1830 in the United States explained

Events from the year 1830 in the United States.^[1]

Incumbents

• President: Andrew Jackson (D-Tennessee)
• Vice President: John C. Calhoun (D-South Carolina)
• Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia)
• Congress: 21st

Demographics

See main article: 1830 United States census.

Events

• January 11  - LaGrange College (now the University of North Alabama) opens, becoming the first publicly chartered college in Alabama.
• January 12–27  - Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina debates the question of states' rights vs. federal authority with Daniel Webster of Massachusetts in the United States Congress.
• March 12  - Craig vs. Missouri: The United States Supreme Court rules that state loan certificates are unconstitutional.
• March 26  - Joseph Smith's religious text "Book of Mormon" is published in Palmyra, New York.
• May 24  - Sarah Josepha Hale's nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is published in Boston.
• May 28  - U.S. congress passes the Indian Removal Act.
• September 27  - Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek with Choctaw nation. (First removal treaty signed after the Removal Act.)

Births

• January 7  - Emerson Opdycke, businessman and Union Army brigadier general during the American Civil War (died 1884)
• January 8  - Gouverneur K. Warren, civil engineer and Union Army general in the American Civil War (died 1882)
• January 19  - George B. Cosby, Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War (died 1909)
• January 25  - Thomas W. Palmer, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1883 to 1889 (died 1913)
• January 31  - James G. Blaine, U.S. Senator from Maine from 1876 to 1881 and U.S. Secretary of State in 1881 and from 1889 to 1892 (died 1893)
• March 1  - Alexander Caldwell U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1871 to 1873 (died 1917)
• March 12  - William F. Brantley, Confederate general in the American Civil War (died 1870)
• March 20  - Eugene Asa Carr, Union Army general in the American Civil War (died 1910)
• April 26  - Thomas M. Norwood, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1871 to 1877 (died 1913)
• May 9  - Harriet Lane, acting First Lady of the United States during James Buchanan's presidency (died 1903)
• May 13  - Zebulon Vance, Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, U.S. Senator (died 1894)
• May 23  -
  • Henry M. Teller, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1882 and from 1885 to 1909 (died 1914)
  • George Lucas Hartsuff, Union Army major general in the American Civil War (died 1874)
• September 7  - Mary Treat, naturalist (died 1923)
• November 8  - Oliver Otis Howard, Union general and United States Army officer (died 1909)
• November 26  - Horace Tabor, U.S. Senator from Colorado in 1883 (died 1899)
• December 8  - William Pitt Kellogg, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1872 and from 1877 to 1883 (died 1918)
• December 10  - Emily Dickinson, poet (died 1886)
• December 13  - James D. Walker, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1879 to 1885 (died 1906)

Deaths

• January 17  - Elizabeth Willing Powel, socialite and Patriot (born 1743)
• February 1  - Thomas W. Cobb, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1824 to 1828 (born 1784)
• June 25  - Ephraim McDowell, physician and pioneer surgeon (born 1771)
• July 2  - Robert H. Adams, U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1830 (born 1792)
• August 6  - David Walker, African American abolitionist and writer (born 1796)
• August 9  - James Armistead Lafayette, African American slave, Continental Army double agent (born 1748 or 1760)
• September 24  - Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (born 1768)
• October 14  - John McLean, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1824 to 1825 and from 1829 to 1830 (born 1791)

See also

• Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)

References

• Smith, Joseph, Jr. (1830), The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi, Palmyra, New York: E. B. Grandin, OCLC 768123849 https://www.worldcat.org/title/768123849. See Book of Mormon.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bungart . Victoria . 1830 to 1839 Important News . The People History . 27 June 2021.