1829

Events from the year 1829 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: John Quincy Adams (DR-MA) (until March 4), Andrew Jackson (D-TN) (starting March 4)
* Vice President: John C. Calhoun (D-SC)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-VA)
* Congress: 20th (until March 4), 21st (starting March 4)
==Events==
* March 4 – Andrew Jackson is sworn in as the 7th President of the United States, and John C. Calhoun is sworn in for his second term as Vice President of the United States.
* June 1 – The Philadelphia Inquirer is founded as The Pennsylvania Inquirer.
* July 23 – William Austin Burt obtains the first patent for a typographer (typewriter).
* June 27 – James Smithson, a British mineralogist and chemist, leaves a bequest of £100,000 to fund the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
* August 15 – Cincinnati riots of 1829 begins.
* August 22 – Cincinnati riots of 1829 ends.
* September 30 – The Georgia Gold Rush begins as the country's first significant gold rush following the discovery of gold on October 27, 1828, by Benjamin Parks in the old Hall County, Georgia (later reorganized into Lumpkin County).
==Memoriam==
* January 28 – Ephraim Bateman, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1826 to 1829 (aged 48; Cedarville, NJ, USA)
* January 29 – Timothy Pickering, 2nd United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of State (aged 83; Salem, MA, USA)
* February 18 – Hannah Tompkins, Second Lady of the United States as wife of Daniel D. Tompkins (aged 47; Staten Island, NY, USA)
* April 11 – Archibald Gracie, merchant and shipowner (aged 73; New York City, NY, USA)
* 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 (aged Bedford, NY, USA)
* June 6 – Henry Dearborn, 5th United States Secretary of War (aged 78; Roxbury, MA, USA)
* June 27 – James Smithson, British chemist and mineralogist whose inheritance will eventually create the Smithsonian Institution (aged 64; Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia (Now Italy))
* September 25 – Joseph Hodgkins, an Ipswich, Massachusetts cordwainer (aged 86; Ipswich, MA, USA)
* November 26 – Thomas Buck Reed, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1826 to 1827 and in 1829 (aged 42; Lexington, KY, USA)
* December 12 – John Lansing Jr., statesman (aged 75; New York City, NY, USA)
==External links==
* 1829 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 5