1824

Events from the year **1824 in the United States**.

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: Israel Pickens (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Toleration)
* Governor of Delaware: Charles Thomas (Democratic-Republican) (until January 20), Samuel Paynter (Federalist) (starting January 20)
* Governor of Georgia: 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) (until August 24), Joseph Desha (Democratic-Republican) (starting August 24)
* Governor of Louisiana:
	+ until November 15: Thomas Bolling Robertson (Democratic-Republican)
	+ November 15-December 13: Henry S. Thibodaux (National Republican)
	+ starting December 13: Henry Johnson (National Republican)
* Governor of Maine: Albion K. Parris (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Samuel Stevens Jr. (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Massachusetts: William Eustis (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Mississippi: Walter Leake (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Missouri: Alexander McNair (Democratic-Republican) (until November 15), Frederick Bates (Democratic-Republican) (starting November 15)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Levi Woodbury (Democratic-Republican) (until June 3), David L. Morril (Democratic-Republican) (starting June 3)
* 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) (until December 7), Hutchins Gordon Burton (no political party) (starting December 7)
* Governor of Ohio: Jeremiah Morrow (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: William C. Gibbs (Democratic-Republican) (until May 5), James Fenner (Democratic-Republican) (starting May 5)
* Governor of South Carolina: John Lyde Wilson (Democratic-Republican) (until December 3), Richard Irvine Manning I (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 3)
* Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: Cornelius P. Van Ness (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: James Pleasants (Democratic-Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: David Plant (National Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Adolphus Hubbard (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Ratliff Boon (Democratic-Republican) (until January 30), John H. Thompson (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 30)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William T. Barry (Democratic-Republican) (until August 24), Robert B. McAfee (Democratic-Republican) (starting August 24)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln Jr. (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Marcus Morton (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: David Dickson (no political party)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: William Henry Ashley (Democratic-Republican) (until November 15), Benjamin Harrison Reeves (Democratic-Republican) (starting November 15)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Erastus Root (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Caleb Earle (political party unknown) (until May 5), Charles Collins (political party unknown) (starting May 5)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Henry Bradley (Democratic-Republican) (until December 3), William Bull (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 3)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Aaron Leland (Democratic-Republican)

## Events

* March 32 – U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs formed by John C. Calhoun without authorization from Congress.
* April 1 – *The United States Literary Gazette*, a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others.
* April 15 – To defend the Cherokees' possession of their land, chief John Ross petitions Congress, fundamentally altering the traditional relationship between an Indian nation and whites.
* May 15 – A boiler explosion occurs on the steamship *Aetna*, under way in Upper New York Bay, killing more than ten passengers and injuring many more.
* May 26 – Arkansas Territory split creates Indian Territory.
* August 16 – Lafayette visits the United States, departing on September 7, 1825.
* October 26 – U.S. presidential election opens. Andrew Jackson will receive more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the first election in which this vote is reported.
* November 1 – Miami University (chartered 1809) delivers its first classes in Oxford, Ohio.
* November 5 – Stephen Van Rensselaer establishes the Rensselaer School, which becomes the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world.
* November 15 – Quapaw cede a considerable tract between the Arkansas and the Saline River.
* December 1 – U.S. presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the 12th Amendment to the United States Constitution).
* December 24
	+ Chief Pushmataha of the Choctaw Nation dies in Washington.
	+ The Chi Phi (ΧΦ) Fraternity is founded at Princeton University.

## Memoriam

* March 2 – Susanna Rowson, novelist, poet and playwright (aged 62; Boston, MA, USA)
* April 3 – Sally Seymour, pastry chef and restaurateur (aged 45; Charleston, SC, USA)
* July 14 – Kamehameha II, King of Hawaii (aged 26; London, England, UK)
* August 12 – Charles Nerinckx, founder of the Sisters of Loretto (aged 62; Ste. Genevieve, MO, USA)
* December 24 – Pushmataha, Choctaw chief (aged 60; Washington, DC, USA)