1836 in the United States
U.S.-related events during the year of 1836
Events from the year 1836 in the United States . Exceptionally, this page covers not only the history of the United States , but also that of the Republic of Texas in 1836.
Incumbents
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : Clement Comer Clay (Democratic )Governor of Arkansas :
Governor of Connecticut : Henry W. Edwards (Democratic )Governor of Delaware : Caleb P. Bennett (Democratic ) (until July 11), Charles Polk Jr. (Whig ) (starting July 11)Governor of Georgia : William Schley (Democratic )Governor of Illinois : Joseph Duncan (Whig )Governor of Indiana : Noah Noble (Whig )Governor of Kentucky : James T. Morehead (National Republican ) (until August 30), James Clark (starting August 30)Governor of Louisiana : Edward Douglass White Sr. (Whig )Governor of Maine : Robert P. Dunlap (Democratic )Governor of Maryland : James Thomas (Whig ) (until January 14), Thomas W. Veazey (Whig ) (starting January 14)Governor of Massachusetts : Samuel Turell Armstrong (Whig ) (until January 13), Edward Everett (Whig ) (starting January 13)Governor of Mississippi : John A. Quitman (Whig ) (until January 7), Charles Lynch (Democratic ) (starting January 7)Governor of Missouri : Daniel Dunklin (Democratic ) (until September 30), Lilburn W. Boggs (Democratic ) (starting September 30)Governor of New Hampshire : William Badger (Democratic ) (until June 2), Isaac Hill (Democratic ) (starting June 2)Governor of New Jersey : Peter Dumont Vroom (Democratic ) (until November 3), Philemon Dickerson (Democratic ) (starting November 3)Governor of New York : William L. Marcy (Democratic )Governor of North Carolina : Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr. (Democratic ) (until December 31), Edward Bishop Dudley (Whig ) (starting December 31)Governor of Ohio : Robert Lucas (Democratic ) (until December 12), Joseph Vance (Whig ) (starting December 12)Governor of Pennsylvania : Joseph Ritner (Anti-Masonic )Governor of Rhode Island : John Brown Francis (Democratic )Governor of South Carolina : George McDuffie (Democratic ) (until December 10), Pierce Mason Butler (Democratic ) (starting December 10)Governor of Tennessee : Newton Cannon (Whig )Governor of Vermont : Silas H. Jennison (Whig )Governor of Virginia : Littleton Waller Tazewell (Whig ) (until April 30), Wyndham Robertson (Whig ) (starting April 30)
Lieutenant governors
Events
February 23–March 6: Battle of the Alamo January 5 – Davy Crockett arrives in Texas , which at this time is not part of the United States.
January 18 – Dade County, Florida , is formed.
February 3 – United States Whig Party holds its first convention in Albany, New York .
February 5 – Henry Roe Campbell builds the first 4-4-0 , a steam locomotive type that will soon become the most common on all railroads of the United States.[ 1]
February 23 – Battle of the Alamo : The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas .
February 25 – Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver , the first practical adaptation of the revolving flintlock pistol.
March 1 – At the Convention of 1836 , delegates from 57 Texas communities convene in Washington-on-the-Brazos to deliberate independence from Mexico .
March 2 – At the Convention of 1836 , the Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico .
March 6 – The Battle of the Alamo ends; 189 Texans are slaughtered by about 1,600 Mexicans .
March 17 – Texas abolishes the slave trade.
March 27
March 31 – Marshall College, named for John Marshall , opens in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania . It later merges with Franklin College to become Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania .
December 7: Martin Van Buren elected president October 15 – Alexander Twilight becomes the first African American elected to public office, joining the Vermont House of Representatives .[ 2]
October 22 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as first elected president of the Republic of Texas .
December 4 – Whig Party holds its first national convention, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania .
December 7 – U.S. presidential election, 1836 : Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison .
December 10 – Emory College, the forerunner of Emory University , is chartered in Oxford, Georgia .
December 14 – The Toledo War , the mostly bloodless boundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoining Michigan Territory , is unofficially ended by a resolution passed by the controversial "Frostbitten Convention".
December 15 – The United States Patent Office burns in Washington, D.C.
December 20 – Sudden freeze kills many travelers in Illinois .
December 23 – Georgia Female College, the forerunner of Wesleyan College , is chartered in Macon, Georgia as the first college for women in the U.S.
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 10 – Charles Ingalls , settler father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (died 1902 )
February 5 – William E. Miller soldier and Pennsylvania State Senator (died 1919 )
February 9 – Franklin B. Gowen , industrialist (died 1889 )
February 24 – Winslow Homer , landscape painter and printmaker (died 1910 )
February 27 – Russell A. Alger , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1902 to 1907 (died 1907 )
March 2 – John W. Foster , journalist and politician (died 1917 )
March 20 – Ferris Jacobs Jr. , politician (died 1886 )
April 20 – Eli Whitney Blake, Jr. , scientist and academic (died 1895 )
April 27 – Charles Bendire , U.S. Army officer and ornithologist (died 1897 )
May 7 – Joseph Gurney Cannon , Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911 (died 1926 )
May 23 – Touch the Clouds (Maȟpíya Ičáȟtagya), Native American chieftain of Teton Lakota Sioux (died 1905 )
May 27 – Jay Gould , railroad developer and speculator (died 1892 )
June 15 – George L. Shoup , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1901 (died 1904 )
June 16 – Wesley Merritt , U.S. Army general (died 1910 )
June 28 – Lyman J. Gage , financier and presidential Cabinet officer (died 1927 )
June 29 – Thomas Philander Ryder , composer, organist, teacher, conductor and organ builder (died 1887 )
July 26 – Ellen Maria Colfax , wife of Schuyler Colfax , Second Lady of the United States (died 1911 )
August 5 – John T. Raymond , born John O'Brien, actor (died 1887 )
August 11 – Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt , poet (died 1919 )
August 25 – Bret Harte , writer of fiction and poetry (died 1902 )
September 10 – Joseph Wheeler , U.S. Army general and politician (died 1906 )
September 11 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow , writer (died 1870 )
September 18 – William Jackson Palmer , railroad civil engineer, Union Army general, industrialist and philanthropist (died 1909 )
November 1 – George E. Spencer , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1868 to 1879 (died 1893 )
November 8 – Milton Bradley , game pioneer and businessman (died 1911 )
November 11 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich , editor, poet and novelist (died 1907 )
December 19 – Maria Sanford , American educator (died 1920 )
Deaths
James Madison January 30 – Betsy Ross , flagmaker (born 1752 )
February 18 – Cornplanter (Gaiänt'wakê), Seneca chief (b. 1750)
February 23 – Ezra Ames , portrait painter (born 1768 )
March 6 (at the Battle of the Alamo )
March 16 – Nathaniel Bowditch , mathematician (born 1773)
March 27 – James Fannin , Texas Revolutionary (born 1804 )
April 29 – Simon Kenton , frontiersman and Revolutionary War militia general (born 1755)
June 9 – Supply Belcher , composer and singer (born 1751)
June 25 – Jesse Bledsoe , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1813 to 1814 (born 1776 )
June 28 – James Madison , fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (born 1751 )
July 17 – William White , 1st and 4th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church (born 1748 )
September 14 – Aaron Burr , third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805 (born 1756 )
October 10 – Martha Jefferson Randolph , Acting First Lady of the United States from 1801 to 1809 (born 1772 )
November – Tenskwatawa , Shawnee prophet and political leader (born 1775 )
December 27 – Stephen F. Austin , pioneer (born 1793 )
See also
References
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