2009

Events

 * January 3:
 * Thomas Udall becomes Senator of New Mexico
 * Bobby Bright becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * William Cassidy becomes Member of the House of Representatives
 * Ryan Zinke becomes Member of the Montana Senate
 * January 5:
 * Stephen Bullock becomes Attorney General of Montana
 * January 21:
 * Timothy Kaine becomes Chair of the Democratic National Committee
 * July 14:
 * Judy Chu becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * August 8:
 * Sonia Sotomayor becomes an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

Deaths

 * July 6:
 * Robert Strange McNamara - United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
 * August 11:
 * Eunice Mary Kennedy - Sister of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1921)
 * August 25:
 * Edward Moore Kennedy Sr. - Senator of Massachusetts (b. 1932)