1822

Events from the year **1822 in the United States**.

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: Israel Pickens (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Toleration)
* Governor of Delaware: John Collins (Democratic-Republican) (until April 16), Caleb Rodney (Federalist) (starting April 16)
* Governor of Georgia: John Clark (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Illinois: Shadrach Bond (Independent) (until December 5), Edward Coles (Independent) (starting December 5)
* Governor of Indiana:
	+ until September 12: Jonathan Jennings (Democratic-Republican)
	+ September 12-December 5: Ratliff Boon (Democratic-Republican)
	+ starting December 5: William Hendricks (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: John Adair (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: Thomas Bolling Robertson (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Maine:
	+ until January 2: Benjamin Ames (Democratic-Republican)
	+ January 2-January 5: Daniel Rose (Democratic-Republican)
	+ starting January 5: Albion K. Parris (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Samuel Sprigg (Democratic-Republican) (until December 16), Samuel Stevens Jr. (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 16)
* Governor of Massachusetts: John Brooks (Federalist)
* Governor of Mississippi: George Poindexter (Democratic-Republican) (until January 7), Walter Leake (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 7)
* Governor of Missouri: Alexander McNair (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel Bell (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New Jersey: Isaac Halstead Williamson (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of North Carolina: Gabriel Holmes (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Ohio:
	+ until January 4: Ethan Allen Brown (Democratic-Republican)
	+ January 4-December 28: Allen Trimble (Federalist)
	+ starting December 28: Jeremiah Morrow (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Joseph Hiester (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: William C. Gibbs (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Bennett Jr. (Democratic-Republican) (until December 7), John Lyde Wilson (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 7)
* Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: Richard Skinner (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. (Democratic-Republican) (until December 1), James Pleasants (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 1)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Jonathan Ingersoll (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Pierre Menard (Democratic-Republican) (until December 5), Adolphus Hubbard (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 5)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Ratliff Boon (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William T. Barry (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William Phillips, Jr. (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: James Patton (no political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), David Dickson (no political party) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: John Tayler (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Caleb Earle (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: William Pinckney (Democratic-Republican) (until December 7), Henry Bradley (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 7)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: William Cahoon (Democratic-Republican)

## Events

* March 30 – The U.S. merges East Florida with part of West Florida to form the Florida Territory.
* July 1 – U.S. House of Representatives elections begin in Louisiana and continue until the last elections are held in North Carolina on August 14, 1823.
* July 2 – Denmark Vesey is hanged for plotting a slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina.
* July 4 – A 24th star is added to the flag of the United States, representing Missouri which had been admitted on August 10, 1821.
* August 22 – The English ship *Orion* lands at Yerba Buena, modern-day San Francisco, under the command of William A. Richardson.
* November 9 – Action of 9 November 1822: USS *Alligator* engages three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba as part of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the U.S.
* November 23 – The USS *Alligator* wrecks on Carysford Reef off the coast of Florida.
* December 5 – Edward Coles is inaugurated as the second governor of Illinois, Preceding Shadrach Bond.

## Memoriam

* April 8 – James Long, U.S. Filibuster, founder of the Long Republic: the first "Republic of Texas" (aged 29; Mexico City, Mexico)
* May 6 – Charles Peale Polk, portrait painter (aged 55; Richmond County, VA, USA)
* May 8 – John Stark, major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (aged 93; Manchester, NH, USA)
* July 2 – Denmark Vesey, African American leader, hanged (aged 55; Charleston, SC, USA)
* August 28 – William Logan, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1820 (aged 45; Shelby County, KY, USA)
* October 27 – William Lowndes, U.S. Congress from 1811 to 1822 (aged 40; Atlantic Ocean)
* October 31 – Jared Ingersoll, U.S. presidential candidate (aged 73; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* December 31 – Gideon Granger, politician and lawyer (aged 55; Canandaigua, NY, USA)