1825 in the United States

::John Quincy Adams (DR/NR-Massachusetts) (starting March 4) - Vice President: ::Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-New York) (until March 4) ::John C. Calhoun (D-South Carolina) (starting March 4) - Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia) - Speaker of the House of Representatives: ::Henry Clay (DR-Kentucky) (until March 4) ::John W. Taylor (DR-New York) (starting December 5) - Congress: [18th](18th-united-states-congress) (until March 4), [19th](19th-united-states-congress) (starting March 4) #### State governments ::data[format=table] | Governors and lieutenant governors | |---| | | :: ## Events ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/John_Quincy_Adams.jpeg" caption="March 4: [[John Quincy Adams]] becomes the sixth U.S. president"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/JCCalhoun-1822.jpg" caption="[[John C. Calhoun]] becomes the seventh U.S. vice president"] :: ### January–March - January 10 – Indianapolis becomes the capital of Indiana (moved from Corydon, Indiana). - February 9 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of U.S. Electoral College votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States in a contingent election. - February 12 – Treaty of Indian Springs: The Lower Creek Council, led by William McIntosh, cedes a large amount of Creek territory in Georgia to the United States government. - March 4 – John Quincy Adams is sworn in as the sixth president of the United States, and John C. Calhoun is sworn in as the seventh vice president. - March 17 – The Norfolk & Dedham Group is founded as The Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company. ### April–June - April 30 – Upper Creek chief Menawa leads an attack that assassinates William McIntosh for signing the Treaty of Indian Springs. - May 11 – American Tract Society is founded. - June 3 – Kansa Nation cedes its territory to the United States (see History of Kansas). - June 11 – The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City. ### July–September - July 14 – The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society is founded by 16 disgruntled members of the now-defunct Patrick Henry Society in Room 7, West Lawn, of the University of Virginia. - August 19 – First Treaty of Prairie du Chien at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin ### October–December - October 25 – The Erie Canal opens, granting passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie. - November 7 - Treaty of St. Louis: 1,400 Missouri Shawnees are forcibly relocated from Missouri to Kansas (*see* History of Kansas). - Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy: Lawyer Jereboam O. Beauchamp murders Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp in a family feud, becaming the first person legally executed in the state. - November 12 – New Echota designated as the capital of the Cherokee Nation. - November 26 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society as the first college social fraternity (it is the first to combine aspects of secret Greek-letter societies, literary societies and formalized student social groups). ### Undated - The Osage Nation cedes traditional lands by treaty. - The Cherokee Nation officially adopts Sequoyah's syllabary. - Vancouver, Washington is established by Dr. John McLoughlin on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company. - Ypsilanti, Michigan is established. - Vicksburg, Mississippi is incorporated. - New Harmony, Indiana established as a social experiment, built by the Harmony Society and sold to Robert Owen. - The United States Postal Service starts a dead letter office. - Centenary College of Louisiana is founded in Jackson, Louisiana. The campus later moves to Shreveport, Louisiana. ### Ongoing - Era of Good Feelings (1817–1825) - John Neal publishing serially the first written history of American literature, *American Writers* (1824–1825) ## Births - January 5 – John Mason Loomis, lumber tycoon, Union militia colonel in the American Civil War and philanthropist (died [1900](1900-in-the-united-states)) - January 11 - Clement V. Rogers, Cherokee politician and father of Will Rogers (died [1911](1911-in-the-united-states)) - Bayard Taylor, poet and travel writer (died [1878](1878-in-the-united-states)) - January 25 – George Pickett, Confederate general in the American Civil War (died [1876](1876-in-the-united-states)) - February 11 – Frank Pidgeon, baseball pitcher (died [1884](1884-in-the-united-states)) - April 7 – John H. Gear, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1895 to 1900 (died [1900](1900-in-the-united-states)) - April 17 – Jerome B. Chaffee, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1879 (died [1886](1886-in-the-united-states)) - June 1 – John Hunt Morgan, Confederate general in the American Civil War (died [1864](1864-in-the-united-states)) - July 2 – Richard Henry Stoddard, critic and poet (died [1903](1903-in-the-united-states)) - July 10 – Benjamin Paul Akers, sculptor (died [1861](1861-in-the-united-states)) - July 15 – Joseph Carter Abbott, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1868 to 1871 (died [1881](1881-in-the-united-states)) - July 19 – George H. Pendleton, politician (died [1889](1889-in-the-united-states)) - August 7 – Jacob Wrey Mould, New York architect, illustrator, linguist and musician (died 1886) - August 10 – Edmund Spangler, carpenter and stagehand employed at Ford's Theatre at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (died [1875](1875-in-the-united-states)) - September 13 – William Henry Rinehart, sculptor (died [1874](1874-in-the-united-states)) - September 17 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died [1893](1893-in-the-united-states)) - September 24 – Frances Harper, née Watkins, African American poet and abolitionist (died [1911](1911-in-the-united-states)) - October 8 – Paschal Beverly Randolph, occultist (died [1875](1875-in-the-united-states)) - October 25 – Francis March, comparative linguist (died [1911](1911-in-the-united-states)) - November 9 – A. P. Hill, Confederate general (killed [1865](1865-in-the-united-states) in the American Civil War) - December 18 – John S. Harris, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1871 (died [1906](1906-in-the-united-states)) - December 30 - Newton Booth, U.S. Senator from California from 1875 to 1881 (died [1892](1892-in-the-united-states)) - Samuel Newitt Wood, politician (died [1891](1891-in-the-united-states)) ## Deaths - January 8 – Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin and milling machine (born [1765](1765)) - March 1 – John Haggin, "Indian fighter" and early settler of Kentucky (born [1753](1753)) - March 4 – Hercules Mulligan, tailor and spy during the American Revolutionary War (born [1740](1740)) - March 4 – Raphaelle Peale, still-life painter (born [1774](1774)) - June 4 – Morris Birkbeck, writer and social reformer (born [1764](1764)) - June 11 – Daniel Tompkins, sixth vice president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (born 1774) - June 14 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect and civil engineer (born [1754 in France](1754-in-france)) - August 16 – Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, politician and soldier (born [1746](1746)) - August 27 – Lucretia Maria Davidson, poet (born [1808](1808-in-the-united-states); died of consumption) - December 28 – James Wilkinson, soldier and statesman (born [1757](1757)) ## References ## References 1. Pattee, Fred Lewis. (1937). "[[American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824–1825)]]". *Duke University Press*. 2. (1997). ["Long Island country houses and their architects, 1860-1940"](https://books.google.com/books?id=jIXc9ES8qcAC&pg=PT188). *Norton*. ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1825_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/1825_in_the_United_States?action=history). ::