1797 in the United States

Events from the year 1797 in the United States.

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Incumbents

Federal government

Events
March 4: John Adams becomes the second U.S. president
Thomas Jefferson becomes the second U.S. vice president

Undated
  • The XYZ Affair inflames tensions between France and the United States.

Ongoing

Births
  • January 1
    • Robert Crittenden, attorney and politician (d. 1834)
    • William Greene, lieutenant governor of the state of Rhode Island (d. 1883)
  • January 2 – Eliakim Littell, editor (d. 1870)
  • January 4 – John Hampden Pleasants, journalist and businessman (d. 1846)
  • January 5 – Timothy Gilbert, piano manufacturer (d. 1865)
  • January 6 – James Kingsley, attorney and mayor of Ann Arbor (1855–1856) (d. 1878)
  • January 8 – David Barker Jr., politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1834)
  • January 10
    • Hazen Aldrich, early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (d. 1873)
    • Eugenio Kincaid, Baptist missionary to Burma (d. 1883)
  • January 12 – George Evans, politician from Maine (d. 1867)
  • January 16 – Richard Barnes Mason, career officer in the United States Army, governor of California (d. 1850)
  • January 28 – Obadiah Bush, prospector and businessman (d. 1851)
  • January 30
  • February 5 – F. W. P. Greenwood, Unitarian minister of King's Chapel in Boston (d. 1843)
  • February 7 – François Chouteau, pioneer fur trader (d. 1838)
  • February 11 – John Allen Wakefield, historian and politician (d. 1873)
  • February 18 – Elias Florence, member of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1880)
    • John Davis Pierce, Congregationalist minister (d. 1882)
  • February 28
    • John Henderson, United States Senator from Mississippi from 1839 till 1845 (died 1857)
    • George Keats, businessman and civic leader in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1841)
  • February 14 – John Capron, infantry officer (died 1878)
  • March 2 – Stephen Olin, educator and minister (died 1851)
  • March 4
    • Jasper Ewing Brady, Whig member of the United States House of Representatives (died 1871)
    • Charles Jackson, 18th Governor of Rhode Island (1845-1846) (died 1876)
  • March 18 – James Wilson II, United States Representative from New Hampshire (died 1881)
  • March 21 – William K. Clowney, United States Representative from South Carolina (died 1851)
  • March 22 – Pierre Bossier, Louisiana soldier and state senator (d. 1844)
  • May 24 – James Morehead, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1841 to 1847. (died 1854)
  • June 13 – Richard Ely Selden, American politician and author (died 1868)
  • June 14
    • John Beard, politician (d. 1876)
    • Calvin Pollard, New York City architect (d. 1850)
  • June 21
    • William Jessup, Pennsylvania judge and father of the missionary Henry Harris Jessup (d. 1868)
    • Benson Leavitt, Boston businessman (d. 1869)
  • June 27 – Andrew W. Loomis, United States Representative from Ohio (died 1873)

Deaths

See also

Further reading
  • Lathrop, John (1804). "An Account of the Deleterious Effects of Mephitic Air, or Marsb Miasmata, Experienced by Three Men, July 27, 1797. In a Well, on the Boston Pier". Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2 (2): 81–84. Bibcode:1804MAAAS...2...81L. doi:10.2307/27670816. JSTOR 27670816.
  • Notes of Travel of William Henry, John Heckewelder, John Rothrock, and Christian Clewell, to Gnadenhuetten on the Muskingum, in the Early Summer of 1797. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 10, No. 2 (July, 1886), pp. 125–157
  • Peterson, Charles E. (1953). "Virginia Penitentiary, 1797". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 12 (4): 27–28. doi:10.2307/987651. JSTOR 987651.
  • Herman R. Friis, Ralph E. Ehrenberg. Nicholas King and His Wharfing Plans of the City of Washington, 1797. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Vol. 66/68, The 46th separately bound book (1966/1968), pp. 34–46.
  • William K. Bottorff, Roy C. Flannagan, Frances Baylor Hill. The Diary of Frances Baylor Hill of "Hillsborough" King and Queen County Virginia (1797). Early American Literature Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 3, (Winter, 1967), pp. 3–53.
  • David J. Brandenburg, Millicent H. Brandenburg. The Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt's Visit to the Federal City in 1797: A New Translation. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Vol. 49, The 49th separately bound book (1973/1974), pp. 35–60.
  • Stinchcombe, William (1975). "Talleyrand and the American Negotiations of 1797-1798". The Journal of American History. 62 (3): 575–590. doi:10.2307/2936215. JSTOR 2936215.
  • Lee W. Formwalt. An English Immigrant Views American Society: Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Virginia Years, 1796-1798. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 85, No. 4 (October, 1977), pp. 387–410.
  • John L. Brittain and Henry Middleton Rutledge. Henry Middleton Rutledge to His Father, November 1, 1797. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 83, No. 3 (July, 1982), pp. 235–240.
  • Arthur Scherr. "Vox Populi" versus the Patriot President: Benjamin Franklin Bache's Philadelphia Aurora and John Adams (1797). Pennsylvania History, Vol. 62, No.4 (Fall 1995), pp. 503–531.
  • Chew, Richard S. (2005). "Certain Victims of an International Contagion: The Panic of 1797 and the Hard Times of the Late 1790s in Baltimore". Journal of the Early Republic. 25 (4): 565–613. doi:10.1353/jer.2005.0069. S2CID 154865404.
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