1821

Events from the year **1821 in the United States**.

* Speaker of the House of Representatives: John W. Taylor (DR-NY) (until March 4), Philip P. Barbour (DR-VA) (starting December 4)
* Congress: 16th (until March 4), 17th (starting March 4)

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: Thomas Bibb (Democratic-Republican) (starting July 10) (until November 9), Israel Pickens (Democratic-Republican) (starting November 9)
* Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Toleration)
* Governor of Delaware: Jacob Stout (Federalist) (until January 16), John Collins (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 16)
* Governor of Georgia: John Clark (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Illinois: Shadrach Bond (Independent)
* Governor of Indiana: Jonathan Jennings (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: John Adair (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: Thomas Bolling Robertson (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Maine:
	+ until May 28: William King (Democratic-Republican)
	+ May 28-December 5: William D. Williamson (Democratic-Republican)
	+ starting December 5: Benjamin Ames (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Samuel Sprigg (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Massachusetts: John Brooks (Federalist)
* Governor of Mississippi: George Poindexter (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Missouri: William Clark (Democratic-Republican) (until August 10), Alexander McNair (Democratic-Republican) (starting August 10)
* 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: Jesse Franklin (Democratic-Republican) (until December 7), Gabriel Holmes (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 7)
* Governor of Ohio: Ethan Allen Brown (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Joseph Hiester (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Nehemiah R. Knight (Democratic-Republican) (until May 2), William C. Gibbs (Democratic-Republican) (starting May 2)
* Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Bennett Jr. (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Tennessee: Joseph McMinn (Democratic-Republican) (until October 1), William Carroll (Democratic-Republican) (starting October 1)
* Governor of Vermont: Richard Skinner (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. (Democratic-Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Jonathan Ingersoll (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Pierre Menard (Democratic-Republican)
* 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)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: John Tayler (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Edward Wilcox (political party unknown) (until May 2), Caleb Earle (political party unknown) (starting May 2)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: William Pinckney (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: William Cahoon (Democratic-Republican)

## Events

* February 9 – The George Washington University is chartered as The Columbian College of the District of Columbia by President James Monroe.
* March 4 – James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins begin their second terms as President and Vice President of the United States.
* March 5 – James Monroe is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States. Daniel D. Tompkins is sworn in for his second term as Vice President of the United States.
* June 27 – The New Hampton School is founded in the state of New Hampshire.
* July 10 – The U.S. takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
* August 4 – *The Saturday Evening Post* relaunched.
* August 10 – Missouri admitted becomes the 24th U.S. state.
* September 3 – The 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane strikes New York City.
* September 18 – Amherst College is founded in Massachusetts.
* November 16 – American Old West: The Santa Fe Trail is used for the first time by a White American, William Becknell.
* November 30 – History of Liberia: The first groups of freed slaves from the U.S. arrive in modern-day Liberia and found Monrovia.
* December 1 – Widener University is founded in Wilmington, Delaware, s The Bullock School for Boys.

## Memoriam

* January 4 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, saint (aged 46; Emmitsburg, MD, USA)
* March 13 – Waightstill Avery, lawyer and soldier, fought a duel with Andrew Jackson (aged 79; Morganton, NC, USA)
* July 11 – Lucy Terry, first known African American poet (aged 88; Sunderland, VT, USA)
* October 11 – John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and father of Francis Scott Key (aged 67; Frederick City, MD, USA)
* October 24 – Elias Boudinot, President of the Continental Congress (aged 81; Burlington, NJ, USA)