1822 in the United States

Decades:	1800s ; 1810s ; 1820s ; 1830s ; 1840s ;
See also:	History of the United States (1789–1849) ; Timeline of the history of the United States (1820-1859) ; List of years in the United States ;

Last updated September 17, 2025

Incumbents

Federal government

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)

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.^[1]
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

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States (1877–1881)

Two U.S. presidents were born in the year 1822

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)

References

↑ Barnette, Michael C. (2008). Florida's Shipwrecks . Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-5413-6.

External links

Media related to 1822 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] Barnette, Michael C. (2008). Florida's Shipwrecks . Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-5413-6.

[1]

v t e Timeline of United States history
Year	Before 1760 1760–1789 1790–1819 1820–1859 1860–1899 1900–1929 1930–1949 1950–1969 1970–1989 1990–2009 2010–present
General	Civil rights movement Civil marriage Colonial America Conservatism Constitution drafting and ratification Counterculture in the 1960s COVID-19 2020 2021 Diplomatic Japan–U.S. relations Flag Terrorist attacks September 11 Statehood Voting Western Frontier
Military	Revolution Timeline of the War of 1812 Prelude to Civil War Spanish–American War Philippine–American War World War I World War II Cold War War on Terror Gulf War Afghanistan Iraq War
Groups	African Americans Firsts Women Feminism Rights Suffrage Colleges Dentistry Lawyers Mathematics Religion Science Warfare before 1900 1900–1949 1950–1999 2000–2010 2011–present LGBTQ Young people
Industry	Discoveries Inventions before 1890 1890–1945 1991–present Railroads Space Race
Years in the United States History of the United States Outline

v t e 1822 in North America
Sovereign states	Costa Rica Guatemala Haiti Honduras Mexico United States
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Bermuda British Virgin Islands Guadeloupe Newfoundland Spanish West Indies