# 1816 in the United States

Events from the year 1816 in the United States.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: James Madison (DR-Virginia)
* Vice President: vacant
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay (DR-Kentucky)
* Congress: 14th
* Governors and lieutenant governors
* Governors
* Governor of Connecticut: John Cotton Smith (Federalist)
* Governor of Delaware: Daniel Rodney (Federalist)
* Governor of Georgia: David Brydie Mitchell (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: Thomas Posey (Democratic-Republican) (until December 11), Jonathan Jennings (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 11)
* Governor of Kentucky:
* until September 5: Isaac Shelby (Democratic-Republican)
* September 5-October 14: George Madison (Democratic-Republican)
* starting October 14: Gabriel Slaughter (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: William C. C. Claiborne (Democratic-Republican) (until December 16), Jacques Villeré (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 16)
* Governor of Maryland: Levin Winder (Federalist) (until January 2), Charles Carnan Ridgely (Federalist) (starting January 2)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Caleb Strong (Federalist) (until May 30), John Brooks (Federalist) (starting May 30)
* Governor of New Hampshire: John Taylor Gilman (Federalist) (until June 6), William Plumer (Democratic-Republican) (starting June 6)
* Governor of New Jersey: Mahlon Dickerson (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New York: Daniel D. Tompkins (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of North Carolina: William Miller (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Ohio: Thomas Worthington (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Simon Snyder (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: William Jones (Federalist)
* Governor of South Carolina: David Rogerson Williams (Democratic-Republican) (until December 10), Andrew Pickens (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 10)
* Governor of Tennessee: Joseph McMinn (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: Jonas Galusha (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: Wilson Cary Nicholas (Democratic-Republican) (until December 1), James Patton Preston (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 1)
* Lieutenant governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: vacant (until month and day unknown), Jonathan Ingersoll (Democratic-Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Christopher Harrison (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 11)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky:
* until month and day unknown: Richard Hickman (political party unknown)
* month and day unknown: Gabriel Slaughter (political party unknown)
* starting month and day unknown: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William Phillips, Jr. (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Simeon Martin (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Jeremiah Thurston (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Robert Creswell (Democratic-Republican) (until month and day unknown), John A. Cuthbert (Democratic-Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Paul Brigham (Democratic-Republican)

## Events

* April 11 – In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches.
* April 27 – The Dallas tariff is passed in Congress seeking to protect American manufacturing against an influx of cheaper British goods following the War of 1812.
* May 11 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York City, New York.
* June – Fort Dearborn is reestablished in the place that will become Chicago, IL.
* August 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
* November – James Monroe defeats Rufus King in the U.S. presidential election.
* November 7 – Jonathan Jennings is sworn in as the first governor of Indiana.
* December 11 – Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state (see History of Indiana).

### Undated

* 1816 was known as 'the year without a summer' in North America and elsewhere, with widespread unseasonal weather and crop failures.
* The Second Bank of the United States obtains its charter.
* E. Remington and Sons (the firearm and later typewriter manufacturing company) is founded in Ilion, New York.

## Births

* January 3 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1861 to 1873 and railroad president (died 1891)
* January 30 – Nathaniel P. Banks, politician and general (died 1894)
* March 1 – John Souther, mechanical engineer (died 1911)
* March 14 – William Marsh Rice, university founder (died 1900)
* April 25 – Eliza Daniel Stewart, temperance leader (died 1908)
* May 3 – Montgomery C. Meigs, career United States Army officer and civil engineer, who served as Quartermaster General of the United States Army during and after the American Civil War (died 1892)
* June 19 – William Henry Webb, industrialist and philanthropist (died 1899)
* July 4 – James B. Howell, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1870 to 1871 (died 1880)
* July 23 – Charlotte Cushman, actress (died 1876)
* July 31 – George Henry Thomas, U.S. Army general (died 1870)
* August 4
** William Julian Albert, Congressman (died 1879)
** Russell Sage, financier, railroad president and politician (died 1906)
* October 11 – William W. Eaton, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1875 to 1881 (died 1898)
* October 20 – James W. Grimes, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1859 to 1869 (died 1872)
* October 26 – Philip Pendleton Cooke, lawyer and poet (died 1850)
* November 3 – Jubal Early, Confederate general (died 1894)
* November 4 – James L. Alcorn, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1871 to 1877 (died 1894)
* November 29
** Henry Mower Rice, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1858 to 1863 (died 1894)
** Morrison Waite, 7th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (died 1888)
* December 12 – Thomas C. McCreery, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1868 to 1871 (died 1890)
* December 13 – Clement Claiborne Clay, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1853 to 1862, Confederate States Senator from Alabama from 1862 to 1864 (died 1882)

## Deaths

* April 3 – Thomas Machin, military engineer (born 1744 in Great Britain)
* May 4 – Samuel Dexter, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury, 4th United States Secretary of War (born 1761)
* June 25 – Hugh Henry Brackenridge, writer and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice (born 1748 in Great Britain)
* August 12 – Mary Katherine Goddard, publisher and postmistress (born 1738)
* September 18 – Bernard McMahon, horticulturalist (born c. 1775 in Ireland)
* November 8 – Gouverneur Morris, statesman and Founding Father of the U.S. (born 1752)