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1822 in the United States
Summary
Events from the year
1822 in the United States
.
←
1821
1820
1819
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in
the United States
→
1823
1824
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Decades:
1800s
1810s
1820s
1830s
1840s
See also:
History of the United States (1789–1849)
Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)
List of years in the United States
Incumbents
edit
Federal government
edit
President
:
James Monroe
(
DR
-
Virginia
)
Vice President
:
Daniel D. Tompkins
(
DR
-
New York
)
Chief Justice
:
John Marshall
(
Virginia
)
Speaker of the House of Representatives
:
Philip P. Barbour
(
DR
-
Virginia
)
Congress
:
17th
Governors
and
lieutenant governors
Governors
edit
Governor of Alabama
:
Israel Pickens
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Connecticut
:
Oliver Wolcott Jr.
(
Toleration
)
Governor of Delaware
:
John Collins
(
Democratic-Republican
) (until April 16),
Caleb Rodney
(
Federalist
) (starting April 16)
Governor of Georgia
:
John Clark
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Illinois
:
Shadrach Bond
(
Independent
) (until December 5),
Edward Coles
(
Independent
) (starting December 5)
Governor of Indiana
:
until September 12:
Jonathan Jennings
(
Democratic-Republican
)
September 12-December 5:
Ratliff Boon
(
Democratic-Republican
)
starting December 5:
William Hendricks
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Kentucky
:
John Adair
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Louisiana
:
Thomas Bolling Robertson
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Maine
:
until January 2:
Benjamin Ames
(
Democratic-Republican
)
January 2-January 5:
Daniel Rose
(
Democratic-Republican
)
starting January 5:
Albion K. Parris
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Maryland
:
Samuel Sprigg
(
Democratic
) (until December 16),
Samuel Stevens Jr.
(
Democratic
) (starting December 16)
Governor of Massachusetts
:
John Brooks
(
Federalist
)
Governor of Mississippi
:
George Poindexter
(
Democratic-Republican
) (until January 7),
Walter Leake
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Missouri
:
Alexander McNair
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of New Hampshire
:
Samuel Bell
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of New Jersey
:
Isaac Halstead Williamson
(
Federalist
)
Governor of New York
:
DeWitt Clinton
(
Democratic-Republican
) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina
:
Gabriel Holmes
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Ohio
:
until January 4:
Ethan Allen Brown
(
Democratic-Republican
)
January 4-December 28:
Allen Trimble
(
Federalist
)
starting December 28:
Jeremiah Morrow
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Pennsylvania
:
Joseph Hiester
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Rhode Island
:
William C. Gibbs
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of South Carolina
:
Thomas Bennett Jr.
(
Democratic-Republican
) (until December 7),
John Lyde Wilson
(
Democratic-Republican
) (starting December 7)
Governor of Tennessee
:
William Carroll
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Vermont
:
Richard Skinner
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Virginia
:
Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.
(
Democratic-Republican
) (until December 1),
James Pleasants
(
Democratic-Republican
) (starting December 1)
Lieutenant governors
edit
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
:
Jonathan Ingersoll
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
:
Pierre Menard
(
Democratic-Republican
) (until December 5),
Adolphus Hubbard
(
Democratic-Republican
) (starting December 5)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
:
Ratliff Boon
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
:
William T. Barry
(political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
:
William Phillips Jr.
(political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
:
James Patton
(no political party) (until month and day unknown),
David Dickson
(no political party) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
:
William Henry Ashley
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of New York
:
John Tayler
(
Democratic-Republican
) (until end of December 31)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island
: Caleb Earle (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
: William Pinckney (
Democratic-Republican
) (until December 7), Henry Bradley (
Democratic-Republican
) (starting December 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
:
William Cahoon
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Events
edit
March 30 – The U.S. merges
East Florida
with part of
West Florida
to form the
Florida Territory
.
July 1–3 –
U.S. House of Representatives elections
begin in
Louisiana
and continue until the last elections are held in
North Carolina
on August 14, 1823.
July 2 –
Denmark Vesey
is hanged for plotting a
slave rebellion
in
Charleston, South Carolina
.
July 4 – A 24th star is added to the
flag of the United States
, representing
Missouri
which had been admitted on August 10, 1821.
August 22 – The
English
ship
Orion
lands at Yerba Buena, modern-day
San Francisco
, under the command of
William A. Richardson
.
November 9 –
Action of 9 November 1822
:
USS
Alligator
(1820)
engages three
pirate
schooners
off the coast of
Cuba
as part of the
West Indies anti-piracy operations of the U.S.
November 23 – The USS
Alligator
wrecks on Carysford Reef off the coast of
Florida
.
[1]
December 5 –
Edward Coles
is sworn in as the second
governor of Illinois
, replacing
Shadrach Bond
.
Undated
edit
Ashley's Hundred
leave from
St. Louis
, setting off a major increase in
fur trade
.
A committee is formed to collect remains from the remote location where the
Battle of Minisink
had been fought in 1779.
The last major outbreak of
yellow fever
in New York City occurs.
Gist Mansion is built in
Wellsburg, West Virginia
(used some 100 years later for the Brooke Hills Spooktacular).
Ongoing
edit
Era of Good Feelings
(1817–1825)
Births
edit
Ulysses S. Grant
, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)
Rutherford B. Hayes
, 19th president of the United States (1877–1881)
Two U.S. presidents were born in the year
1822
February 4 –
Edward Fitzgerald Beale
, U.S. Navy lieutenant and explorer (died
1893
)
February 13 –
James B. Beck
, Scottish-born U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1877 to 1890 (died
1890
)
c. March –
Harriet Tubman
, born Araminta Ross, African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the
American Civil War
(died
1913
)
March 12 –
Thomas Buchanan Read
, poet and portrait painter (died
1872
)
March 16 –
John Pope
, career United States Army officer and
Union
general in the
American Civil War
(died
1892
)
April 3 –
Edward Everett Hale
, writer (died
1909
)
April 26 –
Frederick Law Olmsted
, landscape architect (died
1903
)
April 27 –
Ulysses S. Grant
, 18th
president of the United States
from 1869 to 1877 (died
1885
)
May 18 –
Mathew B. Brady
, pioneer photographer (died
1896
)
June 10 –
John Jacob Astor III
, businessman (died 1890)
Lydia White Shattuck
, botanist (died
1889
)
July 21 –
Alexander H. Jones
, Congressional Representative from North Carolina. (died
1901
)
July 25 –
Andrew Bryson
, admiral (died 1892)
August 15
James E. Bailey
, U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to 1881 (died 1885)
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
, wife of
Edgar Allan Poe
(died
1847
)
August 27 –
William Hayden English
, politician (died 1896)
September 11 –
Francis S. Thayer
, merchant and politician (died
1880
)
September 16 –
Charles Crocker
, financiers (died
1888
)
September 17 –
Cornelius Cole
, U.S. Senator from California from 1867 to 1873 (died
1924
)
September 19 –
Joseph R. West
, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1871 to 1877 (died
1898
)
September 20 –
Elizabeth Smith Miller
, women's rights campaigner (died
1911
)
October 4 –
Rutherford B. Hayes
, 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881 (died
1893
)
Undated –
Red Cloud
(Maȟpíya Lúta), Oglala Lakota chief (died 1909)
Deaths
edit
April 8 –
James Long
, U.S.
Filibuster
, founder of the
Long Republic
- the first "Republic of Texas". Shot by a prison guard in
Mexico City
,
Mexico
(born
1793
).
May 6 –
Charles Peale Polk
, portrait painter (born
1767
)
May 8 –
John Stark
, major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (born
1728
)
July 2 –
Denmark Vesey
, African American leader, hanged (born c.1767)
August 28 –
William Logan
, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1820 (born
1776
)
October 31 –
Jared Ingersoll
, U.S. presidential candidate (born
1749
)
See also
edit
Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)
References
edit
^
Barnette, Michael C.
(2008).
Florida's Shipwrecks
. Arcadia Publishing.
ISBN
978-0-7385-5413-6
.
External links
edit
Media related to 1822 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons