List of events
Events from the year 1848 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ] Federal government [ edit ] Governors and lieutenant governors Governors [ edit ] Governor of Alabama : Reuben Chapman (Democratic ) Governor of Arkansas : Thomas Stevenson Drew (Democratic ) Governor of Connecticut : Clark Bissell (Whig ) Governor of Delaware : William Tharp (Democratic ) Governor of Florida : William Dunn Moseley (Democratic ) Governor of Georgia : George W. Towns (Democratic ) Governor of Illinois : Augustus C. French (Democratic ) Governor of Indiana : James Whitcomb (Democratic ) (until December 26), Paris C. Dunning (Democratic ) (starting December 26) Governor of Iowa : Ansel Briggs (Democratic ) Governor of Kentucky : William Owsley (Whig ) (until September 6), John J. Crittenden (Whig ) (starting September 6) Governor of Louisiana : Isaac Johnson (Democratic ) Governor of Maine : John W. Dana (Democratic ) Governor of Maryland : Thomas Pratt (Democratic ) (until January 3), Philip F. Thomas (Democratic ) (starting January 3) Governor of Massachusetts : George N. Briggs (Democratic ) Governor of Michigan : William L. Greenly (Democratic ) (until January 3), Epaphroditus Ransom (Democratic ) (starting January 3) Governor of Mississippi : Albert G. Brown (Democratic ) (until January 10), Joseph W. Matthews (Democratic ) (starting January 10) Governor of Missouri : John C. Edwards (Democratic ) (until November 20), Austin Augustus King (Democratic ) (starting November 20) Governor of New Hampshire : Jared W. Williams (Democratic ) Governor of New Jersey : Charles C. Stratton (Whig ) (until January 18), Daniel Haines (Democratic ) (starting January 18) Governor of New York : John Young (Whig ) (until end of December 31) Governor of North Carolina : William Alexander Graham (Whig ) Governor of Ohio : William Bebb (Whig ) Governor of Pennsylvania : Governor of Rhode Island : Elisha Harris (Law and Order ) Governor of South Carolina : David Johnson (Democratic ) (until December 12), Whitemarsh B. Seabrook (Democratic ) (starting December 12) Governor of Tennessee : Neill S. Brown (Whig ) Governor of Texas : George T. Wood (Democratic ) Governor of Vermont : Horace Eaton (Whig ) (until October), Carlos Coolidge (Whig ) (starting October) Governor of Virginia : William Smith (Democratic ) Governor of Wisconsin : vacant (until June 7), Nelson Dewey (Democratic ) (starting June 7) Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
February 2 : The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican–American War and ceding all the Republic of Texas 's territorial claims to the United States for $15m. January–March [ edit ] May 29 : Wisconsin admitted as the 30th U.S. state . April–June [ edit ] July–September [ edit ] November 7 : The first U.S. presidential election held in every state on the same day sees Whig Zachary Taylor of Virginia defeat Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan . October–December [ edit ] No fixed date [ edit ] Ongoing [ edit ] January 13 – Lilla Cabot Perry , painter (died 1933 ) February 20 – E. H. Harriman , railroad executive (died 1909 ) February 22 – Emily McGary Selinger , painter, author and educator (died 1927 ) March 8 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson , inventor (died 1919 ) March 19 – Wyatt Earp , lawman and gunfighter (died 1929 ) March 26 – Edward O. Wolcott , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1889 to 1901 (died 1905 ) May 10 – Lafayette Young , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1910 to 1911 (died 1926 ) June 15 – Sol Smith Russell , comedian (died 1902 ) July 22 – Winfield Scott Stratton , miner (died 1902) August 24 – Kate Claxton , actress (died 1924 ) September 4 – Lewis Howard Latimer , African American inventor (died 1928 ) September 29 – Caroline Yale , educator (died 1933 ) October 6 – Webb C. Ball , jeweler and watchmaker from Fredericktown, Ohio (died 1922 ) October 15 – Harmon Northrop Morse , chemist (died 1920 ) November 1 – Caroline Still Anderson , African American physician, educator and activist (died 1919 ) November 2 – Stephen Mallory II , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1897 to 1907 (died 1907 ) November 7 – B. B. Comer , 33rd Governor of Alabama, U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1920 (died 1927 ) November 20 – James M. Spangler , inventor (died 1915 ) November 27 – Henry A. Rowland , physicist (died 1901 ) John Quincy Adams February 11 – Thomas Cole , landscape painter (born 1801 in the United Kingdom ) February 23 – John Quincy Adams , sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829 (born 1767 ) March 29 – John Jacob Astor , businessman (born 1763 ) April 29 – Chester Ashley , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1844 to 1848 (born 1790 ) May 18 – William Leidesdorff , businessman (born 1810 ) June 26 – Stevenson Archer , U.S. Congressman from Maryland from 1819 to 1821 (born 1786 ) July 20 – Francis R. Shunk , politician (born 1788 ) August 15 – Timothy Olmstead , composer, fifer in the American Revolutionary War (born 1759 ) August 30 – Simon Willard , horologist (born 1753 ) October 25 – Dixon Hall Lewis , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1844 to 1848 (born 1802 ) December 31 – Ambrose Hundley Sevier , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1836 to 1848 (born 1801 ) See also [ edit ] Further reading [ edit ] The Emigrant's Hand-book, or, A directory and guide for persons emigrating to the United States of America; also, a concise description of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri and Iowa, and the western territories, and including a statement of the modes and expenses of travelling from New York to the interior , New York: J.H. Colton, 1848, OCLC 2604051 , OL 7235459M References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]