1830

Events from the year 1830 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Andrew Jackson (D-TN)
* Vice President: John C. Calhoun (D-SC)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-VA)
* Congress: 21st
==Events==
* January 11 – LaGrange College (now the University of North Alabama) opens, becoming the first publicly chartered college in Alabama.
* January 12 – Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina debates the question of states' rights vs. federal authority with Daniel Webster of Massachusetts in the United States Congress.
* March 12 – Craig vs. Missouri: The United States Supreme Court rules that state loan certificates are unconstitutional.
* May 24 – Sarah Josepha Hale's nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is published in Boston.
* May 28 – U.S. congress passes the Indian Removal Act.
* September 27 – Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek with Choctaw nation. (First removal treaty signed after the Removal Act)
==Memoriam==
* January 17 – Elizabeth Willing Powel, socialite and Patriot (aged 86; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* February 1 – Thomas W. Cobb, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1824 to 1828 (aged 46; Greensboro, GA, USA)
* March 27 – John Tod, judge and politician (aged 51; Bedford, PA, USA)
* June 25 – Ephraim McDowell, physician and pioneer surgeon (aged 58; Danville, KY, USA)
* July 2 – Robert H. Adams, U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1830 (aged 38; Natchez, MS, USA)
* August 6 – David Walker, African American abolitionist and writer (aged 33; Boston, MA, USA)
* August 9 – James Armistead Lafayette, African American slave, Continental Army double agent (aged 81; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* September 24 – Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States as wife of James Monroe (aged 62; Aldie, VA, USA)
* October 14 – John McLean, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1824 to 1825 and from 1829 to 1830 (aged 39; Shawneetown, IL, USA)
* December 9 – Stephen R. Bradley, U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1791 to 1795 and from 1801 to 1813 (aged 76; Walpole, NH, USA)
==External links==
* 1830 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 6