1830 in the United States
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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 (Virginia)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia)
- Congress: 21st
Events
- January 11 – LaGrange College (now the University of North Alabama) opens, becoming the first publicly chartered college in Alabama.
- January 12–27 – 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.
- May 24 – Sarah Josepha Hale's nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is published in Boston.
- 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 7 – Emerson Opdycke, businessman and Union Army brigadier general during the American Civil War (died 1884)
- January 8 – Gouverneur K. Warren, civil engineer and Union Army general in the American Civil War (died 1882)
- January 19 – George B. Cosby, Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War (died 1909)
- 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)
- March 12 – William F. Brantley, Confederate general in the American Civil War (died 1870)
- March 20 – Eugene Asa Carr, Union Army general in the American Civil War (died 1910)
- April 26 – Thomas M. Norwood, United States Senator from Georgia from 1871 till 1877. (died 1913)
- May 9 – Harriet Lane, acting First Lady of the United States during James Buchanan's presidency (died 1903)
- May 13 – Zebulon Baird Vance, Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, U.S. Senator (died 1894)
- May 23 –
- Henry M. Teller, United States Senator from Colorado from 1876 till 1882 and from 1885 till 1909. (died 1914)
- George Lucas Hartsuff, Union Army major general in the American Civil War (died 1874)
- 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 10 – Emily Dickinson, poet (died 1886)
- December 13 – James D. Walker, United States Senator from Arkansas from 1879 till 1885. (died 1906)
Deaths
- January 17 – Elizabeth Willing Powel, socialite and Patriot (born 1743)
- February 1 – Thomas W. Cobb, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1824 to 1828 (born 1784)
- June 25 – Ephraim McDowell, physician and pioneer surgeon (born 1771)
- July 2 – Robert H. Adams, U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1830 (born 1792)
- August 6 – David Walker, African American abolitionist and writer (born 1796)
- August 9 – James Armistead Lafayette, African American slave, Continental Army double agent (born 1748 or 1760)
- September 24 – Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (born 1768)
- October 14 – John McClean, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1824 to 1825 and from 1829 to 1830 (born 1791)
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