1831 in the United States
List of events
Map of Henry Schoolcraft 's route in 1831 showing Ojibwe settlements and roads (NAID 102278798)
Events from the year 1831 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Births
James A. Garfield
January 2 – Justin Winsor , historian and librarian (died 1897 )
January 14 – William D. Washburn , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1889 to 1895 and businessman (died 1912 )
January 15 – Ozora P. Stearns , U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1871 (died 1896 )
January 26 – Mary Mapes Dodge , children's writer (died 1907 )
February 23 – Elizabeth Litchfield Cunnyngham , missionary and church worker (died 1911 )
March 3 – George Pullman , inventor and industrialist (died 1897 )
March 6 – Philip Sheridan , general (died 1888 )
March 12 – Clement Studebaker , automobile pioneer (died 1901 )
March 14 – Edward A. Perry , Governor of Florida (died 1889)
March 20 – Solomon L. Spink , U.S. Congressman from Illinois (died 1881 )
May 16 – Daniel Manning , businessman, journalist and politician, Secretary of the Treasury (died 1887 )
June 1 or 29 {exact date unknown) – John Bell Hood , Confederate general (died 1879 )
July 5 – Cordelia A. Greene , physician, reformer, benefactor (died 1905 )
July 8 – John Pemberton , inventor of Coca-Cola (died 1888 )
July 21 – Martha Maxwell , naturalist and artist (died 1881)
August 26 – Lucy Hayes , First Lady of the United States as wife of Rutherford B. Hayes (died 1889)
September 3 – States Rights Gist , lawyer, militia general in South Carolina and Confederate Army brigadier general (died 1864 )
September 10 – William A. Peffer , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1891 to 1897 (died 1912)
September 20 – Kate Harrington , poet, teacher and writer (died 1917 )
September 29 – John Schofield , general (died 1906 )
October 15 – Helen Hunt Jackson , poet, writer and activist (died 1885 )
October 16 – Lucy Stanton , abolitionist (died 1910 )
October 28 – Charles Colcock Jones Jr. , Georgia politician, attorney, historian and folklorist (died 1893 )
October 29 – Othniel Charles Marsh , paleontologist (died 1899 )
October 31 – Romualdo Pacheco , Governor of California (died 1899)
November 19 – James A. Garfield , 20th president of the United States from March to September 1881 (died 1881 )
November 21 – John Franklin Miller , U.S. Senator from California from 1881 to 1886 (died 1886 )
November 22 – Thomas J. Latham , lawyer and businessman (died 1911 )
December 19 – Bernice Pauahi Bishop , Hawaiian aliʻi (died 1884 )
Deaths
James Monroe
See also
References
^ "none" . The North-Carolina Star . March 31, 1831. p. 3. Retrieved July 27, 2023 . On the 3d instant, Gabriel Moore, Governor of the State of Alabama and United States' Senator elect, resigned his office as Governor into the hands of Samuel B. Moore, of Jackson County, President of the Senate...
^ Sellers, J. B. (2014). History of the University of Alabama: Volume One 1818, 1902 . United States: University of Alabama Press. p. 51.
^ Ala. General Assembly. Journal of the House of Representatives . 13th sess., 38 , accessed July 27, 2023
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