Events from the year 1852 in the United States.
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
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Governors
- Governor of Alabama: Henry W. Collier (Democratic)
- Governor of Arkansas: John Selden Roane (Democratic) (until November 15), Elias Nelson Conway (Democratic) (starting November 15)
- Governor of California: John McDougall (Democratic) (until January 8), John Bigler (Democratic) (starting January 8)
- Governor of Connecticut: Thomas H. Seymour (Democratic)
- Governor of Delaware: William H. H. Ross (Democratic)
- Governor of Florida: Thomas Brown (Whig)
- Governor of Georgia: Howell Cobb (Democratic)
- Governor of Illinois: Augustus C. French (Democratic)
- Governor of Indiana: Joseph A. Wright (Democratic)
- Governor of Iowa: Stephen P. Hempstead (Democratic)
- Governor of Kentucky: Lazarus W. Powell (Democratic)
- Governor of Louisiana: Joseph Marshall Walker (Democratic)
- Governor of Maine: John Hubbard (Democratic)
- Governor of Maryland: Enoch Louis Lowe (Democratic)
- Governor of Massachusetts: George S. Boutwell (Democratic)
- Governor of Michigan: John S. Barry (Democratic) (until January 1), Robert McClelland (Democratic) (starting January 1)
- Governor of Mississippi: James Whitfield (Democratic) (until January 10), Henry S. Foote (Democratic) (starting January 10)
- Governor of Missouri: Austin Augustus King (Democratic)
- Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. (Democratic) (until June 3), Noah Martin (Democratic) (starting June 3)
- Governor of New Jersey: George F. Fort (Democratic)
- Governor of New York: Washington Hunt (Whig) (until end of December 31)
- Governor of North Carolina: David Settle Reid (Democratic)
- Governor of Ohio: Reuben Wood (Democratic)
- Governor of Pennsylvania: William F. Johnston (Whig) (until January 20), William Bigler (Democratic) (starting January 20)
- Governor of Rhode Island: Philip Allen (Democratic)
- Governor of South Carolina: John Hugh Means (Democratic) (until December 9), John Lawrence Manning (Democratic) (starting December 9)
- Governor of Tennessee: William B. Campbell (Whig)
- Governor of Texas: Peter Hansborough Bell (Democratic)
- Governor of Vermont: Charles K. Williams (Whig) (until October), Erastus Fairbanks (Whig) (starting October)
- Governor of Virginia: John B. Floyd (Democratic) (until January 16), Joseph Johnson (Democratic) (starting January 16)
- Governor of Wisconsin: Nelson Dewey (Democratic) (until January 5), Leonard J. Farwell (Whig) (starting January 5)
Lieutenant Governors
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Events
- January 15 – Nine men representing various Hebrew charitable organizations come together to form what will become the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
- February 16 – The Studebaker Brothers Wagon Company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
- February 19 – The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
- March 2 – The first American experimental steam fire engine is tested.[1]
- March 4 – The Phi Mu fraternity is established at Wesleyan College.
- March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is first published in book form, in Boston.
- April 23 – More than 150 Wintu people are killed by a militia under the guidance of Trinity County sheriff William H. Dixon in the Bridge Gulch Massacre.
- July 1 – American statesman Henry Clay is the first to receive the honor of lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda.
- July 4 – Frederick Douglass delivers his famous speech on "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery" in Rochester, New York.
- August 3 – The first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event, is held.
- September 15 – Loyola College opens its doors to students in the City of Baltimore, Maryland.
- November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1852: Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of New Jersey.
- November 25 – Monticello Convention: 44 people from the northern parts of Oregon Territory meet and draft a petition to establish a separate territorial government north of the Columbia River (which becomes, in the following months, Washington Territory).[2]
Undated
Ongoing
Births
- January 8 – James Milton Carroll, Baptist pastor, leader, historian and author (died 1931)
- January 14 – Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, wife of Charles W. Fairbanks, Second Lady of the United States (died 1913)
- February 16 – Charles Taze Russell, Christian restorationist minister (died 1916)
- February 18 – Ferdinand Lee Barnett, African American journalist, lawyer and civil rights activist (died 1936)
- February 26 – John Harvey Kellogg, Adventist doctor and health reformer (died 1943)
- March 25 – Charles Loomis Dana, neurologist (died 1935)
- April 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey, painter and illustrator (died 1911)
- April 13 – F. W. Woolworth, merchant and businessman (died 1919)
- April 23 – Edwin Markham, poet (died 1940)
- May 1 – Calamity Jane, frontierswoman (died 1903)
- May 11 – Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 till 1909 and United States Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 (died 1918)
- May 14 – Alton B. Parker, judge and Democratic political candidate (died 1926)
- May 18 – Gertrude Käsebier, née Stanton, one of the most influential American portrait photographers of the early 20th century (died 1934)
- May 23 – Weldon B. Heyburn, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1903 to 1912 (died 1912)
- August 16 – Charles Sanger Mellen, railroad manager (died 1927)
- September 15 – Edward Bouchet, African American physicist (died 1918)
- October 25 – Byron Andrews, journalist, statesman, author and businessman (died 1910)
- October 31 – Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, short-story and children's fiction writer and poet (died 1930)
- November 1 – Eugene W. Chafin, politician (died 1920)
- November 10 – Henry van Dyke, author, poet, educator and clergyman (died 1933)
- November 16 – Joseph R. Burton, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1901 to 1906 (died 1923)
Deaths
- February 14 – Thomas Carlin, 7th Governor of Illinois from 1838 to 1842 (born 1789)
- February 24 – John Frazee, first American-born sculptor to execute a bust in marble (born 1790)
- March 9 – Anson Dickinson, painter of miniature portraits (born 1779)
- April 10 – John Howard Payne, actor, playwright, author and consul in Tunis from 1842, lyricist for "Home! Sweet Home!" (born 1791)[3]
- May 6 – William Bellinger Bulloch, U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1813 (born 1777)
- May 15 – Louisa Adams, First Lady of the United States as wife of John Quincy Adams from 1825 to 1829 (born 1775)
- May 18 – Briscoe Baldwin, planter and Virginia politician (born 1789)
- June 8 – Perry Smith, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1837 to 1843 (born 1783)
- June 17 – William King, merchant, shipbuilder, army officer and statesman (born 1768)
- June 29 – Henry Clay, U.S. Senator from Kentucky 1806-1807, 1810-1811, 1831-1842 and 1849-1852 (born 1777)
- July 19 – John McKinley, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1826 to 1831 and in 1837, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1837 to 1852 (born 1780)
- August 14 – Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States as wife of Zachary Taylor (born 1788)
- September 20 – Philander Chase, Episcopal Church bishop, educator, pioneer of the western frontier and founder of Kenyon College (born 1775)
- September 23 – John Vanderlyn, neoclassical painter (born 1775)
- October 4 – James Whitcomb, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1849 to 1852 (born 1795)
- October 13 – John Lloyd Stephens, traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (born 1805)
- October 24 – Daniel Webster, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (born 1782)
- October 25 – John C. Clark, politician (born 1793)
- November 18 – John Andrew Shulze, politician (born 1775)
- November 30 – Junius Brutus Booth, actor, father of John Wilkes Booth and Edwin Booth (born 1796 in England)
- December 18 – Horatio Greenough, sculptor (born 1805)
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