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List of events
Events from the year 1786 in the United States.
- January 7 –
John Catron, lawyer and jurist (died
1865)
- January 8 –
Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (died
1844)
- January 24 –
Walter Forward, lawyer and politician, 15th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1841 to 1843 (died
1852)
- February 24 –
Martin W. Bates, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1857 to 1859 (died
1869)
- April 6 –
Robert Hanna, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1831 to 1832 (died
1858)
- April 7 –
William R. King, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1819 to 1844; 13th
vice president of the United States from March to April 1853 (died
1853)
- May 28 –
Louis McLane, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1827 to 1829 (died
1857)
- May 29 –
Alexander Bryan Johnson, philosopher (died
1867)
- June 13 –
Winfield Scott, general, presidential candidate (died
1866)
- August 14 –
John Tipton, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1832 to 1839 (died in
1839)
- August 17 –
Davy Crockett, frontiersman (died
1836)
- September 10 –
William Mason, New York politician (died
1860)
- September 22 –
William Kelly, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1822 to 1825 (died
1834)
- November 22 –
Cyrus Kingsbury, Congregationalist missionary to Cherokee and Choctaw tribes (died
1870 in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory)
- December 12 –
William L. Marcy, statesman (died
1857)
- December 15 –
Edward Coles, planter, politician and 2nd
governor of Illinois (died
1868)