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List of events
Events from the year 1790 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ] George Washington January–March [ edit ] April–June [ edit ] July–September [ edit ] Undated [ edit ] Ongoing [ edit ] John Tyler January 6 – Arnold Naudain , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1830 to 1836 (died 1872 )
January 13 – Richard Saltonstall Rogers , shipping merchant and politician (died 1873 )
January 17 – Powhatan Ellis , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1825 to 1826 and from 1827 to 1832 (died 1863 )
March 29 – John Tyler , tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845, tenth vice president of the United States from March to April 1841 (died 1862 )
May 20 – Micajah Thomas Hawkins , politician (died 1858 )
June 1 – Chester Ashley , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1844 to 1848 (died 1848 )
July 8 – Fitz-Greene Halleck , poet (died 1867 )
July 18 – John Frazee , portrait sculptor (died 1852 )
October 1 – Henry H. Chambers , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1825 to 1826 (died 1826 )
November 12 – Letitia Christian Tyler , First Lady of the United States (died 1842 )
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Probable – Lone Horn , Miniconjou chief (died 1875 ) January 25 – Meriwether Smith , Continental Congressman for Virginia (born 1730 )
January 31 – Thomas Lewis , Virginia settler (born 1718 in Ireland )
February 20 – Leonard Lispenard , merchant, politician and landowner (born 1714 )
March 4 – Henry Wisner , Continental Congressman for New York (born 1720 )
March 12 – William Grayson , Continental Congressman and U.S. Senator for Virginia (born 1740 )
April 17 – Benjamin Franklin , publisher, inventor, congressman, ambassador, abolitionist and American icon (born 1706 )[3]
May 4 – Matthew Tilghman , Continental Congressman for Maryland (born 1718 )
May 9 – William Clingan , Continental Congressman for Pennsylvania (born c. 1721 )
May 20 – Nathan Miller , Continental Congressman for Rhode Island (born 1743 )
May 26 – Nathaniel Folsom , Continental Congressman for New Hampshire and Revolutionary War major general (born 1726 )
May 29 – Israel Putnam , Revolutionary War general (born 1718 )
June 1 – Theodorick Bland , Continental Congressman and U.S. Representative for Virginia (born 1741 )
July 25 – William Livingston , signer of the U.S. Constitution and Governor of New Jersey from 1776 to 1790 (born 1723 )
August 16 – David Brearley , Revolutionary War colonel, signer of the U.S. Constitution for New Jersey and federal judge (born 1745 )
October 14 – William Hooper , signer of the Declaration of Independence (born 1742 )
October 19 – Lyman Hall , signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Georgia from 1783 to 1784 (born 1724 )
October 31 – Michael Schlatter , Swiss-born clergyman (born 1716 )
November 6 – James Bowdoin , Governor of Massachusetts (born 1726 )
November 16 – Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer , Continental Congressman and signer of the U.S. Constitution for Maryland (born 1723 )
November 27 – Robert Livingston , member of the New York colonial assembly from 1737 to 1758 (born 1708 )
December 16 – Benjamin Andrew , Continental Congressman for Georgia and member of the Georgia House of Representatives (born 1713 )
Unknown – John Hawks , architect (born c.1731 in England) See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] Further reading [ edit ] Charles E. Little (1900), "America: 1790" , Cyclopedia of Classified Dates , New York: Funk & Wagnalls Charles Evans (1914). "1790" . American Bibliography . Vol. 8. Chicago: Columbia Press. pp. 1–111.External links [ edit ]
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