1833 in the United States

- Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia) - Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia) - Congress: [22nd](22nd-united-states-congress) (until March 4), [23rd](23rd-united-states-congress) (starting March 4) #### State governments ::data[format=table] | Governors and lieutenant governors | |---| | | :: ## Events ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Francis_Alexander_-_Martin_Van_Buren_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" caption="March 4: [[Martin Van Buren]] becomes the eighth U.S. vice president"] :: ### January–March - January 1 – Haverford College, located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, is founded by Quakers of the Society of Friends. - March 2 – President Andrew Jackson signs the Force Bill, which authorizes him to use troops to enforce Federal law in South Carolina. - March 4 – Andrew Jackson is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States, and Martin Van Buren is sworn in as Vice President of the United States. - March 16 – *Parley's Magazine*, a periodical for young readers, publishes its first issue in Boston. ### April–June - May 11 – French-American farmhand Antoine le Blanc murders family of three. - June 6 – Andrew Jackson becomes the first U.S. president to ride a railroad train. ### July–September - August 12 – The town of Chicago is established at the estuary of the Chicago River by 350 settlers. - August 20 – Future President of the United States Benjamin Harrison is born in Ohio. From this date until the death of former U.S. President James Madison on June 28, 1836, there are a total of 18 living presidents of the United States (2 former, 1 current, and 15 known future); more than any other time period in U.S. history. - September 2 – Oberlin College is founded in Oberlin, Ohio by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart. ### October–December - November 12–13 – Stars Fell on Alabama: A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed in Alabama. - November 24 – Psi Upsilon is founded at Union College, becoming the fifth fraternity in the United States. - December - American Anti-Slavery Society founded in Philadelphia by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. - Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society is founded; founder members include Sarah Mapps Douglass, Charlotte Forten Grimké and Hetty Reckless. ### Ongoing - Nullification Crisis (1832–1833) ## Births ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison.jpg" caption="[[Benjamin Harrison"] :: - January 2 – Frederick A. Johnson, politician (died [1893](1893-in-the-united-states)) - January 18 – Joseph S. Skerrett, admiral (died [1893](1897-in-the-united-states)) - February 6 – J. E. B. Stuart, United States Army officer; Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War (died [1864](1864-in-the-united-states)) - February 11 – Melville Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (died [1910](1910-in-the-united-states)) - March 9 – Thomas W. Osborn, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1868 to 1873 (died [1898](1898-in-the-united-states)) - March 14 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor, dentist (died [1910](1910-in-the-united-states)) - March 17 – Charles Edwin Wilbour, Egyptologist (died [1896](1896-in-the-united-states)) - May 24 – John Killefer, businessman and inventor (died [1926](1926)) - May 27 – Hester Martha Poole, writer, poet and art critic (died [1932](1932-in-the-united-states)) - June 10 – Pauline Cushman, born Harriet Wood, actress and Union spy in the American Civil War (died [1893](1893-in-the-united-states)) - June 19 – Mary Tenney Gray, editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist and suffragette (died [1904](1904-in-the-united-states)) - August 7 – Powell Clayton, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1871 (died [1914](1914-in-the-united-states)) - August 12 - Lillie Devereux Blake, writer and reformer (died [1913](1913-in-the-united-states)) - Isaac L. Ellwood, businessman, rancher and inventor (died [1910](1910-in-the-united-states)) - August 16 – Eliza Ann Otis, poet, newspaper publisher and philanthropist (died [1904](1904-in-the-united-states)) - August 20 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893 (died [1901](1901-in-the-united-states)) - September 21 – James Harvey, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1833 to 1873 (died [1894](1894-in-the-united-states)) - October 2 – William Corby, Catholic priest (died [1897](1897-in-the-united-states)) - October 8 – Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet, critic, essayist, banker and scientist (died [1908](1908-in-the-united-states)) - November 2 – Horace Howard Furness, Shakespearean scholar (died [1912](1912-in-the-united-states)) - November 12 – John Martin, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1893 to 1895 (died [1913](1913-in-the-united-states)) - November 13 – Edwin Booth, tragic actor (died [1893](1893-in-the-united-states)) - December 6 – John S. Mosby, Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War (died [1916](1916-in-the-united-states)) - December 20 – Samuel Mudd, physician implicated in John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 (died [1883](1883-in-the-united-states)) - December 29 – John James Ingalls, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1891 (died [1900](1900-in-the-united-states)) ## Deaths - January 17 – William Rush, sculptor (born [1756](1756)) - May 19 – Josiah S. Johnston, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1824 to 1833 (born [1784](1784-in-the-united-states)) - May 23 – Francesca Anna Canfield, poet and translator (born [1803](1803-in-the-united-states)) - May 24 – John Randolph, planter and congressman, U.S. senator from Virginia from 1825 to 1827 (born [1773](1773)) - June 1 – Oliver Wolcott Jr., 2nd U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (born [1760](1760)) - July 12 – Samuel Sterett, politician (born [1758](1758)) - July 20 – Ninian Edwards, politician, governor of and senator from Illinois (born [1775](1775)) - July 27 – William Bainbridge, United States Navy officer (born [1774](1774)) - September 28 – Lemuel Haynes, clergyman and veteran of the American Revolution (born [1753](1753)) ## References ## References 1. ["Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States : from George Washington 1789 to George Bush 1989"](http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/jackson2.asp). 2. (2007). ["True Crime, New Jersey: The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases"](https://books.google.com/books?id=9Cym6QLjNJAC&pg=PA8). *Stackpole Books*. 3. (1951). ["THE FIRST WOMAN DENTIST LUCY HOBBS TAYLOR, D. D. S. (1833-1910)"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/44443642). *Bulletin of the History of Medicine*. ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1833_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/1833_in_the_United_States?action=history). ::