1852

Events from the year 1852 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Millard Fillmore (W-NY)
* Vice President: vacant
* Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (MD)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Linn Boyd (D-KY)
* Congress: 32nd
==Events==
* January 15 – Nine men representing various Hebrew charitable organizations come together to form what will become the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
* February 16 – The Studebaker Brothers Wagon Company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
* February 19 – The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
* March 2 – The first American experimental steam fire engine is tested.
* March 4 – The Phi Mu fraternity is established at Wesleyan College.
* March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is first published in book form, in Boston.
* April 23 – More than 150 Wintu people are killed by a militia under the guidance of Trinity County sheriff William H. Dixon in the Bridge Gulch Massacre.
* July 1 – American statesman Henry Clay is the first to receive the honor of lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda.
* July 5 – Frederick Douglass delivers his famous speech on "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery" in Rochester, New York.
* August 3 – The first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event, is held.
* September 15 – Loyola College opens its doors to students in the City of Baltimore, Maryland.
* November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1852: Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of New Jersey.
* November 25 – Monticello Convention: 44 people from the northern parts of Oregon Territory meet and draft a petition to establish a separate territorial government north of the Columbia River (which becomes, in the following months, Washington Territory).
==Memoriam==
* February 14 – Thomas Carlin, 7th Governor of Illinois from 1838 to 1842 (aged 62; Carrollton, IL, USA)
* February 24
** Ethan Allen Brown, politician (aged 75; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
** John Frazee, first American-born sculptor to execute a bust in marble (aged 61; Crompton Mills, RI, USA)
* March 9 – Anson Dickinson, painter of miniature portraits (aged 72; Milton, CT, USA)
* April 10 – John Howard Payne, actor, playwright, author and consul in Tunis from 1842, lyricist for "Home! Sweet Home!" (aged 60; Tunis, Tunisia)
* May 6 – William Bellinger Bulloch, U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1813 (aged 75; Savannah, GA, USA)
* May 15 – Louisa Adams, First Lady of the United States as wife of John Quincy Adams from 1825 to 1829 (aged 77; Washington, DC, USA)
* May 18 – Briscoe Baldwin, planter and Virginia politician (aged 63; Staunton, VA, USA)
* June 8 – Perry Smith, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1837 to 1843 (aged 69; New Milford, CT, USA)
* June 17 – William King, merchant, shipbuilder, army officer and statesman (aged 84; Bath, ME, USA)
* June 29 – Henry Clay, U.S. Senator from Kentucky 1806-1807, 1810-1811, 1831-1842 and 1849-1852 (aged 75; Washington, DC, USA)
* July 19 – John McKinley, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1826 to 1831 and in 1837, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1837 to 1852 (aged 72; Louisville, KY, USA)
* August 14 – Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States as wife of Zachary Taylor (aged 63; Pascagoula, MS, USA)
* September 20 – Philander Chase, Episcopal Church bishop, educator, pioneer of the western frontier and founder of Kenyon College (aged 76; Brimfield, IL, USA)
* September 23 – John Vanderlyn, neoclassical painter (aged 76; Kingston, NY, USA)
* October 4 – James Whitcomb, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1849 to 1852 (aged 56; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 13 – John Lloyd Stephens, traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (aged 46; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 24 – Daniel Webster, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (aged 70; Marshfield, MA, USA)
* October 25 – John C. Clark, politician (aged 59; Elmira, NY, USA)
* November 18 – John Andrew Shulze, politician (aged 77; Lancaster, PA, USA)
* November 23 – John Sergeant, politician (aged 72; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* November 24 – Walter Forward, lawyer and politician, 15th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1841 to 1843 (aged 66; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
* November 30 – Junius Brutus Booth, actor, father of John Wilkes Booth and Edwin Booth (aged 56; Louisville, KY, USA)
* December 18 – Horatio Greenough, sculptor (aged 47; Somerville, MA, USA)
==External links==
* 1852 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 8