1901

Events

 * March 4:
 * George Sutherland becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * Ariosto Wiley becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * July 4:
 * William Taft becomes Governor-General of the Philippines

Births

 * February 22:
 * Charles Evans Whittaker - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (d. 1973)

Deaths

 * January 24:
 * Robert Stell Heflin - Member of the House of Representatives (b. 1815)
 * March 13:
 * Benjamin Harrison - President of the United States (b. 1833)
 * June 2:
 * Richard Cunningham McCormick Jr. - Member of the House of Representatives (b. 1832)
 * June 11:
 * William James Samford - Member of the House of Representatives (b. 1844)
 * September 14:
 * William McKinley Jr. - President of the United States (b. 1843)