Events from the year 1822 in the United States.
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Two U.S. presidents were born in the year
1822
- February 4 – Edward Fitzgerald Beale, U.S. Navy lieutenant and explorer (died 1893)
- February 13 – James B. Beck, Scottish-born U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1877 to 1890 (died 1890)
- c. March – Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross, African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War (died 1913)
- March 12 – Thomas Buchanan Read, poet and portrait painter (died 1872)
- March 16 – John Pope, career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War (died 1892)
- April 3 – Edward Everett Hale, writer (died 1909)
- April 26 – Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect (died 1903)
- April 27 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877 (died 1885)
- May 18 – Mathew B. Brady, pioneer photographer (died 1896)
- June 10 –
- July 21 – Alexander H. Jones, Congressional Representative from North Carolina. (died 1901)
- July 25 – Andrew Bryson, admiral (died 1892)
- August 15
- August 27 – William Hayden English, politician (died 1896)
- September 11 – Francis S. Thayer, merchant and politician (died 1880)
- September 16 – Charles Crocker, financiers (died 1888)
- September 17 – Cornelius Cole, U.S. Senator from California from 1867 to 1873 (died 1924)
- September 19 – Joseph R. West, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1871 to 1877 (died 1898)
- September 20 – Elizabeth Smith Miller, women's rights campaigner (died 1911)
- October 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881 (died 1893)
- Undated – Red Cloud (Maȟpíya Lúta), Oglala Lakota chief (died 1909)