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List of events
Events from the year 1854 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
John A. Winston (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Elias Nelson Conway (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
John Bigler (
Democratic )
Governor of Connecticut :
Charles H. Pond (
Democratic ) (until May 3),
Henry Dutton (
Whig ) (starting May 3)
Governor of Delaware :
William H. H. Ross (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
James E. Broome (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
Herschel V. Johnson (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
Joel Aldrich Matteson (
Democratic )
Governor of Indiana :
Joseph A. Wright (
Democratic )
Governor of Iowa :
Stephen P. Hempstead (
Democratic ) (until December 9),
James W. Grimes (
Whig ) (starting December 9)
Governor of Kentucky :
Lazarus W. Powell (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Paul Octave Hébert (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
William G. Crosby (
Whig )
Governor of Maryland :
Enoch Louis Lowe (
Democratic ) (until January 11),
Thomas W. Ligon (
Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Massachusetts :
John H. Clifford (
Whig ) (until January 12),
Emory Washburn (
Whig ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Michigan :
Andrew Parsons (
Democratic )
Governor of Mississippi :
Governor of Missouri :
Sterling Price (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Noah Martin (
Democratic ) (until June 8),
Nathaniel B. Baker (
Democratic ) (starting June 8)
Governor of New Jersey :
George F. Fort (
Democratic ) (until January 17),
Rodman M. Price (
Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Governor of New York :
Horatio Seymour (
Democratic ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina :
David Settle Reid (
Democratic ) (until December 6),
Warren Winslow (
Democratic ) (starting December 6)
Governor of Ohio :
William Medill (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
William Bigler (
Democratic )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Francis M. Dimond (
Democratic ) (until May 2),
William W. Hoppin (
Whig ) (starting May 2)
Governor of South Carolina :
John Lawrence Manning (
Democratic ) (until December 11),
James Hopkins Adams (
Democratic ) (starting December 11)
Governor of Tennessee :
Andrew Johnson (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Elisha M. Pease (
Unionist )
Governor of Vermont :
John S. Robinson (
Democratic ) (until October 13),
Stephen Royce (
Whig )/(
Republican ) (starting October 13)
Governor of Virginia :
Joseph Johnson (
Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Leonard J. Farwell (
Whig ) (until January 2),
William A. Barstow (
Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant governors
Events
January–June
March 31:
Perry (center ) signs the
Convention of Kanagawa
July–December
Kansas Territory
Nebraska Territory
July 4 –
Henry David Thoreau delivers his fierce speech,
Slavery in Massachusetts in
Framingham, MA , harping on American politicians and journalists, all the while calling for action against the injustice of slavery within the Union.
July 6 – In
Jackson, Michigan , the first convention of the
Republican Party is held.
July 8 – An
anti-Catholic riot in Bath, Maine , destroys a church used by
Irish Catholics .
July 13 –
Bombardment of San Juan del Norte : The
USS Cyane attacks
San Juan del Norte ,
Nicaragua .
August 7–8 –
Know Nothings riot against immigrants in
St. Louis, Missouri , leading to 10 deaths.
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August 9 –
Walden first published.
August 19 –
Grattan massacre : A group of U.S. Army soldiers in
Nebraska Territory are killed by
Lakota
Sioux warriors after they killed Chief
Conquering Bear , starting the
First Sioux War .
September 28 or 29 – Sloop
USS Albany (1846) is lost off the coast of
Venezuela with all hands.
October 1 – The watch company founded in 1850 in
Roxbury ,
Massachusetts by
Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to
Waltham to become the
Waltham Watch Company , pioneer in the
American System of Watch Manufacturing .
October 9–11 – The controversial
Ostend Manifesto is secretly drafted. The document implies that the U.S. should acquire
Cuba from
Spain by any means necessary.
October 16 –
Abraham Lincoln , in his "
Peoria speech ", expresses opposition to the
Kansas–Nebraska Act ,
Popular Sovereignty , and
slavery in the United States .
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November 29 –
Bleeding Kansas : A pro-slavery
Democrat ,
John Wilkins Whitfield , is elected as the
Congressional Delegate for
Kansas Territory .
December 26 – The
Treaty of Medicine Creek is signed in
Washington Territory . The U.S. acquires land from various Native American tribes and in return creates three reservations.
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 1 –
Louis Saint-Gaudens , sculptor (died
1913 )
January 9 –
Lady Randolph Churchill , born Jennie Jerome, American-born British socialite and mother of Winston Churchill (died
1921 in the United Kingdom )
January 29 –
Fred Baker , physician and naturalist (died
1938 )
February 2 –
Emily Elizabeth Holman , architect (died
1925 )
February 26 –
Mary M. Cohen , social economist and proto-feminist (died
1911 )
March 14 –
Thomas R. Marshall , 28th
vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 (died 1925)
March 31 –
Jane Toppan , born Honora Kelley, serial killer (died
1938 )
May 11 –
Albion Woodbury Small , sociologist (died
1926 )
May 24 –
John Riley Banister , law officer and
Texas Ranger (died
1918 )
June 9 –
John F. Shafroth , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1913 to 1919 (died
1922 )
June 14 –
Dave Rudabaugh , outlaw and gunfighter (killed 1886 in Mexico)
June 24 –
Eleanor Norcross , painter (died
1923 )
July 3/4 –
King O'Malley , politician in Australia (died
1953 in Australia )
July 12 –
George Eastman , photographic inventor (
Eastman Kodak ) (suicide
1932 )
July 23 –
Birt Acres , cinematographic inventor (died
1918 in the United Kingdom )
July 30 –
John Sharp Williams , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1911 to 1923 (died 1932)
August 2 –
Francis Marion Crawford , novelist (died
1909 )
August 18 –
James Paul Clarke , 18th governor of Arkansas from 1895 to 1897 and U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1903 to 1916 (died
1916 )
September 1 –
Florence Trail , educator and author (died
1944 )
October 3 –
William C. Gorgas , physician, Surgeon General (died 1920)
October 26 –
C. W. Post , cereal manufacturer (died
1914 )
October 31 –
Laton Alton Huffman , photographer of the
American frontier and Native American life (died
1931 )
November 6 –
John Philip Sousa , composer and conductor ("
The Stars and Stripes Forever ") (died 1932)
November 13 –
George Whitefield Chadwick , composer (died 1931)
December 16 –
Austin M. Knight , admiral (died
1927 )
December 25 –
Ida Dixon , socialite and golf course architect (died
1916 )
Deaths
January 18 –
Robert M. Charlton , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1852 to 1853 (born
1807 )
March 11 –
Willard Richards , religious leader (born
1804 )
April 6 –
William Strickland , architect and civil engineer (born
1788 )
April 30 –
William Matthews , first American-born Roman Catholic priest (born
1770 )
July 31 –
Samuel Wilson , meat-packer thought to be the real-life basis for
Uncle Sam (born 1766 in the
Province of Massachusetts Bay )
August 14 –
Solomon W. Downs , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1847 to 1853 (born
1801 )
August 19 –
Conquering Bear , Lakota chief
August 21 –
Thomas Clayton , lawyer, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1824 to 1827 and from 1837 to 1847 (born
1777 )
August 29 –
John Black , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1832 to 1838 (born
1800 )
October 8 –
Gideon Tomlinson , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1831 to 1837 (born
1780 )
October 28 –
James P. Carrell , composer and songbook compiler (born
1787 )
November 9 –
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton , wife of
Alexander Hamilton , co-founder and deputy director of the first private orphanage in New York City (born
1757 )
December 28 –
James Morehead , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1841 to 1847 (born
1797 )
Full date unknown –
Henry Bibb , author and
abolitionist , born a
slave (born
1815 )
See also
References
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