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Events from the year 1821 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

  • President: James Monroe (DR-Virginia)
  • Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-New York)
  • Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
  • Speaker of the House of Representatives:
John W. Taylor (DR-New York) (until March 4)
Philip P. Barbour (DR-Virginia) (starting December 4)
  • Congress: 16th (until March 4), 17th (starting March 4)

Events

James Monroe by Samuel Morse
  • February 9 – The George Washington University is chartered as The Columbian College of the District of Columbia by President James Monroe.
  • March 4 – James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins begin their second terms as President and Vice President of the United States.
  • March 5 – James Monroe is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States.[1] Daniel D. Tompkins is sworn in for his second term as Vice President of the United States.
  • June 27 – The New Hampton School is founded in the state of New Hampshire.
  • July 10 – The U.S. takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
  • August 4 – The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time, as a weekly newspaper.
  • August 6 – Israel Pickens is elected the third governor of Alabama defeating Henry H. Chambers.
  • August 10 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state (see History of Missouri).
  • September 3 – The 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane strikes New York City.
  • September 18 – Amherst College is founded in Massachusetts.
  • November 9 – Israel Pickens is sworn in as the third governor of Alabama, replacing Thomas Bibb.[2]
  • November 16 – American Old West: The Santa Fe Trail is used for the first time by a White American, William Becknell.
  • History of Liberia – The first groups of freed slaves from the U.S. arrive in modern-day Liberia and found Monrovia.
  • Widener University is founded in Wilmington, Delaware, as The Bullock School for Boys.

Ongoing

Births

  • January 2 – Napoleon LeBrun, architect (died 1901)
  • January 8 – James Longstreet, one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War (died 1904)
  • January 16 – John C. Breckinridge, 14th vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861, U.S. Senator from Kentucky in 1861 (died 1875)
  • February 4 – Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, sonneteer (died 1873)
  • February 19 – Francis Preston Blair Jr., U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1871 to 1873 (died 1875)
  • March 20 – Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), publisher, dime novelist and publicist (died 1886)
  • April 12
    • Samuel G. Arnold, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1862 to 1863 (died 1880)
    • Adonijah Welch, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1868 to 1869. (died 1889)
  • April 15 – Joseph E. Brown, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1880 to 1891 (died 1894)
  • July 6 – Edmund Pettus, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1897 to 1907 (died 1907)
  • July 8 – Maria White Lowell, poet and abolitionist (died 1853)
  • July 13 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (died 1877)
  • September 22 – John Conness, Irish-born U.S. Senator from California from 1863 to 1869 (died 1909)
  • October 7 – Richard H. Anderson, United States Army officer during the Mexican–American War, Confederate general during the American Civil War (died 1879)[3]
  • October 10 – Wade Keyes, Acting Confederate States Attorney General in 1861 and 1863–1864 (died 1879)
  • October 22 – Collis P. Huntington, railroad promoter (died 1900)
  • December 25 – Clara Barton, humanitarian and founder of the American branch of the Red Cross.

Deaths

  • January 4 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, saint (born 1774)
  • March 13 – Waightstill Avery, lawyer and soldier, fought a duel with Andrew Jackson (born 1741)
  • October 11 – John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and father of Francis Scott Key (born 1754)
  • October 24 – Elias Boudinot, President of the Continental Congress (born 1740)
  • Full date unknown – Lucy Terry first known African American poet (born c. 1730 in Africa)

See also

  • Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)

References

  1. ^ "President James Monroe, 1821". Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. Archived from the original on January 20, 2009. Retrieved January 23, 2009.
  2. ^ Ala. General Assembly. Journal of the House of Representatives. 3rd sess., 29, accessed July 27, 2023
  3. ^ "Richard Heron Anderson | American general". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
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