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Events from the year 1823 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal Government
- President: James Monroe (DR-Virginia)
- Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-New York)
- Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Philip Pendleton Barbour (DR-Virginia) (until March 4), Henry Clay (DR-Kentucky) (starting December 1)
- Congress: 17th (until March 4), 18th (starting March 4)
Events
- August – The Arikara War is fought between the Arikara nation and the United States, the first American military conflict with the Plains Indians.
- August – Hugh Glass is attacked and mauled by a Grizzly bear and left for dead. He crawled 200 miles before reaching help, events depicted in the The Revenant movie.
- November 15 – Chief Lone Horn succeeds (probably) his father, and becomes chief of the Minneconjou Sioux; he will be chief until his death on October 16, 1875.
- December 2 – Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech to the U.S. Congress, announcing a new policy of forbidding European interference in the Americas and establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
- December 23 – A Visit From St. Nicholas, attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, is first published.
Undated
- United States jurisprudence first affirmed the enduring rights of indigenous landholders. (See tribal sovereignty.)
- Orford Parish of East Hartford, Connecticut separates and is incorporated as the Town of Manchester by a special act of the Connecticut General Assembly.
- Jackson Male Academy, precursor of Union University, is founded in Tennessee.
Ongoing
- Era of Good Feelings (1817–1825)
- A. B. plot (1823–1824)
Births
- January 28 – Philip Spencer, founder of Chi Psi Fraternity and midshipman aboard the USS Somers (died 1842)
- March 23 – Schuyler Colfax, the 17th Vice President of the United States from 1869 till 1873. (died 1885)
- July 1 – Charles B. Farwell, United States Senator from Illinois from 1887 till 1891. (died 1903)
- July 9 (date uncertain) – Phineas Gage, improbable head injury survivor (died 1860)
- July 24 – Arthur I. Boreman, United States Senator from West Virginia from 1869 to 1875. (died 1896)
- August 4 – Oliver P. Morton, United States Senator from Indiana from 1867 to 1877. (died 1877)
- August 15 – Orris S. Ferry, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1867 till 1875. (died 1875)
- September 14 – Benjamin Harvey Hill, United States Senator from Georgia from 1877 till 1882. (died 1882)
- November 18 – Charles H. Bell, United States Senator from New Hampshire in 1879. (died 1893)
- November 23 – Eliza Hendricks, wife of Thomas A. Hendricks, Second Lady of the United States (died 1903)
Deaths
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- April 23 – John Williams Walker, United States Senator from Alabama from 1819 till 1822. (born 1783)
- October 8 – Martin D. Hardin, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1816 till 1817. (born 1780)
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