1830 in the United States

1830 in the United States
Years:	1827 1828 1829 – 1830 – 1831 1832 1833
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Events from the year 1830 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

President: Andrew Jackson (D-Tennessee)
Vice President: John C. Calhoun (D-South Carolina)
Chief Justice: John Marshall (is originally now residing at this time in from of the U.S. state of Virginia)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia)
Congress: 21st

Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors Governor of Alabama: Gabriel Moore (Democratic) Governor of Connecticut: Gideon Tomlinson (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Delaware: Charles Polk, Jr. (Federalist) (until January 19), David Hazzard (National Republican) (starting January 19) Governor of Georgia: George R. Gilmer (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Illinois: Ninian Edwards (Democratic-Republican) (until December 6), John Reynolds (Democratic) (starting December 6) Governor of Indiana: James B. Ray (Independent) Governor of Kentucky: Thomas Metcalfe (National Republican) Governor of Louisiana: Armand Julie Beauvais (National Republican) (until January 14), Jacques Dupré (National Republican) (starting January 14) Governor of Maine: until January 6: Nathan Cutler (Democratic) January 6-February 9: Joshua Hall (Democratic) starting February 9: Jonathan G. Hunton (National Republican) Governor of Maryland: Daniel Martin (National Republican) (until January 15), Thomas King Carroll (Democratic) (starting January 15) Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln, Jr. (National Republican) Governor of Mississippi: Gerard Brandon (Democratic) Governor of Missouri: John Miller (Democratic) Governor of New Hampshire: Benjamin Pierce (Democratic) (until June 3), Matthew Harvey (Democratic) (starting June 3) Governor of New Jersey: Peter Dumont Vroom (Democratic) Governor of New York: Enos T. Throop (Democratic) Governor of North Carolina: John Owen (Democratic) (until December 18), Montfort Stokes (Democratic) (starting December 18) Governor of Ohio: Allen Trimble (Federalist) (until December 18), Duncan McArthur (National Republican) (starting December 18) Governor of Pennsylvania: George Wolf (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Rhode Island: James Fenner (Democratic-Republican) Governor of South Carolina: Stephen Decatur Miller (Democratic) (until December 9), James Hamilton, Jr. (Democratic) (starting December 9) Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic) Governor of Vermont: Samuel C. Crafts (National Republican) Governor of Virginia: William Branch Giles (Democratic) (until March 4), John Floyd (Democratic) (starting March 4) Lieutenant Governors Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: John Samuel Peters (National Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William Kinney (Democratic) (until December 9), Zadok Casey (Democratic) (starting December 9) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Milton Stapp (Independent) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: John Breathitt (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Thomas L. Winthrop (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Abram M. Scott (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Daniel Dunklin (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of New York: Edward Philip Livingston (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Williams (Democratic) (until December 9), Patrick Noble (Democratic) (starting December 9) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Henry Olin (Democratic-Republican) (until month and day unknown), Mark Richards (National Republican) (starting month and day unknown)

Events

January 11 – LaGrange College (now the University of North Alabama) opens, becoming the first publicly chartered college in Alabama.
January 12–January 27 – Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina debates the question of states' rights vs. federal authority with Daniel Webster of Massachusetts in the United States Congress.
March 12 – Craig vs. Missouri: The United States Supreme Court rules that state loan certificates are unconstitutional.
March 26 – The Book of Mormon is published by Joseph Smith in Palmyra, New York.
April 6 – Joseph Smith and others organize the Church of Christ (later renamed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), the first formally organized church of the Latter Day Saint movement, in northwestern New York.
May 28 – US congress passes the Indian Removal Act.
September 27 – Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek with Choctaw nation. (First removal treaty signed after the Removal Act.)

Births

January 25 – Thomas W. Palmer, United States Senator from Michigan from 1883 till 1889. (died 1913)
January 31 – James G. Blaine, United States Senator from Maine from 1876 till 1881 and United States Secretary of State in 1881 and from 1889 till 1892. (died 1893)
March 1 – Alexander Caldwell United States Senator from Kansas from 1871 till 1873. (died 1917)
April 26 – Thomas M. Norwood, United States Senator from Georgia from 1871 till 1877. (died 1913)
May 23 – Henry M. Teller, United States Senator from Colorado from 1876 till 1882 and from 1885 till 1909. (died 1914)
November 26 – Horace Tabor, United States Senator from Colorado in 1883. (died 1899)
December 8 – William Pitt Kellogg, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1868 till 1872 and from 1877 till 1883. (died 1918)
December 13 – James D. Walker, United States Senator from Arkansas from 1879 till 1885. (died 1906)

Deaths

February 1 – Thomas W. Cobb, United States Senator from Georgia from 1824 till 1828. (born 1784)
July 2 – Robert H. Adams, United States Senator from Mississippi in 1830. (born 1792)
October 14 – John McClean, United States Senator from Illinois from 1824 till 1825 and from 1829 till 1830. (born 1791)

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