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List of events
Events from the year 1849 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Reuben Chapman (
Democratic ) (until December 17),
Henry W. Collier (
Democratic ) (starting December 17)
Governor of Arkansas :
Governor of Connecticut :
Clark Bissell (
Whig ) (until May 2),
Joseph Trumbull (
Whig ) (starting May 2)
Governor of Delaware :
William Tharp (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
William Dunn Moseley (
Democratic ) (until October 1),
Thomas Brown (
Whig ) (starting October 1)
Governor of Georgia :
George W. Towns (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
Augustus C. French (
Democratic )
Governor of Indiana :
Paris C. Dunning (
Democratic ) (until December 5),
Joseph A. Wright (
Democratic ) (starting December 5)
Governor of Iowa :
Ansel Briggs (
Democratic )
Governor of Kentucky :
John J. Crittenden (
Whig )
Governor of Louisiana :
Isaac Johnson (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
John W. Dana (
Democratic )
Governor of Maryland :
Philip F. Thomas (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
George N. Briggs (
Democratic )
Governor of Michigan :
Epaphroditus Ransom (
Democratic )
Governor of Mississippi :
Joseph W. Matthews (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Austin Augustus King (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Jared W. Williams (
Democratic ) (until June 7),
Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. (
Democratic ) (starting June 7)
Governor of New Jersey :
Daniel Haines (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
Hamilton Fish (
Whig ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
William Alexander Graham (
Whig ) (until January 1),
Charles Manly (
Whig ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Ohio :
William Bebb (
Whig ) (until January 22),
Seabury Ford (
Whig ) (starting January 22)
Governor of Pennsylvania :
William F. Johnston (
Whig )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Elisha Harris (
Whig ) (until May 1),
Henry B. Anthony (
Whig ) (starting May 1)
Governor of South Carolina :
Whitemarsh B. Seabrook (
Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee :
Neill S. Brown (
Whig ) (until October 16),
William Trousdale (
Democratic ) (starting October 16)
Governor of Texas :
George T. Wood (
Democratic ) (until December 21),
Peter Hansborough Bell (
Democratic ) (starting December 21)
Governor of Vermont :
Carlos Coolidge (
Whig )
Governor of Virginia :
William Smith (
Democratic ) (until January 1),
John B. Floyd (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Wisconsin :
Nelson Dewey (
Democratic )
Lieutenant governors
Events
March 4:
Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th U.S. president
Millard Fillmore becomes the 12th U.S. vice president
January 23 –
Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of
Geneva, New York , thus becoming the
United States ' first woman doctor.
January 27
February 14 –
James Knox Polk becomes the first sitting
president of the United States to have his
photograph taken, in
New York City .
February 28 – Regular
steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the
SS California in
San Francisco Bay . The California leaves
New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, rounds
Cape Horn at the tip of
South America , and arrives at
San Francisco, California after a 4-month-21-day journey.
March 3
March 4 –
Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th
president of the United States , and
Millard Fillmore becomes the 12th
vice president , but both refuse to be sworn in office on a
Sabbath (Sunday).
Urban legend holds that
David Rice Atchison ,
President pro tempore of the United States Senate is President de jure for a single day.
March 5 – President
Zachary Taylor and Vice President Millard Fillmore are sworn into office.
May 3 – The
Mississippi River levee at
Sauvé's Crevasse breaks, flooding much of
New Orleans, Louisiana .
May 10 –
Astor Place Riot occurs in
Manhattan .
June 6 –
Fort Worth, Texas is founded.
September 1 – The first segment of the
Pennsylvania Railroad , from
Lewistown, Pennsylvania to
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , opens for service.
September 17 –
Harriet Tubman emancipates herself.
November –
Austin College receives a charter in Huntsville.
November 13 – The
Constitution of California is ratified by the electorate.
Undated –
Pfizer is founded by cousins
Charles Pfizer and
Charles F. Erhart in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn , as a manufacturer of
fine chemicals .
Continuing
Births
January 12 –
Murphy J. Foster , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1901 to 1913 (died
1921 )
January 29 –
Newton C. Blanchard , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1894 to 1897 (died
1922 )
March 2 –
Robert Means Thompson , naval officer (died
1930 )
March 7 –
Luther Burbank , biologist (died
1926 )
March 10 –
Mary Evelyn Hitchcock , author and explorer (died
1920 )
March 17 –
Cornelia Clapp , marine biologist (died
1934 )
[3]
April 3 –
Walter Guion , U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 1918 (died
1927 )
April 17 –
William R. Day , politician and
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died
1923 )
April 19 –
John Uri Lloyd , pharmacist and science fiction author (died
1936 )
April 30 –
Jennie Tuttle Hobart ,
Second Lady of the United States as wife of
Garret Hobart (died
1941 )
May 19 –
John Hubbard , admiral (died
1932 )
June 30 –
William Joseph Deboe , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1897 to 1903 (died 1927)
July 22 –
Emma Lazarus , poet (died
1887 )
August 9 –
John P. Young , managing editor of the
San Francisco Chronicle (died
1921 )
August 12 –
Abbott Handerson Thayer , painter, naturalist and teacher (died 1921)
August 23 –
William Stanley West , U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1914 (died
1914 )
September 3 –
Sarah Orne Jewett , Maine fiction writer (died
1909 )
[4]
September 18 –
Martha Place , murderer (first woman executed in the
electric chair ,
1899 )
October 3 –
Jeannette Leonard Gilder , author and editor (died
1916 )
October 7 –
James Whitcomb Riley , dialect poet (died
1916 )
November 19 –
Grace Denio Litchfield , poet and novelist (died
1944 )
December 6
December 12 –
William Kissam Vanderbilt , railroad magnate (died
1920 )
December 16 –
Mary Hartwell Catherwood , author and poet (died
1902 )
[5] * December 19 –
Henry Clay Frick , industrialist and art collector (died
1919 )
December 20
Ellen Eglin , inventor
Emma Curtis Hopkins , spiritual writer (died 1925)
Deaths
James K. Polk
January 30 –
Jonathan Alder , settler (born
1773 )
March 17 –
Ann Gerry ,
Second Lady of the United States from 1813 to 1814 as wife of
Elbridge Gerry (born
1763 )
July 12 –
Dolley Madison ,
First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817 as wife of
James Madison (born
1768 )
June 15 –
James K. Polk , 11th
president of the United States from 1845 to 1849 (born
1795 )
July 30 –
Jacob Perkins , inventor, mechanical engineer, and physicist (born
1766 )
August 23 –
Edward Hicks , folk painter and Quaker preacher (born
1780 )
October 7 –
Edgar Allan Poe , author, poet, editor and literary critic (born
1809 )
October 22 –
William Miller , Baptist preacher, leader of the Second Advent Movement (born
1782 )
Robert Cary Long, Jr. , architect working in Baltimore (born
1810 )
See also
References
^
"Plank Roads Chartered in North Carolina" . North Carolina Business History . 2006. Archived from
the original on March 29, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2013 .
^
"Railroads — prior to the Civil War" . North Carolina Business History . 2006. Archived from
the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2013 .
^ Reynolds, Moira Davison (2004). American Women Scientists: 23 Inspiring Biographies, 1900-2000 . Jefferson NC: McFarland. p. 5.
ISBN
978-0-78642-161-9 .
^ James, Edward T.; Wilson James, Janet; Boyer, Paul S. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 274.
ISBN
978-0-67462-731-4 .
^ Robert, Price (1971). "Catherwood, Mary Hartwell". In James, Edward T. (ed.). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary . Vol. 1. p. 308.
ISBN
978-0-67462-734-5 .
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