1852 in the United States

1852 in the United States
Years:	1849 1850 1851 – 1852 – 1853 1854 1855
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Events from the year 1852 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

• President: Millard Fillmore (W-New York)
• Vice President: vacant
• Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (originally now residing in from of the U.S. state of Maryland)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Linn Boyd (D-Kentucky)
• Congress: 32nd

Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors 2 Lieutenant Governors 2

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 was tested.
• March 4 – The Phi Mu Fraternity is established at Wesleyan College.
• March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.
• April 23 – More than 150 Wintu people were killed by a militia under the guidance of Trinity County sheriff William H. Dixon in the Bridge Gulch Massacre.
• July 1 – United States 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 "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" 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 Virginia.
• 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).

Undated

• In Hawaii sugar planters bring over the first Chinese laborers on 3 or 5 year contracts, giving them 3 dollars per month plus room and board for working a 12-hour day, 6 days a week.
• Loyola College is chartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, produces the first translation of the Bible in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, which is published with the parallel text of the Syriac Peshitta by the American Bible Society.

Ongoing

• California Gold Rush (1848–1855)

Births

• 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 23 – Weldon B. Heyburn, United States Senator from Idaho from 1903 till 1912. (died 1912)
• November 16 – Joseph R. Burton, United States Senator from Kansas from 1901 till 1906. (died 1923)

Deaths

• February 14 – Thomas Carlin, 7th Governor of Illinois from 1838 till 1842. (born 1789)
• May 6 – William Bellinger Bulloch, United States Senator from Georgia in 1813. (born 1777)
• May 18 – Briscoe Baldwin, planter and Virginia politician (born 1789)
• June 8 – Perry Smith, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1837 till 1843. (born 1783)
• June 30 – Henry Clay, United States Senator from Kentucky 1806-1807, 1810-1811, 1831-1842 and 1849-1852. (born 1777)
• July 19 – John McKinley, United States Senator from Alabama from 1826 till 1831 and in 1837. Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1837 till 1852. (born 1780)
• October 4 – James Whitcomb, United States Senator from Indiana from 1849 to 1852. (born 1795)

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