1832 in the United States

1832 in the United States
Decades:	1810s 1820s – 1830s – 1840s 1850s
Years:	1829 1830 1831 – 1832 – 1833 1834 1835
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Events from the year 1832 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Andrew Jackson (Democratic)
• Vice President: John C. Calhoun (Democratic-Republican/Democratic) (until December 28), vacant (starting December 28)
• Chief Justice: John Marshall
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia)
• Congress: 22nd

Events

• February 9 - The city of Jacksonville, Florida received its town charter from the legislative council of Florida Territory.
• March 3 - In Worcester v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court held that Cherokee Indians were entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments.
• March 24 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tarred and feathered Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.
• April 6 - The Black Hawk War begins.
• July 10 - President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
• July 24 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.
• July–August - Cholera epidemic in New York City.
• October 8 - Washington Irving and Henry Leavitt Ellsworth arrive at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory (later Fort Gibson, Oklahoma) in the late morning hours. They left the fort on October 10, with a small company of Rangers who escorted them to the camp of Captain Jesse Bean who was waiting for them near the Arkansas River. Thus began one of the first steps in the United States effort to remove the Indians from their homes on the east coast in what would become known as the "Trail of Tears" some six years later.
• October 19 – Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity is founded at Hamilton College.
• November - Andrew Jackson defeats Henry Clay in the U.S. presidential election.
• November 14 – Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence dies at his home in Maryland at age 95.
• December 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1832: Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.
• December - Skull and Bones secret society of Yale University established.
• December 28 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

Undated

• George Catlin starts to live among the Sioux in the Dakota Territory.

Ongoing

• Nullification Crisis (1832–1833)

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See also

• 1832 in Canada

External links

• Media related to 1832 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons