List of events
Events from the year 1835 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ] John Bell (W -Tennessee ) (until March 4) James K. Polk (D -Tennessee ) (starting December 7) Governors and lieutenant governors Governors [ edit ] Governor of Alabama : John Gayle (Democratic ) (until November 21), Clement Comer Clay (Democratic ) (starting November 21) Governor of Connecticut : Samuel A. Foot (Whig ) (until May 6), Henry W. Edwards (Democratic ) (starting May 6) Governor of Delaware : Caleb P. Bennett (Democratic ) Governor of Georgia : Wilson Lumpkin (Democratic ) (until November 4), William Schley (Democratic ) (starting November 4) Governor of Illinois : Joseph Duncan (Whig ) Governor of Indiana : Noah Noble (Whig ) Governor of Kentucky : James T. Morehead (National Republican ) Governor of Louisiana : André B. Roman (Whig ) (until February 4), Edward Douglass White Sr. (Whig ) (starting February 4) Governor of Maine : Robert P. Dunlap (Democratic ) Governor of Maryland : James Thomas (Whig ) Governor of Massachusetts : John Davis (Whig ) (until March 1), Samuel Turell Armstrong (Whig ) (starting March 1) Governor of Mississippi : Hiram Runnels (Democratic ) (until November 20), John A. Quitman (Whig ) (starting November 20) Governor of Missouri : Daniel Dunklin (Democratic ) Governor of New Hampshire : William Badger (Democratic ) Governor of New Jersey : Peter Dumont Vroom (Democratic ) Governor of New York : William L. Marcy (Democratic ) Governor of North Carolina : David Lowry Swain (National Republican ) (until December 10), Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr. (Democratic ) (starting December 10) Governor of Ohio : Robert Lucas (Democratic ) Governor of Pennsylvania : George Wolf (Democratic-Republican ) (until December 15), Joseph Ritner (Anti-Masonic ) (starting December 15) Governor of Rhode Island : John Brown Francis (Democratic ) Governor of South Carolina : George McDuffie (Democratic ) Governor of Tennessee : William Carroll (Democratic ) (until October 12), Newton Cannon (Whig ) (starting October 12) Governor of Vermont : William A. Palmer (Anti-Masonic Party ) (until November 2), Silas H. Jennison (Whig ) (starting November 2) Governor of Virginia : Littleton Waller Tazewell (Whig ) Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
January 8 – The Federal Government declares that Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt for the first and only time. January 30: First assassination attempt against a U.S. president . July 4: Thomas Viaduct completed. December 16–17: Great Fire of New York Undated [ edit ] Judge William Harper of South Carolina rules that a person's acceptance as white , not the proportion of white and black blood , determine a person's race. Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838 Trail of Tears . Tensions between the United States and France reach an all time high as President Andrew Jackson and the French government of Louis Philippe I trade threats and insults over France's refusal to pay the United States reparations which the United States government insists France owes from the Quasi-War .[2] Ongoing [ edit ] January 29 – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge), children's writer (died 1905 ) February 19 – Henry R. Pease , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1874 to 1875 (died 1907 ) March 28 – Matthias N. Forney , steam locomotive manufacturer (died 1908 ) March 31 – John La Farge , painter and stained-glass artist (died 1910 ) April 2 – Jacob Nash Victor , railroad builder (died 1907 ) April 10 – Henry Villard , journalist, railroad financier and philanthropist (died 1900 ) April 17 – May 12 – John T. Lesley , Mayor of Tampa (died 1913 ) May 27 – Charles Francis Adams Jr. , public figure and historian (died 1915 ) June 10 – Rebecca Latimer Felton , U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1922 (died 1930 ) June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken , actress, painter and poet (died 1868 ) June 26 – Thomas W. Knox , war reporter (died 1896 ) June 27 – Fred Harvey , entrepreneur (died 1901 ) June 29 – Celia Thaxter , poet (died 1894 ) August 2 – Elisha Gray , inventor and businessman (died 1901 ) September 4 – William Lindsay , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1893 to 1901 (died 1909 ) September 10 – Donelson Caffery , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1892 to 1901 (died 1906 ) September 14 – Ellen Hamlin , Second Lady of the United States as wife of Hannibal Hamlin (died 1925 ) October 16 – William R. Shafter , general (died 1906 ) October 23 – Adlai Stevenson I , 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897 (died 1914 ) October 26 – Thomas M. Bowen , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1883 to 1889 (died 1906) October 31 – Adelbert Ames , 27th and 30th governor of Mississippi from 1868 to 1870 and from 1874 to 1876 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1870 to 1874, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1933 ) November 17 – Andrew L. Harris , Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (died 1915 ) November 21 – Rose Eytinge , actress (died 1911 ) November 25 November 30 – Mark Twain , writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer (died 1910 )[3] December 13 – Phillips Brooks , clergyman and poet (died 1893 ) December 17 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz , scientist (died 1910 ) December 18 – Lyman Abbott , clergyman and author (died 1922 ) February 19 – Amzi Chapin , singer, composer and music teacher (born 1768 ) March 15 – Samuel Dinsmoor , teacher, lawyer, banker and politician (born 1766 ) April 21 – Samuel Slater , "father of the American Industrial Revolution" (born 1768 in Great Britain ) July 6 – John Marshall , fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1801 to 1835 (born 1755 ) August 25 – Ann Rutledge , Abraham Lincoln 's alleged first love (born 1813 ) August 30 – William T. Barry , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1814 to 1816 and U.S. Postmaster General from 1829 to 1835, died in Liverpool , England , United Kingdom (born 1784 ) September 15 – Sarah Knox Taylor , daughter of Zachary Taylor and wife of Jefferson Davis (born 1814 ) November 14 – James Freeman , first American clergyman to call himself a Unitarian (born 1759 ) December 12 – Elias Kane , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1825 to 1835 (born 1794 ) December 22 – David Hosack physician and educator, attending doctor at the Hamilton-Burr duel (born 1769 ) December 13 – John Storm , soldier in the American Revolution (born 1760 ) Full date unknown See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]