Events from the year 1853 in the United States.
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
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Governors
- Governor of Alabama: Henry W. Collier (Democratic) (until December 20), John A. Winston (Democratic) (starting December 20)
- Governor of Arkansas: Elias Nelson Conway (Democratic)
- Governor of California: John Bigler (Democratic)
- Governor of Connecticut: Thomas H. Seymour (Democratic) (until October 13), Charles H. Pond (Democratic) (starting October 13)
- Governor of Delaware: William H. H. Ross (Democratic)
- Governor of Florida: Thomas Brown (Whig) (until October 3), James E. Broome (Democratic) (starting October 3)
- Governor of Georgia: Howell Cobb (Democratic) (until November 9), Herschel V. Johnson (Democratic) (starting November 9)
- Governor of Illinois: Augustus C. French (Democratic) (until January 10), Joel Aldrich Matteson (Democratic) (starting January 10)
- 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) (until January 18), Paul Octave Hébert (Democratic) (starting January 18)
- Governor of Maine: John Hubbard (Democratic) (until January 10), William G. Crosby (Whig) (starting January 10)
- Governor of Maryland: Enoch Louis Lowe (Democratic)
- Governor of Massachusetts: George S. Boutwell (Democratic) (until January 14), John H. Clifford (Whig) (starting January 14)
- Governor of Michigan:
- Governor of Mississippi: Henry S. Foote (Democratic)
- Governor of Missouri: Austin Augustus King (Democratic) (until January 3), Sterling Price (Democratic) (starting January 3)
- Governor of New Hampshire: Noah Martin (Democratic)
- Governor of New Jersey: George F. Fort (Democratic)
- Governor of New York: Horatio Seymour (Democratic) (starting January 1)
- Governor of North Carolina: David Settle Reid (Democratic)
- Governor of Ohio: Reuben Wood (Democratic) (until July 13), William Medill (Democratic) (starting July 13)
- Governor of Pennsylvania: William Bigler (Democratic)
- Governor of Rhode Island: Philip Allen (Democratic) (until July 20), Francis M. Dimond (Democratic) (starting July 20)
- Governor of South Carolina: John Lawrence Manning (Democratic)
- Governor of Tennessee: William B. Campbell (Whig) (until October 17), Andrew Johnson (Democratic) (starting October 17)
- Governor of Texas:
- Governor of Vermont: Erastus Fairbanks (Whig) (until October), John S. Robinson (Democratic) (starting October)
- Governor of Virginia: Joseph Johnson (Democratic)
- Governor of Wisconsin: Leonard J. Farwell (Whig)
Lieutenant Governors
- Lieutenant Governor of California: Samuel Purdy (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Charles H. Pond (Democratic) (until October 13), vacant (starting October 13)
- Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William McMurtry (Democratic) (until January 10), Gustavus Koerner (Democratic) (starting January 10)
- Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: James H. Lane (Democratic) (until January 10), Ashbel P. Willard (Democratic) (starting January 10)
- Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: John Burton Thompson (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Jean Baptiste Plauche (Whig) (until month and day unknown), William Wood Farmer (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Henry W. Cushman (Democratic) (until January 14), Elisha Huntington (Whig) (starting January 14)
- Lieutenant Governor of Michigan:
- Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Thomas Lawson Price (Democratic) (until January 3), Wilson Brown (Democratic) (starting January 3)
- Lieutenant Governor of New York: Sanford E. Church (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: William Medill (Democratic) (until July 13), vacant (starting July 13)
- Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Samuel G. Arnold (political party unknown) (until July 20), Francis M. Dimond (Democratic) (starting July 20)
- Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: James Irby (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Texas:
- Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: William Kittredge (Whig) (until October), Jefferson P. Kidder (Democratic) (starting October)
- Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Shelton Leake (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Timothy Burns (Democratic) (until September 21), vacant (starting September 21)
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Events
January–March
The president's wife,
Jane, with their son Bennie, ca. 1850
April–June
- April 4 – Regular operation of the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad begins between Montreal and Portland, Maine.
- April 18 – Vice President William R. King dies of tuberculosis in Selma, Alabama, without having carried out any duties of the office.
- May – An outbreak of yellow fever kills 7,790 in New Orleans.
- May 6 – Norwalk rail accident: A train runs off an open swing bridge into a river in Norwalk, Connecticut, killing 56.[3]
- May 11 – Shimer College is founded in Mount Carroll, Illinois, with 11 students.[4]
- May 23 – The first plat for Seattle, Washington, is laid out.
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
- January 1 – Harry A. Richardson, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1907 to 1913 (died 1928)
- January 2 – Packy Dillon, baseball player (died 1902)
- January 6 – Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, 28th Governor of Michigan from 1913 to 1917 and U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1923 to 1928 (died 1928)
- February 18 – Ernest Fenollosa, Orientalist (died 1908 in the United Kingdom)
- January 19 – Stephen M. White, U.S. Senator from California from 1893 to 1899 (died 1901)
- February 3 – Hudson Maxim, inventor, chemist (died 1927)
- February 16 – Charles J. Hughes, Jr., U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1909 to 1911 (died 1911)
- March 4 – Alexander S. Clay, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1897 to 1910 (died 1910)
- March 5 – Howard Pyle, artist and fiction writer (died 1911)
- April 8 – Laura Alberta Linton, chemist (died 1915)
- April 23 – Thomas Nelson Page, writer and lawyer (died 1922)
- May 3 – E. W. Howe, author and editor (died 1937)
- June 12 – Chester Adgate Congdon, Minnesota mining magnate (died 1916)
- July 24 – William Gillette, actor, playwright and stage-manager (died 1937)
- July 27 – Elizabeth Plankinton, Milwaukee philanthropist (died 1923 in Switzerland)
- September 17 – Henry Churchill de Mille, dramatist and playwright (died 1893)
- October 14 – John William Kendrick, railroad executive (died 1924)
- November 9 – Stanford White, architect (murdered 1906)
- November 13 – John Drew, Jr., actor (died 1927)
- November 26 – Bat Masterson, lawman (died 1921)
- December 23 – William Henry Moody, 35th United States Secretary of the Navy, 45th United States Attorney General, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1917)
- December 31 – Tasker H. Bliss, general (died 1930)
Deaths
- January 16 – Robert Lucas, governor of Ohio (born 1781)
- January 26 – Sylvester Judd, novelist (born 1813)
- March 30 – Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States and Second Lady of the United States as wife of Millard Fillmore (born 1798)
- April 13 – James Iredell Jr., 23rd Governor of North Carolina from 1827 to 1828 (born 1788)
- April 18 – William R. King, 13th Vice President of the United States from March to April 1853 (born 1786)
- May 2 – Jesse B. Thomas, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1818 to 1829 (born 1777)
- July 24 – Hezekiah C. Seymour, civil engineer (born 1811)
- August 23 – Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (born 1806)
- September 5 – George Poindexter, 2nd Governor of Mississippi from 1820 to 1822 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1830 to 1835 (born 1779)
- October 5 – Mahlon Dickerson, judge and politician (born 1770)
- October 27 – Maria White Lowell, poet (born 1821)
- November 15 – Charles G. Atherton, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1843 to 1849 and in 1853 (born 1804)
- December 28 – Sarah Goodridge, miniature painter (born 1788)
See also
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