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List of events
Events from the year 1834 in the United States.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Births
- January 9 –
Wilkinson Call, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1879 to 1897 (died
1910)
- January 15 –
Samuel Arza Davenport, politician (died
1911)
- February 27 –
Charles C. Carpenter, admiral (died
1899)
- March 4 –
James W. McDill, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1881 to 1883 (died
1894)
- March 5
- March 15 –
John K. Bucklyn,
Medal of Honor recipient (died
1906)
- March 20 –
Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (died
1926)
- March 24 –
John Wesley Powell, explorer (died
1902)
- March 27 –
Melissa Elizabeth Banta, poet, travel writer (died
1907)
- April 1 –
Big Jim Fisk, entrepreneur (died
1872)
- April 5 –
Frank R. Stockton, short story writer (died 1902)
- April 26 –
Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Ward"), humorist (died
1867)
- June 22 –
William Chester Minor, Ceylonese-born surgeon and lexicographer (died
1920)
- June 24 –
George Arnold, writer and poet (died
1865)
- June 28 –
Samuel Pasco, British-born U.S. Senator from Florida from 1887 to 1899 (died
1917)
- July 10 –
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, painter and etcher (died
1903 in the United Kingdom)
- July 19 –
Benjamin F. Jonas, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1879 to 1885 (died
1911)
- August 22 –
Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer (died
1906)
- August 27 –
James B. Eustis, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1876 to 1879 and from 1885 to 1891 (died
1899)
- September 5 –
John G. Carlisle, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1890 to 1893 (died 1910)
- September 6 –
Samuel Arnold, conspirator involved in the plot to kidnap U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln in 1865 (died 1906)
- October 6 –
Walter Kittredge, composer (died
1905)
- October 9 –
Rufus Blodgett, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1887 to 1893 (died 1910)
- October 31 –
Knowles Shaw, evangelist and hymnwriter (died
1878 in railroad accident)
- November 21 –
Hetty Green, businesswoman (died
1916)
- November 24 –
Susan Hammond Barney, American social activist and evangelist (died
1922)
- December 6 –
Henry W. Blair, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1879 to 1891 (died
1920)
- December 15 –
Charles Augustus Young, astronomer (died
1908)
- December 24 –
Charles W. Jones, Ireland-born U.S. Senator from Florida from 1875 to 1887 (died
1897)
Deaths
- February 2 –
Lorenzo Dow, minister (born
1777)
- February 18 –
William Wirt, 9th
United States Attorney General (born
1772)
- February 28 –
Isaac D. Barnard, U.S. Senator from 1827 to 1831 (born
1791)
- May 20 –
Marquis de Lafayette, French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the
American Revolutionary War, died in France (born
1757 in France)
- July 26 -
Jonathan Jennings, first governor of Indiana (born
1784)
- August 24 –
William Kelly, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1822 to 1825 (born
1786)
- September 15 –
William H. Crawford, politician and judge (born 1772)
- October 10 –
Thomas Say, naturalist (born
1787)
- October 31
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, chemical manufacturer (born
1771 in France)
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