1822 in the United States

Events from the year 1822 in the United States.

Federal government

 * President: James Monroe (DR-Virginia)
 * Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-New York)
 * Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
 * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Philip P. Barbour (DR-Virginia)
 * Congress: 17th

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" ! Governors and lieutenant governors

Governors

 * Governor of Alabama: Israel Pickens (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Toleration)
 * Governor of Delaware: John Collins (Democratic-Republican) (until April 16), Caleb Rodney (Federalist) (starting April 16)
 * Governor of Georgia: John Clark (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Illinois: Shadrach Bond (Independent) (until December 5), Edward Coles (Independent) (starting December 5)
 * Governor of Indiana:
 * until September 12: Jonathan Jennings (Democratic-Republican)
 * September 12-December 5: Ratliff Boon (Democratic-Republican)
 * starting December 5: William Hendricks (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Kentucky: John Adair (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Louisiana: Thomas Bolling Robertson (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Maine:
 * until January 2: Benjamin Ames (Democratic-Republican)
 * January 2-January 5: Daniel Rose (Democratic-Republican)
 * starting January 5: Albion K. Parris (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Maryland: Samuel Sprigg (Democratic) (until December 16), Samuel Stevens Jr. (Democratic) (starting December 16)
 * Governor of Massachusetts: John Brooks (Federalist)
 * Governor of Mississippi: George Poindexter (Democratic-Republican) (until January 7), Walter Leake (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Missouri: Alexander McNair (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel Bell (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of New Jersey: Isaac Halstead Williamson (Federalist)
 * Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican) (until end of December 31)
 * Governor of North Carolina: Gabriel Holmes (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Ohio:
 * until January 4: Ethan Allen Brown (Democratic-Republican)
 * January 4-December 28: Allen Trimble (Federalist)
 * starting December 28: Jeremiah Morrow (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Pennsylvania: Joseph Hiester (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Rhode Island: William C. Gibbs (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Bennett Jr. (Democratic-Republican) (until December 7), John Lyde Wilson (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 7)
 * Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Vermont: Richard Skinner (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Virginia: Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. (Democratic-Republican) (until December 1), James Pleasants (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 1)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Jonathan Ingersoll (Democratic-Republican)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Pierre Menard (Democratic-Republican) (until December 5), Adolphus Hubbard (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 5)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Ratliff Boon (Democratic-Republican)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William T. Barry (political party unknown)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William Phillips Jr. (political party unknown)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: James Patton (no political party) (until month and day unknown), David Dickson (no political party) (starting month and day unknown)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: William Henry Ashley (Democratic-Republican)
 * Lieutenant Governor of New York: John Tayler (Democratic-Republican) (until end of December 31)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Caleb Earle (political party unknown)
 * Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: William Pinckney (Democratic-Republican) (until December 7), Henry Bradley (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 7)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: William Cahoon (Democratic-Republican)
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Events

 * March 30 – The U.S. merges East Florida with part of West Florida to form the Florida Territory.
 * July 1–3 – U.S. House of Representatives elections begin in Louisiana and continue until the last elections are held in North Carolina on August 14, 1823.
 * July 2 – Denmark Vesey is hanged for plotting a slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina.
 * July 4 – A 24th star is added to the flag of the United States, representing Missouri which had been admitted on August 10, 1821.
 * August 22 – The English ship Orion lands at Yerba Buena, modern-day San Francisco, under the command of William A. Richardson.
 * November 9 – Action of 9 November 1822: USS Alligator (1820) engages three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba as part of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the U.S.
 * November 23 – The USS Alligator wrecks on Carysford Reef off the coast of Florida.
 * December 5 – Edward Coles is sworn in as the second governor of Illinois, replacing Shadrach Bond.

Undated

 * Ashley's Hundred leave from St. Louis, setting off a major increase in fur trade.
 * A committee is formed to collect remains from the remote location where the Battle of Minisink had been fought in 1779.
 * The last major outbreak of yellow fever in New York City occurs.
 * Gist Mansion is built in Wellsburg, West Virginia (used some 100 years later for the Brooke Hills Spooktacular).

Ongoing

 * Era of Good Feelings (1817–1825)

Births

 * February 4 – Edward Fitzgerald Beale, U.S. Navy lieutenant and explorer (died 1893)
 * February 13 – James B. Beck, Scottish-born U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1877 to 1890 (died 1890)
 * c. March – Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross, African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War (died 1913)
 * March 12 – Thomas Buchanan Read, poet and portrait painter (died 1872)
 * March 16 – John Pope, career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War (died 1892)
 * April 3 – Edward Everett Hale, writer (died 1909)
 * April 26 – Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect (died 1903)
 * April 27 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877 (died 1885)
 * May 18 – Mathew B. Brady, pioneer photographer (died 1896)
 * June 10 –
 * John Jacob Astor III, businessman (died 1890)
 * Lydia White Shattuck, botanist (died 1889)
 * July 21 – Alexander H. Jones, Congressional Representative from North Carolina. (died 1901)
 * July 25 – Andrew Bryson, admiral (died 1892)
 * August 15
 * James E. Bailey, U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to 1881 (died 1885)
 * Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (died 1847)
 * August 27 – William Hayden English, politician (died 1896)
 * September 11 – Francis S. Thayer, merchant and politician (died 1880)
 * September 16 – Charles Crocker, financiers (died 1888)
 * September 17 – Cornelius Cole, U.S. Senator from California from 1867 to 1873 (died 1924)
 * September 19 – Joseph R. West, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1871 to 1877 (died 1898)
 * September 20 – Elizabeth Smith Miller, women's rights campaigner (died 1911)
 * October 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881 (died 1893)
 * Undated – Red Cloud (Maȟpíya Lúta), Oglala Lakota chief (died 1909)

Deaths

 * April 8 – James Long, U.S. Filibuster, founder of the Long Republic - the first "Republic of Texas". Shot by a prison guard in Mexico City, Mexico (born 1793).
 * May 6 – Charles Peale Polk, portrait painter (born 1767)
 * May 8 – John Stark, major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (born 1728)
 * July 2 – Denmark Vesey, African American leader, hanged (born c.1767)
 * August 28 – William Logan, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1820 (born 1776)
 * October 31 – Jared Ingersoll, U.S. presidential candidate (born 1749)