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List of events
Events from the year 1820 in the United States .
Incumbents
Henry Clay (
DR -
Kentucky ) (until October 28)
John W. Taylor (
DR -
New York ) (starting November 15)
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
William Wyatt Bibb (
Democratic-Republican ) (until July 10),
Thomas Bibb (
Democratic-Republican ) (starting July 10)
Governor of Connecticut :
Oliver Wolcott Jr. (
Toleration )
Governor of Delaware :
Governor of Georgia :
John Clark (
Democratic-Republican )
Governor of Illinois :
Shadrach Bond (
Independent )
Governor of Indiana :
Jonathan Jennings (
Democratic-Republican )
Governor of Kentucky :
Gabriel Slaughter (
Democratic-Republican ) (until August 29),
John Adair (
Democratic-Republican ) (starting August 29)
Governor of Louisiana :
Jacques Villeré (
Democratic-Republican ) (until December 18),
Thomas Bolling Robertson (
Democratic-Republican ) (starting December 18)
Governor of Maine :
William King (
Democratic-Republican ) (starting March 15)
Governor of Maryland :
Samuel Sprigg (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
John Brooks (
Federalist )
Governor of Mississippi :
David Holmes (
Democratic-Republican ) (until January 5),
George Poindexter (
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 )
Governor of North Carolina :
John Branch (
Democratic-Republican ) (until December 7),
Jesse Franklin (
Democratic-Republican ) (starting December 7)
Governor of Ohio :
Ethan Allen Brown (
Democratic-Republican )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
William Findlay (
Democratic-Republican ) (until December 19),
Joseph Hiester (
Democratic-Republican ) (starting December 19)
Governor of Rhode Island :
Nehemiah R. Knight (
Democratic-Republican )
Governor of South Carolina :
John Geddes (
Democratic-Republican ) (until December 7),
Thomas Bennett, Jr. (
Democratic-Republican ) (starting December 7)
Governor of Tennessee :
Joseph McMinn (
Democratic-Republican )
Governor of Vermont :
Jonas Galusha (
Democratic-Republican ) (until October 15),
Richard Skinner (
Democratic-Republican ) (starting October 15)
Governor of Virginia :
Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. (
Democratic-Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Events
Undated
Ongoing
Births
February 1 –
George Hendric Houghton , Episcopal clergyman (died
1897 )
February 4 –
David C. Broderick , U.S. Senator from California from 1857 to 1859 (died
1859 )
February 6
February 8 –
William Tecumseh Sherman , Civil War general (died
1891 )
[1]
February 15 –
Susan B. Anthony , suffragist (died
1906 )
March 1 –
George Davis ,
Confederate States Senator from
North Carolina , 4th and last
Confederate States Attorney General (died
1896 )
March 3 –
Henry D. Cogswell , temperance campaigner and philanthropist (died
1900 )
March 17 –
William F. Raynolds , military engineer (died
1894 )
March 24
April 8 –
John Taylor Johnston , businessman and patron of the arts (died
1893 )
April 17 –
Alexander Cartwright , baseball pioneer (died 1892 in Hawaii)
April 26 –
Alice Cary , poet and short story writer, sister to Phoebe Cary (died
1871 )
May 23 –
Lorenzo Sawyer , 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (died 1891)
May 30 –
Edward Doane , Protestant missionary (died 1890)
June 2 –
Willard Saulsbury, Sr. , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1859 to 1871 (died
1892 )
July 5 –
Luke Pryor , U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1880 (died 1900)
July 23 –
Julia Gardiner Tyler ,
First Lady of the United States (died
1889 )
July 31 –
John W. Garrett , banker, railroad president and philanthropist (died
1884 )
August 26 –
James Harlan , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1865 to 1866 (died
1899 )
August 30 –
George Frederick Root , songwriter (died
1895 )
September 2 –
Lucretia Peabody Hale , journalist and author (died
1900 )
[2]
September 3 –
George Hearst , U.S. Senator from California from 1887 to 1891 (died 1891)
September 20 –
John F. Reynolds , U.S. Army general (killed
1863 )
October 5 –
David Wilber , politician (died
1890 )
October 28 –
John Henry Hopkins, Jr. , Episcopal clergyman and hymnist (died 1891)
November 13 –
Eugene Casserly , U.S. Senator from California from 1869 to 1873 (died
1883 )
December 12 –
James L. Pugh , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1880 to 1897 (died
1907 )
December 19 –
Mary Livermore , born Mary Ashton Rice, journalist, abolitionist and women's rights advocate (died
1905 )
December 21 –
William H. Osborn , railroad president and philanthropist (died
1894 )
December 29 –
John S. Barbour, Jr. , U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1889 to 1892 (died 1892)
Eagle Woman ,
Lakota leader (died
1888 )
Deaths
February 5 –
William Ellery , signer of the
United States Declaration of Independence ,
Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (born
1729 )
March 11 –
Benjamin West , American-born painter of historical scenes (born
1738 )
March 22 –
Stephen Decatur , U.S. Navy commander (born
1779 )
April 14 –
Levi Lincoln Sr. , statesman from
Massachusetts (born
1749 )
April 20 –
James Morris III , Continental Army officer from Connecticut (born
1752 )
July 10 –
William Wyatt Bibb , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1813 to 1816, 1st Governor of Alabama (born
1781 )
August 12 –
Manuel Lisa , fur trader (born
1772 )
September 3 –
Benjamin Henry Latrobe , architect (born
1764 in Great Britain )
September 21 –
Joseph Rodman Drake , poet (born
1795 ; consumption)
September 26 –
Daniel Boone , pioneer (born
1734 )
September 29 –
Barthelemy Lafon ,
Creole architect, engineer, city planner, surveyor and smuggler (born
1769 in France )
October 4 –
Thomas Hope , architect (born
1757 in Great Britain )
November 8 –
Lavinia Stoddard , poet and educationalist (born
1787 )
See also
References
Further reading
Daniel Blowe (1820). A geographical, historical, commercial, and agricultural view of the United States of America; forming a complete emigrant's directory through every part of the republic .. . London: Edwards & Knibb.
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14686561M .
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