1826

Events from the year **1826 in the United States**.

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: John Murphy (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Toleration)
* Governor of Delaware: Samuel Paynter (Federalist)
* Governor of Georgia: George M. Troup (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Illinois: Edward Coles (Independent) (until December 6), Ninian Edwards (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 6)
* 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)
* Governor of Maryland: Samuel Stevens Jr. (Democratic-Republican) (until January 9), Joseph Kent (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 9)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln Jr. (National Republican)
* Governor of Mississippi:
	+ until January 7: Gerard Brandon (Democratic-Republican)
	+ January 7-July 25: David Holmes (Democratic-Republican)
	+ starting July 25: Gerard Brandon (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Missouri: Abraham J. Williams (Democratic-Republican) (until January 20), John Miller (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 20)
* Governor of New Hampshire: David L. Morril (Democratic-Republican)
* 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)
* Governor of Ohio: Jeremiah Morrow (Democratic-Republican) (until December 19), Allen Trimble (Federalist) (starting December 19)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: James Fenner (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: Richard Irvine Manning I (Democratic-Republican) (until December 9), John Taylor (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 9)
* Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: Cornelius P. Van Ness (Democratic-Republican) (until October 13), Ezra Butler (National Republican) (starting October 13)
* Governor of Virginia: James Pleasants (Democratic-Republican) (until December 10), John Tyler (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 10)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: David Plant (National Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Adolphus Hubbard (Democratic-Republican) (until December 6), William Kinney (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 6)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: John H. Thompson (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Robert B. McAfee (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: vacant (until month and day unknown), Thomas L. Winthrop (Democratic-Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Gerard C. Brandon (no political party) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: James Tallmadge Jr. (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: William Bull (Democratic-Republican) (until December 9), James Witherspoon (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 9)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Aaron Leland (Democratic-Republican)

## Events

* January 24 – Treaty of Washington between the United States government and the Creek National Council, in which they cede much of their land in the State of Georgia.
* February 6 – First printing of James Fenimore Cooper's novel *The Last of the Mohicans*.
* February 13 – The American Temperance Society is founded in Boston.
* March 1 – Aged eight, future orator and memoirist Frederick Douglass is lent by his master to the Aulds of Fell's Point, Baltimore. He will remain their house servant, and later their regular slave, for 12 years until he escapes.
* April 1 – Samuel Morey patents an internal combustion engine.
* July 4 – Ex-Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both die on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
* July 15 – The Pan-American Congress of Panama concludes without the U.S. delegates having arrived.
* August 1 – The town of Crawford Notch, New Hampshire suffers a landslide; those killed include the Willey Family, after whom Mount Willey is named.
* September 3 – The USS *Vincennes*, commanded by William Finch, leaves New York City to become the first U.S. warship to circumnavigate the globe.
* September 1 – William Morgan of Batavia, New York, disappears mysteriously. It is highly likely he was murdered by freemasons.
* October 7 – The first train operates over the Granite Railway in Massachusetts.
* December 21 – Fredonian Rebellion: American settlers in Mexican Texas make the first attempt to secede from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Fredonia, which will survive for just over a month.
* December 25 – The Eggnog Riot breaks out at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York during the early morning hours, but is squelched by Christmas chapel service.
* December 31 – Sing Sing prison first opened on the Hudson River.

## Memoriam

* January 24 – Henry H. Chambers, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1825 to 1826 (aged 35; Kenbridge, VA, USA)
* February 7 – Thomas Todd, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1807 to 1826 (aged 61; Frankfort, KY, USA)
* July 4
	+ John Adams, 2nd President of the United States from 1797 to 1801, 1st Vice President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 (aged 90; Quincy, MA, USA)
	+ Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States from 1801 to 1809, 2nd Vice President of the United States from 1797 to 1801 (aged 83; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
* July 8 – Luther Martin, delegate to the American Constitutional Convention (aged 78; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 18 – Isaac Shelby, 1st and 5th Governor of Kentucky from 1792 to 1796 and 1812 to 1816 (aged 75; Lincoln County, KY, USA)
* August 26 – Royall Tyler, playwright (aged 69; Brattleboro, VT, USA)