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List of events
Events from the year 1835 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
John Gayle (
Democratic ) (until November 21),
Clement Comer Clay (
Democratic ) (starting November 21)
Governor of Connecticut :
Samuel A. Foot (
Whig ) (until May 6),
Henry W. Edwards (
Democratic ) (starting May 6)
Governor of Delaware :
Caleb P. Bennett (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
Wilson Lumpkin (
Democratic ) (until November 4),
William Schley (
Democratic ) (starting November 4)
Governor of Illinois :
Joseph Duncan (
Whig )
Governor of Indiana :
Noah Noble (
Whig )
Governor of Kentucky :
James T. Morehead (
National Republican )
Governor of Louisiana :
André B. Roman (
Whig ) (until February 4),
Edward Douglass White Sr. (
Whig ) (starting February 4)
Governor of Maine :
Robert P. Dunlap (
Democratic )
Governor of Maryland :
James Thomas (
Whig )
Governor of Massachusetts :
John Davis (
Whig ) (until March 1),
Samuel Turell Armstrong (
Whig ) (starting March 1)
Governor of Mississippi :
Hiram Runnels (
Democratic ) (until November 20),
John A. Quitman (
Whig ) (starting November 20)
Governor of Missouri :
Daniel Dunklin (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
William Badger (
Democratic )
Governor of New Jersey :
Peter Dumont Vroom (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
William L. Marcy (
Democratic )
Governor of North Carolina :
David Lowry Swain (
National Republican ) (until December 10),
Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr. (
Democratic ) (starting December 10)
Governor of Ohio :
Robert Lucas (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
George Wolf (
Democratic-Republican ) (until December 15),
Joseph Ritner (
Anti-Masonic ) (starting December 15)
Governor of Rhode Island :
John Brown Francis (
Democratic )
Governor of South Carolina :
George McDuffie (
Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee :
William Carroll (
Democratic ) (until October 12),
Newton Cannon (
Whig ) (starting October 12)
Governor of Vermont :
William A. Palmer (
Anti-Masonic Party ) (until November 2),
Silas H. Jennison (
Whig ) (starting November 2)
Governor of Virginia :
Littleton Waller Tazewell (
Whig )
Lieutenant governors
Events
January 8 – The Federal Government declares that
Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt for the first and only time.
January 30: First assassination attempt against a U.S.
president .
July 4:
Thomas Viaduct completed.
December 16–17:
Great Fire of New York
Undated
Judge
William Harper of
South Carolina rules that a person's acceptance as
white , not the proportion of white and black blood , determine a person's race.
Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838
Trail of Tears .
Tensions between the United States and France reach an all time high as President Andrew Jackson and the French government of
Louis Philippe I trade threats and insults over France's refusal to pay the United States reparations which the United States government insists France owes from the
Quasi-War .
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Ongoing
Births
January 29 –
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge), children's writer (died
1905 )
February 19 –
Henry R. Pease , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1874 to 1875 (died
1907 )
March 28 –
Matthias N. Forney , steam locomotive manufacturer (died
1908 )
March 31 –
John La Farge , painter and stained-glass artist (died
1910 )
April 2 –
Jacob Nash Victor , railroad builder (died
1907 )
April 10 –
Henry Villard , journalist, railroad financier and philanthropist (died
1900 )
April 17 –
May 12 –
John T. Lesley , Mayor of Tampa (died
1913 )
May 27 –
Charles Francis Adams Jr. , public figure and historian (died
1915 )
June 10 –
Rebecca Latimer Felton , U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1922 (died
1930 )
June 15 –
Adah Isaacs Menken , actress, painter and poet (died
1868 )
June 26 –
Thomas W. Knox , war reporter (died
1896 )
June 27 –
Fred Harvey , entrepreneur (died
1901 )
June 29 –
Celia Thaxter , poet (died
1894 )
August 2 –
Elisha Gray , inventor and businessman (died
1901 )
September 4 –
William Lindsay , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1893 to 1901 (died
1909 )
September 10 –
Donelson Caffery , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1892 to 1901 (died
1906 )
September 14 –
Ellen Hamlin ,
Second Lady of the United States as wife of
Hannibal Hamlin (died
1925 )
October 16 –
William R. Shafter , general (died
1906 )
October 23 –
Adlai Stevenson I , 23rd
vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897 (died
1914 )
October 26 –
Thomas M. Bowen , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1883 to 1889 (died 1906)
October 31 –
Adelbert Ames , 27th and 30th governor of Mississippi from 1868 to 1870 and from 1874 to 1876 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1870 to 1874,
Medal of Honor recipient (died
1933 )
November 17 –
Andrew L. Harris , Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (died
1915 )
November 21 –
Rose Eytinge , actress (died
1911 )
November 25
November 30 –
Mark Twain , writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer (died
1910 )
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December 13 –
Phillips Brooks , clergyman and poet (died
1893 )
December 17 –
Alexander Emanuel Agassiz , scientist (died
1910 )
December 18 –
Lyman Abbott , clergyman and author (died
1922 )
Deaths
February 19 –
Amzi Chapin , singer, composer and music teacher (born
1768 )
March 15 –
Samuel Dinsmoor , teacher, lawyer, banker and politician (born
1766 )
April 21 –
Samuel Slater , "father of the American Industrial Revolution" (born
1768 in Great Britain )
July 6 –
John Marshall , fourth
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1801 to 1835 (born
1755 )
August 25 –
Ann Rutledge ,
Abraham Lincoln 's alleged first love (born
1813 )
August 30 –
William T. Barry , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1814 to 1816 and U.S. Postmaster General from 1829 to 1835, died in
Liverpool ,
England ,
United Kingdom (born
1784 )
September 15 –
Sarah Knox Taylor , daughter of
Zachary Taylor and wife of
Jefferson Davis (born
1814 )
November 14 –
James Freeman , first American clergyman to call himself a Unitarian (born
1759 )
December 12 –
Elias Kane , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1825 to 1835 (born
1794 )
December 22 –
David Hosack physician and educator, attending doctor at the Hamilton-Burr duel (born
1769 )
December 13 –
John Storm , soldier in the
American Revolution (born
1760 )
Full date unknown
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