1834 in the United States
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Events from the year 1834 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Andrew Jackson (D-Tennessee)
- Vice President: Martin Van Buren (D-New York)
- Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives:
- Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia) (until June 2)
- John Bell (Whig-Tennessee) (starting June 2)
State governments
Events
- January 25 â Hillsborough County is created by Florida's territorial legislature.
- March 11 â Survey of the Coast transferred to the Department of the Navy.
- March 28 â The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States (censure expunged in 1837).
- April 14 â The Whig Party is officially named by United States Senator Henry Clay.
- June 30 â the 6th Indian Trade and Intercourse Act is updated and renewed Indian Territory is effective.
- July 7â10 â Anti-abolitionist riots break out in New York City.
- July 29 â The Office of Indian Affairs is organized.
- August 11â12 â Ursuline Convent Riots: A convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near Boston.
- October 31 â Solon Robinson settled in the location that would eventually become Crown Point, Indiana.
- November 4 â Delta Upsilon fraternity founded at Williams College.
- November 11 â The rare 1804 dollar coin is struck by the United States Mint.
Undated
- Worcester Academy is founded as the Worcester County Manual Labor High School.
- Franklin College is founded in Franklin, Indiana.
- The Medical College of Louisiana is founded in New Orleans, which later becomes Tulane University.[1]
- Wake Forest College is founded in Wake Forest, which later becomes Wake Forest University.[2]
- The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, and begins construction.[3]
Births
- January 9 â Wilkinson Call, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1879 to 1897 (died 1910)
- January 15 â Samuel Arza Davenport, politician (died 1911)
- February 27 â Charles C. Carpenter, admiral (died 1899)
- March 4 â James W. McDill, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1881 to 1883 (died 1894)
- March 5
- Martha Parmelee Rose, journalist, social reformer, philanthropist (died 1923)
- U. M. Rose, Arkansas lawyer (died 1913)
- March 15 â John K. Bucklyn, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1906)
- March 20 â Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University (died 1926)
- March 24 â John Wesley Powell, explorer (died 1902)
- March 27 â Melissa Elizabeth Banta, poet, travel writer (died 1907)
- April 1 â Big Jim Fisk, entrepreneur (died 1872)
- April 5 â Frank R. Stockton, short story writer (died 1902)
- April 26 â Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Ward"), humorist (died 1867)
- June 22 â William Chester Minor, Ceylonese-born surgeon and lexicographer (died 1920)
- June 24 â George Arnold, writer and poet (died 1865)
- June 28 â Samuel Pasco, British-born U.S. Senator from Florida from 1887 to 1899 (died 1917)
- July 10 â James Abbott McNeill Whistler, painter and etcher (died 1903 in the United Kingdom)
- July 19 â Benjamin F. Jonas, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1879 to 1885 (died 1911)
- August 22 â Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer (died 1906)
- August 27 â James B. Eustis, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1876 to 1879 and from 1885 to 1891 (died 1899)
- September 5 â John G. Carlisle, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1890 to 1893 (died 1910)
- September 6 â Samuel Arnold, conspirator involved in the plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 (died 1906)
- October 6 â Walter Kittredge, composer (died 1905)
- October 9 â Rufus Blodgett, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1887 to 1893 (died 1910)
- October 31 â Knowles Shaw, evangelist and hymnwriter (died 1878 in railroad accident)
- November 21 â Hetty Green, businesswoman (died 1916)
- November 24 â Susan Hammond Barney, American social activist and evangelist (died 1922)
- December 6 â Henry W. Blair, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1879 to 1891 (died 1920)
- December 15 â Charles Augustus Young, astronomer (died 1908)
- December 24 â Charles W. Jones, Ireland-born U.S. Senator from Florida from 1875 to 1887 (died 1897)
Deaths
- February 2 â Lorenzo Dow, minister (born 1777)
- February 18 â William Wirt, 9th United States Attorney General (born 1772)
- February 28 â Isaac D. Barnard, U.S. Senator from 1827 to 1831 (born 1791)
- May 20 â Marquis de Lafayette, French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, died in France (born 1757 in France)
- July 26 - Jonathan Jennings, first governor of Indiana (born 1784)
- August 24 â William Kelly, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1822 to 1825 (born 1786)
- September 15 â William H. Crawford, politician and judge (born 1772)
- October 10 â Thomas Say, naturalist (born 1787)
- October 31 Ãleuthère Irénée du Pont, chemical manufacturer (born 1771 in France)
