1807 in the United States

Incumbents

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• President: Thomas Jefferson
• Vice President: George Clinton
• Chief Justice: John Marshall
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nathaniel Macon , Joseph Bradley Varnum
• Congress: 9th, 10th

  Governors

• Governor of Connecticut: Jonathan Trumbull Jr.
• Governor of Delaware: Nathaniel Mitchell
• Governor of Georgia: Jared Irwin
• Governor of Kentucky: Christopher Greenup
• Governor of Maryland: Robert Wright
• Governor of Massachusetts: Caleb Strong , James Sullivan
• Governor of New Hampshire: John Langdon
• Governor of New Jersey: Joseph Bloomfield
• Governor of New York: Morgan Lewis , Daniel D. Tompkins
• Governor of North Carolina: Nathaniel Alexander , Benjamin Williams
• Governor of Ohio: Edward Tiffin , Thomas Kirker
• Governor of Pennsylvania: Thomas McKean
• Governor of Rhode Island: Isaac Wilbour , James Fenner
• Governor of South Carolina: Charles Pinckney
• Governor of Tennessee: John Sevier
• Governor of Vermont: Isaac Tichenor , Israel Smith
• Governor of Virginia: William H. Cabell

  Lieutenant Governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: John Treadwell
• Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Thomas Posey
• Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: vacant, Levi Lincoln Sr.
• Lieutenant Governor of New York: John Broome
• Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Isaac Wilbour , Constant Taber
• Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: John Hopkins
• Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Paul Brigham

  Events

• February 10 - The United States Coast Survey is established; work begins on August 3, 1816.
• February 19 - Burr conspiracy: Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested on charges of treason. He is accused of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico to become part of an independent republic.
• March 2 - The U.S. Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States....from any foreign kingdom, place, or country".
• May 22 - A grand jury indicts Aaron Burr for treason.
• June 22 - The Chesapeake–Leopard Affair: The British warship captures and boards the.
• July 1 - Pike Expedition ends.
• August 17 - The Clermont, Robert Fulton's first American steamboat, leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
• September 1 - Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.
• December 22 - The U.S. Congress passes the Embargo Act.

  Births

• January 6 - Joseph Holt, 25th United States Secretary of War and Judge Advocate General of the United States Army during the Lincoln assassination trials
• January 11 - Ezra Cornell, founder of Western Union and co-founder of Cornell University
• January 19
• * Robert M. Charlton, United States Senator from Georgia from 1852 till 1853
• * Robert E. Lee, General of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War
• February 3 - Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate Army general
• February 16 - Lysander Cutler, Union general
• February 25 - George Trenholm, 2nd Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury
• February 27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet and professor
• March 1 - Wilford Woodruff, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• April 24 - Charles Ferguson Smith, Union Army major general
• May 1 - John B. Magruder, Confederate Army major general
• June 24 - John Pettit, United States Senator from Indiana from 1853 to 1855
• June 25 - Edward A. Hannegan, United States Senator from Indiana from 1843 to 1849
• July 12 - Silas Casey, Union Army major general
• August 11 - David Rice Atchison, United States Senator from Missouri from 1844 till 1855
• August 18 - Charles Francis Adams Sr., United States Minister to the United Kingdom, son of John Quincy Adams
• September 25 - Alfred Vail, machinist and inventor
• October 17 - Stephen Adams, United States Senator from Mississippi from 1852 till 1857
• October 30 - James S. Wadsworth, Union Army general
• December 14 - Francis Gillette, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1854 till 1855
• December 17 - John Greenleaf Whittier, poet and abolitionist

  Deaths

• March 4 - Abraham Baldwin, United States Senator from Georgia from 1799-1807
• May 13 - Eliphalet Dyer, jurist and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress
• May 17 - John Gunby, Maryland soldier in the American Revolutionary War
• November 24 - Joseph Brant, Mohawk military and political leader
• November 26 - Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
• Full Date Unknown - Eliphalet Chapin, furniture designer