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List of events
Events from the year 1849 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ]
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors [ edit ]
Governor of Alabama : Reuben Chapman (Democratic ) (until December 17), Henry W. Collier (Democratic ) (starting December 17)Governor of Arkansas :
Governor of Connecticut : Clark Bissell (Whig ) (until May 2), Joseph Trumbull (Whig ) (starting May 2)Governor of Delaware : William Tharp (Democratic )Governor of Florida : William Dunn Moseley (Democratic ) (until October 1), Thomas Brown (Whig ) (starting October 1)Governor of Georgia : George W. Towns (Democratic )Governor of Illinois : Augustus C. French (Democratic )Governor of Indiana : Paris C. Dunning (Democratic ) (until December 5), Joseph A. Wright (Democratic ) (starting December 5)Governor of Iowa : Ansel Briggs (Democratic )Governor of Kentucky : John J. Crittenden (Whig )Governor of Louisiana : Isaac Johnson (Democratic )Governor of Maine : John W. Dana (Democratic )Governor of Maryland : Philip F. Thomas (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : George N. Briggs (Democratic )Governor of Michigan : Epaphroditus Ransom (Democratic )Governor of Mississippi : Joseph W. Matthews (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : Austin Augustus King (Democratic )Governor of New Hampshire : Jared W. Williams (Democratic ) (until June 7), Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. (Democratic ) (starting June 7)Governor of New Jersey : Daniel Haines (Democratic )Governor of New York : Hamilton Fish (Whig ) (starting January 1)Governor of North Carolina : William Alexander Graham (Whig ) (until January 1), Charles Manly (Whig ) (starting January 1)Governor of Ohio : William Bebb (Whig ) (until January 22), Seabury Ford (Whig ) (starting January 22)Governor of Pennsylvania : William F. Johnston (Whig )Governor of Rhode Island : Elisha Harris (Whig ) (until May 1), Henry B. Anthony (Whig ) (starting May 1)Governor of South Carolina : Whitemarsh B. Seabrook (Democratic )Governor of Tennessee : Neill S. Brown (Whig ) (until October 16), William Trousdale (Democratic ) (starting October 16)Governor of Texas : George T. Wood (Democratic ) (until December 21), Peter Hansborough Bell (Democratic ) (starting December 21)Governor of Vermont : Carlos Coolidge (Whig )Governor of Virginia : William Smith (Democratic ) (until January 1), John B. Floyd (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Governor of Wisconsin : Nelson Dewey (Democratic )
Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
March 4: Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th U.S. president Millard Fillmore becomes the 12th U.S. vice presidentJanuary 23 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York , thus becoming the United States ' first woman doctor.
January 27
February 14 – James Knox Polk becomes the first sitting president of the United States to have his photograph taken, in New York City .
February 28 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay . The California leaves New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, rounds Cape Horn at the tip of South America , and arrives at San Francisco, California after a 4-month-21-day journey.
March 3
March 4 – Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th president of the United States , and Millard Fillmore becomes the 12th vice president , but both refuse to be sworn in office on a Sabbath (Sunday). Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison , President pro tempore of the United States Senate is President de jure for a single day.
March 5 – President Zachary Taylor and Vice President Millard Fillmore are sworn into office.
May 3 – The Mississippi River levee at Sauvé's Crevasse breaks, flooding much of New Orleans, Louisiana .
May 10 – Astor Place Riot occurs in Manhattan .
June 6 – Fort Worth, Texas is founded.
September 1 – The first segment of the Pennsylvania Railroad , from Lewistown, Pennsylvania to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , opens for service.
September 17 – Harriet Tubman emancipates herself.
November – Austin College receives a charter in Huntsville.
November 13 – The Constitution of California is ratified by the electorate.
Undated – Pfizer is founded by cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart in Williamsburg, Brooklyn , as a manufacturer of fine chemicals . Continuing [ edit ] January 12 – Murphy J. Foster , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1901 to 1913 (died 1921 )
January 29 – Newton C. Blanchard , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1894 to 1897 (died 1922 )
March 2 – Robert Means Thompson , naval officer (died 1930 )
March 7 – Luther Burbank , biologist (died 1926 )
March 10 – Mary Evelyn Hitchcock , author and explorer (died 1920 )
March 17 – Cornelia Clapp , marine biologist (died 1934 )[3]
April 3 – Walter Guion , U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 1918 (died 1927 )
April 17 – William R. Day , politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1923 )
April 19 – John Uri Lloyd , pharmacist and science fiction author (died 1936 )
April 30 – Jennie Tuttle Hobart , Second Lady of the United States as wife of Garret Hobart (died 1941 )
May 19 – John Hubbard , admiral (died 1932 )
June 30 – William Joseph Deboe , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1897 to 1903 (died 1927)
July 22 – Emma Lazarus , poet (died 1887 )
August 9 – John P. Young , managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle 1921 )
August 12 – Abbott Handerson Thayer , painter, naturalist and teacher (died 1921)
August 23 – William Stanley West , U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1914 (died 1914 )
September 3 – Sarah Orne Jewett , Maine fiction writer (died 1909 )[4]
September 18 – Martha Place , murderer (first woman executed in the electric chair , 1899 )
October 3 – Jeannette Leonard Gilder , author and editor (died 1916 )
October 7 – James Whitcomb Riley , dialect poet (died 1916 )
November 19 – Grace Denio Litchfield , poet and novelist (died 1944 )
December 6
December 12 – William Kissam Vanderbilt , railroad magnate (died 1920 )
December 16 – Mary Hartwell Catherwood , author and poet (died 1902 )[5] Henry Clay Frick , industrialist and art collector (died 1919 )
December 20
Ellen Eglin , inventorEmma Curtis Hopkins , spiritual writer (died 1925)James K. Polk January 30 – Jonathan Alder , settler (born 1773 )
March 17 – Ann Gerry , Second Lady of the United States from 1813 to 1814 as wife of Elbridge Gerry (born 1763 )
July 12 – Dolley Madison , First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817 as wife of James Madison (born 1768 )
June 15 – James K. Polk , 11th president of the United States from 1845 to 1849 (born 1795 )
July 30 – Jacob Perkins , inventor, mechanical engineer, and physicist (born 1766 )
August 23 – Edward Hicks , folk painter and Quaker preacher (born 1780 )
October 7 – Edgar Allan Poe , author, poet, editor and literary critic (born 1809 )
October 22 – William Miller , Baptist preacher, leader of the Second Advent Movement (born 1782 )
Robert Cary Long, Jr. , architect working in Baltimore (born 1810 )See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]
^ "Plank Roads Chartered in North Carolina" . North Carolina Business History . 2006. Archived from the original on March 29, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2013 .^ "Railroads — prior to the Civil War" . North Carolina Business History . 2006. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2013 .^ Reynolds, Moira Davison (2004). American Women Scientists: 23 Inspiring Biographies, 1900-2000 . Jefferson NC: McFarland. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-78642-161-9 ^ James, Edward T.; Wilson James, Janet; Boyer, Paul S. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-67462-731-4 ^ Robert, Price (1971). "Catherwood, Mary Hartwell". In James, Edward T. (ed.). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary . Vol. 1. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-67462-734-5
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