1802 in the United States

=== Federal government === • President: Thomas Jefferson (DR-Virginia) • Vice President: Aaron Burr (DR-New York) • Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia) • Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nathaniel Macon (DR-North Carolina) • Congress: 7th State governments ==Events==

formed • March 16 – Congress authorizes the establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. • April 19 – The Judiciary Act of 1802 is enacted, reorganizing the federal court system. • April 30 – The Enabling Act of 1802 authorizes the creation of Ohio from the Northwest Territory and sets a precedent for the creation of future states from the western territories. • June 1 – William Thornton is appointed the first superintendent of the United States Patent Office. • July 4 – At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens. • October 2 – First Barbary War: Fighting ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation. • October 12 – Joseph Gardner Swift and Simeon Magruder Levy become the first graduates of the United States Military Academy. Undated • U.S. House of Representatives elections: 142 representatives are elected, 36 more than the 7th Congress, following reapportionment from the 1800 United States census. Ongoing • First Barbary War (1801–1805) ==Births==

• January 22 – Richard Upjohn, Gothic architect (died 1878) • February 4 – Mark Hopkins, educator and president of Williams College (died 1887) • February 11 – Lydia Maria Child, abolitionist, women's rights activist, novelist and journalist (died 1880) • February 21 – George D. Ramsay, 6th Chief of Ordnance of the United States Army (died 1882) • March 16 – George A. McCall, Union Army brigadier general (died 1868) • April 2 – Archibald Dixon, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1852 to 1855 (died 1876) • April 4 – Dorothea Dix, mental health reformer (died 1887) • May 10 – James Westcott, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1845 to 1849 (died 1880) • June 10 – James W. Bradbury, U.S. Senator from Maine from 1847 to 1853 (died 1901) • June 30 – Benjamin Fitzpatrick, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1848 to 1849 and from 1853 to 1861 (died 1869) • July 1 – Gideon Welles, 24th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1878) • July 9 – Thomas Davenport, inventor and blacksmith (died 1851) • July 21 – David Hunter, Union Army major general (died 1886) • August 10 – Dixon Hall Lewis, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1844 to 1848 (died 1848) • September 4 – Marcus Whitman, physician and missionary (died 1847) • October 1 – Oliver Blake, American-born Canadian businessman and political figure (died 1873) • November 5 – James F. Trotter, U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1838 (died 1866) • November 9 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, newspaper publisher and abolitionist (died 1837) • November 19 – Solomon Foot, Vermont politician (died 1866) • December 2 – Melancthon S. Wade, Union Army general (died 1868) ==Deaths==

• February 26 – Esek Hopkins, Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy during the Revolution (born 1718) • May 22 – Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States (born 1731) • July 6 – Daniel Morgan, soldier and United States Representative from Virginia (born 1736) • December 31 – Francis Lewis, signer of the Declaration of Independence from New York (born 1713) ==See also==