This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from 1790 to 1819.
Simon Snyder was the third governor of Pennsylvania,serving three terms from 1808 to 1817. He led the state through the War of 1812.
John Norvell was a newspaper editor and one of the first U.S. Senators from Michigan. He is known as one of two co-founders of The Philadelphia Inquirer,the third-longest continually operating daily newspaper in the United States of America.
Alexander James Dallas was an American statesman who served as the 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1814 to 1816 under President James Madison.
Amos Ellmaker was a U.S. politician,attorney,and judge from Pennsylvania. He served as the Pennsylvania Attorney General and was the Anti-Masonic vice presidential candidate in the 1832 presidential election.
John M. Reynolds was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Illinois who served in all three governmental branches.
Richard Bache,born in Settle,West Riding of Yorkshire,England,immigrated to Philadelphia,in the colony of Pennsylvania,where he was a businessman,a marine insurance underwriter,and later served as Postmaster-General of the American Post Office. He also was the son-in-law of Benjamin Franklin.
Sarah Franklin Bache,sometimes known as Sally Bache,was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read. She was a leader in relief work during the American Revolutionary War and frequently served as her father's political hostess,like her mother before her death in 1774. Sarah was also an important leader for women in the pro-independence effort in Philadelphia. She was an active member of the community until her death in 1808.
Dudley Chase was a U.S. Senator from Vermont who served from 1813 to 1817 and again from 1825 to 1831. He was born in Cornish,New Hampshire.
Thomas Morris was a United States representative from New York and was the son of Founding Father Robert Morris.
Robert Maskell Patterson was an American professor of mathematics,chemistry and natural philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania from 1812 to 1828 and professor of natural philosophy at the University of Virginia from 1828 to 1835. He served as the 6th director of the United States Mint from 1835 to 1851 and as president of the American Philosophical Society from 1809 to 1854.
Joshua Shaw (1776–1860) was an English [later naturalised as American] artist and inventor.
John Kintzing Kane was an American lawyer who served as the 21st Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1846 and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1846 to 1858.
Rees Hill was a U.S. army colonel in the War of 1812 and a politician who served as a Republican and Democratic-Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Greene County from 1810 to 1813 and from 1814 to 1820,including as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1816 and 1819. He also served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 18th district from 1821 to 1822 and the 20th district from 1823 to 1824.
Richard Franklin Bache,also known as Richard Bache Jr. (1784–1848),was a military and political official in the Republic and state of Texas. He assisted in drafting the Texas Constitution of 1845,the first of its five state constitutions.
Louis Franklin Bache was the son of Richard Bache and Sarah Franklin Bache,the daughter of the American statesman Benjamin Franklin and his wife Deborah Read. Bache served as a lieutenant colonel in the Pennsylvania State Militia during the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain.
Joseph Borden McKean was a distinguished Philadelphia lawyer and judge. He served as state Pennsylvania Attorney General when appointed by his father,Governor Thomas McKean,and like his father,also served as presiding judge of the District Court of Philadelphia
Richard Worsam Meade was an American merchant and art collector,and the father of Civil War General George Gordon Meade. After growing up in his father George Meade's shipping business,he became successful in his own right in the American–Spanish trade. Meade lived in Cadiz,Spain,from 1803 to 1820,and was the U.S. naval agent there. He became quite wealthy and was one of the first American collectors of European art.
Franklin Bache was an American physician,chemist,professor and writer from Pennsylvania. He taught chemistry at West Point Academy,the Franklin Institute,Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Jefferson Medical College. He published several scientific textbooks including a pharmacopoeia with Dr. George B. Wood in 1830 that became the basis of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia and U.S. Dispensatory. He was the first American to perform original research on the study of acupuncture for pain treatment.
