1829 in the United States 1829 in the United States .Incumbents Federal Government ">Federal government of the United States">Federal Government President: John Quincy Adams , Andrew Jackson Vice President: John C. Calhoun Chief Justice: John Marshall Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson Congress: 20th , 21st Governors Governor of Alabama: John Murphy , Gabriel Moore Governor of Connecticut: Gideon Tomlinson Governor of Delaware: Charles Polk, Jr. Governor of Georgia: John Forsyth , George R. Gilmer Governor of Illinois: Ninian Edwards Governor of Indiana: James B. Ray Governor of Kentucky: Thomas Metcalfe Governor of Louisiana: Pierre Derbigny , Armand Julie Beauvais Governor of Maine: Enoch Lincoln , Nathan Cutler Governor of Maryland: Joseph Kent , Daniel Martin Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln , Jr. Governor of Mississippi: Gerard Brandon Governor of Missouri: John Miller Governor of New Hampshire: John Bell , Benjamin Pierce Governor of New Jersey: * until October 30: Isaac Halstead Williamson * October 30-November 6: Garret D . Wall * starting November 6: Peter Dumont Vroom Governor of New York: * January 1-March 12: Martin Van Buren * starting March 12: Enos T. Throop Governor of North Carolina: John Owen Governor of Ohio: Allen Trimble Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze , George Wolf Governor of Rhode Island: James Fenner Governor of South Carolina: Stephen Decatur Miller Governor of Tennessee: * until April 16: Sam Houston * April 16-October 1: William Hall * starting October 1: William Carroll Governor of Vermont: Samuel C. Crafts Governor of Virginia: William Branch Giles Lieutenant Governors Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: John Samuel Peters Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William Kinney Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Milton Stapp Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: John Breathitt Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Thomas L. Winthrop Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Abram M. Scott Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Daniel Dunklin Lieutenant Governor of New York: * January 1-March 12: Enos T. Throop * March 12: Charles Stebbins * March 12-July 1: William M. Oliver * starting July 1: Edward Philip Livingston Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Williams Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Henry Olin Events March 4 - Andrew Jackson is sworn in as the seventh President of the United States . June 1 - The Philadelphia Inquirer is founded as The Pennsylvania Inquirer . July 23 - William Austin Burt obtains the first patent for a typographer. June 27 - James Smithson , a British mineralogist and chemist, leaves a bequest of £100,000 to fund the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. August 15–22 – Cincinnati riots of 1829 Undated - The Georgia Gold Rush begins as the country's first significant gold rush following the discovery of gold on October 27, 1828, by Benjamin Parks in the old Hall County, Georgia .Births March 2 - William B. Allison, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1873 to 1908 April 12 - Daniel Sheldon Norton , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1865 to 1870 May 8 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk , composer and pianist May 28 - A. B. Rogers, surveyor July 9 - Robert Franklin Armfield , U.S. Representative from North Carolina August 6 - James T. Farley, U.S. Senator from California from 1879 to 1885 September 12 - Charles Dudley Warner , essayist and novelist October 5 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States from 1881 to 1885, 20th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1881 October 15 - Asaph Hall , astronomer October 30 - Roscoe Conkling , leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party November 22 - Shelby Moore Cullom , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1883 to 1913 December 8 - Henry Timrod , "poet laureate of the Confederacy"Deaths January 28 - Ephraim Bateman , U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1826 to 1829 January 29 - Timothy Pickering , 2nd United States Secretary of War , 3rd United States Secretary of State February 18 - Hannah Tompkins , Second Lady of the United States April 11 - Archibald Gracie , merchant and shipowner May 17 - John Jay , represented New York at the Continental Congress in 1774, 2nd Governor of New York from 1795 to 1801 and 1st Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1789 to 1795 June 27 - James Smithson, British chemist and mineralogist whose inheritance will eventually create the Smithsonian Institution November 26 - Thomas Buck Reed , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1826 to 1827 and in 1829 December 12 - John Lansing, Jr., statesman
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