigan: Fred W. Green (Republican) • Governor of Minnesota: Theodore Christianson (Republican) • Governor of Mississippi: Theodore G. Bilbo (Democratic) • Governor of Missouri: Henry S. Caulfield (Republican) • Governor of Montana: John E. Erickson (Democratic) • Governor of Nebraska: Arthur J. Weaver (Republican) • Governor of Nevada: Fred B. Balzar (Republican) • Governor of New Hampshire: Charles W. Tobey (Republican) • Governor of New Jersey: Morgan Foster Larson (Republican) • Governor of New Mexico: Richard C. Dillon (Republican) • Governor of New York: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) • Governor of North Carolina: Oliver Max Gardner (Democratic) • Governor of North Dakota: George F. Shafer (Republican) • Governor of Ohio: Myers Y. Cooper (Republican) • Governor of Oklahoma: William J. Holloway (Democratic) • Governor of Oregon: A. W. Norblad (Republican) • Governor of Pennsylvania: John Stuchell Fisher (Republican) • Governor of Rhode Island: Norman S. Case (Republican) • Governor of South Carolina: John Gardiner Richards, Jr. (Democratic) • Governor of South Dakota: William J. Bulow (Democratic) • Governor of Tennessee: Henry Hollis Horton (Democratic) • Governor of Texas: Dan Moody (Democratic) • Governor of Utah: George Dern (Democratic) • Governor of Vermont: John E. Weeks (Republican) • Governor of Virginia: Harry F. Byrd (Democratic) (until January 15), John Garland Pollard (Democratic) (starting January 15) • Governor of Washington: Roland H. Hartley (Republican) • Governor of West Virginia: William G. Conley (Republican) • Governor of Wisconsin: Walter J. Kohler, Sr. (Republican) • Governor of Wyoming: Frank C. Emerson (Republican)

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: William C. Davis (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: William Lee Cazort (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of California: H. L. Carnahan (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: George Milton Corlett (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Ernest E. Rogers (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: James H. Hazel (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: O. E. Hailey (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Fred E. Sterling (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Edgar D. Bush (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Arch W. McFarlane (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Jacob W. Graybill (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James Breathitt, Jr. (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Paul N. Cyr (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William S. Youngman (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Luren D. Dickinson (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Charles Edward Adams (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Bidwell Adam (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Edward Henry Winter (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Frank A. Hazelbaker (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: George A. Williams (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Morley Griswold (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: vacant • Lieutenant Governor of New York: Herbert H. Lehman (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Richard T. Fountain (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: John W. Carr (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: John T. Brown (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: vacant • Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Arthur H. James (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: James G. Connelly (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Bothwell Butler (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: John T. Grigsby (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Sam R. Bratton (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Barry Miller (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Stanley C. Wilson (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Junius Edgar West (Democratic) (until January 15), James H. Price (Democratic) (starting January 15) • Lieutenant Governor of Washington: John Arthur Gellatly (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Henry A. Huber (Republican)

Demographics

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