1832

Events from the year **1832 in the United States**.

* Vice President: John C. Calhoun (D-SC) (until December 28), *vacant* (starting December 28)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-VA)
* Congress: 22nd

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: John Gayle (Democratic)
* Governor of Connecticut: John Samuel Peters (National Republican)
* Governor of Delaware: David Hazzard (National Republican)
* Governor of Georgia: Wilson Lumpkin (Democratic)
* Governor of Illinois: John Reynolds (Democratic)
* Governor of Indiana: Noah Noble (National Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: Thomas Metcalfe (National Republican) (until September 4), John Breathitt (Democratic) (starting September 4)
* Governor of Louisiana: André B. Roman (National Republican)
* Governor of Maine: Samuel E. Smith (Democratic)
* Governor of Maryland: George Howard (National Republican)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln Jr. (National Republican)
* Governor of Mississippi: Gerard Brandon (Democratic) (until January 9), Abram M. Scott (Democratic) (starting January 9)
* Governor of Missouri: John Miller (Democratic) (until November 19), Daniel Dunklin (Democratic) (starting November 19)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel Dinsmoor (Democratic)
* Governor of New Jersey: Peter Dumont Vroom (Democratic) (until October 26), Samuel L. Southard (National Republican) (starting October 26)
* Governor of New York: Enos T. Throop (Democratic)
* Governor of North Carolina: Montfort Stokes (Democratic) (until December 6), David Lowry Swain (National Republican) (starting December 6)
* Governor of Ohio: Duncan McArthur (National Republican) (until December 7), Robert Lucas (Democratic) (starting December 7)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: George Wolf (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Lemuel H. Arnold (National Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: James Hamilton Jr. (Democratic) (until December 10), Robert Young Hayne (Democratic) (starting December 10)
* Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic)
* Governor of Vermont: William A. Palmer (Anti-Masonic)
* Governor of Virginia: John Floyd (Democratic)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Thaddeus Betts (National Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Zadok Casey (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: David Wallace (National Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: John Breathitt (Democratic) (until September 4), James T. Morehead (National Republican) (starting September 4)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Thomas L. Winthrop (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Abram M. Scott (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Daniel Dunklin (Democratic) (until November 19), Lilburn Boggs (Democratic) (starting November 19)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Edward Philip Livingston (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Patrick Noble (Democratic) (until December 10), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Democratic) (starting December 10)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Lebbeus Egerton (Anti-Masonic)

## Events

* February 9 – The city of Jacksonville, Florida receives its town charter from the legislative council of Florida Territory.
* March 3 – In *Worcester v. Georgia*, the United States Supreme Court holds that Cherokee Indians are entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments.
* March 24 – In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith.
* April 6 – The Black Hawk War begins.
* May 9 – Lafayette College classes begin.
* May 21
	+ 1832 Democratic National Convention held in Baltimore begins.
	+ Washington Irving returns to the U.S. after seventeen years living in Europe.
* May 23 – 1832 Democratic National Convention held in Baltimore ends.
* July 4 – John Neal delivers the first public lecture in the US to advocate the rights of women.
* July 10 – President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
* July 24 – Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains using the South Pass.
* July 31 – The 1829–51 cholera pandemic reaches the Northeastern seaboard, beginning with New York City.
* August 27 – Black Hawk surrenders to the authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
* October 8 – Washington Irving and Henry Leavitt Ellsworth arrive at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory (later Fort Gibson, Oklahoma) in the late morning hours. They leave the fort on October 10, with a small company of Rangers who escort them to the camp of Captain Jesse Bean who is waiting for them near the Arkansas River. Thus begins one of the first steps in the United States effort to remove the indigenous peoples of the Americas from their homes on the east coast in what would become known as the "Trail of Tears" some six years later.
* October 19 – Alpha Delta Phi fraternity is founded at Hamilton College.
* November 2 – Andrew Jackson defeats Henry Clay in the U.S. presidential election.
* November 14 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signatory of the Declaration of Independence dies at his home in Maryland at age 95.
* November 24 – Ordinance of Nullification is passed.
* December 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1832: Andrew Jackson is re-elected president, defeats Henry Clay.
* December 5 – Skull and Bones secret society of Yale University established.
* December 28 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

## Memoriam

* February 1 – Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician (aged 55; Hillsborough, NC, USA)
* February 2 – Amos Doolittle, engraver (aged 77; Cheshire, CT, USA)
* April 12 – Shadrach Bond, 1st Governor of Illinois (aged 58; Kaskaskia, IL, USA)
* June 10 – Joseph Hiester, politician (aged 79; Reading, PA, USA)
* November 12 – Henry Eckford, shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer and entrepreneur (aged 57; Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Now Turkey))
* November 14 – Charles Carroll, last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1789 to 1792 (aged 95; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* December 17 – Robert Charles Sands, writer (aged 33; Hoboken, NJ, USA)
* December 18 – Philip Freneau, poet and journalist (aged 80; Matawan, NJ, USA)
* December 22 – Ishmail Spicer, music teacher, composer and publisher (aged 72; New London, CT, USA)