1801

Events from the year **1801 in the United States**.

## Incumbents

### Federal Government

* President: John Adams (F-MA) (until March 4), Thomas Jefferson (DR-VA) (starting March 4)
* Vice President: Thomas Jefferson (DR-VA) (until March 4), Aaron Burr (DR-NY) (starting March 4)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Theodore Sedgwick (F-MA) (until March 4), Nathaniel Macon (DR-NC) (starting December 7)
* Congress: 6th (until March 4), 7th (starting March 4)

Governors
* Governor of Connecticut: Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (Federalist)
* Governor of Delaware: Richard Bassett (Federalist) (until March 3), James Sykes (Federalist) (starting March 3)
* Governor of Georgia:
	+ until March 3: James Jackson (Democratic-Republican)
	+ March 3 – November 7: David Emanuel (Democratic-Republican)
	+ starting November 7: Josiah Tattnall (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: James Garrard (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Benjamin Ogle (Federalist) (until November 10), John Francis Mercer (Democratic-Republican) (starting November 10)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Caleb Strong (Federalist)
* Governor of New Hampshire: John Taylor Gilman (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New Jersey: Richard Howell (Federalist) (until October 31), Joseph Bloomfield (Democratic-Republican) (starting October 31)
* Governor of New York: John Jay (Federalist) (until June 30), George Clinton (Democratic-Republican) (starting July 1)
* Governor of North Carolina: Benjamin Williams (Federalist)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Thomas McKean (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Arthur Fenner (Country)
* Governor of South Carolina: John Drayton (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Tennessee: John Sevier (Democratic-Republican) (until September 23), Archibald Roane (Democratic-Republican) (starting September 23)
* Governor of Vermont: Isaac Tichenor (Federalist)
* Governor of Virginia: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: John Treadwell (Federalist)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Alexander Scott Bullitt (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: vacant (until month and day unknown), Samuel Phillips, Jr. (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Stephen Van Rensselaer (political party unknown) (until end of June 30), Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (political party unknown) (starting July 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Samuel J. Potter (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Richard Winn (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Paul Brigham (Democratic-Republican)

## Events

* January 10 – John Adams appoints William Henry Harrison as the 1st Governor of the Indiana Territory.
* January 31 – John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States.
* February 1 – Contingent election of 1801: An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved, when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
* February 27 – Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the Congress of the United States.
* March 4 – Thomas Jefferson is sworn in as the 3rd President of the United States, and Aaron Burr is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
* May 10 – The First Barbary War begins as the pasha of Tripoli declares war on the United States by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
* July 1 – Eli Whitney demonstrates before Congress the advantages of the system of interchangeable parts in the manufacture of firearms.
* August 1 – Action of 1 August 1801 (First Barbary War): United States Navy schooner USS *Enterprise* captures the 14-gun Tripolitan corsair polacca *Tripoli* off the north African coast in a single-ship action.
* November 16 – The first edition of *New York Evening Post* is printed.
* December 1 – *Jefferson*, the first American yacht, is built in Salem, Massachusetts, for George Crowninshield Jr.

## Memoriam

* January 9 – Margaretta Faugères, playwright, poet and political activist (aged 29; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* February 6 – Annis Boudinot Stockton, poet and sponsor of literary salons (aged 64; Burlington County, NJ, USA)
* February 23 – Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, poet and sponsor of literary salons (aged 64; Graeme Park, PA, USA)
* March 14 – Margarita Schuyler, youngest child of Philip Schuyler (aged 42; Albany, NY, USA)
* June 4 – Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the House of Representatives (aged 51; Lancaster, PA, USA)
* June 14 – Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary hero and traitor (aged 60; London, England, UK)
* September 10 – Jason Fairbanks, murderer (aged 21; Dedham, MA, USA)
* November 4 – William Shippen, physician and Continental Congressman (aged 89; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* November 23 – Philip Hamilton, first son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, (fatally shot by George Eacker in a duel at age 19) (aged 19; Manhattan, NY, USA)