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Governor of New York: Joseph C. Yates (Democratic-Republican) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina: Gabriel Holmes (Democratic-Republican) (until December 7), Hutchins Gordon Burton (no political party) (starting December 7)
Governor of Ohio: Jeremiah Morrow (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Rhode Island: William C. Gibbs (Democratic-Republican) (until May 5), James Fenner (Democratic-Republican) (starting May 5)
Governor of South Carolina: John Lyde Wilson (Democratic-Republican) (until December 3), Richard Irvine Manning I (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 3)
Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic-Republican)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Ratliff Boon (Democratic-Republican) (until January 30), John H. Thompson (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 30)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William T. Barry (Democratic-Republican) (until August 24), Robert B. McAfee (Democratic-Republican) (starting August 24)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln, Jr. (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Marcus Morton (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: David Dickson (no political party) (until month and day unknown), Gerard C. Brandon (no political party) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: William Henry Ashley (Democratic-Republican) (until November 15), Benjamin Harrison Reeves (Democratic-Republican) (starting November 15)
Lieutenant Governor of New York: Erastus Root (Democratic-Republican) (until end of December 31)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Henry Bradley (Democratic-Republican) (until December 3), William Bull (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 3)
March 32 – U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs formed by John C. Calhoun without authorization from Congress.
April – The United States Literary Gazette, a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others.[1]
April 15 – To defend the Cherokees' possession of their land, chief John Ross petitions Congress, fundamentally altering the traditional relationship between an Indian nation and whites.
May 15 – A boiler explosion occurs on the steamshipAetna, under way in Upper New York Bay, killing more than ten passengers and injuring many more.[2]
May 26 – Arkansas Territory split creates Indian Territory.
August 16 – Lafayette visits the United States, departing on September 7, 1825.
October 26 – U.S. presidential election opens. Andrew Jackson will receive more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the first election in which this vote is reported.
November 1 – Miami University (chartered 1809) delivers its first classes in Oxford, Ohio.
November 5 – Stephen Van Rensselaer establishes the Rensselaer School, which becomes the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world.
November 15 – Quapaw cede a considerable tract between the Arkansas and the Saline River.[3]
December 1 – U.S. presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).
December 24
Chief Pushmataha of the Choctaw Nation dies in Washington.
The Chi Phi (ΧΦ) Fraternity is founded at Princeton University.
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Iowa tribe removed to a reservation in Kansas.
A treaty between several tribes and the United States Government establish a Half-Breed Tract in present-day Lee County, Iowa.[4]
Harmony Society establishes the settlement of Economy, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Say begins publication of American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America in Philadelphia, including the first description of the Colorado potato beetle.
^Grohman, Adam M. (April 2011). "Sentinels and Saviors of the Sea"(PDF). Boating World U. S. Coast Guard Series. River & Sound Publishing of NY, Inc. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-06-27. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
^"Jefferson County". Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture. Retrieved 2013-11-13. At Major John Harrington’s lodge, said to be in Jefferson County on the north bank of the Arkansas, the [Quapaw] signed away the last of their tribal lands on November 15, 1824.