1834

Events from the year **1834 in the United States**.

* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-VA) (until June 2), John Bell (W-TN) (starting June 2)
* Congress: 23rd

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: John Gayle (Democratic)
* Governor of Connecticut: Henry W. Edwards (Democratic) (until May 7), Samuel A. Foot (Whig) (starting May 7)
* Governor of Delaware: Caleb P. Bennett (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: Wilson Lumpkin (Democratic)
* Governor of Illinois:
	+ until November 17: John Reynolds (Democratic)
	+ November 17-December 3: William Lee D. Ewing (Democratic)
	+ starting December 3: Joseph Duncan (Whig)
* Governor of Indiana: Noah Noble (Whig)
* Governor of Kentucky: John Breathitt (Democratic) (until February 21), James T. Morehead (National Republican) (starting February 21)
* Governor of Louisiana: André B. Roman (Whig)
* Governor of Maine: Samuel E. Smith (Democratic) (until January 1), Robert P. Dunlap (Democratic) (starting January 1)
* Governor of Maryland: James Thomas (Whig)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln Jr. (National Republican) (until January 9), John Davis (Whig) (starting January 9)
* Governor of Mississippi: Hiram Runnels (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: Daniel Dunklin (Democratic)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel Dinsmoor (Democratic) (until June 5), William Badger (Democratic) (starting June 5)
* 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)
* Governor of Ohio: Robert Lucas (Democratic)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: George Wolf (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: John Brown Francis (Democratic)
* Governor of South Carolina: Robert Young Hayne (Democratic) (until December 9), George McDuffie (Democratic) (starting December 9)
* Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic)
* Governor of Vermont: William A. Palmer (Anti-Masonic)
* Governor of Virginia: John Floyd (Democratic) (until March 31), Littleton Waller Tazewell (Whig) (starting March 31)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Ebenezer Stoddard (Democratic-Republican) (until May 7), Thaddeus Betts (Whig) (starting May 7)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William Lee D. Ewing (Democratic) (until December 5), Alexander M. Jenkins (Democratic) (starting December 5)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: David Wallace (Whig)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James T. Morehead (Democratic)
* 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)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Democratic) (until December 9), Whitemarsh B. Seabrook (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Lebbeus Egerton (Anti-Masonic)

## Events

* January 25 – Hillsborough County is created by Florida's territorial legislature.
* March 11 – United States Survey of the Coast transferred to the Department of the Navy.
* March 28 – The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States (censure expunged in 1837).
* April 14 – The Whig Party is officially named by United States Senator Henry Clay.
* June 30 – the 6th Indian Trade and Intercourse Act is updated and renewed Indian Territory is effective.
* July 7 – Anti-abolitionist riots in New York City.
* July 29 – Office of Indian Affairs organized.
* August 11 – Ursuline Convent Riots: A convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near Boston begins.
* August 12 – Ursuline Convent Riots ends.
* October 31 – Solon Robinson settled in the location that would eventually become Crown Point, Indiana.
* November 4 – Delta Upsilon fraternity founded at Williams College.
* November 11 – The rare 1804 dollar coin is struck by the United States Mint.

## Memoriam

* February 2 – Lorenzo Dow, minister (aged 56; Georgetown, MD, USA)
* February 18 – William Wirt, 9th United States Attorney General (aged 61; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 28 – Isaac D. Barnard, U.S. Senator from 1827 to 1831 (aged 42; West Chester, PA, USA)
* May 20 – Marquis de Lafayette, French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War (aged 76; Paris, France)
* July 26 – Jonathan Jennings, 1st governor of Indiana (aged 50, Charlestown, IN, USA)
* August 24 – William Kelly, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1822 to 1825 (aged 47; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* September 15 – William H. Crawford, politician and judge (aged 62; Crawford, GA, USA)
* October 10 – Thomas Say, naturalist (aged 47; New Harmony, IN, USA)
* October 31 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, chemical manufacturer (aged 63; Philadelphia, PA, USA)