1816 in the United States

1816 in the United States
Years:	1813 1814 1815 – 1816 – 1817 1818 1819
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Events from the year 1816 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

• President: James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
• Vice President: vacant
• Chief Justice: John Marshall
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay (Dem.-Rep.-Kentucky)
• Congress: 14th

Events

• April 11 – In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches.
• April 27 – The Dallas tariff is passed in Congress seeking to protect American manufacturing against an influx of cheaper British goods following the War of 1812.^[1][2]
• August 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
• November – James Monroe defeats Rufus King in the U.S. presidential election.
• December 11 – Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state (see History of Indiana).

Undated

• The Second Bank of the United States obtains its charter.
• E. Remington and Sons (the firearm and later typewriter manufacturing company) is founded.
• The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.^[3]

Births

• January 3 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, United States Senator from Kansas from 1861 till 1873. (died 1891)
• July 4 – James B. Howell, United States Senator from Iowa from 1870 till 1871. (died 1880)
• October 11 – William W. Eaton, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1875 till 1881. (died 1898)
• October 20 – James W. Grimes, United States Senator from Iowa from 1859 till 1869. (died 1872)
• November 4 – James L. Alcorn, United States Senator from Mississippi from 1871 till 1877. (died 1894)
• November 29 – Henry Mower Rice, United States Senator from Minnesota from 1858 till 1863. (died 1894)
• December 12 – Thomas C. McCreery, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1868 till 1871. (died 1890)
• December 13 – Clement Claiborne Clay, United States Senator from Alabama from 1862 till 1864. (died 1882)

References

Further reading

• Merrill Moores. Indiana In 1816. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 12, No. 3 (1916), pp. 271–280
• Otto L. Schmidt. The Mississippi Valley in 1816 Through an Englishman's Diary. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 14, No. 2 (September, 1927), pp. 138–155
• Julian P. Boyd. John Sergeant's Mission to Europe for the Second Bank of the United States: 1816-1817. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 58, No. 3 (1934), pp. 213–231
• Charles G. Davis, Ninian Edwards, Wm. Clark, George Graham, Lane K. Newberry, C. J. Bulliet. The Indian Boundary Line under the Treaty of August 24, 1816. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908–1984), Vol. 28, No. 1 (April, 1935), pp. 26–64
• Edwin Adams Davis, John C. L. Andreassen. From Louisville to New Orleans in 1816 Diary of William Newton Mercer. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 2, No. 3 (August, 1936), pp. 390–402
• L. G. Moffatt, J. M. Carrière. A Frenchman Visits Norfolk, Fredericksburg and Orange County, 1816. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 53, No. 2 (April, 1945), pp. 101–123
• Harold W. Ryan, George Izard. Diary of a Journey by George Izard, 1815-1816. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 2 (April, 1952), pp. 67–76
• Charles E. Peterson. Dutch Brick for Baltimore, 1816. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 13, No. 1 (March, 1954), pp. 26–27
• Joseph B. Hoyt. The Cold Summer of 1816. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 48, No. 2 (June, 1958), pp. 118–131
• Journal of the Convention of the Indiana Territory, 1816. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 2 (June 1965), pp. 77–87, 89-156
• George T. Blakey. Rendezvous with Republicanism: John Pope vs. Henry Clay in 1816. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 62, No. 3 (September 1966), pp. 233–250
• Ronald L. Stuckey. Thomas Nuttall's 1816 Ohio Valley Plant Collections Described in His "Genera" of 1818. Castanea, Vol. 31, No. 3 (September, 1966), pp. 187–198
• William G. Morgan. The Congressional Nominating Caucus of 1816: The Struggle against the Virginia Dynasty. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 80, No. 4 (October, 1972), pp. 461–475
• Joseph G. Rayback. A Myth Re-Examined: Martin van Buren's Role in the Presidential Election of 1816. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 124, No. 2 (April 29, 1980), pp. 106–118
• David Hosford, Mary Bagot. Exile in Yankeeland: The Journal of Mary Bagot, 1816-1819. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Vol. 51, [The 51st separately bound book] (1984), pp. 30–50
• Douglas R. Egerton. To the Tombs of the Capulets: Charles Fenton Mercer and Public Education in Virginia, 1816-1817. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 93, No. 2 (April, 1985), pp. 155–174
• C. Edward Skeen. "Vox Populi, Vox Dei": The Compensation Act of 1816 and the Rise of Popular Politics. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 253–274
• William T. Bianco, David B. Spence, John D. Wilkerson. The Electoral Connection in the Early Congress: The Case of the Compensation Act of 1816. American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 40, No. 1 (February, 1996), pp. 145–171

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