1816

Events from the year **1816 in the United States**.

Governors
* Governor of Connecticut: John Cotton Smith (Federalist)
* Governor of Delaware: Daniel Rodney (Federalist)
* Governor of Georgia: David Brydie Mitchell (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: Thomas Posey (Democratic-Republican) (until December 11), Jonathan Jennings (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 11)
* Governor of Kentucky:
	+ until September 5: Isaac Shelby (Democratic-Republican)
	+ September 5-October 14: George Madison (Democratic-Republican)
	+ starting October 14: Gabriel Slaughter (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: William C. C. Claiborne (Democratic-Republican) (until December 16), Jacques Villeré (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 16)
* Governor of Maryland: Levin Winder (Federalist) (until January 2), Charles Carnan Ridgely (Federalist) (starting January 2)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Caleb Strong (Federalist) (until May 30), John Brooks (Federalist) (starting May 30)
* Governor of New Hampshire: John Taylor Gilman (Federalist) (until June 6), William Plumer (Democratic-Republican) (starting June 6)
* Governor of New Jersey: Mahlon Dickerson (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New York: Daniel D. Tompkins (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of North Carolina: William Miller (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Ohio: Thomas Worthington (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Simon Snyder (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: William Jones (Federalist)
* Governor of South Carolina: David Rogerson Williams (Democratic-Republican) (until December 10), Andrew Pickens (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 10)
* Governor of Tennessee: Joseph McMinn (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: Jonas Galusha (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: Wilson Cary Nicholas (Democratic-Republican) (until December 1), James Patton Preston (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 1)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: vacant (until month and day unknown), Jonathan Ingersoll (Democratic-Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Christopher Harrison (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 11)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky:
	+ until month and day unknown: Richard Hickman (political party unknown)
	+ month and day unknown: Gabriel Slaughter (Democratic-Republican)
	+ starting month and day unknown: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William Phillips, Jr. (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Simeon Martin (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Jeremiah Thurston (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Robert Creswell (Democratic-Republican) (until month and day unknown), John A. Cuthbert (Democratic-Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Paul Brigham (Democratic-Republican)

## Events

* April 11 – In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches.
* April 27 – The Dallas tariff is passed in Congress seeking to protect American manufacturing against an influx of cheaper British goods following the War of 1812.
* May 11 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York City, New York.
* June 1 – Fort Dearborn is reestablished in the place that will become Chicago, IL.
* August 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
* November 1 – James Monroe defeats Rufus King in the U.S. presidential election.
* November 7 – Jonathan Jennings is inaugurated as the first governor of Indiana.
* December 11 – Indiana admitted becomes the 19th U.S. state.

## Memoriam

* April 3 – Thomas Machin, military engineer (aged 72; Montgomery, NY, USA)
* May 4 – Samuel Dexter, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury, 4th United States Secretary of War (aged 54; Boston, MA, USA)
* June 25 – Hugh Henry Brackenridge, writer and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice (aged 68; Carlisle, PA, USA)
* August 12 – Mary Katherine Goddard, publisher and postmistress (aged 78; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* August 17 – Samuel Johnston, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1789 to 1793 (aged 82; Edenton, NC, USA)
* September 18 – Bernard McMahon, horticulturalist (aged 41; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* November 8 – Gouverneur Morris, statesman and Founding Father of the U.S. (aged 64; NY, USA)