1827 in the United States

::Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia) (starting December 3) - Congress: [19th](19th-united-states-congress) (until March 4), [20th](20th-united-states-congress) (starting March 4) #### State governments ::data[format=table] | Governors and lieutenant governors | |---| | | :: ## Events - February 28 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight. - March 12 – In *Brown v. Maryland*, the United States Supreme Court ruled that imported goods in their original package are under federal jurisdiction and thus not subject to state regulation. - March 16 – *Freedom's Journal*, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm. - May 21 – The Maryland Democratic Party is founded by supporters of Andrew Jackson in Baltimore and hosts its first meeting at the Baltimore Atheneum. - July 4 – Madawaska declares independence from the United States, as part of a border dispute between British North America and the United States, so that it can be annexed by Maine. - September 3 – Ho-Chunk leader Red Bird surrenders to U.S. officials, ending the Winnebago War. - J. J. Audubon's *The Birds of America* commences publication in the United Kingdom. - September 25 – Madawaska is annexed by the United States, and John Baker is arrested. - The original Delmonico's restaurant opens in Manhattan. - The first English translation of Christopher Columbus' journal by Samuel Kettell is published in Boston. - John Neal opens the first public gymnasium in the United States founded by an American in Portland, Maine. ## Births - January 17 – Samuel Hartt Pook, Boston naval architect (died [1901](1901-in-the-united-states)) - February 17 – Rose Terry Cooke, fiction writer and poet (died [1892](1892-in-the-united-states)) - March 25 – Stephen Luce, admiral (died [1917](1917-in-the-united-states)) - April 10 – Lew Wallace, Union general in the American Civil War, politician and novelist (died [1905](1905-in-the-united-states)) - May 10 – William Windom, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1870 to 1881 and from 1881 to 1883 (died [1891](1891-in-the-united-states)) - May 21 – William P. Sprague, Ohio politician (died [1899](1899-in-the-united-states)) - May 23 – Milton Latham, U.S. Senator from California from 1860 to 1863 (died [1882](1882-in-the-united-states)) - May 27 – Samuel F. Miller, politician (died 1892) - June 7 – Alonzo J. Edgerton, U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1881 (died [1896](1896-in-the-united-states)) - June 9 – Francis Miles Finch, judge, poet and academic (died [1907](1907-in-the-united-states)) - June 10 – Thomas W. Ferry, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1871 to 1883 (died 1896) - July 11 – Austin Corbin, railroad executive and robber baron (died 1896) - July 13 – Hugh O'Brien, 31st Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (died 1895) - July 19 – Orville H. Platt, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1879 to 1905 (died 1905) - August 3 – John Williams Tobey, architect, carpenter and builder (died [1909](1909-in-the-united-states)) - August 6 – George Franklin Drew, 12th Governor of Florida (died [1900](1900-in-the-united-states)) - September 18 – John Townsend Trowbridge, author (died [1916](1916-in-the-united-states)) - September 26 – Daniel W. Voorhees, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897 (died [1897](1897-in-the-united-states)) - September 28 – Aaron A. Sargent, journalist and lawyer, U.S. Senator from California from 1873 to 1879 (died [1887](1887-in-the-united-states)) - September 30 – Ellis H. Roberts, politician (died [1918](1918-in-the-united-states)) - October 12 – Josiah Parsons Cooke, chemist (died [1894](1894-in-the-united-states)) - October 13 – Robert Crozier, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1874 (died [1895](1895-in-the-united-states)) - November 10 – J. T. Wamelink, Dutch-born composer (died [1910](1910-in-the-united-states)) - November 26 – Ellen G. White, née Harmon, Adventist (died [1915](1915-in-the-united-states)) - Date unknown – Asahel C. Beckwith, U.S. Senator from Wyoming in 1893 (died 1896) ## Deaths - February 22 – Charles Willson Peale, portrait painter (born [1741](1741)) - February 23 – Felipe Enrique Neri, Texas legislator, colonizer (born [1759](1759)) - April 24 – Israel Pickens, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1821 to 1825 (born [1780](1780-in-the-united-states)) - April 29 - Rufus King, lawyer, politician and diplomat (born [1755](1755)) - Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier (born [1760](1760)) - May 29 – Carlos Wilcox, poet (born [1794](1794-in-the-united-states)) - August 28 – Overseer Ira Walton kills Gilbert at Andrew Jackson's slave-labor camp The Hermitage. - September 23 – Freeman Walker, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1819 to 1821 (born 1780) - October 12 – John Eager Howard, politician (born [1752](1752)) - November 10 – St. George Tucker, lawyer and poet (born 1752 in Bermuda) - November 25 – Enoch Fenwick, Jesuit priest (born 1780) ## References ## References 1. Samuel Eliot Morison. (August 1939). ["Texts and Translations of the Journal of Columbus' First Voyage"](http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/caribbean/columbus-journal.pdf). *The Hispanic American Historical Review*. 2. Leonard, Fred Eugene. (1923). ["A Guide to the History of Physical Education"](https://archive.org/details/guidetohistoryof00leon/). *Lea & Febiger*. 3. (1828-09-09). ["Domestic"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/richmond-enquirer-domestic/154237839/). *Richmond Enquirer*. ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1827_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/1827_in_the_United_States?action=history). ::