1829

Events

 * January 21:
 * Silas Wright becomes Comptroller of New York
 * March 4:
 * Clement Clay becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * Dixon Lewis becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * Richard Johnson becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * Robert Baylor becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * November 25:
 * Gabriel Moore becomes Governor of Alabama

Births

 * May 29:
 * Jeremiah Norman Williams - Member of the House of Representatives (d. 1915)
 * October 5:
 * Chester Alan Arthur - President of the United States (d. 1886)

Deaths

 * January 29:
 * Timothy Pickering Jr. - United States Secretary of State (b. 1745)
 * May 17:
 * John Jay - Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
 * November 26:
 * Bushrod Washington - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1762)