Events from the year 1946 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" ! Governors and lieutenant governors

actors

• Governor of Alabama: Chauncey Sparks (Democratic) • Governor of Arizona: Sidney Preston Osborn (Democratic) • Governor of Arkansas: Benjamin Travis Laney (Democratic) • Governor of California: Earl Warren (Republican) • Governor of Colorado: John Charles Vivian (Republican) • Governor of Connecticut: Raymond E. Baldwin (Republican) (until December 27), Charles W. Snow (Democratic) (starting December 27) • Governor of Delaware: Walter W. Bacon (Republican) • Governor of Florida: Millard F. Caldwell (Democratic) • Governor of Georgia: Ellis Arnall (Democratic) • Governor of Idaho: Arnold Williams (Democratic) • Governor of Illinois: Dwight H. Green (Republican) • Governor of Indiana: Ralph F. Gates (Republican) • Governor of Iowa: Robert D. Blue (Republican) • Governor of Kansas: Andrew F. Schoeppel (Republican) • Governor of Kentucky: Simeon S. Willis (Republican) • Governor of Louisiana: Jimmie H. Davis (Democratic) • Governor of Maine: Horace A. Hildreth (Republican) • Governor of Maryland: Herbert R. O'Conor (Democratic) • Governor of Massachusetts: Maurice J. Tobin (Democratic) • Governor of Michigan: Harry Kelly (Republican) • Governor of Minnesota: Edward John Thye (Republican) • Governor of Mississippi: Thomas L. Bailey (Democratic) (until November 2), Fielding L. Wright (Democratic) (starting November 2) • Governor of Missouri: Phil M. Donnelly (Democratic) • Governor of Montana: Sam C. Ford (Republican) • Governor of Nebraska: Dwight Griswold (Republican) • Governor of Nevada: Vail M. Pittman (Democratic) • Governor of New Hampshire: Charles M. Dale (Republican) • Governor of New Jersey: Walter Evans Edge (Republican) • Governor of New Mexico: John J. Dempsey (Democratic) • Governor of New York: Thomas Dewey (Republican) • Governor of North Carolina: R. Gregg Cherry (Democratic) • Governor of North Dakota: Fred G. Aandahl (Republican) • Governor of Ohio: Frank J. Lausche (Democratic) • Governor of Oklahoma: Robert S. Kerr (Democratic) • Governor of Oregon: Earl Snell (Republican) • Governor of Pennsylvania: Edward Martin (Republican) • Governor of Rhode Island: John Orlando Pastore (Democratic) • Governor of South Carolina: Ransome Judson Williams (Democratic) • Governor of South Dakota: Merrill Q. Sharpe (Republican) • Governor of Tennessee: Jim Nance McCord (Democratic) • Governor of Texas: Coke R. Stevenson (Democratic) • Governor of Utah: Herbert B. Maw (Democratic) • Governor of Vermont: Mortimer R. Proctor (Republican) • Governor of Virginia: Colgate Darden (Democratic) (until January 16), William M. Tuck (Democratic) (starting January 16) • Governor of Washington: Monrad C. Wallgren (Democratic) • Governor of West Virginia: Clarence W. Meadows (Democratic) • Governor of Wisconsin: Walter S. Goodland (Republican) • Governor of Wyoming: Lester C. Hunt (Democratic)

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Leven H. Ellis (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: James Lavesque Shaver (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of California: Frederick F. Houser (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: William Eugene Higby (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Charles Wilbert Snow (Democratic) (until December 27), vacant (starting December 27) • Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: Elbert N. Carvel (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: vacant (until March 20), A. R. McCabe (Democratic) (starting March 20) • Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Hugh W. Cross (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Richard T. James (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Kenneth A. Evans (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Jess C. Denious, Sr. (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Kenneth H. Tuggle (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: J. Emile Verret (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: vacant • Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Vernon J. Brown (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: C. Elmer Anderson (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Fielding L. Wright (Republican) (until November 2), vacant (starting November 2) • Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Walter Naylor Davis (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Ernest T. Eaton (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Roy W. Johnson (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: vacant • Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: James B. Jones (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of New York: Joseph R. Hanley (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Lynton Y. Ballentine (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Clarence P. Dahl (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: George D. Nye (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: James E. Berry (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: John C. Bell, Jr. (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: vacant • Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: vacant • Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Sioux K. Grigsby (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Larry Morgan (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Texas: John Lee Smith (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Lee E. Emerson (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: William M. Tuck (Democratic) (until January 16), Lewis Preston Collins II (Democratic) (starting January 16) • Lieutenant Governor of Washington: Victor A. Meyers (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Oscar Rennebohm (Republican)

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Undated

Births

January

Jeffrey Cohen

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Date unknown

Deaths

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December