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List of events
Events from the year 1851 in the United States.
Incumbents
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Howell Cobb (
D-
Georgia) (until March 4)
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Linn Boyd (
D-
Kentucky) (starting December 1)
Governors and
lieutenant governors
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Governors
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Governor of Alabama:
Henry W. Collier (
Democratic)
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Governor of Arkansas:
John Selden Roane (
Democratic)
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Governor of California:
Peter Hardeman Burnett (
Democratic) (until January 9),
John McDougall (
Democratic) (starting January 9)
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Governor of Connecticut:
Thomas H. Seymour (
Democratic)
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Governor of Delaware:
William Tharp (
Democratic) (until January 21),
William H. H. Ross (
Democratic) (starting January 21)
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Governor of Florida:
Thomas Brown (
Whig)
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Governor of Georgia:
George W. Towns (
Democratic) (until November 5),
Howell Cobb (
Democratic) (starting November 5)
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Governor of Illinois:
Augustus C. French (
Democratic)
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Governor of Indiana:
Joseph A. Wright (
Democratic)
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Governor of Iowa:
Stephen P. Hempstead (
Democratic)
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Governor of Kentucky:
John L. Helm (
Democratic) (until September 2),
Lazarus W. Powell (
Democratic) (starting September 2)
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Governor of Louisiana:
Joseph Marshall Walker (
Democratic)
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Governor of Maine:
John Hubbard (
Democratic)
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Governor of Maryland:
Philip F. Thomas (
Democratic) (until January 6),
Enoch Louis Lowe (
Democratic) (starting January 6)
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Governor of Massachusetts:
George N. Briggs (
Democratic) (until January 11),
George S. Boutwell (
Democratic) (starting January 11)
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Governor of Michigan:
John S. Barry (
Democratic)
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Governor of Mississippi:
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Governor of Missouri:
Austin Augustus King (
Democratic)
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Governor of New Hampshire:
Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. (
Democratic)
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Governor of New Jersey:
Daniel Haines (
Democratic) (until January 21),
George F. Fort (
Democratic) (starting January 21)
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Governor of New York:
Washington Hunt (
Whig) (starting January 1)
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Governor of North Carolina:
Charles Manly (
Whig) (until January 1),
David Settle Reid (
Democratic) (starting January 1)
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Governor of Ohio:
Reuben Wood (
Democratic)
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Governor of Pennsylvania:
William F. Johnston (
Whig)
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Governor of Rhode Island:
Henry B. Anthony (
Whig) (until May 6),
Philip Allen (
Democratic) (starting May 6)
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Governor of South Carolina:
John Hugh Means (
Democratic)
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Governor of Tennessee:
William Trousdale (
Democratic) (until October 16),
William B. Campbell (
Whig) (starting October 16)
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Governor of Texas:
Peter Hansborough Bell (
Democratic)
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Governor of Vermont:
Charles K. Williams (
Whig)
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Governor of Virginia:
John B. Floyd (
Democratic)
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Governor of Wisconsin:
Nelson Dewey (
Democratic)
Lieutenant governors
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Events
January–March
April–June
- April 9 –
San Luis, the oldest permanent settlement in the state of
Colorado, is founded by settlers from
Taos, New Mexico.
- April 28 –
Santa Clara College is chartered in
Santa Clara, California.
- May–August – The Great
Flood of 1851 causes extensive damage in the Midwest; the town of
Des Moines is virtually destroyed.
- May 6 –
John Gorrie of
Apalachicola, Florida is granted
Patent
No. 8080 for a machine to make ice.
- May 15 –
Alpha Delta Pi sorority, the first secret society for women, is founded at
Wesleyan College in
Macon, Georgia.
- May 29 –
Sojourner Truth delivers the first version of her "
Ain't I a Woman?" speech, at the Women's Rights Convention in
Akron, Ohio.
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
- January 17 –
A. B. Frost, illustrator (died
1928)
- January 19 –
David Starr Jordan, ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist and peace activist (died
1924)
- January 24 –
Marcus A. Smith, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1912 to 1921 (died
1924)
- February 2 –
Ella Giles Ruddy, author and essayist (died
1917)
- February 9 –
Nora Trueblood Gause, humanitarian (died
1955)
- February 13 –
Joseph B. Murdock, U.S. Navy admiral and New Hampshire politician (died
1931)
- March 14 –
John Sebastian Little, politician, congressman (died
1916)
- March 19 –
William Henry Stark, business leader (died
1936)
- March 26 –
John Eisenmann, Cleveland architect (died 1924)
- April 13
- May 14 –
Anna Laurens Dawes, author and suffragist (died 1938)
- May 15 –
Lillian Resler Keister Harford, church organizer and editor (died
1935)
- May 21 –
Moses E. Clapp, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1901 to 1917 (died
1929)
- May 29 –
Fred Dubois, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1891 to 1897 and from 1901 to 1907 (died
1930)
- June 24 –
Stuyvesant Fish, entrepreneur (died
1923)
- August 12 –
Frank O. Briggs, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1907 to 1913 (died
1913)
- August 14 –
Doc Holliday, born John H. Holliday, gunfighter, gambler and dentist (died
1887)
- September 7 –
David King Udall, politician (died 1938)
- September 13 –
Walter Reed, army physician, bacteriologist (died
1902)
[1]
- September 21 –
Fanny Searls (died
1939), doctor and botanist.
[2]
- October 5 –
Thomas Pollock Anshutz, painter and educator (died
1912)
- October 13 –
Charles Sprague Pearce, painter (died
1914)
- October 20 –
George Gandy, entrepreneur (died
1946)
- November 16
- December 9 –
Thomas H. Paynter, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1907 to 1913 (died
1921)
- December 10 –
Melvil Dewey, born Melville Dewey, librarian (died
1931)
- December 30 –
Asa Griggs Candler, businessman and politician (died 1929)
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Albery Allson Whitman, African American poet (died
1901)
Deaths
- January 17 –
Thomas Lincoln, farmer and father of
President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln (born
1778)
- January 27 –
John James Audubon, naturalist and illustrator (born 1785 in
Saint-Domingue)
- January 31 –
David Spangler Kaufman, Congressman from Texas (born
1813)
- February 3 –
Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, Congressman from Massachusetts, secretary of U.S. Navy (born
1772)
- March 11 –
George McDuffie, 55th
Governor of South Carolina from 1842 to 1846 (born
1790)
- May 3 –
Thomas Hickman Williams, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1838 to 1839 (born
1801)
- May 22 –
Mordecai Manuel Noah, Jewish playwright, diplomat, journalist and utopian (born
1785)
- June 21 –
Martin Chester Deming, American businessman and politician (b.
1789)
[3]
- July 6 –
Thomas Davenport, electrical engineer (born
1802)
- August 24 –
James McDowell, politician (born
1795)
- September 10 –
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, minister, educator, co-founder of the first permanent school for the deaf in North America (born
1787)
- September 11 –
Sylvester Graham, nutritionist and inventor (born
1794)
- September 14 –
James Fenimore Cooper, historical novelist (born
1789)
- September 24 –
Lucius Lyon, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1843 to 1845 (born
1800)
- November –
Willis Buell, politician and portrait painter (born
1790)
See also
References
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