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List of events
Events from the year 1843 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Births
William McKinley
January 6 –
John Coit Spooner , politician (died
1919 )
January 8
January 10 –
Frank James , outlaw (died
1915 )
January 15 –
William H. Harries , Representative in the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota (died
1921 )
January 16 –
George E. Gard , sheriff (died
1904 )
January 29 –
William McKinley , 25th
president of the United States from 1897 to 1901 (died
1901 )
February 2 –
Knute Nelson , Norway-born 12th governor of Minnesota from 1893 to 1895 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1895 to 1923 (died
1923 )
February 3 –
William Cornelius Van Horne , North American railway magnate (died
1915 in Canada )
February 7 –
John B. Babcock , U.S. Army officer (died
1909 )
February 9 –
Andrew Traynor , soldier (died
1920 )
February 15 –
Russell Conwell ,
Baptist minister (died
1925 )
[2]
February 27
March 8 –
Arthur Brown , U.S. Senator from Utah from 1896 to 1897 (died
1906 )
March 17 –
Henry Ware Lawton , general (died
1899 )
March 23 –
Joseph F. Johnston , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1907 to 1913 (died
1913 )
April 4 –
William Henry Jackson , explorer and photographer (died
1942 )
April 8 –
Howard Roberts , sculptor (died
1900 )
April 15 –
Henry James , fiction writer (died
1916 )
May 6 –
G. K. Gilbert , geologist (died
1918 )
June 4 –
Charles Conrad Abbott , archaeologist and naturalist (died
1919 )
June 6 –
Russell J. Waters , U.S. Representative from California (died
1911 )
April 25 –
Dwight M. Sabin , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1883 to 1889 (died
1902 )
July 15 –
Alfred W. Benson , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1906 to 1907 (died
1916 )
July 19 –
Francis J. Higginson , U.S. Navy admiral (died
1931 )
June 29 –
Charles Warren Stone , member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (died
1912 )
August 1 –
Robert Todd Lincoln , statesman and businessman, son of
Abraham Lincoln (died
1926 )
August 19 –
C. I. Scofield , theologian (died
1921 )
September 25 –
Melville Reuben Bissell , entrepreneur, inventor of the
Carpet sweeper (died
1889 )
October 28 –
Julia Anna Orum , educator, lecturer, and author (died
1904 )
November 23 –
Henry C. Payne , politician (died
1904 )
November 25 –
Henry Ware Eliot , industrialist and philanthropist (died
1919 )
November 26 –
Charles A. Chickering , representative of New York (died
1900 )
November 27 –
Cornelius Vanderbilt II , railroad magnate (died
1899 )
November 30 –
Martha Ripley , physician (died
1912 )
[3]
December 28 –
Prentiss Ingraham , military officer and author of dime fiction (died
1904 )
Deaths
January 11 –
Francis Scott Key , author of "
The Star-Spangled Banner " (born
1779 )
March 27 –
Samuel McRoberts , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1841 to 1843 (born
1799 )
March 31 –
George A. Waggaman , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1831 to 1835 (born
1782 )
April 1 –
John Armstrong Jr. , 7th United States Secretary of War (born
1758 )
April 17 –
Samuel Morey , inventor (born
1762 )
April 25 –
John McCracken Robinson , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1830 to 1841 (born
1794 )
May 28 –
Noah Webster , lexicographer (born
1758 )
July 7 –
John Holmes , Maine politician (born
1773 )
July 9 –
Washington Allston , painter, the "American Titian", and poet (born
1779 )
August –
Sequoyah , creator of the Cherokee syllabary (b. c.
1767 )
August 10 –
Robert Adrain , mathematician (born
1775 in Ireland )
September 11 –
Joseph Nicollet , geographer (born
1786 in France )
September 30 –
Richard Harlan , zoologist (born
1796 )
November 10 –
John Trumbull , painter (born
1756 )
See also
References
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