1845

Events

 * March 4:
 * George Dallas becomes Vice President of the United States
 * Edmund Dargan becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * November 26:
 * John Calhoun becomes a Senator of South Carolina

Births

 * November 3:
 * Edward Douglass White Jr. - 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)

Deaths

 * June 8:
 * Andrew Jackson Jr. - 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
 * June 9:
 * Gabriel Moore - Member of the House of Representatives (b. 1785)