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{{Yearbox US|1801}}
{{Year in U.S. states and territories|1801}}
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Events from the year '''1801 in the United States'''.
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== Incumbents ==
=== [[Federal government of the United States|Federal
* [[President of the United States|President]]:
::[[John Adams]] ([[Federalist Party|F]]-[[Massachusetts]]) (until March 4) ::[[Thomas Jefferson]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|DR]]-[[Virginia]]) (starting March 4) * [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:
::[[Thomas Jefferson]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|DR]]-[[Virginia]]) (until March 4) ::[[Aaron Burr]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|DR]]-[[New York (state)|New York]]) (starting March 4) * [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]]: [[John Marshall]] ([[Virginia]])
* [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House of Representatives]]:
::[[Theodore Sedgwick]] ([[Federalist Party|F]]-[[Massachusetts]]) (until March 4) ::[[Nathaniel Macon]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|DR]]-[[North Carolina]]) (starting December 7) * [[United States Congress|Congress]]: [[6th United States Congress|6th]] (until March 4), [[7th United States Congress|7th]] (starting March 4)
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=== Governors ===
* [[List of governors of Connecticut|Governor of Connecticut]]: [[Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.]] ([[Federalist]])
* [[List of governors of Delaware|Governor of Delaware]]: [[Richard Bassett (Delaware politician)|Richard Bassett]] ([[Federalist]]) (until March 3), [[James Sykes (governor)|James Sykes]] ([[Federalist]]) (starting March 3)
* [[List of governors of Georgia|Governor of Georgia]]:
** until March 3: [[James Jackson (Georgia politician)|James Jackson]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]])
** March 3 – November 7: [[David Emanuel (Governor of Georgia)|David Emanuel]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]])
** starting November 7: [[Josiah Tattnall
* [[Governor of Kentucky]]: [[James Garrard]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]])
* [[Governor of Maryland]]: [[Benjamin Ogle]] ([[Federalist]]) (until November 10), [[John Francis Mercer]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]) (starting November 10)
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* [[Governor of New York]]: [[John Jay]] ([[Federalist]]) (until June 30), [[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]) (starting July 1)
* [[Governor of North Carolina]]: [[Benjamin Williams]] ([[Federalist]])
* [[List of governors of Pennsylvania|Governor of Pennsylvania]]: [[Thomas McKean]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]])
* [[List of governors of Rhode Island|Governor of Rhode Island]]: [[Arthur Fenner]] ([[Country Party (Rhode Island)|Country]])
* [[Governor of South Carolina]]: [[John Drayton]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]])
* [[Governor of Tennessee]]: [[John Sevier]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]) (until September 23), [[Archibald Roane]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]) (starting September 23)
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* [[Governor of Virginia]]: [[James Monroe]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]])
=== Lieutenant
* [[Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut]]: [[John Treadwell]] ([[Federalist]])
* [[Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky]]: [[Alexander Scott Bullitt]] (political party unknown)
* [[Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts]]: vacant (until month and day unknown), [[Samuel Phillips, Jr.
* [[Lieutenant Governor of New York]]: [[Stephen Van Rensselaer]] (political party unknown) (until end of June 30), [[Jeremiah Van Rensselaer]] (political party unknown) (starting July 1)
* [[Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island]]: [[Samuel J. Potter]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]])
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==Events==
* January 10 – [[William Henry Harrison]] becomes the first Governor of the [[Indiana Territory]].
* January 31 – [[John Marshall]] is appointed [[Chief Justice of the United States]].
* February – [[1800 United States presidential election#
* February 27 – [[Washington,
* March 4 – [[Thomas Jefferson]] is sworn in as the third [[president of the United States]], and [[Aaron Burr]] is sworn in as the third [[Vice President of the United States|vice president]].
* May 10 – The [[First Barbary War]] begins as the pasha of [[Ottoman Tripolitania|Tripoli]] declares war on the United States by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
* July – [[Eli Whitney]] demonstrates before Congress the advantages of the system of [[interchangeable parts]] in the manufacture of firearms.
* August 1 – [[Action of 1 August 1801]] ([[First Barbary War]]): [[United States Navy]] [[schooner]] {{USS|Enterprise|1799}} captures the 14-gun [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]]tan corsair [[polacca]] ''Tripoli'' off the north African coast in a single-ship action.
* November 16 – The first edition of ''[[New York Evening Post]]'' is printed.
* ''[[Jefferson (yacht)|Jefferson]]'', the first American [[yacht]], is built in [[Salem, Massachusetts]], for [[George Crowninshield Jr.]]
===Ongoing===
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<gallery>
File:Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale,_1800.jpg|March 4: [[Thomas Jefferson]] becomes
File:Vanderlyn Burr.jpg|[[Aaron Burr]] becomes the third U.S. vice president
File:EnterpriseTripoli.jpg|August 1: ''Enterprise'' defeats the corsair ''Tripoli''
</gallery>
==Births==
* January 20 – [[Thomas Hickman Williams]], United States Senator from Mississippi from 1838
* March
* March 27 – [[Alexander Barrow]], United States Senator from Louisiana from 1841 to 1846 (died [[1846 in the United States|1846]])
* April 26 – [[Ambrose Dudley Mann]], first [[United States Assistant Secretary of State]] (died [[1889 in the United States|1889]])
* May 6 – [[George S. Greene]], [[Union Army]] general (died [[1899 in the United States|1899]])
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* June 14 – [[Heber C. Kimball]], religious leader (died [[1868 in the United States|1868]])
* June 15 – [[Benjamin Wright Raymond]], 3rd [[Mayor of Chicago]] (died [[1883 in the United States|1883]])
* August 10 – [[Robert Woodward Barnwell]], United States Senator from South Carolina from 1862
* August 31 – [[Pierre Soule]], United States Senator from Louisiana in 1847 and from 1849
* September 10 –
** [[Garrett Davis]], United States Senator from Kentucky from 1861
** [[Marie Laveau]], Voodoo Queen of New Orleans
* November 4 – [[Ambrose Hundley Sevier]], United States Senator from Arkansas from 1836
* November 9 – [[Gail Borden]], surveyor, newspaper publisher
* November 10 – [[Samuel Gridley Howe]], physician
* December 28 – [[
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==Deaths==
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* June 14 – [[Benedict Arnold]], Revolutionary hero and traitor (born 1741)
* September 10 – [[Jason Fairbanks]], murderer (born [[1780 in the United States|1780]])
* November 4 – [[William Shippen Sr.|William Shippen]], physician and Continental Congressman (born 1712)
* November 23 – [[Philip Hamilton]], first son of [[Alexander Hamilton]] and [[Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton]], (fatally shot by [[George Eacker]] in a duel at age 19) (born [[1782 in the United States|1782]])
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* Albert E. Van Dusen. "[http://www.ctheritage.org/encyclopedia/ct1763_1818/whitney.htm Eli Whitney]". ''Laptop Encyclopedia of Connecticut History''. CTHeritage.org, 2003. Retrieved December 24, 2011.
* John W. Wagner. New York City Concert Life, 1801-5. ''American Music'', Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer, 1984), pp. 53–69
* {{cite book | first=Wendy| last=Long Stanley | year=2019 | title=The Power to Deny: A Woman of the Revolution Novel | publisher=Carmenta Publishing | isbn=978-1-951747-00-8 }}
==External links==
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