* 1844 – Garret Hobart, American politician, 24th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1899 )

* 1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer, politician and statesman, 5th State President of the Orange Free State ( b. 1844 )

An impressive demonstration occurred on May 1, 1844, when news of the Whig Party's nomination of Henry Clay for U. S. President was telegraphed from the party's convention in Baltimore to the Capitol Building in Washington.

Horace Greeley's New York Tribune — the leading Whig paper — endorsed Clay for President and Fillmore for Governor, 1844

* June 9 – Sanford B. Dole, President of Hawaii and 1st Territorial Governor of Hawaii ( b. 1844 )

* January 8 – Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States ( d. 1844 )

The incumbent President in 1844 was John Tyler, who had ascended to the office of President upon the death of William Henry Harrison.

His uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1787 – 1862 ), was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, was a U. S. Senator from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835, was the Whig candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Henry Clay ticket in the 1844 Presidential election, and was Chancellor of New York University from 1839 until 1850 and president of Rutgers College from 1850 to 1862.

Democrat James K. Polk was elected President in 1844 over Whig Party ( United States ) Henry Clay, a high tariff advocate.

* In 1844, President Tyler narrowly missed being killed ( along with Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer ) by the explosion of a bow gun on board the U. S. S.

Garret Augustus Hobart ( June 3, 1844 – November 21, 1899 ) was the 24th Vice President of the United States ( 1897 – 1899 ), serving under President William McKinley.

Dallas was elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket in 1844 with James K. Polk and served from March 4, 1845 to March 4, 1849.

President Abraham Lincoln's half third cousin, Thomas Lincoln ( 1780 – 1844 ), lived in the Meshack Creek area of present day Monroe County and served two terms as constable of Cumberland County in 1802 and 1804.

Polk County is Arkansas's 48th county, formed on November 30, 1844, and named for James Polk, President of the United States.

* Garret Hobart ( 1844 – 99 ), 24th Vice President of the United States, under William McKinley.

Dallastown was named after George M. Dallas of Philadelphia ( Vice President of the United States during the Polk administration ) during the presidential campaign of 1844.

The town of Hobart was named in honor of Garret Augustus Hobart ( June 3, 1844 – November 21, 1899 ) the 24th Vice President of the United States.

An impressive demonstration occurred on May 1, 1844, when news of the Whig Party's nomination of Henry Clay for U. S. President was telegraphed from the party's convention in Baltimore to the Capitol Building in Washington.

Active at the National Democratic Conventions at Baltimore in 1844, where he was instrumental in the nomination of James K. Polk ; and at Cincinnati in 1856, where he was the President pro tem.

On 25 March 1844, he signed a treaty with Germany, for which he received high commendation from President Tyler and John C. Calhoun, the secretary of state.

He served as vice president of the Republic of Texas in President Sam Houston's second term from 1841 to 1844.

He was four times President of the Board of Control and also served as Governor-General of India between 1842 and 1844.

On the death of Church President Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1844, this position was held by Brigham Young, and he persuaded the Church that Smith's death left him and not Sidney Rigdon, who had been Smith's First Counselor in the First Presidency, as the senior leader.

Without a home in either of the two major parties, Tyler sought an issue that could create a viable third party to support his bid for the presidency in 1844.

Tyler was a former Democrat and broke bitterly with the Whigs, and named Calhoun Secretary of State in 1844.

* First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler, in office 1844 to 1845.

President Tyler nominated Spencer to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court twice, first in January 1844 to fill Smith Thompson's seat and again in June of the same year to fill Henry Baldwin's seat, but the Senate failed to confirm him both times.

) Cleveland was the only president to be married in the White House ( John Tyler had married his second wife while he was president in 1844, but he married in New York City ).

Julia Gardiner Tyler ( May 4, 1820 or July 29, 1820 – July 10, 1889 ) was the second wife of John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, and served as First Lady of the United States from June 26, 1844, to March 4, 1845.

In 1844, President John Tyler appointed him Florida's territorial governor until the 1845 election of a governor under the state constitution.

* John Tyler Cooper ( 1844 – 1912 ), American politician

Shannon resigned on April 15, 1844 to take up an appointment from President John Tyler as Minister to Mexico.

After succeeding to the presidency, Tyler appointed Wise as United States minister to Brazil from 1844 to 1847.

As one of President Tyler's close Virginia allies in Washington, Gilmer was involved in the effort by the Tyler Administration to make the annexation of Texas the basis for his failed bid for reelection in 1844.

On February 15, 1844, he was appointed by Tyler to be U. S. Secretary of the Navy, and resigned his seat in Congress on February 18 to enter on the duties of the office, but 10 days later was killed by the bursting of a gun on board USS Princeton while on a tour of the Potomac River.

Doty's term ended in 1844, and he was not reappointed by Tyler, who instead selected Nathaniel P. Tallmadge to the post.

Polk initially hoped to be nominated for vice-president at the Democratic convention, which began on May 27, 1844.

In 1844, Clay was nominated by the Whigs against James K. Polk, the Democratic candidate.

John C. Spencer was nominated on Jan 9, 1844 and his nomination was defeated by a vote of 21 – 26 on Jan 31, 1844.

Reuben H. Walworth was nominated on Mar 13, 1844, and a resolution to table the nomination passed on a 27 – 20 vote on June 15, 1844.

Edward King was nominated on Jun 5, 1844.

He was nominated to the Vice Presidency by the Liberty Party in 1844.

He was nominated by the Democratic Party a third time in 1844, but died before the election took place.

In 1844, Pratt was nominated as a candidate for governor representing the Whig party.

In 1844 he was nominated to the academy of inscriptions, and in 1847 he became professor of Persian at the Collège de France.