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Events from the year1822 in the United States.

• President:James Monroe (DR-Virginia)
• Vice President:Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-New York)
• Chief Justice:John Marshall (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Philip P. Barbour (DR-Virginia)
• Congress:17th

• March 30 – The U.S. mergesEast Florida with part ofWest Florida to form theFlorida Territory.
• July 1–3 –U.S. House of Representatives elections begin inLouisiana and continue until the last elections are held inNorth Carolina on August 14, 1823.
• July 2 –Denmark Vesey is hanged for plotting aslave rebellion inCharleston, South Carolina.
• July 4 – A 24th star is added to theflag of the United States, representingMissouri which had been admitted on August 10, 1821.
• August 22 – TheEnglish shipOrion lands at Yerba Buena, modern-daySan Francisco, under the command ofWilliam A. Richardson.
• November 9 –Action of 9 November 1822:USS Alligator (1820) engages threepirateschooners off the coast ofCuba as part of theWest Indies anti-piracy operations of the U.S.
• November 23 – The USSAlligator wrecks on Carysford Reef off the coast ofFlorida.^[1]
• December 5 –Edward Coles is sworn in as the secondgovernor of Illinois, replacingShadrach Bond.

• Ashley's Hundred leave fromSt. Louis, setting off a major increase infur trade.
• A committee is formed to collect remains from the remote location where theBattle of Minisink had been fought in 1779.
• The last major outbreak ofyellow fever in New York City occurs.
• Gist Mansion is built inWellsburg, West Virginia (used some 100 years later for the Brooke Hills Spooktacular).

• Era of Good Feelings (1817–1825)

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States (1877–1881)

Two U.S. presidents were born in the year1822

• February 4 –Edward Fitzgerald Beale, U.S. Navy lieutenant and explorer (died1893)
• February 13 –James B. Beck, Scottish-born U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1877 to 1890 (died1890)
• c. March –Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross, African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during theAmerican Civil War (died1913)
• March 12 –Thomas Buchanan Read, poet and portrait painter (died1872)
• March 16 –John Pope, career United States Army officer andUnion general in theAmerican Civil War (died1892)
• April 3 –Edward Everett Hale, writer (died1909)
• April 26 –Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect (died1903)
• April 27 –Ulysses S. Grant, 18thpresident of the United States from 1869 to 1877 (died1885)
• May 18 –Mathew B. Brady, pioneer photographer (died1896)
• June 10 –
  • John Jacob Astor III, businessman (died 1890)
  • Lydia White Shattuck, botanist (died1889)
• July 21 –Alexander H. Jones, Congressional Representative from North Carolina. (died1901)
• July 25 –Andrew Bryson, admiral (died 1892)
• August 15
  • James E. Bailey, U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to 1881 (died 1885)
  • Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, wife ofEdgar Allan Poe (died1847)
• August 27 –William Hayden English, politician (died 1896)
• September 11 –Francis S. Thayer, merchant and politician (died1880)
• September 16 –Charles Crocker, financiers (died1888)
• September 17 –Cornelius Cole, U.S. Senator from California from 1867 to 1873 (died1924)
• September 19 –Joseph R. West, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1871 to 1877 (died1898)
• September 20 –Elizabeth Smith Miller, women's rights campaigner (died1911)
• October 4 –Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881 (died1893)
• Undated –Red Cloud (Maȟpíya Lúta), Oglala Lakota chief (died 1909)

• April 8 –James Long, U.S.Filibuster, founder of theLong Republic - the first "Republic of Texas". Shot by a prison guard inMexico City,Mexico (born1793).
• May 6 –Charles Peale Polk, portrait painter (born1767)
• May 8 –John Stark, major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (born1728)
• July 2 –Denmark Vesey, African American leader, hanged (born c.1767)
• August 28 –William Logan, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1820 (born1776)
• October 31 –Jared Ingersoll, U.S. presidential candidate (born1749)

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