1823

Events from the year **1823 in the United States**.

* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Philip P. Barbour (DR-VA) (until March 4), Henry Clay (DR-KY) (starting December 1)
* Congress: 17th (until March 4), 18th (starting March 4)

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: Israel Pickens (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Toleration)
* Governor of Delaware:
	+ until January 21: Caleb Rodney (Federalist)
	+ January 21-June 20: Joseph Haslet (Democratic-Republican)
	+ June 20-June 23: Charles Thomas (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Georgia: John Clark (Democratic-Republican) (until November 7), George M. Troup (Democratic-Republican) (starting November 7)
* Governor of Illinois: Edward Coles (Independent)
* Governor of Indiana: William Hendricks (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: John Adair (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: Thomas Bolling Robertson (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Maine: Albion K. Parris (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Samuel Stevens Jr. (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Massachusetts: John Brooks (Federalist) (until May 31), William Eustis (Democratic-Republican) (starting May 31)
* Governor of Mississippi: Walter Leake (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Missouri: Alexander McNair (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel Bell (Democratic-Republican) (until June 5), Levi Woodbury (Democratic-Republican) (starting June 5)
* Governor of New Jersey: Isaac Halstead Williamson (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New York: Joseph C. Yates (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of North Carolina: Gabriel Holmes (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Ohio: Jeremiah Morrow (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Joseph Hiester (Democratic-Republican) (until December 16), John Andrew Shulze (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 16)
* Governor of Rhode Island: William C. Gibbs (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: John Lyde Wilson (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: Richard Skinner (Democratic-Republican) (until October 10), Cornelius P. Van Ness (Democratic-Republican) (until October 10)
* Governor of Virginia: James Pleasants (Democratic-Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Jonathan Ingersoll (Democratic-Republican) (until month and day unknown), David Plant (National Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Adolphus Hubbard (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) (until month and day unknown), Levi Lincoln Jr. (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: David Dickson (no political party)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Erastus Root (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Caleb Earle (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Henry Bradley (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Aaron Leland (Democratic-Republican)

## Events

* February 3 – Jackson Male Academy, precursor of Union University, opens in Tennessee.
* August 4 – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, the Mexican government administrator in charge of Anglo-American immigration into Mexico's state of Coahuila y Tejas, allows Stephen F. Austin to put together an 11-man police force, that will later be expanded to become the Texas Ranger Division.
* August 9 – The Arikara War breaks out between the Arikara nation and the United States, the first American military conflict with the Plains Indians.
* August 23 – Hugh Glass is attacked and mauled by a sow grizzly bear and left for dead in the Missouri Territory. He crawls 200 miles before reaching help, events depicted in *The Revenant*.
* September 22 – Joseph Smith first goes to the place near Manchester, New York, where the golden plates are stored, having been directed there by God through an angel (according to what he writes in 1838).
* November 15 – Lone Horn succeeds (probably) his father, and becomes chief of the Minneconjou Sioux; he will be chief until his death on October 16, 1875.
* December 2 – Monroe Doctrine: U.S. President James Monroe delivers a speech to the U.S. Congress, announcing a new policy of forbidding European interference in the Americas and establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
* December 23 – *A Visit From St. Nicholas*, attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, is first published.

## Memoriam

* January 21 – Gideon Olin, politician (aged 79; Shaftsbury, VT, USA)
* April 18 – George Cabot, merchant, seaman and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1791 to 1796 (aged 70; Boston, MA, USA)
* April 23 – John Williams Walker, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1819 to 1822 (aged 39; Huntsville, AL, USA)
* September 28 – Charlotte Melmoth, tragic actress (aged 74; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* October 8 – Martin D. Hardin, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1816 to 1817 (aged 43; Frankfort, KY, USA)