1822 in the United States

Incumbents

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• President: James Monroe
• Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins
• Chief Justice: John Marshall
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Philip Pendleton Barbour
• Congress: 17th

  Governors

• Governor of Alabama: Israel Pickens
• Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott, Jr.
• Governor of Delaware: John Collins , Caleb Rodney
• Governor of Georgia: John Clark
• Governor of Illinois: Shadrach Bond , Edward Coles
• Governor of Indiana:
• * until September 12: Jonathan Jennings
• * September 12-December 5: Ratliff Boon
• * starting December 5: William Hendricks
• Governor of Kentucky: John Adair
• Governor of Louisiana: Thomas Bolling Robertson
• Governor of Maine:
• * until January 2: Benjamin Ames
• * January 2-January 5: Daniel Rose
• * starting January 5: Albion K. Parris
• Governor of Maryland: Samuel Sprigg , Samuel Stevens, Jr.
• Governor of Massachusetts: John Brooks
• Governor of Mississippi: George Poindexter , Walter Leake
• Governor of Missouri: Alexander McNair
• Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel Bell
• Governor of New Jersey: Isaac Halstead Williamson
• Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton
• Governor of North Carolina: Gabriel Holmes
• Governor of Ohio:
• * until January 4: Ethan Allen Brown
• * January 4-December 28: Allen Trimble
• * starting December 28: Jeremiah Morrow
• Governor of Pennsylvania: Joseph Hiester
• Governor of Rhode Island: William C. Gibbs
• Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Bennett, Jr. , John Lyde Wilson
• Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll
• Governor of Vermont: Richard Skinner
• Governor of Virginia: Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. , James Pleasants

  Lieutenant Governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Jonathan Ingersoll
• Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Pierre Menard , Adolphus Hubbard
• Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Ratliff Boon
• Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William T. Barry
• Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William Phillips, Jr.
• Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: James Patton , David Dickson
• Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: William Henry Ashley
• Lieutenant Governor of New York: John Tayler
• Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Caleb Earle
• Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: William Pinckney , Henry Bradley
• Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: William Cahoon

  Events

• March 30 - The U.S. merges East Florida with part of West Florida to form the Florida Territory.
• July 1-3 - U.S. House of Representatives elections begin in Louisiana and continue until the last elections are held in North Carolina on August 14, 1823.
• July 2 - Denmark Vesey is hanged for plotting a slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina.
• July 4 - A 24th star is added to the flag of the United States, representing Missouri which had been admitted on August 10, 1821.
• August 22 - The English ship Orion lands at Yerba Buena, modern-day San Francisco, under the command of William A. Richardson.
• November 9 - Action of 9 November 1822: engages three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba as part of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the U.S.
• November 23 - The USS Alligator wrecks on Carysford Reef off the coast of Florida.

  Undated

• Ashley's Hundred leave from St. Louis, setting off a major increase in fur trade.
• A committee is formed to collect remains from the remote location where the Battle of Minisink had been fought in 1779.
• The last major outbreak of yellow fever in New York City occurs.
• Gist Mansion is built in Wellsburg, West Virginia.

  Ongoing

• Era of Good Feelings

  Births

• February 4 - Edward Fitzgerald Beale, U.S. Navy lieutenant and explorer
• February 13 - James B. Beck, Scottish-born U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1877 to 1890
• c. March - Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross, African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War
• March 12 - Thomas Buchanan Read, poet and portrait painter
• March 16 - John Pope, career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War
• April 3 - Edward Everett Hale, writer
• April 26 - Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect
• April 27 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877
• May 18 - Mathew B. Brady, pioneer photographer
• June 10 -
• * John Jacob Astor III, businessman
• * Lydia White Shattuck, botanist
• July 21 - Alexander H. Jones, Congressional Representative from North Carolina.
• July 25 - Andrew Bryson, admiral
• August 15
• * James E. Bailey, U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to 1881
• * Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe
• August 27 - William Hayden English, politician
• September 11 - Francis S. Thayer, merchant and politician
• September 16 - Charles Crocker, financiers
• September 17 - Cornelius Cole, U.S. Senator from California from 1867 to 1873
• September 19 - Joseph R. West, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1871 to 1877
• September 20 - Elizabeth Smith Miller, women's rights campaigner
• October 4 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881
• Undated - Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota chief

  Deaths

• April 8 - James Long, US Filibuster, founder of the Long Republic - the first "Republic of Texas". Shot by a prison guard in Mexico City, Mexico.
• May 6 - Charles Peale Polk, portrait painter
• May 8 - John Stark, major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution
• July 2 - Denmark Vesey, African American leader, hanged
• August 28 - William Logan, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1820
• October 31 - Jared Ingersoll, U.S. presidential candidate