1827 in the United States

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Events from the year 1827 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

• President: John Quincy Adams (DR/NR-Massachusetts)
• Vice President: John C. Calhoun (D-South Carolina)
• Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: John W. Taylor (DR-New York) (until March 4), Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia) (starting December 3)
• Congress: 19th (until March 4), 20th (starting March 4)

Governors and Lieutenant Governors

Governors Governor of Alabama: John Murphy (Democratic) Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott, Jr. (Toleration) (until May 2), Gideon Tomlinson (Democratic-Republican) (starting May 2) Governor of Delaware: Samuel Paynter (Federalist) (until January 16), Charles Polk, Jr. (Federalist) (starting January 16) Governor of Georgia: George M. Troup (Democratic-Republican) (until November 7), John Forsyth (Democratic-Republican) (starting November 7) Governor of Illinois: Ninian Edwards (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Indiana: James B. Ray (Independent) Governor of Kentucky: Joseph Desha (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Louisiana: Henry Johnson (National Republican) Governor of Maine: Albion K. Parris (Democratic-Republican) (until January 3), Enoch Lincoln (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 3) Governor of Maryland: Joseph Kent (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln, Jr. (National Republican) Governor of Mississippi: Gerard Brandon (Democratic) Governor of Missouri: John Miller (Democratic) Governor of New Hampshire: David L. Morril (Democratic-Republican) (until June 7), Benjamin Pierce (Democratic-Republican) (starting June 7) Governor of New Jersey: Isaac Halstead Williamson (Federalist) Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican) Governor of North Carolina: Hutchins Gordon Burton (no political party) (until December 8), James Iredell, Jr. (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 8) Governor of Ohio: Allen Trimble (Federalist) Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Rhode Island: James Fenner (Democratic-Republican) Governor of South Carolina: John Taylor (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic-Republican) (until October 1), Sam Houston (Democratic-Republican) (starting October 1) Governor of Vermont: Ezra Butler (National Republican) Governor of Virginia: John Tyler (Democratic-Republican) (until March 4), William Branch Giles (Democratic) (starting March 4) Lieutenant Governors Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: David Plant (National Republican) (until May 2), John Samuel Peters (National Republican) (starting May 2) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William Kinney (Democratic-Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: John H. Thompson (Democratic-Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Robert B. McAfee (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: vacant (until month and day unknown), Thomas L. Winthrop (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: vacant Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: vacant Lieutenant Governor of New York: Nathaniel Pitcher (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 1) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: James Witherspoon (Democratic-Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Aaron Leland (Democratic-Republican) (until month and day unknown), Henry Olin (Democratic-Republican) (starting month and day unknown)

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.
• 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.
• The original Delmonico's restaurant opens in Manhattan.
• The first English translation of Christopher Columbus' journal by Samuel Kettell is published in Boston.

Births

• May 10 – William Windom, United States Senator from Minnesota from 1870 till 1881 and from 1881 till 1883. (died 1891)
• May 23 – Milton Latham, United States Senator from California from 1860 till 1863. (died 1882)
• June 7 – Alonzo J. Edgerton, United States Senator from Minnesota in 1881. (died 1896)
• June 10 – Thomas W. Ferry, United States Senator from Michigan from 1871 till 1883. (died 1896)
• July 19 – Orville H. Platt, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1879 till 1905. (died 1905)
• September 26 – Daniel W. Voorhees, United States Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897. (died 1897)
• September 28 – Aaron A. Sargent, United States Senator from California from 1873 till 1879. (died 1887)
• October 13 – Robert Crozier, United States Senator from Kansas from 1873 till 1874. (died 1895)
• Date unknown – Asahel C. Beckwith, United States Senator from Wyoming in 1893. (died 1896)

Deaths

• March 24 – Rufus King, lawyer, politician, diplomat, signatory of the United States Constitution (born 1755)
• April 24 – Israel Pickens, United States Senator from Alabama from 1821 till 1825. (born 1780)
• September 23 – Freeman Walker, United States Senator from Georgia from 1819 till 1821. (born 1780)

External links

• Media related to 1827 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons