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List of events
Events from the year 1847 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Joshua L. Martin (
Independent ) (until December 16),
Reuben Chapman (
Democratic ) (starting December 16)
Governor of Arkansas :
Thomas Stevenson Drew (
Democratic )
Governor of Connecticut :
Isaac Toucey (
Democratic ) (until May 5),
Clark Bissell (
Whig ) (starting May 5)
Governor of Delaware :
William Temple (
Whig ) (until January 19),
William Tharp (
Democratic ) (starting January 19)
Governor of Florida :
William Dunn Moseley (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
George W. Crawford (
Whig ) (until November 3),
George W. Towns (
Democratic ) (starting November 3)
Governor of Illinois :
Augustus C. French (
Democratic )
Governor of Indiana :
James Whitcomb (
Democratic )
Governor of Iowa :
Ansel Briggs (
Democratic )
Governor of Kentucky :
William Owsley (
Whig )
Governor of Louisiana :
Alexandre Mouton (
Democratic ) (until February 12),
Isaac Johnson (
Democratic ) (starting February 12)
Governor of Maine :
Hugh J. Anderson (
Democratic ) (until May 12),
John W. Dana (
Democratic ) (starting May 12)
Governor of Maryland :
Thomas Pratt (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
George N. Briggs (
Democratic )
Governor of Michigan :
Alpheus Felch (
Democratic ) (until March 3),
William L. Greenly (
Democratic ) (starting March 3)
Governor of Mississippi :
Albert G. Brown (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
John C. Edwards (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Anthony Colby (
Democratic ) (until June 3),
Jared W. Williams (
Democratic ) (starting June 3)
Governor of New Jersey :
Charles C. Stratton (
Whig )
Governor of New York :
John Young (
Whig ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
William Alexander Graham (
Whig )
Governor of Ohio :
William Bebb (
Whig )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Francis R. Shunk (
Democratic )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Byron Diman (
Law and Order ) (until May 4),
Elisha Harris (
Law and Order ) (starting May 4)
Governor of South Carolina :
David Johnson (
Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee :
Aaron V. Brown (
Democratic ) (until October 17),
Neill S. Brown (
Whig ) (starting October 17)
Governor of Texas :
James Pinckney Henderson (
Democratic ) (until December 21),
George T. Wood (
Democratic ) (starting December 21)
Governor of Vermont :
Horace Eaton (
Whig )
Governor of Virginia :
William Smith (
Democratic )
Lieutenant governors
Events
January–March
January 4 –
Samuel Colt sells his first
revolver pistol, the
Colt Walker , to the U.S. government for the
Texas Rangers .
January 13 – The
Treaty of Cahuenga ends the fighting in the
Mexican–American War in
California .
January 16 –
John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new
California Territory.
January 17 –
Saint Anthony Hall is founded at
Columbia University in
New York City .
January 30 –
Yerba Buena, California is renamed
San Francisco, California .
February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated
Donner Party . These California bound emigrants became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, and some have resorted to cannibalism to survive.
February 22 –
Mexican–American War – The
Battle of Buena Vista : 5,000 American troops under General
Zachary Taylor use their superiority in
artillery to drive off 15,000 Mexican troops under
Antonio López de Santa Anna , defeating the Mexicans the next day.
March 1 – The state of
Michigan formally abolishes the
death penalty .
March 9 –
Mexican–American War : United States forces under General
Winfield Scott invade
Mexico near
Veracruz in the first large-scale
amphibious assault conducted by U.S. military forces.
March 28 – The
Massachusetts Donation of 1847 for Ireland sails from
Boston on
USS Jamestown .
March 29 –
Mexican–American War : United States forces led by General
Winfield Scott take
Veracruz after a
siege .
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 11
January 16 –
John Cutting Berry , physician and missionary (died
1936 )
January 23 –
Elijah Bond , lawyer and inventor (died
1921 )
January 28 –
William V. Allen , United States Senator from Nebraska from 1893 till 1899. (died
1924 )
February 2 –
Charles H. Baker , politician (died
1919 )
February 11 –
Thomas Edison , American inventor and businessman (died
1931 )
February 26 –
William A. B. Branch , politician (died
1910 )
March 2 –
Blanche Butler Ames , First Lady of Mississippi (d.
1939 )
March 13 –
Francis S. White , United States Senator from Alabama from 1914 till 1915. (died
1922 )
March 18 –
William O'Connell Bradley , United States Senator from Kentucky from 1895 till 1899. (died
1914 )
March 21 –
Oscar Bielaski , Major League Baseball player (died
1911 )
March 27 –
Warren Ives Bradley , children's author (died
1868 )
March 29 –
John D. Works , United States Senator from California from 1911 till 1917. (died
1928 )
April 13 –
J. Thompson Baker , politician from New Jersey (died
1919 )
May 25 –
John Green Brady , 5th Governor of the District of Alaska from 1897 till 1906 (d.
1918 )
June 8 –
Ida Saxton McKinley ,
First Lady of the United States , (died
1907 )
June 26 –
Daniel V. Asay , iceboat racer (died
1930 )
June 29 –
Brother Azarias , educator (d.
1893 )
July 4 –
James Anthony Bailey , circus ringmaster (d.
1906 )
July 19 –
Oliver Ernesto Branch , politician (d.
1916 )
August 12 –
William Rankin Ballard , businessman (d.
1929 )
September 5 –
Jesse James , American outlaw, guerrilla, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from Missouri. (died
1882 )
September 10 –
Franklin Bartlett , politician (died
1909 )
September 11 –
Mary Watson Whitney , American astronomer and academic (died
1921 )
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September 23 –
Victoria Woodhull , American leader of the woman's suffrage movement (died
1927 )
September 30 –
James Taliaferro , United States Senator from Florida from 1899 till 1911. (died
1934 )
October 18 –
Emma Elizabeth Brown , author and artist (unknown year of death)
October 23 –
Gottfried Blocklinger , admiral (died
1930 )
October 31 –
Wendell P. Bowman , army major general (died
1928 )
November 7 –
Melvin O. Adams , attorney and railroad executive (died
1920 )
November 10 –
Frederick Arthur Bridgman , artist (died
1928 )
November 23 –
Joseph Ackroyd , politician, member of the New York State Senate (died
1915 )
December 21 –
Fletcher S. Bassett , founder of the Chicago Folk-Lore Society (died
1893 )
December 30 –
John Peter Altgeld , 20th
governor of Illinois (died
1902 )
December 31 –
Wilson S. Bissell , politician,
United States Postmaster General (died
1903 )
Deaths
See also
References
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