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See also:	History of the United States (1789–1849) Timeline of United States history (1820–1859) List of years in the United States

Events from the year1835 in the United States.

• President:Andrew Jackson (D-Tennessee)
• Vice President:Martin Van Buren (D-New York)
• Chief Justice:John Marshall (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:

John Bell (W-Tennessee) (until March 4)

James K. Polk (D-Tennessee) (starting December 7)

• Congress:23rd (until March 4),24th (starting March 4)

• January 8 – The Federal Government declares thatAndrew Jackson paid off the national debt for the first and only time.

• January 30 –Richard Lawrence unsuccessfully tries to assassinate PresidentAndrew Jackson in theUnited States Capitol; this is the first assassination attempt against apresident of the United States.^[1]
• March 31 – Hostile action opens theToledo War between the State ofOhio and theMichigan Territory over the city ofToledo and theToledo Strip.
• May 6 –James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of theNew York Herald.
• August –P. T. Barnum begins his career as a showman in New York City by displayingJoice Heth, a black woman who he claimed was 161 years old and the former nursemaid of George Washington.
• July 4 – TheBaltimore and Ohio Railroad completed construction of itsThomas Viaduct then the longest bridge in the United States, and second only toLondon Bridge in the world; the longerCanton Viaduct is completed two weeks later.
• August 25 – TheGreat Moon Hoax begins.

• October 2 –Texas Revolution –Battle of Gonzales:Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people ofGonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
• December 9 – TheArmy of the Republic of Texas capturesSan Antonio.

• December 16–17 – TheGreat Fire of New York destroys 530–700 buildings and kills two.
• December 19 –Toledo Blade newspaper begins publishing.
• December 20 – TheTexas Declaration of Independence is first signed atGoliad, Texas.
• December 28 – TheSecond Seminole War breaks out.Seminole fighterOsceola and his warriors attack government agent Thompson outside Fort King in centralFlorida.
• December 29 – TheTreaty of New Echota, ceding all the lands of theCherokee east of the Mississippi to the United States, is signed.

• JudgeWilliam Harper ofSouth Carolina rules that a person's acceptance aswhite, not the proportion of white and blackblood, determine a person's race.
• Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838Trail of Tears.
• Tensions between the United States and France reach an all time high as President Andrew Jackson and the French government ofLouis Philippe I trade threats and insults over France's refusal to pay the United States reparations which the United States government insists France owes from theQuasi-War.^[2]

• Second Seminole War (1835–1842)

• January 29 –Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge), children's writer (died1905)
• February 19 –Henry R. Pease, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1874 to 1875 (died1907)
• March 28 –Matthias N. Forney, steam locomotive manufacturer (died1908)
• March 31 –John La Farge, painter and stained-glass artist (died1910)
• April 2 –Jacob Nash Victor, railroad builder (died1907)
• April 10 –Henry Villard, journalist, railroad financier and philanthropist (died1900)
• April 17 –
  • Augusta Cooper Bristol, poet (died 1910)
  • Zenas Bliss,Union Army general andMedal of Honor recipient (died1900)
• May 12 –John T. Lesley, Mayor of Tampa (died1913)
• May 27 –Charles Francis Adams Jr., public figure and historian (died1915)
• June 10 –Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1922 (died1930)
• June 15 –Adah Isaacs Menken, actress, painter and poet (died1868)
• June 26 –Thomas W. Knox, war reporter (died1896)
• June 27 –Fred Harvey, entrepreneur (died1901)
• June 29 –Celia Thaxter, poet (died1894)
• August 2 –Elisha Gray, inventor and businessman (died1901)
• September 4 –William Lindsay, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1893 to 1901 (died1909)
• September 10 –Donelson Caffery, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1892 to 1901 (died1906)
• September 14 –Ellen Hamlin,Second Lady of the United States as wife ofHannibal Hamlin (died1925)
• October 16 –William R. Shafter, general (died1906)
• October 23 –Adlai Stevenson I, 23rdvice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897 (died1914)
• October 26 –Thomas M. Bowen, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1883 to 1889 (died 1906)
• October 31 –Adelbert Ames, 27th and 30th governor of Mississippi from 1868 to 1870 and from 1874 to 1876 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1870 to 1874,Medal of Honor recipient (died1933)
• November 17 –Andrew L. Harris, Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (died1915)
• November 21 –Rose Eytinge, actress (died1911)
• November 25
  • Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist (died1919)
  • Arthur Sewall, politician and industrialist (died1900)
• November 30 –Mark Twain, writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer (died1910)^[3]
• December 13 –Phillips Brooks, clergyman and poet (died1893)
• December 17 –Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, scientist (died1910)
• December 18 –Lyman Abbott, clergyman and author (died1922)

• February 19 –Amzi Chapin, singer, composer and music teacher (born1768)
• March 15 –Samuel Dinsmoor, teacher, lawyer, banker and politician (born1766)
• April 21 –Samuel Slater, "father of the American Industrial Revolution" (born1768 in Great Britain)
• July 6 –John Marshall, fourthChief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1801 to 1835 (born1755)
• August 25 –Ann Rutledge,Abraham Lincoln's alleged first love (born1813)
• August 30 –William T. Barry, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1814 to 1816 and U.S. Postmaster General from 1829 to 1835, died inLiverpool,England,United Kingdom (born1784)
• September 15 –Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter ofZachary Taylor and wife ofJefferson Davis (born1814)
• November 14 –James Freeman, first American clergyman to call himself a Unitarian (born1759)
• December 12 –Elias Kane, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1825 to 1835 (born1794)
• December 22 –David Hosack physician and educator, attending doctor at the Hamilton-Burr duel (born1769)
• Full date unknown
  • Sally Hemings, slave and concubine toThomas Jefferson (born c.1773)
  • Elkanah Tisdale, engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist (born 1768)

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