1835 in the United States

Incumbents

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• President: Andrew Jackson
• Vice President: Martin Van Buren
• Chief Justice: John Marshall
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: John Bell , James K. Polk
• Congress: 23rd, 24th

  Governors

• Governor of Alabama: John Gayle , Clement Comer Clay
• Governor of Connecticut: Samuel A. Foot , Henry W. Edwards
• Governor of Delaware: Caleb P. Bennett
• Governor of Georgia: Wilson Lumpkin , William Schley
• Governor of Illinois: Joseph Duncan
• Governor of Indiana: Noah Noble
• Governor of Kentucky: James T. Morehead
• Governor of Louisiana: André B. Roman , Edward Douglass White Sr.
• Governor of Maine: Robert P. Dunlap
• Governor of Maryland: James Thomas
• Governor of Massachusetts: John Davis , Samuel Turell Armstrong
• Governor of Mississippi: Hiram Runnels , John A. Quitman
• Governor of Missouri: Daniel Dunklin
• Governor of New Hampshire: William Badger
• Governor of New Jersey: Peter Dumont Vroom
• Governor of New York: William L. Marcy
• Governor of North Carolina: David Lowry Swain , Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr.
• Governor of Ohio: Robert Lucas
• Governor of Pennsylvania: George Wolf , Joseph Ritner
• Governor of Rhode Island: John Brown Francis
• Governor of South Carolina: George McDuffie
• Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll , Newton Cannon
• Governor of Vermont: William A. Palmer , Silas H. Jennison
• Governor of Virginia: Littleton Waller Tazewell

  Lieutenant Governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Thaddeus Betts , Ebenezer Stoddard
• Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Alexander M. Jenkins
• Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: David Wallace
• Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: vacant
• Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Samuel T. Armstrong
• Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Lilburn Boggs
• Lieutenant Governor of New York: John Tracy
• Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Jeffrey Hazard , George Engs
• Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Whitemarsh B. Seabrook
• Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Lebbeus Egerton , Silas H. Jennison

  Events

• January 8 - The Federal Government declares that Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt for the first and only time.
• January 30 - Richard Lawrence unsuccessfully tries to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol; this is the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.
• March 31 - Hostile action opens the Toledo War between the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory over the city of Toledo and the Toledo Strip.
• May 6 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
• June 2 - P. T. Barnum and his circus begins first tour of the U.S.
• July 4 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad completed construction of its Thomas Viaduct then the longest bridge in the United States, and second only to London Bridge in the world; the longer Canton Viaduct is completed two weeks later.
• August 25 - The Great Moon Hoax begins.

• October 2 - Texas Revolution - Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
• December 9 - The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.
• December 16-17 - The Great Fire of New York destroys 530–700 buildings and kills two.
• December 19 - Toledo Blade newspaper begins publishing.
• December 20 - The Texas Declaration of Independence is first signed at Goliad, Texas.
• December 28 - The Second Seminole War breaks out. Seminole fighter Osceola and his warriors attack government agent Thompson outside Fort King in central Florida.
• December 29 - The Treaty of New Echota, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi to the United States, is signed.

  Undated

• Judge William Harper of South Carolina rules that a person's acceptance as white, not the proportion of white and black blood, determine a person's race.
• Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838 Trail of Tears.

  Ongoing

• Second Seminole War

  Births

• January 29 - Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, children's writer
• February 19 - Henry R. Pease, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1874 to 1875
• March 28 - Matthias N. Forney, steam locomotive manufacturer
• March 31 - John La Farge, painter and stained-glass artist
• April 2 - Jacob Nash Victor, railroad builder
• April 10 - Henry Villard, journalist, railroad financier and philanthropist
• April 17 -
• * Augusta Cooper Bristol, poet
• * Zenas Bliss, Union Army general and Medal of Honor recipient
• May 12 – John T. Lesley, Mayor of Tampa
• May 27 - Charles Francis Adams Jr., public figure and historian
• June 10 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1922
• June 15 - Adah Isaacs Menken, actress, painter and poet
• June 26 - Thomas W. Knox, war reporter
• June 27 - Fred Harvey, entrepreneur
• June 29 - Celia Thaxter, poet
• August 2 - Elisha Gray, inventor and businessman
• September 4 - William Lindsay, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1893 to 1901
• September 10 - Donelson Caffery, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1892 to 1901
• September 14 - Ellen Hamlin, Second Lady of the United States as wife of Hannibal Hamlin
• October 16 - William R. Shafter, general
• October 23 - Adlai Stevenson I, 23rd Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897
• October 26 - Thomas M. Bowen, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1883 to 1889
• October 31 - Adelbert Ames, 27th and 30th Governor of Mississippi from 1868 to 1870 and from 1874 to 1876 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1870 to 1874, Medal of Honor recipient
• November 17 - Andrew L. Harris, Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio
• November 21 - Rose Eytinge, actress
• November 25
• * Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist
• * Arthur Sewall, politician and industrialist
• November 30 - Mark Twain, writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer
• December 13 - Phillips Brooks, clergyman and poet
• December 17 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, scientist
• December 18 - Lyman Abbott, clergyman and author

  Deaths

• February 19 - Amzi Chapin, singer, composer and music teacher
• March 15 - Samuel Dinsmoor, teacher, lawyer, banker and politician
• April 21 - Samuel Slater, "father of the American Industrial Revolution"
• July 6 - John Marshall, fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1801 to 1835
• August 25 - Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's alleged first love
• August 30 - William T. Barry, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1814 to 1816 and U.S. Postmaster General from 1829 to 1835, died in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
• September 15 - Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor and wife of Jefferson Davis
• November 14 - James Freeman, first American clergyman to call himself a Unitarian
• December 12 - Elias Kane, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1825 to 1835
• December 22 - David Hosack physician and educator, attending doctor at the Hamilton-Burr duel
• December 13 - John Storm, soldier in the American Revolution
• Full date unknown
• * Sally Hemings, slave and concubine to Thomas Jefferson
• * Elkanah Tisdale, engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist