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List of events
Events from the year 1832 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
February 9 – The city of
Jacksonville, Florida receives its town charter from the legislative council of
Florida Territory .
March 3 – In
Worcester v. Georgia , the
United States Supreme Court holds that
Cherokee Indians are entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments.
March 24 – In
Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat,
tar and feather
Latter Day Saint movement founder
Joseph Smith .
April 6 – The
Black Hawk War begins.
May 9 –
Lafayette College classes begin.
May 21–23 –
1832 Democratic National Convention held in Baltimore.
May 21 –
Washington Irving returns to the U.S. after seventeen years living in Europe.
July 4 –
John Neal delivers the first public lecture in the U.S. to advocate the rights of women.
[1]
[2]
July 10 – President
Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the
Second Bank of the United States .
July 24 –
Benjamin Bonneville leads the first
wagon train across the
Rocky Mountains using the
South Pass (Wyoming) .
July–August – The
1829–51 cholera pandemic reaches the Northeastern seaboard, beginning with
New York City .
[3]
August 27 –
Black Hawk (Sauk leader) surrenders to the authorities, ending the
Black Hawk War .
October 8 –
Washington Irving and
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth arrive at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory (later Fort Gibson,
Oklahoma )
[4] in the late morning hours. They leave the fort on October 10, with a small company of Rangers who escort them to the camp of Captain Jesse Bean who is waiting for them near the
Arkansas River . Thus begins one of the first steps in the United States effort to remove the
indigenous peoples of the Americas from their homes on the east coast in what would become known as the "
Trail of Tears " some six years later.
October 19 –
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity is founded at
Hamilton College (New York) .
November 2–December 5 –
Andrew Jackson defeats
Henry Clay in the
U.S. presidential election .
November 14 –
Charles Carroll of Carrollton , the last surviving signatory of the
Declaration of Independence dies at his home in Maryland at age 95.
November 24 –
Ordinance of Nullification is passed.
December 3 –
U.S. presidential election, 1832 :
Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.
December –
Skull and Bones
secret society of
Yale University established.
December 28 –
John C. Calhoun becomes the first
vice president of the United States to resign.
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 1 –
Charles N. Felton , U.S. Senator from California from 1891 to 1893 (died
1914 )
January 13 –
Horatio Alger , Jr., Unitarian minister and author (died
1899 )
January 26 –
George Shiras Jr. ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died
1924 )
February 3 –
Abram Williams , U.S. Senator from California from 1886 to 1887 (died
1911 )
February 6 –
John Brown Gordon , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1873 to 1880 and from 1891 to 1897 (died
1904 )
February 18 –
Nathaniel P. Hill , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1879 to 1885 (died
1900 )
March 4 –
Samuel Colman , Hudson River school painter (died
1920 )
March 10 –
Mary Bigelow Ingham , author and educator (died
1923 )
April 3 –
James Sewall Reed , soldier (died
1864 )
April 8 –
Howell Edmunds Jackson , politician,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died
1895 )
April 10 –
Alexander McDonald , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1871 (died
1903 )
April 15 –
John Irwin , admiral (died
1901 )
April 19 –
Lucretia Garfield ,
First Lady of the United States (died
1918 )
April 22 –
Julius Sterling Morton , 3rd
United States Secretary of Agriculture (died
1902 )
June 9 –
Martha Waldron Janes , minister, suffragist and columnist
June 10 –
Stephen Mosher Wood , politician (died
1920 )
June 11
June 30 –
Emily Lucas Blackall , author and philanthropist (died
1892 )
July 26 –
Joseph P. Fyffe , admiral (died
1896 )
August 2 –
Henry Steel Olcott , officer (died
1907 )
August 20 –
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe , aeronaut, scientist and inventor (died
1913 )
September 10 –
Randall L. Gibson , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1883 to 1892 (died
1892 )
September 25 –
William Le Baron Jenney , architect (died
1907 )
September 26 –
Joanna P. Moore , Baptist missionary and educator (died
1916 )
October 1
October 9 –
Elizabeth Akers Allen , poet and journalist (died
1911 )
October 10 –
Joe Cain , parade organizer for
Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama (died
1904 )
November 7 –
Andrew Dickson White , historian, diplomat and co-founder of
Cornell University (died
1918 )
November 21 –
Benjamin Paul Blood , philosopher and poet (died
1919 )
November 26 –
Mary Edwards Walker , physician (died
1919 )
November 29 –
Louisa May Alcott , novelist (died
1888 )
[6]
December 6 –
Thaddeus C. Pound , businessman and politician (died
1914 )
Undated –
Boston Corbett ,
Union Army soldier who fatally shoots
John Wilkes Booth (died ca.
1894 )
Deaths
February 1 –
Archibald Murphey ,
North Carolina politician (born c.
1777 )
February 2 –
Amos Doolittle , engraver (born 1754)
April 12 –
Shadrach Bond , 1st
governor of Illinois (born. 1773)
June 10 –
Joseph Hiester , politician (born 1752)
November 12 –
Henry Eckford , shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer and entrepreneur (born
1775 in Scotland )
November 14 –
Charles Carroll , last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Senator (born 1737)
December 17 –
Robert Charles Sands , writer (born
1799 )
December 18 –
Philip Freneau , poet and journalist (born 1752)
December 22 –
Ishmail Spicer , music teacher,
composer and publisher (born 1760)
See also
References
^ Weyler, Karen A. (2012). "Chapter 11: John Neal and the Early Discourse of American Women's Rights". In Watts, Edward; Carlson, David J. (eds.). John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture . Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press. p. 248.
ISBN
978-1-61148-420-5 .
^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 98.
ISBN
080-5-7723-08 .
^ Rosenberg, Charles E. (1987). The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 . The University of Chicago Press.
ISBN
9780226726779 .
^
"Fort Gibson" . ok-history.mus.ok.us . Archived from
the original on July 12, 2000.
^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 95.
ISBN
080-5-7723-08 .
^
"Louisa May Alcott | Biography, Childhood, Family, Books, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
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