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List of events
The following are events from the year 1825 in the United States.
- James Monroe (DR-Virginia) (until March 4)
- John Quincy Adams (DR/NR-Massachusetts) (starting March 4)
- Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-New York) (until March 4)
- John C. Calhoun (D-South Carolina) (starting March 4)
- Henry Clay (DR-Kentucky) (until March 4)
- John W. Taylor (DR-New York) (starting December 5)
March 4: John Quincy Adams becomes the sixth U.S. president
John C. Calhoun becomes the seventh U.S. vice president
- January 5 – John Mason Loomis, lumber tycoon, Union militia colonel in the American Civil War and philanthropist (died 1900)
- January 11
- January 25 – George Pickett, Confederate general in the American Civil War (died 1876)
- February 11 – Frank Pidgeon, baseball pitcher (died 1884)
- April 7 – John H. Gear, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1895 to 1900 (died 1900)
- April 17 – Jerome B. Chaffee, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1879 (died 1886)
- June 1 – John Hunt Morgan, Confederate general in the American Civil War (died 1864)
- July 2 – Richard Henry Stoddard, critic and poet (died 1903)
- July 10 – Benjamin Paul Akers, sculptor (died 1861)
- July 15 – Joseph Carter Abbott, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1868 to 1871 (died 1881)
- July 19 – George H. Pendleton, politician (died 1889)
- August 7 – Jacob Wrey Mould, New York architect, illustrator, linguist and musician (died 1886)[3]
- August 10 – Edmund Spangler, carpenter and stagehand employed at Ford's Theatre at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (died 1875)
- September 13 – William Henry Rinehart, sculptor (died 1874)
- September 17 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1893)
- September 24 – Frances Harper, née Watkins, African American poet and abolitionist (died 1911)
- October 8 – Paschal Beverly Randolph, occultist (died 1875)
- October 25 – Francis March, comparative linguist (died 1911)
- November 9 – A. P. Hill, Confederate general (killed 1865 in the American Civil War)
- December 18 – John S. Harris, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1871 (died 1906)
- December 30
- January 8 – Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin and milling machine (born 1765)
- March 1 – John Haggin, "Indian fighter" and early settler of Kentucky (born 0420)
- March 4 – Hercules Mulligan, tailor and spy during the American Revolutionary War (born 1740)
- March 4 – Raphaelle Peale, still-life painter (born 1774)
- June 1 – Daniel Tompkins, sixth vice president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (born 1774)
- June 4 – Morris Birkbeck, writer and social reformer (born 1764)
- June 14 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect and civil engineer (born 1754 in France)
- August 16 – Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, politician and soldier (born 1746)
- August 27 – Lucretia Maria Davidson, poet (born 1808; died of consumption)
- December 28 – James Wilkinson, soldier and statesman (born 1757)
- ^ Ala. General Assembly. Journal of the House of Representatives. 7th sess., 24, accessed July 27, 2023
- ^ Pattee, Fred Lewis (1937). "Preface". In Pattee, Fred Lewis (ed.). American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824–1825). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. p. v. OCLC 464953146.
- ^ MacKay, Robert B.; Baker, Anthony K.; Traynor, Carol A. (1997). Long Island country houses and their architects, 1860-1940. Norton. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-393-03856-9.
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