Events from the year 1857 in the United States.
Incumbents
:Franklin Pierce (D-New Hampshire) (until March 4)
:James Buchanan (D-Pennsylvania) (starting March 4)
:vacant (until March 4)
:John C. Breckinridge (D-Kentucky) (starting March 4)
:Nathaniel P. Banks (American-Massachusetts) (until March 4)
:James Lawrence Orr (D-South Carolina) (starting December 7)
State governments
Events
Undated
Ongoing
Births
- January 6 – Milward Adams, orchestra and theatre manager born in Lexington, Kentucky.(died 1923)
- January 11 – William Gentles, U.S. Army private, known for killing Crazy Horse (died 1878)
- February 1 – Lucy Wheelock, early childhood education pioneer within the kindergarten movement (died 1946)
- February 7 – Benjamin Eli Smith, editor of reference books (died 1913)
- February 13 – Almanzo Wilder, writer (died 1949)
- March 6 – George Dayton, businessman, founder of Target Corporation (died 1938)
- March 7 – Genevieve Stebbins, performer of the Delsarte system of expression (died 1934)
- March 20 – Benjamin F. Shively, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1909 to 1916 (died 1916)
- March 21
- Charles Ellis Johnson, photographer (died 1926)
- Hunter Liggett, general (died 1935)
- April 22 – Paul Dresser, songwriter (died 1906)
- May 17 – Mary Devens, pictorial photographer (died 1920)
- May 19 – John Jacob Abel, pharmacologist (died 1938)
- June 8 – Lawrence Marston, actor, playwright and film director (died 1939)
- June 10 – Caroline Louise Dudley (Mrs. Leslie Carter), stage actress (died 1937)
- June 20 – Mary Gage Day, physician (died 1935)
- July 1 – Martha Hughes Cannon, politician (died 1932)
- July 30
- Lucy Bacon, California Impressionist painter (died 1932)
- Thorstein Veblen, economist (died 1929)
- August 8 – Henry Fairfield Osborn, geologist, paleontologist and eugenist (died 1935)
- September 13 – Milton S. Hershey, chocolate manufacturer (died 1945)
- September 14 – Julia Platt, embryologist and politician (died 1935)
- September 15 – William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and tenth chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930 (died 1930)
- October 7 – George P. McLean, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1911 to 1923 (died 1932)
- October 17 – Mary Abbott, golfer (died 1904)
- October 24 – Ned Williamson, baseball player (died 1894)
- November 5 – Ida Tarbell, investigative journalist (died 1944)
- December 1 – Samuel M. Ralston, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1923 to 1925 (died 1925)
- December 2
- J. Frank Allee, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1903 to 1907 (died 1938)
- Charles E. Rushmore, businessman, attorney, namesake of Mount Rushmore (died 1931)
- December 4 – Julia Evelyn Ditto Young, poet and novelist (died 1915)
Deaths
- February 16 – Elisha Kane, Arctic explorer (born 1820)
- May 1 – Stephen Adams, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1852 to 1857 (born 1807)
- May 26 – James Bell, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1855 to 1857 (born 1804)
- June 19 – Alexander Twilight, educator and minister, first African-American known to have earned a bachelor's degree from an American college or university (Middlebury College, 1823) (born 1795)
- July 4 – William L. Marcy, 21st Secretary of State from 1853 to 1857 (born 1786)
- August 29 – Stephen Cassin, United States Navy officer (born 1783)
- September 15 – John Henderson, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1839 to 1845 (born 1797)
- October 7 – Louis McLane, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1827 to 1829 (born 1786)
- October 10 – Thomas Crawford, sculptor (born 1814)
- October 20 – John Diamond, minstrel dancer (born 1823)
- October 27 – John Blennerhassett Martin, painter, engraver and lithographer (born 1797)
- December 24 – Robert C. Nicholas, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1836 to 1841 (born 1793)
- Jasper Grosvenor, financier (born 1794)
- Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, planter and landowner (born 1800)
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