1825 in the United States

Incumbents

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• President: James Monroe , John Quincy Adams
• Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins , John C. Calhoun
• Chief Justice: John Marshall
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay , John W. Taylor
• Congress: 18th, 19th

  Governors

• Governor of Alabama: Israel Pickens , John Murphy
• Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott, Jr.
• Governor of Delaware: Samuel Paynter
• Governor of Georgia: George M. Troup
• Governor of Illinois: Edward Coles
• Governor of Indiana: William Hendricks , James B. Ray
• Governor of Kentucky: Joseph Desha
• Governor of Louisiana: Henry Johnson
• Governor of Maine: Albion K. Parris
• Governor of Maryland: Samuel Stevens, Jr.
• Governor of Massachusetts:
• * until February 6: William Eustis
• * February 6-May 26: Marcus Morton
• * starting May 26: Levi Lincoln, Jr.
• Governor of Mississippi: Walter Leake , Gerard Brandon
• Governor of Missouri: Frederick Bates , Abraham J. Williams
• Governor of New Hampshire: David L. Morril
• Governor of New Jersey: Isaac Halstead Williamson
• Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton
• Governor of North Carolina: Hutchins Gordon Burton
• Governor of Ohio: Jeremiah Morrow
• Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze
• Governor of Rhode Island: James Fenner
• Governor of South Carolina: Richard Irvine Manning I
• Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll
• Governor of Vermont: Cornelius P. Van Ness
• Governor of Virginia: James Pleasants , John Tyler

  Lieutenant Governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: David Plant
• Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Adolphus Hubbard
• Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: John H. Thompson
• Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Robert B. McAfee
• Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Marcus Morton , vacant
• Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Gerard C. Brandon
• Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Benjamin Harrison Reeves , vacant
• Lieutenant Governor of New York: vacant, James Tallmadge, Jr.
• Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins
• Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: William Bull
• Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Aaron Leland

  Events

January–March

• January 10 - Indianapolis becomes the capital of Indiana.
• February 9 - After no presidential candidate receives a majority of U.S. Electoral College votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States in a contingent election.
• February 12 - Treaty of Indian Springs: The Lower Creek Council, led by William McIntosh, cedes a large amount of Creek territory in Georgia to the United States government.
• March 4 - John Quincy Adams is sworn in as the sixth President of the United States.
• March 17 - The Norfolk & Dedham Group is founded as The Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company.

  April–June

• April 30 - Upper Creek chief Menawa leads an attack that assassinates William McIntosh for signing the Treaty of Indian Springs.
• May 11 - American Tract Society is founded.
• June 3 - Kansa Nation cedes its territory to the United States.
• June 11 - The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.

  July–September

• July 14 - The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society is founded by 16 disgruntled members of the now-defunct Patrick Henry Society in Room 7, West Lawn, of the University of Virginia.
• August 19 - First Treaty of Prairie du Chien at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin

  October–December

• October 26 - The Erie Canal opens, granting passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
• November 7 - Treaty of St. Louis: 1,400 Missouri Shawnees are forcibly relocated from Missouri to Kansas.
• November 12 - New Echota designated capital of the Cherokee Nation.
• November 26 - At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society as the first college social fraternity.

  Undated

• The Osage Nation cedes traditional lands by treaty.
• The Cherokee Nation officially adopts Sequoyah's syllabary.
• Vancouver, Washington is established by Dr. John McLoughlin on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company.
• Ypsilanti, Michigan is established.
• Vicksburg, Mississippi is incorporated.
• New Harmony, Indiana established as a social experiment, built by the Harmony Society and sold to Robert Owen.
• The United States Postal Service starts a dead letter office.
• Centenary College of Louisiana is founded in Jackson, Louisiana. The campus later moves to Shreveport, Louisiana.

  Ongoing

• Era of Good Feelings

  Births

• January 5 - John Mason Loomis, lumber tycoon, Union militia colonel in the American Civil War and philanthropist
• January 11
• * Clement V. Rogers, Cherokee politician and father of Will Rogers
• * Bayard Taylor, poet and travel writer
• January 25 - George Pickett, Confederate general in the American Civil War
• February 11 - Frank Pidgeon, baseball pitcher
• April 7 - John H. Gear, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1895 to 1900
• April 17 - Jerome B. Chaffee, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1879
• June 1 - John Hunt Morgan, Confederate general in the American Civil War
• July 2 - Richard Henry Stoddard, critic and poet
• July 10 - Benjamin Paul Akers, sculptor
• July 15 - Joseph Carter Abbott, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1868 to 1871
• July 19 - George H. Pendleton, politician
• August 7 - Jacob Wrey Mould, New York architect, illustrator, linguist and musician
• August 10 - Edmund Spangler, carpenter and stagehand employed at Ford's Theatre at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• September 13 - William Henry Rinehart, sculptor
• September 17 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• September 24 - Frances Harper, née Watkins, African American poet and abolitionist
• October 8 - Paschal Beverly Randolph, occultist
• November 9 - A. P. Hill, Confederate general
• December 18 - John S. Harris, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1871
• December 30
• * Newton Booth, U.S. Senator from California from 1875 to 1881
• * Samuel Newitt Wood, politician

  Deaths

• January 8 - Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin and milling machine
• March 1 - John Haggin, "Indian fighter" and early settler of Kentucky
• March 4 - Hercules Mulligan, tailor and spy during the American Revolutionary War
• March 25 - Raphaelle Peale, still-life painter
• June 1 - Daniel Tompkins, sixth Vice President of the United States from 1817 to 1825
• June 4 - Morris Birkbeck, writer and social reformer
• June 14 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect and civil engineer
• August 16 - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, politician and soldier
• August 27 - Lucretia Maria Davidson, poet
• December 28 - James Wilkinson, soldier and statesman