1807 in the United States

::Joseph Bradley Varnum (DR-Massachusetts) (starting October 26) - Congress: [9th](9th-united-states-congress) (until March 4), [10th](10th-united-states-congress) (starting March 4) #### State governments ::data[format=table] | Governors and lieutenant governors | |---| | | :: ## Events - February 10 – The United States Coast Survey is established; work begins on August 3, 1816. - February 19 – Burr conspiracy: Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested on charges of treason. He is accused of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico to become part of an independent republic. - March 2 – The U.S. Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States....from any foreign kingdom, place, or country" (to take effect January 1, 1808). - May 22 – A grand jury indicts Aaron Burr for treason. - June 22 – The *Chesapeake*–*Leopard* affair: The British warship captures and boards the . - July 1 – Pike Expedition ends. - August 17 – The *Clermont*, Robert Fulton's first American steamboat, leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. - September 1 – Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason. - December 22 – The U.S. Congress passes the Embargo Act. ## Births - January 6 – Joseph Holt, 25th United States Secretary of War and Judge Advocate General of the United States Army during the Lincoln assassination trials (died [1894](1894-in-the-united-states)) - January 11 – Ezra Cornell, founder of Western Union and co-founder of Cornell University (died [1874](1874-in-the-united-states)) - January 19 - Robert M. Charlton, United States Senator from Georgia from 1852 till 1853 (died 1854) - Robert E. Lee, General of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War (died [1870](1890-in-the-united-states)) - February 3 – Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate Army general (died [1891](1891-in-the-united-states)) - February 16 – Lysander Cutler, Union general (died [1866](1866-in-the-united-states)) - February 25 – George Trenholm, 2nd Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury (died [1876](1876-in-the-united-states)) - February 27 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet and professor (died [1882](1882-in-the-united-states)) - March 1 – Wilford Woodruff, 4th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died [1898](1898-in-the-united-states)) - April 24 – Charles Ferguson Smith, Union Army major general (died [1862](1862-in-the-united-states)) - May 1 – John B. Magruder, Confederate Army major general (died [1871](1871-in-the-united-states)) - June 24 – John Pettit, United States Senator from Indiana from 1853 to 1855 (died [1877](1877-in-the-united-states)) - June 25 – Edward A. Hannegan, United States Senator from Indiana from 1843 to 1849 (died [1859](1859-in-the-united-states)) - July 12 – Silas Casey, Union Army major general (died [1882](1882-in-the-united-states)) - August 11 – David Rice Atchison, United States Senator from Missouri from 1844 till 1855 (died [1886](1886-in-the-united-states)) - August 18 – Charles Francis Adams Sr., United States Minister to the United Kingdom, son of John Quincy Adams (died [1886](1886-in-the-united-states)) - September 25 – Alfred Vail, machinist and inventor (died [1859](1859-in-the-united-states)) - October 17 – Stephen Adams, United States Senator from Mississippi from 1852 till 1857 (died [1857](1857-in-the-united-states)) - October 30 – James S. Wadsworth, Union Army general (died [1864](1864-in-the-united-states)) - December 14 – Francis Gillette, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1854 till 1855 (died [1879](1879-in-the-united-states)) - December 17 – John Greenleaf Whittier, poet and abolitionist (died [1892](1892-in-the-united-states)) ## Deaths - March 4 – Abraham Baldwin, United States Senator from Georgia from 1799 to 1807 (born [1754](1754)) - May 13 – Eliphalet Dyer, jurist and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress (born [1721](1721)) - May 17 – John Gunby, Maryland soldier in the American Revolutionary War (born [1745](1745)) - November 24 – Joseph Brant, Mohawk military and political leader (born [1743](1743)) - November 26 - Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (born [1745](1745)) - *Full date unknown* - Eliphalet Chapin, furniture designer (born [1741](1741)) ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1807_in_the_United_States) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1807_in_the_United_States?action=history). ::