1821 in the United States explained
Events from the year 1821 in the United States.
Incumbents
John W. Taylor (DR-New York) (until March 4)
Philip P. Barbour (DR-Virginia) (starting December 4)
Events
Ongoing
Births
- January 2 – Napoleon LeBrun, architect (died 1901)
- January 8 – James Longstreet, one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War (died 1904)
- January 16 – John C. Breckinridge, 14th vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861, U.S. Senator from Kentucky in 1861 (died 1875)
- February 4 – Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, sonneteer (died 1873)
- February 19 – Francis Preston Blair Jr., U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1871 to 1873 (died 1875)
- March 20 – Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), publisher, dime novelist and publicist (died 1886)
- April 12
- April 15 – Joseph E. Brown, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1880 to 1891 (died 1894)
- July 6 – Edmund Pettus, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1897 to 1907 (died 1907)
- July 8 – Maria White Lowell, poet and abolitionist (died 1853)
- July 13 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (died 1877)
- September 22 – John Conness, Irish-born U.S. Senator from California from 1863 to 1869 (died 1909)
- October 7 – Richard H. Anderson, United States Army officer during the Mexican–American War, Confederate general during the American Civil War (died 1879)[2]
- October 10 – Wade Keyes, Acting Confederate States Attorney General in 1861 and 1863–1864 (died 1879)
- October 22 – Collis P. Huntington, railroad promoter (died 1900)
- December 25 – Clara Barton, humanitarian and founder of the American branch of the Red Cross.
Deaths
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: President James Monroe, 1821 . Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies . 2009-01-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090120211516/http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/chronology/jmonroe1821.cfm . January 20, 2009 . dead .
- Web site: Richard Heron Anderson American general . Encyclopedia Britannica . 26 January 2021 . en.