Timeline November 1832

Events in November 1832 5

• 1737 – 1832 Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832) Died 14 November 1832, aged 95 Carroll was a wealthy Maryland planter and statesman who signed the Declaration of Independence and later served as a U.S. senator. By the time of his death he was the last surviving signer of the Declaration. His death closed the final living link to the founding generation of the United States.
• 1767 – 1832 Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) Died 15 November 1832, aged 65 Say was a French economist best known for formulating what became known as Say's Law, the classical proposition that production creates its own demand. His writings helped popularize and extend Adam Smith's ideas on the European continent. He died in Paris, where he had held a chair in political economy.
• 1832 South Carolina adopts Ordinance of Nullification Nullification Crisis intensifies South Carolina's legislature declared the federal tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the state, asserting a state's right to nullify federal law. President Andrew Jackson responded by threatening military enforcement and securing a Force Bill from Congress. The crisis was defused in early 1833 through a negotiated tariff compromise, but it foreshadowed later disputes over federal versus state authority.
• 1832 – 1888 Louisa May Alcott Author of Little Women American novelist, Civil War nurse, abolitionist and suffragist. Raised among the Concord Transcendentalists, she wrote thrillers under a pen name before Little Women made her one of the best-selling authors of her century.
• 1832 Louisa May Alcott born in Germantown Pennsylvania Louisa May Alcott is born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on her father Bronson Alcott's 33rd birthday — the second of four daughters.