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)

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: John Murphy (Democratic) (until November 25), Gabriel Moore (Democratic) (starting November 25)
* Governor of Connecticut: Gideon Tomlinson (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Delaware: Charles Polk Jr. (Federalist)
* Governor of Georgia: John Forsyth (Democratic-Republican) (until November 4), George R. Gilmer (Democratic-Republican) (starting November 4)
* Governor of Illinois: Ninian Edwards (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: James B. Ray (Independent)
* Governor of Kentucky: Thomas Metcalfe (National Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: Pierre Derbigny (National Republican) (until October 6), Armand Julie Beauvais (National Republican) (starting October 6)
* Governor of Maine: Enoch Lincoln (Democratic-Republican) (until October 8), Nathan Cutler (Democratic) (starting October 8)
* Governor of Maryland: Joseph Kent (Democratic-Republican) (until January 15), Daniel Martin (National Republican) (starting January 15)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln Jr. (National Republican)
* Governor of Mississippi: Gerard Brandon (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: John Miller (Democratic)
* Governor of New Hampshire: John Bell (National Republican) (until June 4), Benjamin Pierce (Democratic) (starting June 4)
* Governor of New Jersey:
	+ until October 30: Isaac Halstead Williamson (Federalist)
	+ October 30-November 6: Garret D. Wall (Democratic)
	+ starting November 6: Peter Dumont Vroom (Democratic)
* Governor of New York: Martin Van Buren (Democratic) (until March 12), Enos T. Throop (Democratic) (starting March 12)
* Governor of North Carolina: John Owen (Democratic)
* Governor of Ohio: Allen Trimble (Federalist)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze (Democratic-Republican) (until December 15), George Wolf (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 15)
* Governor of Rhode Island: James Fenner (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: Stephen Decatur Miller (Democratic)
* Governor of Tennessee:
	+ until April 16: Sam Houston (Democratic-Republican)
	+ April 16-October 1: William Hall (Democratic)
	+ starting October 1: William Carroll (Democratic)
* Governor of Vermont: Samuel C. Crafts (National Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: William Branch Giles (Democratic)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Samuel Peters (National Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William Kinney (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Milton Stapp (Independent)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: John Breathitt (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Thomas L. Winthrop (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Abram M. Scott (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Daniel Dunklin (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York:
	+ January 1-March 12: Enos T. Throop (Democratic)
	+ March 12: Charles Stebbins (Democratic)
	+ March 12-July 1: William M. Oliver (Democratic)
	+ starting July 1: Edward Philip Livingston (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Williams (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Henry Olin (Democratic-Republican)

## 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)