1827

Events from the year **1827 in the United States**.

* Speaker of the House of Representatives: John W. Taylor (DR-NY) (until March 4), Andrew Stevenson (D-VA) (starting December 3)
* Congress: 19th (until March 4), 20th (starting March 4)

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: John Murphy (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Toleration) (until May 2), Gideon Tomlinson (Democratic-Republican) (starting May 2)
* Governor of Delaware: Samuel Paynter (Federalist) (until January 16), Charles Polk Jr. (Federalist) (starting January 16)
* Governor of Georgia: George M. Troup (Democratic-Republican) (until November 7), John Forsyth (Democratic-Republican) (starting November 7)
* Governor of Illinois: Ninian Edwards (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: James B. Ray (Independent)
* Governor of Kentucky: Joseph Desha (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: Henry Johnson (National Republican)
* Governor of Maine: Albion K. Parris (Democratic-Republican) (until January 3), Enoch Lincoln (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 3)
* Governor of Maryland: Joseph Kent (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln Jr. (National Republican)
* Governor of Mississippi: Gerard Brandon (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Missouri: John Miller (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New Hampshire: David L. Morril (Democratic-Republican) (until June 7), Benjamin Pierce (Democratic-Republican) (starting June 7)
* Governor of New Jersey: Isaac Halstead Williamson (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of North Carolina: Hutchins Gordon Burton (no political party) (until December 8), James Iredell Jr. (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 8)
* Governor of Ohio: Allen Trimble (Federalist)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: James Fenner (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: John Taylor (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic-Republican) (until October 1), Sam Houston (Democratic-Republican) (starting October 1)
* Governor of Vermont: Ezra Butler (National Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: John Tyler (Democratic-Republican) (until March 4), William Branch Giles (Democratic-Republican) (starting March 4)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: David Plant (National Republican) (until May 2), Samuel Peters (National Republican) (starting May 2)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William Kinney (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: John H. Thompson (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Robert B. McAfee (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Thomas L. Winthrop (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Nathaniel Pitcher (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: James Witherspoon (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Aaron Leland (Democratic-Republican) (until month and day unknown), Henry Olin (Democratic-Republican) (starting month and day unknown)

## Events

* February 2 – The original Delmonico's restaurant opens in Manhattan.
* February 28 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
* March 12 – In *Brown v. Maryland*, the United States Supreme Court ruled that imported goods in their original package are under federal jurisdiction and thus not subject to state regulation.
* March 16 – *Freedom's Journal*, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm.
* May 21 – The Maryland Democratic Party is founded by supporters of Andrew Jackson in Baltimore and hosts its first meeting at the Baltimore Atheneum.
* June 14 – J. J. Audubon's *The Birds of America* commences publication in the United Kingdom.
* September 3 – Ho-Chunk leader Red Bird surrenders to U.S. officials, ending the Winnebago War.

## Memoriam

* February 22 – Charles Willson Peale, portrait painter (aged 85; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* February 23 – Felipe Enrique Neri, Texas legislator, colonizer (aged 67; Saltillo, Mexico)
* April 24 – Israel Pickens, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1821 to 1825 (aged 47; Matanzas, Cuba)
* April 29
	+ Rufus King, lawyer, politician and diplomat (aged 72; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier (aged 66; Sharon, MA, USA)
* May 29 – Carlos Wilcox, poet (aged 32; MI Territory, USA)
* September 23 – Freeman Walker, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1819 to 1821 (aged 46; Augusta, GA, USA)
* October 12 – John Eager Howard, politician (aged 75; Baltimore County, MD, USA)
* November 10 – St. George Tucker, lawyer and poet (aged 75; Warminster, VA, USA)
* November 25 – Enoch Fenwick, Jesuit priest (aged 47; Georgetown, DC, USA)