1821 in the United States

::Philip P. Barbour (DR-Virginia) (starting December 4) - Congress: [16th](16th-united-states-congress) (until March 4), [17th](17th-united-states-congress) (starting March 4) #### State governments ::data[format=table] | Governors and lieutenant governors | |---| | | :: ## Events ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/James_Monroe_White_House_portrait_1819.jpg" caption="[[James Monroe]] by [[Samuel Morse"] :: - February 9 – The George Washington University is chartered as The Columbian College of the District of Columbia by President James Monroe. - March 4 – James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins begin their second terms as President and Vice President of the United States. - March 5 – James Monroe is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States. Daniel D. Tompkins is sworn in for his second term as Vice President of the United States. - June 27 – The New Hampton School is founded in the state of New Hampshire. - July 10 – The U.S. takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain. - August 4 – *The Saturday Evening Post* is published for the first time, as a weekly newspaper. - August 10 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state (*see* History of Missouri). - September 3 – The [1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane](1821-norfolk-and-long-island-hurricane) strikes New York City. - September 18 – Amherst College is founded in Massachusetts. - November 9 – Israel Pickens is sworn in as the third governor of Alabama, replacing Thomas Bibb. - November 16 – American Old West: The Santa Fe Trail is used for the first time by a White American, William Becknell. - History of Liberia – The first groups of freed slaves from the U.S. arrive in modern-day Liberia and found Monrovia. - Widener University is founded in Wilmington, Delaware, as The Bullock School for Boys. ### Ongoing - Era of Good Feelings (1817–1825) ## Births - January 2 – Napoleon LeBrun, architect (died [1901](1901-in-the-united-states)) - January 8 – James Longstreet, one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War (died [1904](1904-in-the-united-states)) - January 16 – John C. Breckinridge, 14th vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861, U.S. Senator from Kentucky in 1861 (died [1875](1875-in-the-united-states)) - February 4 – Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, sonneteer (died [1873](1873-in-the-united-states)) - February 19 – Francis Preston Blair Jr., U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1871 to 1873 (died 1875) - March 20 – Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), publisher, dime novelist and publicist (died [1886](1886-in-the-united-states)) - April 12 - Samuel G. Arnold, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1862 to 1863 (died [1880](1880-in-the-united-states)) - Adonijah Welch, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1868 to 1869. (died [1889](1889-in-the-united-states)) - April 15 – Joseph E. Brown, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1880 to 1891 (died [1894](1894-in-the-united-states)) - July 6 – Edmund Pettus, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1897 to 1907 (died [1907](1907-in-the-united-states)) - July 8 – Maria White Lowell, poet and abolitionist (died [1853](1853-in-the-united-states)) - July 13 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (died [1877](1877-in-the-united-states)) - September 22 – John Conness, Irish-born U.S. Senator from California from 1863 to 1869 (died [1909](1909-in-the-united-states)) - October 7 – Richard H. Anderson, United States Army officer during the Mexican–American War, Confederate general during the American Civil War (died [1879](1879-in-the-united-states)) - October 10 – Wade Keyes, Acting Confederate States Attorney General in 1861 and 1863–1864 (died [1879](1879-in-the-united-states)) - October 22 – Collis P. Huntington, railroad promoter (died [1900](1900-in-the-united-states)) - December 25 – Clara Barton, humanitarian and founder of the American branch of the Red Cross. (died [1912](1912-in-the-united-states)) ## Deaths - January 4 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, saint (born [1774](1774)) - March 13 – Waightstill Avery, lawyer and soldier, fought a duel with Andrew Jackson (born [1741](1741)) - October 11 – John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and father of Francis Scott Key (born [1754](1754)) - October 24 – Elias Boudinot, President of the Continental Congress (born [1740](1740)) - *Full date unknown* – Lucy Terry first known African American poet (born c. 1730 in Africa) ## References ## References 1. ["President James Monroe, 1821"](http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/chronology/jmonroe1821.cfm). *Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies*. 2. Ala. General Assembly. ''Journal of the House of Representatives''. 3rd sess., [https://archive.org/details/alabama-house-journal-1821/HJ_1821_11_12/page/n27 29], accessed July 27, 2023 3. ["Richard Heron Anderson {{!}} American general"](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Heron-Anderson). ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1821_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/1821_in_the_United_States?action=history). ::