1832 in the United States

Incumbents

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• President: Andrew Jackson
• Vice President: John C. Calhoun , vacant
• Chief Justice: John Marshall
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson
• Congress: 22nd

  Governors

• Governor of Alabama: John Gayle
• Governor of Connecticut: John Samuel Peters
• Governor of Delaware: David Hazzard
• Governor of Georgia: Wilson Lumpkin
• Governor of Illinois: John Reynolds
• Governor of Indiana: Noah Noble
• Governor of Kentucky: Thomas Metcalfe , John Breathitt
• Governor of Louisiana: André B. Roman
• Governor of Maine: Samuel E. Smith
• Governor of Maryland: George Howard
• Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln, Jr.
• Governor of Mississippi: Gerard Brandon , Abram M. Scott
• Governor of Missouri: John Miller , Daniel Dunklin
• Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel Dinsmoor
• Governor of New Jersey: Peter Dumont Vroom , Samuel L. Southard
• Governor of New York: Enos T. Throop
• Governor of North Carolina: Montfort Stokes , David Lowry Swain
• Governor of Ohio: Duncan McArthur , Robert Lucas
• Governor of Pennsylvania: George Wolf
• Governor of Rhode Island: Lemuel H. Arnold
• Governor of South Carolina: James Hamilton, Jr. , Robert Young Hayne
• Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll
• Governor of Vermont: William A. Palmer
• Governor of Virginia: John Floyd

  Lieutenant Governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Thaddeus Betts
• Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Zadok Casey
• Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: David Wallace
• Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: John Breathitt , James T. Morehead
• Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Thomas L. Winthrop
• Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Abram M. Scott , vacant
• Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Daniel Dunklin , Lilburn Boggs
• Lieutenant Governor of New York: Edward Philip Livingston
• Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins
• Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Patrick Noble , Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
• Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Lebbeus Egerton

  Events

• February 9 - The city of Jacksonville, Florida receives its town charter from the legislative council of Florida Territory.
• March 3 - In Worcester v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court holds that Cherokee Indians are entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments.
• March 24 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith.
• April 6 - The Black Hawk War begins.
• May 9 - Lafayette College classes begin.
• May 21-23 - 1832 Democratic National Convention held in Baltimore.
• July 10 - President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
• July 24 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains using the South Pass.
• July–August - The 1829–51 cholera pandemic reaches the Northeastern seaboard, beginning with New York City.
• August 27 - Black Hawk surrenders to the authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
• October 8 - Washington Irving and Henry Leavitt Ellsworth arrive at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory in the late morning hours. They leave the fort on October 10, with a small company of Rangers who escort them to the camp of Captain Jesse Bean who is waiting for them near the Arkansas River. Thus begins one of the first steps in the United States effort to remove the indigenous peoples of the Americas from their homes on the east coast in what would become known as the "Trail of Tears" some six years later.
• October 19 - Alpha Delta Phi fraternity is founded at Hamilton College.
• November 2-December 5 - Andrew Jackson defeats Henry Clay in the U.S. presidential election.
• November 14 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signatory of the Declaration of Independence dies at his home in Maryland at age 95.
• November 24 - Ordinance of Nullification is passed.
• December 3 - U.S. presidential election, 1832: Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.
• December - Skull and Bones secret society of Yale University established.
• December 28 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

  Undated

• George Catlin starts to live among the Sioux in the Dakota Territory.
• Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia funded by a bequest.

  Ongoing

• Nullification Crisis

  Births

• January 1 - Charles N. Felton, U.S. Senator from California from 1891 to 1893
• January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr., Unitarian minister and author
• January 26 - George Shiras Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• February 3 - Abram Williams, U.S. Senator from California from 1886 to 1887
• February 6 - John Brown Gordon, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1873 to 1880 and from 1891 to 1897
• February 18 - Nathaniel P. Hill, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1879 to 1885
• March 4 - Samuel Colman, Hudson River school painter
• March 10 - Mary Bigelow Ingham, author and educator
• April 3 - James Sewall Reed, soldier
• April 8 - Howell Edmunds Jackson, politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• April 10 - Alexander McDonald, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1871
• April 15 - John Irwin, admiral
• April 19 - Lucretia Garfield, First Lady of the United States
• April 22 - Julius Sterling Morton, 3rd United States Secretary of Agriculture
• June 9 - Martha Waldron Janes, minister, suffragist and columnist
• June 10 - Stephen Mosher Wood, politician
• June 11
• *Augustus Hill Garland, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1885 to 1889
• *Lucy Pickens, socialite, known during and after her lifetime as the "Queen of the Confederacy"
• June 30 - Emily Lucas Blackall, author and philanthropist
• July 26 - Joseph P. Fyffe, admiral
• August 2 - Henry Steel Olcott, officer
• August 20 - Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, aeronaut, scientist and inventor
• September 10 - Randall L. Gibson, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1883 to 1892
• September 25 - William Le Baron Jenney, architect
• September 26 - Joanna P. Moore, Baptist missionary and educator
• October 1
• * Caroline Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison
• * Henry Clay Work, song composer
• October 9 - Elizabeth Akers Allen, poet and journalist
• October 10 - Joe Cain, parade organizer for Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama
• November 7 - Andrew Dickson White, historian, diplomat and co-founder of Cornell University
• November 21 - Benjamin Paul Blood, philosopher and poet
• November 26 - Mary Edwards Walker, physician
• November 29 - Louisa May Alcott, novelist
• December 6 - Thaddeus C. Pound, businessman and politician
• Undated - Boston Corbett, Union Army soldier who fatally shoots John Wilkes Booth

  Deaths

• February 1 - Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician
• February 2 - Amos Doolittle, engraver
• June 10 - Joseph Hiester, politician
• November 12 - Henry Eckford, shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer and entrepreneur
• November 14 - Charles Carroll, last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Senator
• December 17 - Robert Charles Sands, writer
• December 18 - Philip Freneau, poet and journalist
• December 22 - Ishmail Spicer, music teacher, composer and publisher