1833

Events from the year **1833 in the United States**.

* Vice President: *vacant* (until March 4), Martin Van Buren (D-NY) (starting March 4)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-VA)
* Congress: 22nd (until March 4), 23rd (starting March 4)

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: John Gayle (Democratic)
* Governor of Connecticut: John Samuel Peters (National Republican) (until May 1), Henry W. Edwards (Democratic) (starting May 1)
* Governor of Delaware: David Hazzard (National Republican) (until January 15), Caleb P. Bennett (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Governor of Georgia: Wilson Lumpkin (Democratic)
* Governor of Illinois: John Reynolds (Democratic)
* Governor of Indiana: Noah Noble (Whig)
* Governor of Kentucky: John Breathitt (Democratic)
* Governor of Louisiana: André B. Roman (Whig)
* Governor of Maine: Samuel E. Smith (Democratic)
* Governor of Maryland: George Howard (National Republican) (until January 17), James Thomas (Whig) (starting January 17)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln Jr. (National Republican)
* Governor of Mississippi:
	+ until June 12: Abram M. Scott (Democratic)
	+ June 12-November 20: Charles Lynch (Democratic)
	+ starting November 20: Hiram Runnels (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: Daniel Dunklin (Democratic)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel Dinsmoor (Democratic)
* Governor of New Jersey:
	+ until February 27: Samuel L. Southard (Whig)
	+ February 27-October 25: Elias P. Seeley (Whig)
	+ starting October 25: Peter Dumont Vroom (Democratic)
* Governor of New York: William L. Marcy (Democratic)
* Governor of North Carolina: David Lowry Swain (National Republican)
* Governor of Ohio: Robert Lucas (Democratic)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: George Wolf (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Lemuel H. Arnold (Whig) (until May 1), John Brown Francis (Democratic) (starting May 1)
* Governor of South Carolina: Robert Young Hayne (Democratic)
* Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic)
* Governor of Vermont: William A. Palmer (Anti-Masonic)
* Governor of Virginia: John Floyd (Democratic)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Thaddeus Betts (Whig) (until May 1), Ebenezer Stoddard (Democratic-Republican) (starting May 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Zadok Casey (Democratic) (until March 1), William Lee D. Ewing (Democratic) (starting March 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: David Wallace (Whig)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James T. Morehead (National Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Thomas L. Winthrop (Democratic-Republican) (until month and day unknown), Samuel T. Armstrong (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Lilburn Boggs (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: John Tracy (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins (political party unknown) (until May 1), Jeffrey Hazard (political party unknown) (starting May 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Lebbeus Egerton (Anti-Masonic)

## Events

### January - March

* January 1 – Haverford College, located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, is founded by Quakers of the Society of Friends.
* March 2 – President Andrew Jackson signs the Force Bill, which authorizes him to use troops to enforce Federal law in South Carolina.
* March 4 – Andrew Jackson is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States, and Martin Van Buren is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
* March 16 – *Parley's Magazine*, a periodical for young readers, publishes its first issue in Boston.

### April - June

* May 11 – French-American farmhand Antoine le Blanc murders family of three.
* June 6 – Andrew Jackson becomes the first U.S. president to ride a railroad train.

### July - September

* July 29 – Old State Bank erected in Decatur, Alabama.
* August 12 – The city of Chicago is established at the estuary of the Chicago River by 350 settlers.
* August 20 – Future President of the United States Benjamin Harrison is born in Ohio. From this date until the death of former U.S. President James Madison on June 28, 1836, there are a total of 18 living presidents of the United States (2 former, 1 current, and 15 known future); more than any other time period in U.S. history.
* September 2 – Oberlin College is founded in Oberlin, Ohio by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.

### October - December

* November 12 – Stars Fell on Alabama: A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed in Alabama.
* November 24 – Psi Upsilon is founded at Union College, becoming the fifth fraternity in the United States.
* December 4 – American Anti-Slavery Society founded in Philadelphia by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
* December 5 – Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society is founded; founder members include Sarah Mapps Douglass, Charlotte Forten Grimké and Hetty Reckless.

## Memoriam

* January 17 – William Rush, sculptor (aged 76; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* May 19 – Josiah S. Johnston, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1824 to 1833 (aged 48; Red River, LA, USA)
* May 23 – Francesca Anna Canfield, poet and translator (aged 29; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 24 – John Randolph, planter and congressman, U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1825 to 1827 (aged 59; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* June 1 – Oliver Wolcott Jr., 2nd U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (aged 73; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 12 – Samuel Sterett, politician (aged 75; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* July 20 – Ninian Edwards, politician, Governor of and Senator from Illinois (aged 58; Belleville, IL, USA)
* July 27 – William Bainbridge, United States Navy officer (aged 59; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* September 28 – Lemuel Haynes, clergyman and veteran of the American Revolution (aged 80; South Granville, NY, USA)