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List of events
Events from the year 1803 in the United States .
Incumbents Events Ongoing Births January 19 – Sarah Helen Whitman , poet, essayist, transcendentalist, spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe (died 1878 )
February 2 – Albert Sidney Johnston , Confederate general (died 1862 )
April 30 – Jeremiah E. Cary , politician (died 1888 )
May 25 – Ralph Waldo Emerson , essayist and poet (died 1882 )
June 4 – Gabriel J. Rains , Confederate brigadier general (died 1881 )
June 25 – Sumner Lincoln Fairfield , poet and teacher (died 1844 )
July 10 – William Todd, businessman, Canadian senate nominee (died
1873
July 16 – Sarah Yorke Jackson , Acting First Lady of the United States (died 1887 )
July 24 – Alexander Jackson Davis , Gothic architect (died 1892 )
August 12 – John C. Young , educator and pastor (died 1857 )
August 18 – Nathan Clifford , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1881 )
August 27 – Edward Beecher , theologian (died 1895 )
September 3 – Prudence Crandall , educationist (died 1890 )
September 4 – Sarah Childress Polk , First Lady of the U.S. (died 1891 )
September 27 – Samuel Francis Du Pont , rear admiral (died 1865 )
September 29 – Mercator Cooper , sea captain (died 1872 )
October 3 – John Gorrie , physician and inventor of mechanical cooling (died 1855 )
October 21 - Solon Robinson , founder of Crown Point, Indiana (died 1880 )
October 24 – Albert Smith White , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1839 to 1845 (died 1864 )
November 14 – Jacob Abbott , children's writer (died 1879 )
December 18 or 27 – William Allen , U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1837 to 1849 (died 1879 ) Deaths February 22 – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont , "Father of the American Revolution" (born 1726 in France ; died in France)
May 14 – William Smith, Episcopalian priest, educator, theologian, poet and historian (born
1727
June 24 – Matthew Thornton , signatory of the Declaration of Independence (born 1714 in Ireland )
September 13 – John Barry , first commissioned U.S. naval officer (born 1745 in Ireland )
September 27 – Frances Brett Hodgkinson , actress (born 1771 in Great Britain )
October 2 – Samuel Adams , a Founding Father of the U.S. (born 1722 )
December 30 – Francis Lewis , signatory of the Declaration of Independence (born 1713 in Wales )
William Verstille , portrait artist (born c. 1757)See also Further reading Farrand, Max (1902). "The Commercial Privileges of the Treaty of 1803". The American Historical Review . 7 (3): 494–499. . Lewis Leary. Leigh Hunt in Philadelphia. An American Literary Incident of 1803. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , Vol. 70, No. 3 (July, 1946), pp. 270–280
Robert Mills, Hennig Cohen. An Unpublished Diary by Robert Mills, 1803. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine , Vol. 51, No. 4 (October, 1950), pp. 187–194
Perlman, Bennard B. (1955). "Baltimore Mansion, 1801-03". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians . 14 (1): 26–28. . Knudson, Jerry W. (1970). "The Jeffersonian Assault on the Federalist Judiciary, 1802-1805; Political Forces and Press Reaction". The American Journal of Legal History . 14 (1): 55–75. . Hoadley, John F. (1980). "The Emergence of Political Parties in Congress, 1789–1803". American Political Science Review . 74 (3): 757–779. . Wagner, John W. (1984). "New York City Concert Life, 1801-5". American Music . 2 (2): 53–69. . Gannon, Kevin M. (2001). "Escaping "Mr. Jefferson's Plan of Destruction": New England Federalists and the Idea of a Northern Confederacy, 1803-1804". Journal of the Early Republic . 21 (3): 413–443. . Waters, Richard L. (2003). "An Interview with Ronald S. Kozlowski". Public Library Quarterly . 22 (4): 27–29. . External links
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