Henry Gardner becomes governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

He is succeeded by Nathaniel Banks (1858), John Andrew (1861), Alexander Bullock (1866), William Claflin (1869), William Washburn (1872), Thomas Talbot (1874), William Gaston (1875), Alexander Rice (1876), Talbot (1879), John Davis Long (1880), George Robinson (1884), Oliver Amex 1887), John Quincy Adams Brackett (1890), William Russell (1891), Frederick Greenhalge (1894), Roger Wolcott (1896), and Winthrop Crane 1900 to 1903*).