1826 in the United States

Incumbents

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• President: John Quincy Adams
• Vice President: John C. Calhoun
• Chief Justice: John Marshall
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: John W. Taylor
• Congress: 19th

  Governors

• Governor of Alabama: John Murphy
• Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott, Jr.
• Governor of Delaware: Samuel Paynter
• Governor of Georgia: George M. Troup
• Governor of Illinois: Edward Coles , Ninian Edwards
• Governor of Indiana: 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. , Joseph Kent
• Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln, Jr.
• Governor of Mississippi:
• * until January 7: Gerard Brandon
• * January 7-July 25: David Holmes
• * starting July 25: Gerard Brandon
• Governor of Missouri: Abraham J. Williams , John Miller
• 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 , Allen Trimble
• Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze
• Governor of Rhode Island: James Fenner
• Governor of South Carolina: Richard Irvine Manning I , John Taylor
• Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll
• Governor of Vermont: Cornelius P. Van Ness , Ezra Butler
• Governor of Virginia: John Tyler

  Lieutenant Governors

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

  Events

• January 24 - Treaty of Washington between the United States government and the Creek National Council, in which they cede much of their land in the State of Georgia.
• February 13 - The American Temperance Society is founded in Boston.
• July 4 - Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die.
• September 3 - The USS Vincennes, commanded by William Finch, leaves New York City to become the first U.S. warship to circumnavigate the globe.
• December 21 - Fredonian Rebellion: American settlers in Mexican Texas make the first attempt to secede from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Fredonia, which will survive for just over a month.
• December 25 - The Eggnog Riot breaks out at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York during the early morning hours, but is squelched by Christmas chapel service.
• Sing Sing prison first opened on the Hudson River.

  Births

• January 5 - Samuel L. M. Barlow I, lawyer
• January 26 - Julia Grant, born Julia Boggs Dent, First Lady as wife of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the U.S.
• January 27 - Richard Taylor, Confederate general
• February 9 - John A. Logan, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1871 to 1877
• February 16 - James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University
• February 22 - Samuel J. R. McMillan, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1875 to 1887
• March 4 - Theodore Judah, railroad engineer
• April 9 - Francis B. Stockbridge, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1887 to 1894
• April 26
• *George Hull Ward, general
• *Ambrose R. Wright, general, lawyer, and politician
• May 4 - Frederic Edwin Church, painter
• May 7 - Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America
• July 4 - Stephen Foster, songwriter
• August 16 - Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge, wife of John C. Breckinridge, Second Lady of the United States
• September 4 - Willard Warner, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1868 to 1871
• September 18 - Celia M. Burleigh, women's rights activist and Unitarian pastor
• October 7 - William B. Bate, 23rd Governor of Tennessee from 1883 to 1887 and U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1887 to 1905
• October 20 - James Z. George, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1881 to 1897
• October 31 - Joseph Roswell Hawley, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1881 to 1905
• December 3 - George B. McClellan, soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician
• December 7 - Edmund G. Ross, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1866 to 1871

  Deaths

• January 24 – Henry H. Chambers, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1825 to 1826
• February 7 – Thomas Todd, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1807 to 1826
• July 4
• * John Adams, second President of the United States from 1797 to 1801, first Vice President of the United States from 1789 to 1797
• * Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809, second Vice President of the United States from 1797 to 1801
• July 8 – Luther Martin, delegate to the American Constitutional Convention
• July 18 – Issac Shelby, first and fifth Governor of Kentucky from 1792 to 1796 and 1812 to 1816
• August 26 – Royall Tyler, playwright