1802 in the United States

Events from the year 1802 in the United States.

Federal government

 * President: Thomas Jefferson (DR-Virginia)
 * Vice President: Aaron Burr (DR-New York)
 * Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
 * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nathaniel Macon (DR-North Carolina)
 * Congress: 7th

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Governors

 * Governor of Connecticut: Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Delaware: James Sykes (Democratic-Republican) (until January 19), David Hall (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 19)
 * Governor of Georgia: Josiah Tattnall (Democratic-Republican) (until November 4), John Milledge (Democratic-Republican) (starting November 4)
 * Governor of Kentucky: James Garrard (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Maryland: John Francis Mercer (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Massachusetts: Caleb Strong (Federalist)
 * Governor of New Hampshire: John Taylor Gilman (Federalist)
 * Governor of New Jersey: Joseph Bloomfield (Democratic-Republican) (until October 28), John Lambert (Democratic-Republican) (starting October 28)
 * Governor of New York: George Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of North Carolina: Benjamin Williams (Federalist) (until December 6), James Turner (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 6)
 * Governor of Pennsylvania: Thomas McKean (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Rhode Island: Arthur Fenner (Country)
 * Governor of South Carolina: John Drayton (Democratic-Republican) (until December 8), James Burchill Richardson (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 8)
 * Governor of Tennessee: Archibald Roane (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Vermont: Isaac Tichenor (Federalist)
 * Governor of Virginia: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican) (until December 1), John Page (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 1)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: John Treadwell (Federalist)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Alexander Scott Bullitt (political party unknown)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Samuel Phillips, Jr. (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Edward Robbins (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
 * Lieutenant Governor of New York: Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (political party unknown)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Samuel J. Potter (Democratic-Republican)
 * Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Richard Winn (Democratic-Republican) (until December 8), Ezekiel Pickens (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 8)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Paul Brigham (Democratic-Republican)
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Events

 * March 16 – Congress authorizes the establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
 * April 19 – The Judiciary Act of 1802 is enacted, reorganizing the federal court system.
 * April 30 – The Enabling Act of 1802 authorizes the creation of Ohio from the Northwest Territory and sets a precedent for the creation of future states from the western territories.
 * June 1 – William Thornton is appointed the first superintendent of the United States Patent Office.
 * July 4 – At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
 * October 2 – First Barbary War: Fighting ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
 * October 12 – Joseph Gardner Swift and Simeon Magruder Levy become the first graduates of the United States Military Academy.

Undated

 * U.S. House of Representatives elections: 142 representatives are elected, 36 more than the 7th Congress, following reapportionment from the 1800 United States Census.

Ongoing

 * First Barbary War (1801–1805)

Births

 * January 22 – Richard Upjohn, Gothic architect (died 1878)
 * February 4 – Mark Hopkins, educator and president of Williams College (died 1887)
 * February 11 – Lydia Maria Child, abolitionist, women's rights activist, novelist and journalist (died 1880)
 * February 21 – George D. Ramsay, 6th Chief of Ordnance of the United States Army (died 1882)
 * March 16 – George A. McCall, Union Army brigadier general (died 1868)
 * April 2 – Archibald Dixon, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1852 to 1855 (died 1876)
 * April 4 – Dorothea Dix, mental health reformer (died 1887)
 * May 10 – James Westcott, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1845 to 1849 (died 1880)
 * June 10 – James W. Bradbury, U.S. Senator from Maine from 1847 to 1853 (died 1901)
 * June 30 – Benjamin Fitzpatrick, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1848 to 1849 and from 1853 to 1861 (died 1869)
 * July 1 – Gideon Welles, 24th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1878)
 * July 9 – Thomas Davenport, inventor and blacksmith (died 1851)
 * July 21 – David Hunter, Union Army major general (died 1886)
 * August 10 – Dixon Hall Lewis, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1844 to 1848 (died 1848)
 * September 4 – Marcus Whitman, physician and missionary (died 1847)
 * October 1 – Oliver Blake, American-born Canadian businessman and political figure (died 1873)
 * November 5 – James F. Trotter, U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1838 (died 1866)
 * November 9 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, newspaper publisher and abolitionist (died 1837)
 * November 19 – Solomon Foot, Vermont politician (died 1866)
 * December 2 – Melancthon S. Wade, Union Army general (died 1868)

Deaths

 * February 26 – Esek Hopkins, Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy during the Revolution (born 1718)
 * May 22 – Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States (born 1731)
 * July 6 – Daniel Morgan, soldier and United States Representative from Virginia (born 1736)
 * December 31 – Francis Lewis, signer of the Declaration of Independence from New York (born 1713)