1901

The following page includes events that have happened concerning the United States in 1901:

January

 * January 10th: Oil is discovered in Texas.

March

 * March 4th: President McKinley is inaugurated again for his 2nd term.
 * March 13th: Former President Benjamin Harrison dies at the age of 67 at his house in Indianapolis, Indiana.

August

 * August 23rd: John Sherman Cooper is born in Somerset, Kentucky.

September

 * September 5th: The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (which would later be renamed the Minor League Baseball) is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
 * September 6th: President McKinley is shot in the stomach by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
 * September 14th: President McKinley dies while recovering from a bullet wound in his stomach; Vice president Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 26th president.
 * September 26th: The corpse of Abraham Lincoln is dug out, and later buried again, but this time several feet under concrete.

October

 * October 23rd: Yale University celebrates its 200th anniversary.
 * October 29th: Assassin of William McKinley, Leon Czologosz, is executed.

November

 * November 28th: Due to Alabama's new constitution, voters are required to pass literacy tests.

December

 * December 3rd: President Roosevelt delivers a 20,000 word speech to the House of Representatives, asking them to restrain their trusts within reasonable limits.