List of events
Events from the year 1843 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ] January–March [ edit ] April–June [ edit ] July–September [ edit ] October–December [ edit ] Undated [ edit ] 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 ) 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 [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]