1835

Events from the year **1835 in the United States**.

* Speaker of the House of Representatives: John Bell (W-TN) (until March 4), James K. Polk (D-TN) (starting December 7)
* Congress: 23rd (until March 4), 24th (starting March 4)

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: John Gayle (Democratic) (Democratic) (until November 21), Clement Comer Clay (Democratic) (starting November 21)
* Governor of Connecticut: Samuel A. Foot (Whig) (until May 6), Henry W. Edwards (Democratic) (starting May 6)
* Governor of Delaware: Caleb P. Bennett (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: Wilson Lumpkin (Democratic) (until November 4), William Schley (Democratic) (starting November 4)
* Governor of Illinois: Joseph Duncan (Whig)
* Governor of Indiana: Noah Noble (Whig)
* Governor of Kentucky: James T. Morehead (National Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: André B. Roman (Whig) (until February 4), Edward Douglass White Sr. (Whig) (starting February 4)
* Governor of Maine: Robert P. Dunlap (Democratic)
* Governor of Maryland: James Thomas (Whig)
* Governor of Massachusetts: John Davis (Whig) (until March 1), Samuel Turell Armstrong (Whig) (starting March 1)
* Governor of Mississippi: Hiram Runnels (Democratic) (until November 20), John A. Quitman (Whig) (starting November 20)
* Governor of Missouri: Daniel Dunklin (Democratic)
* Governor of New Hampshire: William Badger (Democratic)
* Governor of New Jersey: Peter Dumont Vroom (Democratic)
* Governor of New York: William L. Marcy (Democratic)
* Governor of North Carolina: David Lowry Swain (National Republican) (until December 10), Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr. (Democratic) (starting December 10)
* Governor of Ohio: Robert Lucas (Democratic)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: George Wolf (Democratic-Republican) (until December 15), Joseph Ritner (Anti-Masonic) (starting December 15)
* Governor of Rhode Island: John Brown Francis (Democratic)
* Governor of South Carolina: George McDuffie (Democratic)
* Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic) (until October 12), Newton Cannon (Whig) (starting October 12)
* Governor of Vermont: William A. Palmer (Anti-Masonic) (until November 2), Silas H. Jennison (Whig) (starting November 2)
* Governor of Virginia: Littleton Waller Tazewell (Whig)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Thaddeus Betts (Whig) (until May 6), Ebenezer Stoddard (Democratic-Republican) (starting May 6)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Alexander M. Jenkins (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: David Wallace (Whig)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Samuel T. Armstrong (political party 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: Jeffrey Hazard (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), George Engs (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Whitemarsh B. Seabrook (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Lebbeus Egerton (Anti-Masonic) (until November 2), Silas H. Jennison (Whig) (starting November 2)

## Events

* January 8 – The Federal Government declares that Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt for the first and only time.
* January 30 – Richard Lawrence unsuccessfully tries to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol; this is the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.
* March 31 – Hostile action opens the Toledo War between the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory over the city of Toledo and the Toledo Strip.
* May 6 – James Gordon Bennett Sr. publishes the first issue of the *New York Herald*.
* July 4 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad completed construction of its Thomas Viaduct then the longest bridge in the United States, and second only to London Bridge in the world; the longer Canton Viaduct is completed two weeks later.
* August 1 – P. T. Barnum begins his career as a showman in New York City by displaying Joice Heth, a black woman who he claimed was 161 years old and the former nursemaid of George Washington.
* August 25 – The Great Moon Hoax begins.
* October 2 – Texas Revolution: Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
* December 9 – The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.
* December 16 – The Great Fire of New York begins destroys 530–700 buildings and kills two.
* December 17 – The Great Fire of New York ends.
* December 19 – *Toledo Blade* newspaper begins publishing.
* December 20 – The Texas Declaration of Independence is first signed at Goliad, Texas.
* December 28 – The Second Seminole War breaks out. Seminole fighter Osceola and his warriors attack government agent Thompson outside Fort King in central Florida.
* December 29 – The Treaty of New Echota, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi to the United States, is signed.

## Memoriam

* February 19 – Amzi Chapin, singer, composer and music teacher (aged 67; Northfield, OH, USA)
* March 15 – Samuel Dinsmoor, teacher, lawyer, banker and politician (aged 68; Kenne, NH, USA)
* April 21 – Samuel Slater, "father of the American Industrial Revolution" (aged 66; Webster, MA, USA)
* May 1 – Elkanah Tisdale, engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist (aged 67; Norwich, CT, USA)
* July 6 – John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1801 to 1835 (aged 79; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* August 25 – Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's alleged first love (aged 22; New Salem, IL, USA)
* August 30 – William T. Barry, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1814 to 1816 and U.S. Postmaster General from 1829 to 1835 (aged 51; Liverpool, England, UK)
* September 2 – Sally Hemings, slave and concubine to Thomas Jefferson (aged 62; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
* September 15 – Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor and wife of Jefferson Davis (aged 21; St. Francisville, LA, USA)
* November 14 – James Freeman, first American clergyman to call himself a Unitarian (aged 76; Newton, MA, USA)
* December 12 – Elias Kane, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1825 to 1835 (aged 41; Washington, DC, USA)
* December 13 – John Storm, soldier in the American Revolution (aged 66; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 22 – David Hosack, physician and educator, attending doctor at the Hamilton-Burr duel (aged 75; Greene County, IN, USA)