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Events from the year 1849 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: James K. Polk (D-Tennessee) (until March 4), Zachary Taylor (W-Kentucky) (starting March 4)
- Vice President: George M. Dallas (D-Pennsylvania) (until March 4), Millard Fillmore (W-New York) (starting March 4)
- Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (Maryland)
- ) (starting December 22)
- Congress: 30th (until March 4), 31st (starting March 4)
Events
- January 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
- The Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Company is incorporated, to build a plank road from Fayetteville to Bethania, North Carolina.[1]
- The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the North Carolina Railroad, to complete a rail line from Goldsboro through Raleigh, and Salisbury to Charlotte.[2]
- 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 San Francisco, Californiaafter a 4-month-21-day journey.
- March 3
- Minnesota Territory is established.
- The United States Department of the Interior is established.
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- 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 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
- California Gold Rush(January 24, 1848–1855)
Births
- 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 – 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 (died 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
- Jennie Anderson Froiseth, women's rights campaigner (died 1930)
- Charles S. Thomas, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1913 to 1921 (died 1934)
- December 12 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, railroad magnate (died 1920)
- December 16 – Mary Hartwell Catherwood, author and poet (died 1902)[5]* December 19 – Henry Clay Frick, industrialist and art collector (died 1919)
- December 20
- John W. Kern, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1911 to 1917 (died 1917)
- Raymond P. Rodgers, admiral (died 1925)
- Ellen Eglin, inventor
- Emma Curtis Hopkins, spiritual writer (died 1925)
Deaths
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- January 30 – Jonathan Alder, settler (born 1773)
- March 17 – 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
References
- ^ "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.
- ISBN 978-0-78642-161-9.
- ISBN 978-0-67462-731-4.
- ISBN 978-0-67462-734-5.
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