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List of events
Events from the year 1829 in the United States .
Incumbents
John Quincy Adams (
DR/NR -
Massachusetts ) (until March 4)
Andrew Jackson (
D -
Tennessee ) (starting March 4)
Events
March 4:
Andrew Jackson inaugurated as the seventh U.S. president
Portrait of
Andrew Jackson
Births
March 2 –
William B. Allison , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1873 to 1908 (died
1908 )
April 12 –
Daniel Sheldon Norton , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1865 to 1870 (died
1870 )
May 8 –
Louis Moreau Gottschalk , composer and pianist (died
1869 in Brazil)
May 28 –
A. B. Rogers , surveyor (died
1889 )
July 9 –
Robert Franklin Armfield , U.S. Representative from North Carolina (died
1898 )
August 6 –
James T. Farley , U.S. Senator from California from 1879 to 1885 (died
1886 )
September 12 –
Charles Dudley Warner , essayist and novelist (died
1900 )
October 5 –
Chester A. Arthur , 21st
president of the United States from 1881 to 1885, 20th
vice president of the United States from March to September 1881 (died
1886 )
October 15 –
Asaph Hall , astronomer (died
1907 )
October 30 –
Roscoe Conkling , leader of the
Stalwart faction of the Republican Party (died
1888 )
November 22 –
Shelby Moore Cullom , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1883 to 1913 (died
1914 )
December 8 –
Henry Timrod , "poet laureate of the Confederacy" (died
1867 )
Deaths
January 28 –
Ephraim Bateman , U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1826 to 1829 (born
1780 )
January 29 –
Timothy Pickering , 2nd
United States Secretary of War ,
3rd
United States Secretary of State (born
1745 )
February 18 –
Hannah Tompkins ,
Second Lady of the United States (born
1781 )
April 11 –
Archibald Gracie , merchant and shipowner (born
1755 in Scotland )
May 17 –
John Jay , represented New York at the Continental Congress in 1774, 2nd Governor of New York from 1795 to 1801 and 1st Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1789 to 1795 (born
1745 )
June 27 –
James Smithson , British chemist and mineralogist whose inheritance will eventually create the Smithsonian Institution (born c.
1765 in France ; died in Genoa)
September 25 –
Joseph Hodgkins , an
Ipswich, Massachusetts
cordwainer (born 1743)
November 26 –
Thomas Buck Reed , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1826 to 1827 and in 1829 (born
1787 )
December 12 –
John Lansing Jr. , statesman (born
1754 ; disappeared)
See also
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