1937 in the United States
overview of USA-related events during the year of 1937
Events from the year 1937 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York)
Vice President: John Nance Garner (D-Texas)
Chief Justice: Charles Evans Hughes (New York)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: William B. Bankhead (D-Alabama)
Senate Majority Leader:
Joseph Taylor Robinson (D-Arkansas) (until July 14)
Alben W. Barkley (D-Kentucky) (starting July 22)
Congress: 74th (until January 3), 75th (starting January 3)
State governments
Events
January–March
January 11 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale.
January 12 – Adventurer and filmmaker Martin Johnson, of Martin and Osa Johnson fame, is killed along with four others in the crash of Western Air Express Flight 7 in mountainous terrain near Saugus, California.
January 19
Howard Hughes sets a new record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
Marriage of Charlie Johns and Eunice Winstead: A 22-year-old Tennessee farmer marries his 9-year-old neighbour. Media publicity leads to Tennessee (and other states) introducing minimum marriage age laws.
January 20 – Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes swears in Franklin D. Roosevelt for a second term. This is the first time Inauguration Day in the United States occurs on this date, in response to the ratification in 1933 of the 20th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Inauguration has occurred on January 20 ever since. John Nance Garner is sworn in for a second term as Vice President of the United States.
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