John Bates becomes governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

He is succeeded by William Douglas (1905), Curtis Guild (1906), Ebenezer Draper (1909), Eugene Foss (1911), David Walsh (1914), Samuel McCall (1916), Calvin Coolidge (1919), Channing Cox (1921), Alvan Fuller (1925), Frank Allen (1919), Joseph Ely (1931), James Michael Curley (1935), Charles Hurley (1937), Leverett Saltonstall (1939), Maurice Tobin (1945), Robert Bradford (1947), Paul Dever (1949), Christian Herter (1953), Foster Furcolo (1955), John Volpe (1961), Endicott Peabody (1963), Volpe (1965), and Francis Sargent (1969 to 1975*).