1852 in the United States

1852 in the United States
Years:	1849 1850 1851 – 1852 – 1853 1854 1855
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Events from the year 1852 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

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Governors

• Governor of Alabama: Henry W. Collier (Democratic)
• Governor of Arkansas: John Selden Roane (Democratic) (until November 15), Elias Nelson Conway (Democratic) (starting November 15)
• Governor of California: John McDougall (Democratic) (until January 8), John Bigler (Democratic) (starting January 8)
• Governor of Connecticut: Thomas H. Seymour (Democratic)
• Governor of Delaware: William H. H. Ross (Democratic)
• Governor of Florida: Thomas Brown (Whig)
• Governor of Georgia: Howell Cobb (Democratic)
• Governor of Illinois: Augustus C. French (Democratic)
• Governor of Indiana: Joseph A. Wright (Democratic)
• Governor of Iowa: Stephen P. Hempstead (Democratic)
• Governor of Kentucky: Lazarus W. Powell (Democratic)
• Governor of Louisiana: Joseph Marshall Walker (Democratic)
• Governor of Maine: John Hubbard (Democratic)
• Governor of Maryland: Enoch Louis Lowe (Democratic)
• Governor of Massachusetts: George S. Boutwell (Democratic)
• Governor of Michigan: John S. Barry (Democratic) (until January 1), Robert McClelland (Democratic) (starting January 1)
• Governor of Mississippi: James Whitfield (Democratic Party) (until January 10), Henry S. Foote (Democratic Party) (starting January 10)
• Governor of Missouri: Austin Augustus King (Democratic)
• Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. (Democratic) (until June 3), Noah Martin (Democratic) (starting June 3)
• Governor of New Jersey: George F. Fort (Democratic)
• Governor of New York: Washington Hunt (Whig) (until end of December 31)
• Governor of North Carolina: David Settle Reid (Democratic)
• Governor of Ohio: Reuben Wood (Democratic)
• Governor of Pennsylvania: William F. Johnston (Whig) (until January 20), William Bigler (Democratic) (starting January 20)
• Governor of Rhode Island: Philip Allen (Democratic)
• Governor of South Carolina: John Hugh Means (Democratic) (until December 9), John Lawrence Manning (Democratic) (starting December 9)
• Governor of Tennessee: William B. Campbell (Whig)
• Governor of Texas: Peter Hansborough Bell (Democratic)
• Governor of Vermont: Charles K. Williams (Whig) (until October), Erastus Fairbanks (Whig) (starting October)
• Governor of Virginia: John B. Floyd (Democratic) (until January 16), Joseph Johnson (Democratic) (starting January 16)
• Governor of Wisconsin: Nelson Dewey (Democratic) (until January 5), Leonard J. Farwell (Whig) (starting January 5)

Lieutenant Governors

• Lieutenant Governor of California: David C. Broderick (Democratic) (until January 8), Samuel Purdy (Democratic) (starting January 8)
• Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Green Kendrick (Whig) (until month and day unknown), Charles H. Pond (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
• Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William McMurtry (Democratic)
• Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: James H. Lane (Democratic)
• Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: John Burton Thompson (political party unknown)
• Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Jean Baptiste Plauche (Whig)
• Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Henry W. Cushman (political party unknown)
• Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: vacant (until month and day unknown), Calvin Britain (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Thomas Lawson Price (Democratic)
• Lieutenant Governor of New York: Sanford E. Church (Democratic)
• Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: William Medill (Democratic) (starting January 12)
• Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: William Beach Lawrence (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Samuel G. Arnold (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
• Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Joshua John Ward (Democratic) (until December 9), James Irby (Democratic) (starting December 9)
• Lieutenant Governor of Texas: James Wilson Henderson (Democratic)
• Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Julius Converse (Whig) (until October), William Kittredge (Whig) (starting October)
• Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Shelton Leake (Democratic) (starting January 16)
• Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Samuel W. Beall (Democratic) (until January 5), Timothy Burns (Democratic) (starting January 5)

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Events

• January 15 – Nine men representing various Hebrew charitable organizations come together to form what will become the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
• February 16 – The Studebaker Brothers Wagon Company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
• February 19 – The Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
• March 2 – The first American experimental steam fire engine is tested.^[1]
• March 4 – The Phi Mu Fraternity is established at Wesleyan College.
• March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is first published in book form, in Boston.
• April 23 – More than 150 Wintu people are killed by a militia under the guidance of Trinity County sheriff William H. Dixon in the Bridge Gulch Massacre.
• July 1 – American statesman Henry Clay is the first to receive the honor of lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda.
• July 4 – Frederick Douglass delivers his famous speech on "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery" in Rochester, New York.
• August 3 – The first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event, is held.
• September 15 – Loyola College opens its doors to students in the City of Baltimore, Maryland.
• November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1852: Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of Virginia.
• November 25 – Monticello Convention: 44 people from the northern parts of Oregon Territory meet and draft a petition to establish a separate territorial government north of the Columbia River (which becomes, in the following months, Washington Territory).^[2]

Undated

• In Hawaii sugar planters bring over the first Chinese laborers on 3 or 5 year contracts, giving them 3 dollars per month plus room and board for working a 12-hour day, 6 days a week.
• Loyola College is chartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, produces the first translation of the Bible in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, which is published with the parallel text of the Syriac Peshitta by the American Bible Society.

Ongoing

• California Gold Rush (1848–1855)

Births

• May 11 – Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 till 1909 and United States Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905. (died 1918)
• May 23 – Weldon B. Heyburn, United States Senator from Idaho from 1903 till 1912. (died 1912)
• November 16 – Joseph R. Burton, United States Senator from Kansas from 1901 till 1906. (died 1923)

Deaths

• February 14 – Thomas Carlin, 7th Governor of Illinois from 1838 till 1842. (born 1789)
• May 6 – William Bellinger Bulloch, United States Senator from Georgia in 1813. (born 1777)
• May 18 – Briscoe Baldwin, planter and Virginia politician (born 1789)
• June 8 – Perry Smith, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1837 till 1843. (born 1783)
• June 30 – Henry Clay, United States Senator from Kentucky 1806-1807, 1810-1811, 1831-1842 and 1849-1852. (born 1777)
• July 19 – John McKinley, United States Senator from Alabama from 1826 till 1831 and in 1837. Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1837 till 1852. (born 1780)
• October 4 – James Whitcomb, United States Senator from Indiana from 1849 to 1852. (born 1795)

References

1. King, William T. (1896). History of the American Steam Fire-Engine.
2. Settlers met at Monticello to sign a petition asking Congress to create a separate territory north of the Columbia River. Washington Secretary of State.

External links

• Media related to 1852 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons