1824 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: Henry Clay
• Congress: 18th

  Governors

• Governor of Alabama: Israel Pickens
• Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott, Jr.
• Governor of Delaware: Charles Thomas , Samuel Paynter
• Governor of Georgia: George M. Troup
• Governor of Illinois: Edward Coles
• Governor of Indiana: William Hendricks
• Governor of Kentucky: John Adair , Joseph Desha
• Governor of Louisiana:
• * until November 15: Thomas Bolling Robertson
• * November 15-December 13: Henry S. Thibodaux
• * starting December 13: Henry Johnson
• Governor of Maine: Albion K. Parris
• Governor of Maryland: Samuel Stevens, Jr.
• Governor of Massachusetts: William Eustis
• Governor of Mississippi: Walter Leake
• Governor of Missouri: Alexander McNair , Frederick Bates
• Governor of New Hampshire: Levi Woodbury , David L. Morril
• Governor of New Jersey: Isaac Halstead Williamson
• Governor of New York: Joseph C. Yates
• Governor of North Carolina: Gabriel Holmes , Hutchins Gordon Burton
• Governor of Ohio: Jeremiah Morrow
• Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze
• Governor of Rhode Island: William C. Gibbs , James Fenner
• Governor of South Carolina: John Lyde Wilson , Richard Irvine Manning I
• Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll
• Governor of Vermont: Cornelius P. Van Ness
• Governor of Virginia: James Pleasants

  Lieutenant Governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: David Plant
• Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Adolphus Hubbard
• Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Ratliff Boon , John H. Thompson
• Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William T. Barry , Robert B. McAfee
• Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln, Jr. , Marcus Morton
• Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: David Dickson , Gerard C. Brandon
• Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: William Henry Ashley , Benjamin Harrison Reeves
• Lieutenant Governor of New York: Erastus Root
• Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Caleb Earle , Charles Collins
• Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Henry Bradley , William Bull
• Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Aaron Leland

  Events

• March 11 - U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs formed by John C. Calhoun without authorization from Congress.
• April - The United States Literary Gazette, a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others.
• April 15 - To defend the Cherokees' possession of their land, chief John Ross petitions Congress, fundamentally altering the traditional relationship between an Indian nation and whites.
• May 15 - A boiler explosion occurs on the steamship Aetna, under way in Upper New York Bay, killing more than ten passengers and injuring many more.
• May 26 - Arkansas Territory split creates Indian Territory.
• August 16 - Lafayette visits the United States, departing on September 7, 1825.
• October 26 - U.S. presidential election opens. Andrew Jackson will receive more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the first election in which this vote is reported.
• November 1 - Miami University delivers its first classes in Oxford, Ohio.
• November 5 - Stephen Van Rensselaer establishes the Rensselaer School, which becomes the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world.
• November 15 - Quapaw cede a considerable tract between the Arkansas and the Saline River.
• December 1 - U.S. presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner.
• December 24
• *Chief Pushmataha of the Choctaw Nation dies in Washington.
• *The Chi Phi Fraternity is founded at Princeton University.

  Undated

• Iowa tribe removed to a reservation in Kansas.
• A treaty between several tribes and the United States Government establish a Half-Breed Tract in present-day Lee County, Iowa.
• Harmony Society establishes the settlement of Economy, Pennsylvania.
• Thomas Say begins publication of American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America in Philadelphia, including the first description of the Colorado potato beetle.

  Ongoing

• Era of Good Feelings
• A. B. plot

  Births

• January 21 - Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general
• February 14 - Winfield Scott Hancock, Civil War Union general and political candidate
• March 9 - Leland Stanford, tycoon, U.S. Senator from California from 1885 to 1893
• March 25 - Clinton L. Merriam, politician
• March 26 - Levi P. Morton, the 22nd Vice President of the United States from 1889 to 1893
• March 31 - William Morris Hunt, painter
• April 20 - Alfred H. Colquitt, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1883 to 1894
• May 16 - Edmund Kirby Smith, career United States Army officer who serves with the Confederates during the American Civil War
• May 23 - Ambrose Burnside, Union Army general, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist and Rhode Island Senator
• June 20 - John Tyler Morgan, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1877 to 1907
• July 21 - Stanley Matthews, politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• July 25
• * Richard J. Oglesby, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1873 to 1878
• * George Boyer Vashon, African American lawyer, abolitionist, poet and scholar
• August 7 - Gideon T. Stewart, temperance movement leader
• August 15 - Charles Godfrey Leland, folklorist
• September 4 - Phoebe Cary, poet, sister to Alice Cary
• September 27 - Benjamin Apthorp Gould, astronomer
• October 2 - Henry C. Lord, railroad executive
• October 5 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian
• December 11 - Jonathan Letterman, surgeon and "Father of Battlefield Medicine"

  Deaths

• March 2 - Susanna Rowson, novelist, poet and playwright
• April 3 - Sally Seymour, pastry chef and restaurateur
• July 14 - Kamehameha II, King of Hawaii
• August 12 - Charles Nerinckx, founder of the Sisters of Loretto
• December 24 - Pushmataha, Choctaw chief