1827 in the United States

Events from the year 1827 in the United States.

Federal government

 * President: John Quincy Adams (DR/NR-Massachusetts)
 * Vice President: John C. Calhoun (D-South Carolina)
 * Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
 * Speaker of the House of Representatives:
 * John W. Taylor (DR-New York) (until March 4)
 * Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia) (starting December 3)


 * Congress: 19th (until March 4), 20th (starting March 4)

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Governors

 * Governor of Alabama: John Murphy (Democratic)
 * Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Toleration) (until May 2), Gideon Tomlinson (Democratic-Republican) (starting May 2)
 * Governor of Delaware: Samuel Paynter (Federalist) (until January 16), Charles Polk, Jr. (Federalist) (starting January 16)
 * Governor of Georgia: George M. Troup (Democratic-Republican) (until November 7), John Forsyth (Democratic-Republican) (starting November 7)
 * Governor of Illinois: Ninian Edwards (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Indiana: James B. Ray (Independent)
 * Governor of Kentucky: Joseph Desha (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Louisiana: Henry Johnson (National Republican)
 * Governor of Maine: Albion K. Parris (Democratic-Republican) (until January 3), Enoch Lincoln (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 3)
 * Governor of Maryland: Joseph Kent (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln Jr. (National Republican)
 * Governor of Mississippi: Gerard Brandon (Democratic)
 * Governor of Missouri: John Miller (Democratic)
 * Governor of New Hampshire: David L. Morril (Democratic-Republican) (until June 7), Benjamin Pierce (Democratic-Republican) (starting June 7)
 * Governor of New Jersey: Isaac Halstead Williamson (Federalist)
 * Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of North Carolina: Hutchins Gordon Burton (no political party) (until December 8), James Iredell Jr. (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 8)
 * Governor of Ohio: Allen Trimble (Federalist)
 * Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Rhode Island: James Fenner (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of South Carolina: John Taylor (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic-Republican) (until October 1), Sam Houston (Democratic-Republican) (starting October 1)
 * Governor of Vermont: Ezra Butler (National Republican)
 * Governor of Virginia: John Tyler (Democratic-Republican) (until March 4), William Branch Giles (Democratic) (starting March 4)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: David Plant (National Republican) (until May 2), John Samuel Peters (National Republican) (starting May 2)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William Kinney (Democratic-Republican)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: John H. Thompson (Democratic-Republican)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Robert B. McAfee (political party unknown)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: vacant (until month and day unknown), Thomas L. Winthrop (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: vacant
 * Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: vacant
 * Lieutenant Governor of New York: Nathaniel Pitcher (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 1)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins (political party unknown)
 * Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: James Witherspoon (Democratic-Republican)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Aaron Leland (Democratic-Republican) (until month and day unknown), Henry Olin (Democratic-Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
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Events

 * February 28 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
 * March 12 – In Brown v. Maryland, the United States Supreme Court ruled that imported goods in their original package are under federal jurisdiction and thus not subject to state regulation.
 * March 16 – Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm.
 * May 21 – The Maryland Democratic Party is founded by supporters of Andrew Jackson in Baltimore and hosts its first meeting at the Baltimore Atheneum.
 * September 3 – Ho-Chunk leader Red Bird surrenders to U.S. officials, ending the Winnebago War.
 * J. J. Audubon's The Birds of America commences publication in the United Kingdom.
 * The original Delmonico's restaurant opens in Manhattan.
 * The first English translation of Christopher Columbus' journal by Samuel Kettell is published in Boston.
 * John Neal opens the first public gymnasium in the United States founded by an American in Portland, Maine.

Births

 * January 17 – Samuel Hartt Pook, Boston naval architect (died 1901)
 * February 17 – Rose Terry Cooke, fiction writer and poet (died 1892)
 * March 25 – Stephen Luce, admiral (died 1917)
 * April 10 – Lew Wallace, Union general in the American Civil War, politician and novelist (died 1905)
 * May 10 – William Windom, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1870 to 1881 and from 1881 to 1883 (died 1891)
 * May 21 – William P. Sprague, Ohio politician (died 1899)
 * May 23 – Milton Latham, U.S. Senator from California from 1860 to 1863 (died 1882)
 * May 27 – Samuel F. Miller, politician (died 1892)
 * June 7 – Alonzo J. Edgerton, U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1881 (died 1896)
 * June 9 – Francis Miles Finch, judge, poet and academic (died 1907)
 * June 10 – Thomas W. Ferry, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1871 to 1883 (died 1896)
 * July 11 – Austin Corbin, railroad executive and robber baron (died 1896)
 * July 13 – Hugh O'Brien, 31st Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (died 1895)
 * July 19 – Orville H. Platt, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1879 to 1905 (died 1905)
 * August 3 – John Williams Tobey, architect, carpenter and builder (died 1909)
 * August 6 – George Franklin Drew, 12th Governor of Florida (died 1900)
 * September 18 – John Townsend Trowbridge, author (died 1916)
 * September 26 – Daniel W. Voorhees, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897 (died 1897)
 * September 28 – Aaron A. Sargent, journalist and lawyer, U.S. Senator from California from 1873 to 1879 (died 1887)
 * September 30 – Ellis H. Roberts, politician (died 1918)
 * October 12 – Josiah Parsons Cooke, chemist (died 1894)
 * October 13 – Robert Crozier, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1874 (died 1895)
 * November 10 – J.T. Wamelink, Dutch-born composer (died 1910)
 * November 26 – Ellen G. White, née Harmon, Adventist (died 1915)
 * Date unknown – Asahel C. Beckwith, U.S. Senator from Wyoming in 1893 (died 1896)

Deaths

 * February 22 – Charles Willson Peale, portrait painter (born 1741)
 * February 23 – Felipe Enrique Neri, Texas legislator, colonizer (born 1759)
 * April 24 – Israel Pickens, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1821 to 1825 (born 1780)
 * April 29
 * Rufus King, lawyer, politician and diplomat (born 1755)
 * Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier (born 1760)
 * May 29 – Carlos Wilcox, poet (born 1794)
 * September 23 – Freeman Walker, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1819 to 1821 (born 1780)
 * October 12 – John Eager Howard, politician (born 1752)
 * November 10 – St. George Tucker, lawyer and poet (born 1752 in Bermuda)
 * November 25 – Enoch Fenwick, Jesuit priest (born 1780)