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1831 in the United States
Summary
Events from the year
1831 in the United States
.
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1830
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Decades:
1810s
1820s
1830s
1840s
1850s
See also:
History of the United States (1789–1849)
Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)
List of years in the United States
Map of
Henry Schoolcraft
's route in 1831 showing
Ojibwe
settlements and roads (NAID 102278798)
Incumbents
edit
Federal government
edit
President
:
Andrew Jackson
(
D
-
Tennessee
)
Vice President
:
John C. Calhoun
(
D
-
South Carolina
)
Chief Justice
:
John Marshall
(
Virginia
)
Speaker of the House of Representatives
:
Andrew Stevenson
(
D
-
Virginia
)
Congress
:
21st
(until March 4),
22nd
(starting March 4)
Governors
and
lieutenant governors
Governors
edit
Governor of Alabama
:
until March 3:
Gabriel Moore
(
Democratic
)
March 3-November 26:
Samuel B. Moore
(
Democratic
)
starting November 26:
John Gayle
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Connecticut
:
Gideon Tomlinson
(
Democratic-Republican
) (until March 2),
John Samuel Peters
(
National Republican
) (starting March 2)
Governor of Delaware
:
David Hazzard
(
National Republican
)
Governor of Georgia
:
George R. Gilmer
(
Democratic-Republican
) (until November 9),
Wilson Lumpkin
(
Democratic
) (starting November 9)
Governor of Illinois
:
John Reynolds
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Indiana
:
James B. Ray
(
Independent
) (until December 7),
Noah Noble
(
Whig
) (starting December 7)
Governor of Kentucky
:
Thomas Metcalfe
(
National Republican
)
Governor of Louisiana
:
Jacques Dupré
(
National Republican
) (until January 31),
André B. Roman
(
Whig
) (starting January 31)
Governor of Maine
:
Jonathan G. Hunton
(
National Republican
) (until January 5),
Samuel E. Smith
(
Democratic
) (starting January 5)
Governor of Maryland
:
until January 13:
Thomas King Carroll
(
Democratic
)
January 13-July 11:
Daniel Martin
(
National Republican
)
starting July 11:
George Howard
(
National Republican
)
Governor of Massachusetts
:
Levi Lincoln, Jr.
(
National Republican
)
Governor of Mississippi
:
Gerard Brandon
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Missouri
:
John Miller
(
Democratic
)
Governor of New Hampshire
:
until February 28:
Matthew Harvey
(
Democratic
)
February 28-June 2:
Joseph M. Harper
(
Democratic
)
starting June 2:
Samuel Dinsmoor
(
Democratic
)
Governor of New Jersey
:
Peter Dumont Vroom
(
Democratic
)
Governor of New York
:
Enos T. Throop
(
Democratic
)
Governor of North Carolina
:
Montfort Stokes
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Ohio
:
Duncan McArthur
(
National Republican
)
Governor of Pennsylvania
:
George Wolf
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Rhode Island
:
James Fenner
(
Democratic-Republican
) (until May 4),
Lemuel H. Arnold
(
Whig
) (starting May 4)
Governor of South Carolina
:
James Hamilton, Jr.
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Tennessee
:
William Carroll
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Vermont
:
Samuel C. Crafts
(
National Republican
) (until October 18),
William A. Palmer
(
Anti-Masonic
) (starting October 18)
Governor of Virginia
:
John Floyd
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant governors
edit
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
:
John Samuel Peters
(
National Republican
) (until March 2),
Thaddeus Betts
(
Whig
) (starting March 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
:
Zadok Casey
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
:
Milton Stapp
(
Independent
) (until December 7),
David Wallace
(
Whig
) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
:
John Breathitt
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
:
Thomas L. Winthrop
(political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
:
Abram M. Scott
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
:
Daniel Dunklin
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of New York
:
Edward Philip Livingston
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island
: Charles Collins (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
:
Patrick Noble
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
:
Mark Richards
(
National Republican
) (until October 18),
Lebbeus Egerton
(
Anti-Masonic
) (starting October 18)
Events
edit
January–March
edit
January 1 –
William Lloyd Garrison
begins publishing
The Liberator
, an antislavery newspaper, in
Boston, Massachusetts
.
March 18 –
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
: An injunction requested by the
Cherokee
nation, claiming that
Georgia
's state legislature had created laws which, "go directly to annihilate the Cherokees as a
political society
", is denied.
April–June
edit
April 18 – The
University of Alabama
is founded.
[1]
April 21 –
New York University
is founded in
New York City
.
July–September
edit
August 7 – American
Baptist
minister
William Miller
preaches his first sermon on the Second Advent of Christ in Dresden, New York, launching the
Advent Movement
in the United States.
August 21 – Outbreak of
Nat Turner
's
slave rebellion
in
Southampton County, Virginia
. Approximately 55 whites are stabbed, shot and clubbed to death.
October–December
edit
October 30 – In
Southampton County, Virginia
, escaped slave
Nat Turner
is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest
slave revolt
in United States history.
November 5 – Slave leader
Nat Turner
is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in
Virginia
for inciting a violent
slave uprising
.
November 11 – In
Jerusalem, Virginia
,
Nat Turner
is hanged.
Undated
edit
Alexis de Tocqueville
visits the United States.
Founding of:
Wesleyan University
in
Middletown, Connecticut
.
Xavier University
in
Cincinnati, Ohio
(as "The Athenaeum").
Births
edit
James A. Garfield
January 2 –
Justin Winsor
, historian and librarian (died
1897
)
January 14 –
William D. Washburn
, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1889 to 1895 and businessman (died
1912
)
January 15 –
Ozora P. Stearns
, U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1871 (died
1896
)
January 26 –
Mary Mapes Dodge
, children's writer (died
1907
)
February 23 –
Elizabeth Litchfield Cunnyngham
, missionary and church worker (died
1911
)
March 3 –
George Pullman
, inventor and industrialist (died
1897
)
March 6 –
Philip Sheridan
, general (died
1888
)
March 12 –
Clement Studebaker
, automobile pioneer (died
1901
)
March 14 –
Edward A. Perry
, Governor of Florida (died 1889)
March 20 –
Solomon L. Spink
, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (died
1881
)
May 16 –
Daniel Manning
, businessman, journalist and politician, Secretary of the Treasury (died
1887
)
June 1 or 29
{exact date unknown)
–
John Bell Hood
,
Confederate
general (died
1879
)
July 5 –
Cordelia A. Greene
, physician, reformer, benefactor (died
1905
)
July 8 –
John Pemberton
, inventor of
Coca-Cola
(died
1888
)
July 21 –
Martha Maxwell
, naturalist and artist (died 1881)
August 26 –
Lucy Hayes
,
First Lady of the United States
as wife of
Rutherford B. Hayes
(died 1889)
September 3 –
States Rights Gist
, lawyer, militia general in South Carolina and Confederate Army brigadier general (died
1864
)
September 10 –
William A. Peffer
, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1891 to 1897 (died 1912)
September 20 –
Kate Harrington
, poet, teacher and writer (died
1917
)
September 29 –
John Schofield
, general (died
1906
)
October 15 –
Helen Hunt Jackson
, poet, writer and activist (died
1885
)
October 16 –
Lucy Stanton
, abolitionist (died
1910
)
October 28 –
Charles Colcock Jones, Jr.
, Georgia politician, attorney, historian and folklorist (died
1893
)
October 29 –
Othniel Charles Marsh
, paleontologist (died
1899
)
October 31 –
Romualdo Pacheco
, Governor of California (died 1899)
November 19 –
James A. Garfield
, 20th
president of the United States
from March to September 1881 (died
1881
)
November 21 –
John Franklin Miller
, U.S. Senator from California from 1881 to 1886 (died
1886
)
November 22 –
Thomas J. Latham
, lawyer and businessman (died
1911
)
December 19 –
Bernice Pauahi Bishop
, Hawaiian
aliʻi
(died
1884
)
Deaths
edit
James Monroe
March 26 –
Richard Allen
, founder of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church
in 1794 (born
1760
)
April 4 –
Isaiah Thomas
, publisher (born
1749
)
May 11 –
John Trumbull
, poet (born
1750
)
May 24 –
James Peale
, miniaturist and still-life painter (born 1749)
Benjamin Carr
, composer, singer, teacher, and music publisher (born
1768
)
May 27 –
Jedediah Smith
, explorer, hunter, trapper and fur trader (born
1799
)
July 4 –
James Monroe
, fifth
president of the United States
from 1817 to 1825 (born
1758
)
November 11 –
Nat Turner
, leader of slave rebellion (born
1800
)
December 8 –
James Hoban
, architect of the
White House
(born
1755
in
Ireland
)
See also
edit
Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)
References
edit
^
Sellers, J. B. (2014).
History of the University of Alabama: Volume One 1818, 1902
. United States: University of Alabama Press. p. 51.
External links
edit
Media related to 1831 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons