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1834 in the United States
Summary
Events from the year
1834 in the United States
.
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1833
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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
Incumbents
edit
Federal government
edit
President
:
Andrew Jackson
(
D
-
Tennessee
)
Vice President
:
Martin Van Buren
(
D
-
New York
)
Chief Justice
:
John Marshall
(
Virginia
)
Speaker of the House of Representatives
:
Andrew Stevenson
(
D
-Virginia) (until June 2),
John Bell
(
Whig
-Tennessee) (starting June 2)
Congress
:
23rd
Governors
and
lieutenant governors
Governors
edit
Governor of Alabama
:
John Gayle
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Connecticut
:
Henry W. Edwards
(
Democratic
) (until May 7),
Samuel A. Foot
(
Whig
) (starting May 7)
Governor of Delaware
:
Caleb P. Bennett
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Georgia
:
Wilson Lumpkin
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Illinois
:
until November 17:
John Reynolds
(
Democratic
)
November 17-December 3:
William Lee D. Ewing
(
Democratic
)
starting December 3:
Joseph Duncan
(
Whig
)
Governor of Indiana
:
Noah Noble
(
Whig
)
Governor of Kentucky
:
John Breathitt
(
Democratic
) (until February 21),
James T. Morehead
(
National Republican
) (starting February 21)
Governor of Louisiana
:
André B. Roman
(
Whig
)
Governor of Maine
:
Samuel E. Smith
(
Democratic
) (until January 1),
Robert P. Dunlap
(
Democratic
) (starting January 1)
Governor of Maryland
:
James Thomas
(
Whig
)
Governor of Massachusetts
:
Levi Lincoln, Jr.
(
National Republican
) (until January 9),
John Davis
(
Whig
) (starting January 9)
Governor of Mississippi
:
Hiram Runnels
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Missouri
:
Daniel Dunklin
(
Democratic
)
Governor of New Hampshire
:
Samuel Dinsmoor
(
Democratic
) (until June 5),
William Badger
(
Democratic
) (starting June 5)
Governor of New Jersey
:
Peter Dumont Vroom
(
Democratic
)
Governor of New York
:
William L. Marcy
(
Democratic
)
Governor of North Carolina
:
David Lowry Swain
(
National Republican
)
Governor of Ohio
:
Robert Lucas
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Pennsylvania
:
George Wolf
(
Democratic-Republican
)
Governor of Rhode Island
:
John Brown Francis
(
Democratic
)
Governor of South Carolina
:
Robert Young Hayne
(
Democratic
) (until December 9),
George McDuffie
(
Democratic
) (starting December 9)
Governor of Tennessee
:
William Carroll
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Vermont
:
William A. Palmer
(
Anti-Masonic
)
Governor of Virginia
:
John Floyd
(
Democratic
) (until March 31),
Littleton Waller Tazewell
(
Whig
) (starting March 31)
Lieutenant governors
edit
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
:
Ebenezer Stoddard
(
Democratic-Republican
) (until May 7),
Thaddeus Betts
(
Whig
) (starting May 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
:
William Lee D. Ewing
(
Democratic
) (until December 5),
Alexander M. Jenkins
(
Democratic
) (starting December 5)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
:
David Wallace
(
Whig
)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
:
James T. Morehead
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
:
Samuel T. Armstrong
(political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
:
Lilburn Boggs
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of New York
:
John Tracy
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island
:
Jeffrey Hazard
(political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (
Democratic
) (until December 9),
Whitemarsh B. Seabrook
(
Democratic
) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
:
Lebbeus Egerton
(
Anti-Masonic
)
Events
edit
January 25 –
Hillsborough County
is created by
Florida
's territorial legislature.
March 11 –
Survey of the Coast
transferred to the
Department of the Navy
.
March 28 – The
United States Senate
censures
President
Andrew Jackson
for his actions in defunding the
Second Bank of the United States
(censure expunged in 1837).
April 14 – The
Whig Party
is officially named by
United States Senator
Henry Clay
.
June 30 – the 6th
Indian Trade and Intercourse Act
is updated and renewed
Indian Territory
is effective.
July 7–10 –
Anti-abolitionist riots
in
New York City
.
July 29 –
Office of Indian Affairs
organized.
August 11–12 –
Ursuline Convent Riots
: A convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near
Boston
.
October 31 –
Solon Robinson
settled in the location that would eventually become
Crown Point, Indiana
.
November 4 –
Delta Upsilon
fraternity founded at
Williams College
.
November 11 – The rare
1804 dollar
coin is struck by the
United States Mint
.
Undated
edit
Worcester Academy
is founded as the Worcester County Manual Labor High School.
Franklin College
is founded in
Franklin, Indiana
.
The Medical College of Louisiana is founded in
New Orleans
, which later becomes
Tulane University
.
[1]
Wake Forest College is founded in
Wake Forest
, which later becomes
Wake Forest University
.
[2]
The
Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad
is chartered in
Wilmington, North Carolina
, and begins construction.
[3]
Births
edit
January 9 –
Wilkinson Call
, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1879 to 1897 (died
1910
)
January 15 –
Samuel Arza Davenport
, politician (died
1911
)
February 27 –
Charles C. Carpenter
, admiral (died
1899
)
March 4 –
James W. McDill
, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1881 to 1883 (died
1894
)
March 5
Martha Parmelee Rose
, journalist, social reformer, philanthropist (died
1923
)
U. M. Rose
, Arkansas lawyer (died
1913
)
March 15 –
John K. Bucklyn
,
Medal of Honor
recipient (died
1906
)
March 20 –
Charles W. Eliot
, President of Harvard University (died
1926
)
March 24 –
John Wesley Powell
, explorer (died
1902
)
March 27 –
Melissa Elizabeth Banta
, poet, travel writer (died
1907
)
April 1 –
Big Jim Fisk
, entrepreneur (died
1872
)
April 5 –
Frank R. Stockton
, short story writer (died 1902)
April 26 –
Charles Farrar Browne
("Artemus Ward"), humorist (died
1867
)
June 22 –
William Chester Minor
, Ceylonese-born surgeon and lexicographer (died
1920
)
June 24 –
George Arnold
, writer and poet (died
1865
)
June 28 –
Samuel Pasco
, British-born U.S. Senator from Florida from 1887 to 1899 (died
1917
)
July 10 –
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
, painter and etcher (died
1903 in the United Kingdom
)
July 19 –
Benjamin F. Jonas
, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1879 to 1885 (died
1911
)
August 22 –
Samuel Pierpont Langley
, astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer (died
1906
)
August 27 –
James B. Eustis
, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1876 to 1879 and from 1885 to 1891 (died
1899
)
September 5 –
John G. Carlisle
, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1890 to 1893 (died 1910)
September 6 –
Samuel Arnold
, conspirator involved in the plot to kidnap U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln
in 1865 (died 1906)
October 6 –
Walter Kittredge
, composer (died
1905
)
October 9 –
Rufus Blodgett
, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1887 to 1893 (died 1910)
October 31 –
Knowles Shaw
, evangelist and hymnwriter (died
1878
in railroad accident)
November 21 –
Hetty Green
, businesswoman (died
1916
)
November 24 –
Susan Hammond Barney
, American social activist and evangelist (died
1922
)
December 6 –
Henry W. Blair
, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1879 to 1891 (died
1920
)
December 15 –
Charles Augustus Young
, astronomer (died
1908
)
December 24 –
Charles W. Jones
, Ireland-born U.S. Senator from Florida from 1875 to 1887 (died
1897
)
Deaths
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February 2 –
Lorenzo Dow
, minister (born
1777
)
February 18 –
William Wirt
, 9th
United States Attorney General
(born
1772
)
February 28 –
Isaac D. Barnard
, U.S. Senator from 1827 to 1831 (born
1791
)
May 20 –
Marquis de Lafayette
, French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the
American Revolutionary War
, died in France (born
1757 in France
)
July 26 -
Jonathan Jennings
, first governor of Indiana (born
1784
)
August 24 –
William Kelly
, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1822 to 1825 (born
1786
)
September 15 –
William H. Crawford
, politician and judge (born 1772)
October 10 –
Thomas Say
, naturalist (born
1787
)
October 31
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont
, chemical manufacturer (born
1771 in France
)
See also
edit
Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)
References
edit
^
"Tulane University Facts". tulane.edu. 2006. Archived from the original on October 17, 2007
. Retrieved
April 16,
2007
.
^
"Wake Forest University".
^
"Railroad — Wilmington & Raleigh (later Weldon)".
North Carolina Business History
. 2006
. Retrieved
December 2,
2011
.
External links
edit
Media related to 1834 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons