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List of events
Events from the year 1852 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : Henry W. Collier (Democratic )Governor of Arkansas : John Selden Roane (Democratic ) (until November 15), Elias Nelson Conway (Democratic ) (starting November 15)Governor of California : John McDougall (Democratic ) (until January 8), John Bigler (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Governor of Connecticut : Thomas H. Seymour (Democratic )Governor of Delaware : William H. H. Ross (Democratic )Governor of Florida : Thomas Brown (Whig )Governor of Georgia : Howell Cobb (Democratic )Governor of Illinois : Augustus C. French (Democratic )Governor of Indiana : Joseph A. Wright (Democratic )Governor of Iowa : Stephen P. Hempstead (Democratic )Governor of Kentucky : Lazarus W. Powell (Democratic )Governor of Louisiana : Joseph Marshall Walker (Democratic )Governor of Maine : John Hubbard (Democratic )Governor of Maryland : Enoch Louis Lowe (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : George S. Boutwell (Democratic )Governor of Michigan : John S. Barry (Democratic ) (until January 1), Robert McClelland (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Governor of Mississippi : James Whitfield (Democratic ) (until January 10), Henry S. Foote (Democratic ) (starting January 10)Governor of Missouri : Austin Augustus King (Democratic )Governor of New Hampshire : Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. (Democratic ) (until June 3), Noah Martin (Democratic ) (starting June 3)Governor of New Jersey : George F. Fort (Democratic )Governor of New York : Washington Hunt (Whig ) (until end of December 31)Governor of North Carolina : David Settle Reid (Democratic )Governor of Ohio : Reuben Wood (Democratic )Governor of Pennsylvania : William F. Johnston (Whig ) (until January 20), William Bigler (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Governor of Rhode Island : Philip Allen (Democratic )Governor of South Carolina : John Hugh Means (Democratic ) (until December 9), John Lawrence Manning (Democratic ) (starting December 9)Governor of Tennessee : William B. Campbell (Whig )Governor of Texas : Peter Hansborough Bell (Democratic )Governor of Vermont : Charles K. Williams (Whig ) (until October), Erastus Fairbanks (Whig ) (starting October)Governor of Virginia : John B. Floyd (Democratic ) (until January 16), Joseph Johnson (Democratic ) (starting January 16)Governor of Wisconsin : Nelson Dewey (Democratic ) (until January 5), Leonard J. Farwell (Whig ) (starting January 5)
Lieutenant Governors
Events
January 15 – Nine men representing various Hebrew charitable organizations come together to form what will become the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City .
February 16 – The Studebaker Brothers Wagon Company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
February 19 – The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania .
March 2 – The first American experimental steam fire engine is tested.[ 1]
March 4 – The Phi Mu fraternity is established at Wesleyan College .
March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe is first published in book form, in Boston .
April 23 – More than 150 Wintu people are killed by a militia under the guidance of Trinity County sheriff William H. Dixon in the Bridge Gulch Massacre .
July 1 – American statesman Henry Clay is the first to receive the honor of lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda .
July 5 – Frederick Douglass delivers his famous speech on "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery " in Rochester, New York .
August 3 – The first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard , the first American intercollegiate athletic event, is held.
September 15 – Loyola College opens its doors to students in the City of Baltimore, Maryland .
November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1852 : Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of New Jersey .
November 25 – Monticello Convention : 44 people from the northern parts of Oregon Territory meet and draft a petition to establish a separate territorial government north of the Columbia River (which becomes, in the following months, Washington Territory ).[ 2]
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 8 – James Milton Carroll , Baptist pastor, leader, historian and author (died 1931 )
January 14 – Cornelia Cole Fairbanks , wife of Charles W. Fairbanks , Second Lady of the United States (died 1913 )
February 16 – Charles Taze Russell , Christian restorationist minister (died 1916 )
February 18 – Ferdinand Lee Barnett , African American journalist, lawyer and civil rights activist (died 1936 )
February 26 – John Harvey Kellogg , Adventist doctor and health reformer (died 1943 )
March 25 – Charles Loomis Dana , neurologist (died 1935 )
April 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey , painter and illustrator (died 1911 )
April 13 – F. W. Woolworth , merchant and businessman (died 1919 )
April 23 – Edwin Markham , poet (died 1940 )
May 1 – Calamity Jane , frontierswoman (died 1903 )
May 11 – Charles W. Fairbanks , 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 till 1909 and United States Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 (died 1918 )
May 14 – Alton B. Parker , judge and Democratic political candidate (died 1926 )
May 18 – Gertrude Käsebier , née Stanton, one of the most influential American portrait photographers of the early 20th century (died 1934 )
May 23 – Weldon B. Heyburn , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1903 to 1912 (died 1912 )
August 16 – Charles Sanger Mellen , railroad manager (died 1927 )
September 15 – Edward Bouchet , African American physicist (died 1918 )
October 25 – Byron Andrews , journalist, statesman, author and businessman (died 1910 )
October 31 – Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman , short-story and children's fiction writer and poet (died 1930 )
November 1 – Eugene W. Chafin , politician (died 1920 )
November 10 – Henry van Dyke , author, poet, educator and clergyman (died 1933 )
November 16 – Joseph R. Burton , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1901 to 1906 (died 1923 )
Deaths
February 14 – Thomas Carlin , 7th Governor of Illinois from 1838 to 1842 (born 1789 )
February 24 – John Frazee , first American-born sculptor to execute a bust in marble (born 1790 )
March 9 – Anson Dickinson , painter of miniature portraits (born 1779 )
April 10 – John Howard Payne , actor, playwright, author and consul in Tunis from 1842, lyricist for "Home! Sweet Home! " (born 1791 )[ 3]
May 6 – William Bellinger Bulloch , U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1813 (born 1777 )
May 15 – Louisa Adams , First Lady of the United States as wife of John Quincy Adams from 1825 to 1829 (born 1775 )
May 18 – Briscoe Baldwin , planter and Virginia politician (born 1789 )
June 8 – Perry Smith , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1837 to 1843 (born 1783 )
June 17 – William King , merchant, shipbuilder, army officer and statesman (born 1768 )
June 29 – Henry Clay , U.S. Senator from Kentucky 1806-1807, 1810-1811, 1831-1842 and 1849-1852 (born 1777)
July 19 – John McKinley , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1826 to 1831 and in 1837, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1837 to 1852 (born 1780 )
August 14 – Margaret Taylor , First Lady of the United States as wife of Zachary Taylor (born 1788 )
September 20 – Philander Chase , Episcopal Church bishop, educator, pioneer of the western frontier and founder of Kenyon College (born 1775 )
September 23 – John Vanderlyn , neoclassical painter (born 1775 )
October 4 – James Whitcomb , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1849 to 1852 (born 1795 )
October 13 – John Lloyd Stephens , traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (born 1805 )
October 24 – Daniel Webster , U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (born 1782 )
October 25 – John C. Clark , politician (born 1793 )
November 18 – John Andrew Shulze , politician (born 1775 )
November 30 – Junius Brutus Booth , actor, father of John Wilkes Booth and Edwin Booth (born 1796 in England )
December 18 – Horatio Greenough , sculptor (born 1805 )
See also
References
External links
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