List of events
Events from the year 1843 in the United States .
John White (W -Kentucky ) (until March 4)John Winston Jones (D -Virginia ) (starting December 4)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 )[ 4] 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 )[ 5]
December 28 – Prentiss Ingraham , military officer and author of dime fiction (died 1904 ) 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 )
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