1897

Events

 * March 4:
 * William McKinley becomes President of the United States
 * Garret Hobart becomes Vice President of the United States
 * Edmund Pettus becomes a Senator of Alabama
 * George Taylor becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * April 19:
 * Theodore Roosevelt becomes Assistant Secretary to the Navy

Births

 * May 8:
 * Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter - Director of Central Intelligence (d. 1982)
 * July 11:
 * George McInvale Grant - Member of the House of Representatives (d. 1982)