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List of events
Events from the year 1848 in the United States .
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Reuben Chapman (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Thomas Stevenson Drew (
Democratic )
Governor of Connecticut :
Clark Bissell (
Whig )
Governor of Delaware :
William Tharp (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
William Dunn Moseley (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
George W. Towns (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
Augustus C. French (
Democratic )
Governor of Indiana :
James Whitcomb (
Democratic ) (until December 26),
Paris C. Dunning (
Democratic ) (starting December 26)
Governor of Iowa :
Ansel Briggs (
Democratic )
Governor of Kentucky :
William Owsley (
Whig ) (until September 6),
John J. Crittenden (
Whig ) (starting September 6)
Governor of Louisiana :
Isaac Johnson (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
John W. Dana (
Democratic )
Governor of Maryland :
Thomas Pratt (
Democratic ) (until January 3),
Philip F. Thomas (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Massachusetts :
George N. Briggs (
Democratic )
Governor of Michigan :
William L. Greenly (
Democratic ) (until January 3),
Epaphroditus Ransom (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Mississippi :
Albert G. Brown (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
Joseph W. Matthews (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Missouri :
John C. Edwards (
Democratic ) (until November 20),
Austin Augustus King (
Democratic ) (starting November 20)
Governor of New Hampshire :
Jared W. Williams (
Democratic )
Governor of New Jersey :
Charles C. Stratton (
Whig ) (until January 18),
Daniel Haines (
Democratic ) (starting January 18)
Governor of New York :
John Young (
Whig ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina :
William Alexander Graham (
Whig )
Governor of Ohio :
William Bebb (
Whig )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Governor of Rhode Island :
Elisha Harris (
Law and Order )
Governor of South Carolina :
David Johnson (
Democratic ) (until December 12),
Whitemarsh B. Seabrook (
Democratic ) (starting December 12)
Governor of Tennessee :
Neill S. Brown (
Whig )
Governor of Texas :
George T. Wood (
Democratic )
Governor of Vermont :
Horace Eaton (
Whig ) (until October),
Carlos Coolidge (
Whig ) (starting October)
Governor of Virginia :
William Smith (
Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin : vacant (until June 7),
Nelson Dewey (
Democratic ) (starting June 7)
Lieutenant governors
Events
February 2 : The
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the
Mexican–American War and ceding all the
Republic of Texas 's territorial claims to the United States for $15m.
January–March
May 29 :
Wisconsin admitted as the 30th
U.S. state .
April–June
July–September
November 7 :
The first U.S. presidential election held in every state on the same day sees
Whig
Zachary Taylor of
Virginia defeat
Democrat
Lewis Cass of
Michigan .
October–December
No fixed date
Ongoing
Births
January 13 –
Lilla Cabot Perry , painter (died
1933 )
February 20 –
E. H. Harriman , railroad executive (died
1909 )
February 22 –
Emily McGary Selinger , painter, author and educator (died
1927 )
March 8 –
LaMarcus Adna Thompson , inventor (died
1919 )
March 19 –
Wyatt Earp , lawman and gunfighter (died
1929 )
March 26 –
Edward O. Wolcott , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1889 to 1901 (died
1905 )
May 10 –
Lafayette Young , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1910 to 1911 (died
1926 )
June 15 –
Sol Smith Russell , comedian (died
1902 )
July 22 –
Winfield Scott Stratton , miner (died 1902)
August 24 –
Kate Claxton , actress (died
1924 )
September 4 –
Lewis Howard Latimer , African American inventor (died
1928 )
September 29 –
Caroline Yale , educator (died
1933 )
October 6 –
Webb C. Ball , jeweler and watchmaker from Fredericktown, Ohio (died
1922 )
October 15 –
Harmon Northrop Morse , chemist (died
1920 )
November 1 –
Caroline Still Anderson , African American physician, educator and activist (died
1919 )
November 2 –
Stephen Mallory II , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1897 to 1907 (died
1907 )
November 7 –
B. B. Comer , 33rd Governor of Alabama, U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1920 (died
1927 )
November 20 –
James M. Spangler , inventor (died
1915 )
November 27 –
Henry A. Rowland , physicist (died
1901 )
Deaths
John Quincy Adams
February 11 –
Thomas Cole , landscape painter (born
1801 in the United Kingdom )
February 23 –
John Quincy Adams , sixth
president of the United States from 1825 to 1829 (born
1767 )
March 29 –
John Jacob Astor , businessman (born
1763 )
April 29 –
Chester Ashley , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1844 to 1848 (born
1790 )
May 18 –
William Leidesdorff , businessman (born
1810 )
June 26 –
Stevenson Archer , U.S. Congressman from Maryland from 1819 to 1821 (born
1786 )
July 20 –
Francis R. Shunk , politician (born
1788 )
August 15 –
Timothy Olmstead , composer, fifer in the
American Revolutionary War (born
1759 )
August 30 –
Simon Willard , horologist (born
1753 )
October 25 –
Dixon Hall Lewis , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1844 to 1848 (born
1802 )
December 31 –
Ambrose Hundley Sevier , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1836 to 1848 (born
1801 )
See also
Further reading
The Emigrant's Hand-book, or, A directory and guide for persons emigrating to the United States of America; also, a concise description of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri and Iowa, and the western territories, and including a statement of the modes and expenses of travelling from New York to the interior , New York: J.H. Colton, 1848,
OCLC
2604051 ,
OL
7235459M
References
External links