1829 in the United States

Events from the year 1829 in the United States.

Incumbents

[Federal government of [the United States|Federal government]]

Governors

Governor of Alabama: John Murphy, Gabriel Moore
Governor of Connecticut: Gideon Tomlinson
Governor of Delaware: Charles Polk Jr.
Governor of Georgia: John Forsyth, George R. Gilmer
Governor of Illinois: Ninian Edwards
Governor of Indiana: James B. Ray
Governor of Kentucky: Thomas Metcalfe
Governor of Louisiana: Pierre Derbigny, Armand Julie Beauvais
Governor of Maine: Enoch Lincoln, Nathan Cutler
Governor of Maryland: Joseph Kent, Daniel Martin
Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln Jr.
Governor of Mississippi: Gerard Brandon
Governor of Missouri: John Miller
Governor of New Hampshire: John Bell, Benjamin Pierce
Governor of New Jersey:
* until October 30: Isaac Halstead Williamson
* October 30-November 6: D. Wall
* starting November 6: Peter Dumont Vroom
Governor of New York:
* January 1-March 12: Martin Van Buren
* starting March 12: Enos T. Throop
Governor of North Carolina: John Owen
Governor of Ohio: Allen Trimble
Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze, George Wolf
Governor of Rhode Island: James Fenner
Governor of South Carolina: Stephen Decatur Miller
Governor of Tennessee:
* until April 16: Sam Houston
* April 16-October 1: William Hall
* starting October 1: William Carroll
Governor of Vermont: Samuel C. Crafts
Governor of Virginia: William Branch Giles

Lieutenant governors

Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: John Samuel Peters
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William Kinney
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Milton Stapp
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: John Breathitt
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Thomas L. Winthrop
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Abram M. Scott
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Daniel Dunklin
Lieutenant Governor of New York:
* January 1-March 12: Enos T. Throop
* March 12: Charles Stebbins
* March 12-July 1: William M. Oliver
* starting July 1: Edward Philip Livingston
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Williams
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Henry Olin

Events

March 4 - Andrew Jackson is sworn in as the seventh president of the United States, and John C. Calhoun is sworn in for his second term as the seventh vice president.
June 1 - The Philadelphia Inquirer is founded as The Pennsylvania Inquirer.
July 23 - William Austin Burt obtains the first patent for a typographer (typewriter).
June 27 - James Smithson, a British mineralogist and chemist, leaves a bequest of £100,000 to fund the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
August 15–22 - Cincinnati riots of 1829.
October 25 - Eastern State Penitentiary opens in Philadelphia as Cherry Hill State Prison, a pioneering example of the separate system in the history of United States prison systems.
Undated - The Georgia Gold Rush begins as the country's first significant gold rush following the discovery of gold on October 27, 1828, by Benjamin Parks in the old Hall County, Georgia.

Births

March 2 - William B. Allison, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1873 to 1908
April 12 - Daniel Sheldon Norton, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1865 to 1870
May 8 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer and pianist
May 28 - A. B. Rogers, surveyor
July 9 - Robert Franklin Armfield, U.S. Representative from North Carolina
August 6 - James T. Farley, U.S. Senator from California from 1879 to 1885
September 12 - Charles Dudley Warner, essayist and novelist
October 5 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st president of the United States from 1881 to 1885, 20th vice president of the United States from March to September 1881
October 15 - Asaph Hall, astronomer
October 30 - Roscoe Conkling, leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party
November 22 - Shelby Moore Cullom, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1883 to 1913
December 8 - Henry Timrod, "poet laureate of the Confederacy"

Deaths

January 28 - Ephraim Bateman, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1826 to 1829
January 29 - Timothy Pickering, 2nd United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of State
February 18 - Hannah Tompkins, Second Lady of the United States
April 11 - Archibald Gracie, merchant and shipowner
May 17 - John Jay, represented New York at the Continental Congress in 1774, 2nd Governor of New York from 1795 to 1801 and 1st Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1789 to 1795
June 27 - James Smithson, British chemist and mineralogist whose inheritance will eventually create the Smithsonian Institution
September 25 - Joseph Hodgkins, an Ipswich, Massachusetts cordwainer
November 26 - Thomas Buck Reed, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1826 to 1827 and in 1829
December 12 - John Lansing Jr., statesman