1801 in the United States

::Thomas Jefferson (DR-Virginia) (starting March 4) - Vice President: ::Thomas Jefferson (DR-Virginia) (until March 4) ::Aaron Burr (DR-New York) (starting March 4) - Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia) - Speaker of the House of Representatives: ::Theodore Sedgwick (F-Massachusetts) (until March 4) ::Nathaniel Macon (DR-North Carolina) (starting December 7) - Congress: [6th](6th-united-states-congress) (until March 4), [7th](7th-united-states-congress) (starting March 4) #### State governments ::data[format=table] | Governors and lieutenant governors | |---| | | :: ## Events - January 10 – William Henry Harrison becomes the first Governor of the Indiana Territory. - January 31 – John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States. - February – [Contingent election of 1801](1800-united-states-presidential-election-1801-contingent-election): An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved, when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives. - February 27 – Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the Congress of the United States. - March 4 – Thomas Jefferson is sworn in as the third president of the United States, and Aaron Burr is sworn in as the third vice president. - May 10 – The First Barbary War begins as the pasha of Tripoli declares war on the United States by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down. - July – Eli Whitney demonstrates before Congress the advantages of the system of interchangeable parts in the manufacture of firearms. - August 1 – Action of 1 August 1801 (First Barbary War): United States Navy schooner captures the 14-gun Tripolitan corsair polacca *Tripoli* off the north African coast in a single-ship action. - November 16 – The first edition of *New York Evening Post* is printed. - *Jefferson*, the first American yacht, is built in Salem, Massachusetts, for George Crowninshield Jr. ### Ongoing - First Barbary War (1801–1805) File:Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale,_1800.jpg|March 4: Thomas Jefferson becomes the third U.S. president File:John Vanderlyn - Official Portrait of Vice President Aaron Burr.jpg|Aaron Burr becomes the third U.S. vice president File:EnterpriseTripoli.jpg|August 1: *Enterprise* defeats the corsair *Tripoli* ## Births - January 20 – Thomas Hickman Williams, United States Senator from Mississippi from 1838 to 1839 (died [1851](1851-in-the-united-states)) - March 15 – George Perkins Marsh, diplomat, philologist and pioneer environmentalist (died [1882](1882-in-the-united-states)) - March 27 – Alexander Barrow, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1841 to 1846 (died [1846](1846-in-the-united-states)) - April 26 – Ambrose Dudley Mann, first United States Assistant Secretary of State (died [1889](1889-in-the-united-states)) - May 6 – George S. Greene, Union Army general (died [1899](1899-in-the-united-states)) - May 16 – William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 (died [1872](1872-in-the-united-states)) - June 1 – Brigham Young, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (died [1877](1877-in-the-united-states)) - July 5 – David Farragut, flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War (died [1870](1870-in-the-united-states)) - June 14 – Heber C. Kimball, religious leader (died [1868](1868-in-the-united-states)) - June 15 – Benjamin Wright Raymond, 3rd Mayor of Chicago (died [1883](1883-in-the-united-states)) - August 10 – Robert Woodward Barnwell, United States Senator from South Carolina from 1862 to 1865 (died [1882](1882-in-the-united-states)) - August 31 – Pierre Soule, United States Senator from Louisiana in 1847 and from 1849 to 1853 (died [1870](1870-in-the-united-states)) - September 10 – - Garrett Davis, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1861 to 1872 (died [1872](1872-in-the-united-states)) - Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans (died [1881](1881-in-the-united-states)) - November 4 – Ambrose Hundley Sevier, United States Senator from Arkansas from 1836 to 1848 (died [1848](1848-in-the-united-states)) - November 9 – Gail Borden, surveyor, newspaper publisher and inventor of condensed milk (died [1874](1874-in-the-united-states)) - November 10 – Samuel Gridley Howe, physician and abolitionist (died [1876](1876-in-the-united-states)) - December 28 – James Barnes, Union Army general (died [1869](1869-in-the-united-states)) - Date unknown – Solomon W. Downs, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1847 to 1853 (died [1854](1854-in-the-united-states)) ## Deaths - January 9 – Margaretta Faugères, playwright, poet and political activist (born 1771) - February 6 – Annis Boudinot Stockton, poet and sponsor of literary salons (born 1736 ) - February 23 – Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, poet and sponsor of literary salons (born 1737) - March 14 – Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler, youngest child of Philip Schuyler (born [1758](1758)) - June 4 – Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the House of Representatives (born 1750) - June 14 – Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary hero and traitor (born 1741) - September 10 – Jason Fairbanks, murderer (born [1780](1780-in-the-united-states)) - November 4 – William Shippen, physician and Continental Congressman (born 1712) - November 23 – Philip Hamilton, first son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, (fatally shot by George Eacker in a duel at age 19) (born [1782](1782-in-the-united-states)) ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1801_in_the_United_States) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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