1881

Events

 * March 4:
 * Howell Jackson becomes Senator of Tennessee
 * William McKinley becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * March 5:
 * Robert Lincoln becomes United States Secretary of War
 * October 13:
 * David Davis becomes President pro tempore of the United States Senate
 * November 8:
 * Roswell Flower becomes a Member of the House of Representatives

Deaths

 * September 19:
 * James Abram Garfield - 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)