1833 in the United States

1833 in the United States
Years:	1830 1831 1832 – 1833 – 1834 1835 1836
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Events from the year 1833 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

• President: Andrew Jackson (D-Tennessee)
• Vice President: vacant (until March 4), Martin Van Buren (Democratic-New York) (starting March 4)
• Chief Justice: John Marshall (is originally now residing at this time in from of the U.S. state of Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia)
• Congress: 22nd (until March 4), 23rd (starting March 4)

Governors and Lieutenant Governors

Governors Governor of Alabama: John Gayle (Democratic) Governor of Connecticut: John Samuel Peters (National Republican) (until May 1), Henry W. Edwards (Democratic) (starting May 1) Governor of Delaware: David Hazzard (National Republican) (until January 15), Caleb P. Bennett (Democratic) (starting January 15) Governor of Georgia: Wilson Lumpkin (Democratic) Governor of Illinois: John Reynolds (Democratic) Governor of Indiana: Noah Noble (Whig) Governor of Kentucky: John Breathitt (Democratic) Governor of Louisiana: André B. Roman (Whig) Governor of Maine: Samuel E. Smith (Democratic) Governor of Maryland: George Howard (National Republican) (until January 17), James Thomas (Whig) (starting January 17) Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln, Jr. (National Republican) Governor of Mississippi: until July 12: Abram M. Scott (Democratic) July 12-November 20: Charles Lynch (Democratic) starting November 20: Hiram Runnels (Democratic) Governor of Missouri: Daniel Dunklin (Democratic) Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel Dinsmoor (Democratic) Governor of New Jersey: until February 27: Samuel L. Southard (Whig) February 27-October 25: Elias P. Seeley (Whig) starting October 25: Peter Dumont Vroom (Democratic) Governor of New York: William L. Marcy (Democratic) (starting January 1) Governor of North Carolina: David Lowry Swain (National Republican) Governor of Ohio: Robert Lucas (Democratic) Governor of Pennsylvania: George Wolf (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Rhode Island: Lemuel H. Arnold (Whig) (until May 1), John Brown Francis (Democratic) (starting May 1) Governor of South Carolina: Robert Young Hayne (Democratic) Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic) Governor of Vermont: William A. Palmer (Anti-Masonic) Governor of Virginia: John Floyd (Democratic) Lieutenant Governors Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Thaddeus Betts (Whig) (until May 1), Ebenezer Stoddard (Democratic-Republican) (starting May 1) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Zadok Casey (Democratic) (until March 1), William Lee D. Ewing (Democratic) (starting March 1) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: David Wallace (Whig) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James T. Morehead (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Thomas L. Winthrop (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Samuel T. Armstrong (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Lilburn Boggs (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of New York: John Tracy (Democratic) (starting January 1) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins (political party unknown) (until May 1), Jeffrey Hazard (political party unknown) (starting May 1) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Lebbeus Egerton (Anti-Masonic)

Events

January–March

• 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.

April–June

• May 11 – French-American farmhand Antoine le Blanc murders family of three.
• June 6 – President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train.

July–September

• July 29 – Old State Bank erected in Decatur, Alabama.
• August 12 – The city of Chicago is established at the estuary of the Chicago River by 350 settlers.
• August 20 – Future United States President 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 19 living Presidents of the United States (3 former, 1 current, and 15 known future); more than any other time period in U.S. history.
• September 2 – Oberlin College is founded in 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 – Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio

Ongoing

• Nullification Crisis (1832–1833)

Births

• March 9 – Thomas W. Osborn, United States Senator from Florida from 1868 till 1873. (died 1898)
• August 7 – Powell Clayton, United States Senator from Arkansas from 1868 till 1871. (died 1914)
• August 20 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States from 1889 till 1893 and United States Senator from Indiana from 1881 to 1887. (died 1901)
• September 21 – James Harvey, United States Senator from Kansas from 1833 till 1873. (died 1894)
• November 12 – John Martin, United States Senator from Kansas from 1893 till 1895. (died 1913)
• December 29 – John James Ingalls, United States Senator from Kansas from 1873 till 1891. (died 1900)

Deaths

• May 19 – Josiah S. Johnston, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1824 till 1833. (born 1784)

See also

• 1833 in Canada

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons