1879

Events

 * March 4:
 * Adlai Stevenson becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * Thomas Herndon becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * William Samford becomes a Member of the House of Representatives

Deaths

 * January 13:
 * Francis William Kellogg - Member of the House of Representatives (b. 1810)
 * March 18:
 * George Goldthwaite - Senator of Alabama (b. 1810)
 * April 29:
 * Eli Sims Shorter - Member of the House of Representatives (b. 1823)
 * November 22:
 * Edmund Strother Dargan - Member of the House of Representatives (b. 1805)