1839

Events from the year 1839 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Martin Van Buren (D-NY)
* Vice President: Richard Mentor Johnson (D-KY)
* Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (MD)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: James K. Polk (D-TN) (until March 4), Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (W-VA) (starting December 16)
* Congress: 25th (until March 4), 26th (starting March 4)
==Events==
* February 11 – The University of Missouri is established in Columbia, Missouri, becoming the first public university west of the Mississippi River.
* March 5 – Longwood University is founded in Farmville, Virginia.
* March 7 – Baltimore City College, the third public high school in the United States, is established in Baltimore, Maryland.
* March 23 – The Boston Morning Post first records the use of "OK".
* August 8 – The Beta Theta Pi fraternity is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
* September 9 – In the Great Fire of Mobile, Alabama hundreds of buildings are burned.
* October 1 – Robert Cornelius takes the first photographic self portrait in the United States.
* November 11 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
* November 27 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
==Memoriam==
* January 14 – John Wesley Jarvis, portrait painter (aged 58; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 26 – Sybil Ludington, heroine of the American Revolutionary War (aged 77; Unadilla, NY, USA)
* April 1 – Benjamin Pierce, 11th Governor of New Hampshire from 1827 to 1828 and from 1829 to 1830, father of 14th President of the United States Franklin Pierce (aged 81; Hillsborough, NH, USA)
* April 2 – Hezekiah Niles, magazine publisher (aged 61; Wilmington, DE, USA)
* April 5 – John Tipton, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1832 to 1839 (aged 52; Logansport, IN, USA)
* April 22 – Samuel Smith, U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1822 to 1833 (aged 86; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* May 11 – Thomas Cooper, political philosopher (aged 79; Columbia, SC, USA)
* July 16 – The Bowl (Di'wali), Cherokee chief, shot (aged 83; Neches River, TX Republic, USA)
* August 22 – Benjamin Lundy, abolitionist (aged 50; Lowell, IL, USA)
* September 28 – William Dunlap, actor-manager, dramatist and painter (aged 73; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 4 – John Leamy, merchant (aged 82; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
==External links==
* 1839 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 6