1819 in the United States

Events from the year 1819 in the United States.

Contents
1 Incumbents
1.1 Federal Government
1.2 Governors
1.3 Lieutenant Governors
2 Events
2.1 Undated
2.2 Ongoing
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Further reading
6 External links

Incumbents

Federal Government
President: James Monroe (DR-Virginia)
Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-New York)
Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay (DR-Kentucky)
Congress: 15th (until March 4), 16th (starting March 4)
 Governors and Lieutenant Governors

Governors
Governor of Alabama: William Wyatt Bibb (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 14)
Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott, Jr. (Toleration)
Governor of Delaware: John Clark (Federalist)
Governor of Georgia:

until October 24: William Rabun (Democratic-Republican)

October 24-November 5:Matthew Talbot (Democratic-Republican)
starting November 5: John Clark (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Illinois: Shadrach Bond (Independent)
Governor of Indiana: Jonathan Jennings (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Kentucky: Gabriel Slaughter (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Louisiana: Jacques Viller (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Maryland:

until January 8: Charles Carnan Ridgely(Federalist)

January 8-December 20:Charles Goldsborough(Federalist)
starting December 20:Samuel Sprigg (Democratic)
Governor of Massachusetts: John Brooks (Federalist)
Governor of Mississippi: David Holmes (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of New Hampshire: William Plumer (Democratic-Republican) (until June 3), Samuel Bell (Democratic-
Republican) (starting June 3)
Governor of New Jersey: Isaac Halstead Williamson(Federalist)
Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of North Carolina: John Branch (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Ohio: Ethan Allen Brown (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Pennsylvania: William Findlay (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Rhode Island: Nehemiah R. Knight (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of South Carolina: John Geddes (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Tennessee: Joseph McMinn (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Vermont: Jonas Galusha (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Virginia: James Patton Preston (Democratic-Republican) (until December 1), Thomas Mann
Randolph, Jr. (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 1)

Lieutenant Governors
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Jonathan Ingersoll (Democratic-Republican)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Pierre Menard (Democratic-Republican)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: vacant (until December 8),Ratliff Boon (Democratic-Republican) (starting
December 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William Phillips, Jr. (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Duncan Stewart (no political party)
Lieutenant Governor of New York: John Tayler (Democratic-Republican)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Edward Wilcox (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: William Youngblood (Democratic-Republican)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Paul Brigham (Democratic-Republican)

Events
January 2 The Panic of 1819, the first major financial crisis in the United States, begins.
 January 25 Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia.
January 30 Romney Literary Societyestablished as the Polemic Society ofRomney, West Virginia.
February 2 The Supreme Court underJohn Marshall rules in favor of Dartmouth College in the famous Dartmouth
College v. Woodward case, allowing Dartmouth to keep its charter and remain a private institution.
February 15 The United States House of Representativesagrees to the Tallmadge Amendment barring slaves
from the new state of Missouri (the opening vote in a controversy that leads to the
Missouri Compromise).
February 22 Spain cedesFlorida to the United States (seeAdams
Ons Treaty).
March 1 The U.S. naval vesselUSS Columbus is launched in
Washington, DC.
March 2 Arkansas Territory is created.
March 6 McCulloch v. Maryland: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that
the Bank of the United Statesis constitutional.
May 22 The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia on a
voyage to become the firststeamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The
ship arrives at Liverpool, England on June 20.
July 4 Arkansas Territory is effective. Samuel Seymour's 1819 illustration
August 6 Norwich University is founded by CaptainAlden Partridge in of a Kansa war dance
Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
August 24 Samuel Seymour sketches aKansa lodge and war dance at
the present location ofManhattan, Kansas, while part of Stephen Harriman Long's exploring party. This work is now
the oldest drawing known to be made in the state ofKansas.
December 14 Alabama is admitted as the 22nd U.S. state s( ee History of Alabama).

Undated
The Ai Noa Movement takes power in Hawaii.

Ongoing
Era of Good Feelings (18171825)

Births
January 3 Thomas H. Watts, 18th Governor of Alabama, 3rd Confederate States Attorney General(died 1892)
January 22 Morton S. Wilkinson, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1859 to 1865 (died1894)
February 12 William Wetmore Story, sculptor, art critic, poet and editor (died1895
February 22 James Russell Lowell, poet (died 1891)
February 23 George S. Cook, prominent early photographer (died1902)
March 29 Edwin Drake, first American to successfully drill for oil (died1880)
April 11 Margaret Lea Houston, First Lady of the Republic of Texas (died 1867)
June 29 Thomas Dunn English, politician and poet (died1902)
June 30 William A. Wheeler, 19th Vice President of the United Statesfrom 1877 to 1881 (died1887)
July 24 Josiah Gilbert Holland, novelist and poet (died1881)
May 27 Julia Ward Howe, poet and abolitionist (died1910)
May 31 Walt Whitman, poet, essayist and journalist (died1887)
August 1 Herman Melville, novelist, short story writer and poet (died1891)
August 29 Joseph E. McDonald, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1875 to 1881 (died1891)
September 7 Thomas A. Hendricks, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1863 to 1869 and 21st V ice President of the
United States from March to November 1885 (died1885)
September 14 Henry Jackson Hunt, Chief of Artillery in theArmy of the Potomac during the American Civil War
(died 1889)
December 26 E. D. E. N. Southworth, ne Emma Nevitte, novelist (died1899)

Deaths
 February 5 Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (born1783)
May 22 Hugh Williamson, Founding Father (born 1735)
July 1 Jemima Wilkinson, preacher (born 1754)
August 23 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval officer (born 1785)
September 18 John Langdon, Founding Father (born1741)
October 7 William Samuel Johnson, Founding Father (born1727)
November 9 Simon Snyder, politician (born 1759)

Further reading
Slavery in Virginia, 1819. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society , Third Series, Vol. 43, (October, 1909
June, 1910)
Letter of William Wirt, 1819.The American Historical Review, Vol. 25, No. 4 (July, 1920), pp. 692695
J. Wilfrid Parsons. The Catholic Church in America in 1819: A Contemporary Account. The Catholic Historical
Review, Vol. 5, No. 4 (January, 1920), pp. 301310
Report of Inspection of the Ninth Military Department, 1819.The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 7, No. 3
(December, 1920), pp. 261274
Samuel Rezneck. The Depression of 18191822, A Social History . The American Historical Review, Vol. 39, No. 1
(October, 1933), pp. 2847
Martin Staples Shockley. The Proprietors of Richmond's New Theatre of 1819.The William and Mary Quarterly,
Second Series, Vol. 19, No. 3 (July, 1939), pp. 302308
Dorothy Riker. Two accounts of the upper Wabash country, 181920. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 37, No. 4
(1941), pp. 384395
Fritz Redlich. William Jones and His Unsuccessful Steamboat eVnture of 1819. Bulletin of the Business Historical
Society, Vol. 21, No. 5 (November, 1947), pp. 125136
Paul C. Henlein, F. Renick, W. Renick. Journal of F. and W. Renick on an Exploring Tour to the Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers in the Year 1819. Agricultural History, Vol. 30, No. 4 (October, 1956), pp. 174186
Philip F. Detweiler. Congressional Debate on Slavery and the Declaration of Independenc e, 18191821. The
American Historical Review, Vol. 63, No. 3 (April, 1958), pp. 598616
Helen McCann White. Frontier Feud: 181920: How w T o Officers Quarreled All the Way to the Site of Fort Snelling.
Minnesota History, Vol. 42, No. 3, Fort Snelling Issue (Fall, 1970), pp. 99114
Frederic Trautmann. Pennsylvania through aGerman's Eyes: The Travels of Ludwig Gall, 18191820. The
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , Vol. 105, No. 1 (January, 1981), pp. 3565
Andrew R. L. Cayton. The Fragmentation of "A Great Family": The Panic of 1819 and the Rise of the Middling
Interest in Boston, 18181822.Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer, 1982), pp. 143167
Edwin J. Perkins. Langdon Cheves and the Panic of 1819: A Reassessment. The Journal of Economic History, Vol.
44, No. 2, The Tasks of Economic History (June, 1984), pp. 455461
Robert M. Blackson. Pennsylvania Banks and the Panic of 1819: A Reinterpretation. Journal of the Early Republic,
Vol. 9, No. 3 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 335358
Clyde Haulman. Virginia Commodity Prices during the Panic of 1819.Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 22, No. 4
(Winter, 2002), pp. 675688
David Anthony. "Gone Distracted": "Sleepy Hollow," Gothic Masculinity, and the Panic of 1819.Early American
Literature, Vol. 40, No. 1 (2005), pp. 111144

External links
Media related to 1819 in the United Statesat Wikimedia Commons

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1819_in_the_United_States&oldid=783833552

"

This page was last edited on 4 June 2017, at 23:27.

Text is available under theCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this
site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of theWikimedia
Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.