Events from the year 1841 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President:
  • until March 4: Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
  • March 4 April 4: William Henry Harrison (Whig)
  • starting April 4: John Tyler (Whig/none)
• Vice President:
  • until March 4: Richard Mentor Johnson (Democratic)
  • March 4 April 4: John Tyler (Whig)
  • starting April 4: vacant
• Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Whig-Virginia) (until March 4), John White (Whig-Kentucky) (starting May 31)
• Congress: 26th (until March 4), 27th (starting March 4)

Events

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• January 30 – A fire destroys 300 of the 500 housing units in Mayag ez, Puerto Rico.
• February 18 – The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
• March 4 – Martin Van Buren is succeeded as President of the United States by William Henry Harrison.
• March 9 – Amistad: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the case that the Africans who seized control of the ship had been taken into slavery illegally.
• April 4 – President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and at one month, the elected president with the shortest term served. He is succeeded by Vice President John Tyler, who becomes the 10th President of the United States.
• April 6 – President John Tyler is sworn in.
• August 16 – U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.

Undated

• The city of Dallas, Texas is founded by John Neely Bryan.
• Fordham University is founded in The Bronx by the Society of Jesus. Its name at its founding is St. John's College.

Ongoing

• Second Seminole War (1835 1842)

Births

Deaths

External links

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