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List of events
Events from the year 1850 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : Henry W. Collier (Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas : John Selden Roane (Democratic )
Governor of California : Peter Hardeman Burnett (Democratic ) (starting September 9)
Governor of Connecticut : Joseph Trumbull (Whig ) (until May 4), Thomas H. Seymour (Democratic ) (starting May 4)
Governor of Delaware : William Tharp (Democratic )
Governor of Florida : Thomas Brown (Whig )
Governor of Georgia : George W. Towns (Democratic )
Governor of Illinois : Augustus C. French (Democratic )
Governor of Indiana : Joseph A. Wright (Democratic )
Governor of Iowa : Ansel Briggs (Democratic ) (until December 4), Stephen P. Hempstead (Democratic ) (starting December 4)
Governor of Kentucky : John J. Crittenden (Whig ) (until July 13), John L. Helm (Democratic ) (starting July 13)
Governor of Louisiana : Isaac Johnson (Democratic ) (until January 28), Joseph Marshall Walker (Democratic ) (starting January 28)
Governor of Maine : John W. Dana (Democratic ) (until May 8), John Hubbard (Democratic ) (starting May 8)
Governor of Maryland : Philip F. Thomas (Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts : George N. Briggs (Democratic )
Governor of Michigan : Epaphroditus Ransom (Democratic ) (until January 7), John S. Barry (Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Mississippi : Joseph W. Matthews (Democratic ) (until January 10), John A. Quitman (Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Missouri : Austin Augustus King (Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire : Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. (Democratic )
Governor of New Jersey : Daniel Haines (Democratic )
Governor of New York : Hamilton Fish (Whig ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina : Charles Manly (Whig )
Governor of Ohio : Seabury Ford (Whig ) (until December 12), Reuben Wood (Democratic ) (starting December 12)
Governor of Pennsylvania : William F. Johnston (Whig )
Governor of Rhode Island : Henry B. Anthony (Whig )
Governor of South Carolina : Whitemarsh B. Seabrook (Democratic ) (until December 13), John Hugh Means (Democratic ) (starting December 13)
Governor of Tennessee : William Trousdale (Democratic )
Governor of Texas : Peter Hansborough Bell (Democratic )
Governor of Vermont : Carlos Coolidge (Whig ) (until October 11), Charles K. Williams (Whig ) (starting October 11)
Governor of Virginia : John B. Floyd (Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin : Nelson Dewey (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governors
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
July 9: Vice President Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th U.S. President with the death of President Taylor
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 1 – John Barclay Armstrong , Texas Ranger lieutenant and a U.S. Marshal (died 1913 )
January 10 – John Wellborn Root , Chicago architect (died 1891 )
January 18 – Seth Low , educator (died 1916 )
January 24 – Mary Noailles Murfree , novelist (died 1922 )
January 27 – Samuel Gompers , labor union leader (died 1924 )
January 28 – Edward Merritt Hughes , U.S. Navy officer (died 1903 )
February 1 – Emma Churchman Hewitt , author and journalist (died 1921 )
February 2 – Cassius Aurelius Boone , Mayor of Orlando and businessman (died 1917 )
February 8
February 15 – Albert B. Cummins , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1908 to 1926 (died 1926 )
February 27
March 9 – Daniel B. Towner , hymn composer (died 1919 )
March 26 – Edward Bellamy , Utopian novelist and socialist (died 1898 )
March 31 – Charles Doolittle Walcott , invertebrate paleontologist (died 1927)
April 3 – Zina P. Young Card , Mormon leader and women's rights activist (died 1931 )
April 8 – John Peters , baseball player (died 1924 )
April 10 – Mary Emilie Holmes , geologist and educator (died 1906 )
April 11
April 18 – Joseph Labadie , labor organizer (died 1933 )
April 20 – Daniel Chester French , sculptor (died 1931 )
April 30 – Ruth Alice Armstrong , American temperance activist (unknown year of death)
May 8 – Ross Barnes , baseball player and manager (died 1915 )
May 12 – Henry Cabot Lodge , statesman (died 1924)
May 14 – Alva Adams , 3-time Governor of Colorado (died 1922 )
June 3 – Albert M. Todd , businessman and politician (died 1931)
June 5 – Pat Garrett , bartender and sheriff (died 1908 )
June 15 – Charles Hazelius Sternberg , paleontologist (died 1943)
June 18 – Cyrus H. K. Curtis , magazine publisher (died 1933)
June 21 – Daniel Carter Beard , Scouting pioneer (died 1941 )
July 2 – Robert Ridgway , ornithologist (died 1929 )
July 7 – William E. Mason , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1897 to 1903 (died 1921 )
July 8 – Charles Rockwell Lanman , Sanskrit scholar (died 1941)
July 11 – Annie Armstrong , Baptist leader (died 1938 )
July 12 – Newell Sanders , businessman and politician (died 1938)
July 18 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe , poet (died 1939 )
July 20 – John G. Shedd , businessman (died 1926 )
July 25 – Lydia J. Newcomb Comings , educator (died 1946 )
July 28 – William Whittingham Lyman , vintner (died 1921)
July 31 – Robert Love Taylor , Tennessee congressman (died 1912)
August 28 – Charles H. Aldrich , Solicitor General of the U.S. (died 1929)
September 2 – Eugene Field , poet and essayist (died 1895 )
October 14 – Newton E. Mason , rear admiral (died 1945 )
October 30 – John Patton, Jr. , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1894 to 1895 (died 1907 )
November 5 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox , poet (died 1919)
November 18 – John S. Armstrong , real estate developer (died 1908)
December 9 – Emma Abbott , operatic soprano (died 1891)
December 21 – William Wallace Lincoln , third son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln (died 1862 )
December 25 – Florence Griswold , art curator (died 1937 )
Deaths
February 1 – Edward Baker Lincoln , second son of Abraham Lincoln (born 1846 )
March 3 – Oliver Cowdery , religious leader (born 1806 )
March 21 – Miguel Pedrorena , early settler of San Diego , California (born c. 1808 )
March 28 – Gerard Brandon , fourth and sixth Governor of Mississippi from 1825 to 1826 and from 1826 to 1832 (born 1788 )
March 31 – John C. Calhoun , seventh Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832 (born 1782 )
April 12 – Adoniram Judson , Congregationalist and later Baptist missionary (born 1788 )
April 24 – John Norvell , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1837 to 1841 (born 1789 )
May 16 – William Hendricks , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1825 to 1837 (born 1782 )
July 9 – Zachary Taylor , 12th President of the United States from 1849 to 1850 (born 1784 )
July 19 – Margaret Fuller , journalist, literary critic and women's rights advocate, presumed drowned (born 1810 )
November 19 – Richard Mentor Johnson , ninth Vice President of the United States from 1837 to 1841, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1829 (born 1780 )
See also
References
External links
1850 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories