1947

Events

 * January 3:
 * Alben Barkley becomes Senate Minority Leader
 * January 21:
 * George Marshall becomes United States Secretary of State
 * May 1:
 * Roscoe Hillenkoetter becomes Director of Central Intelligence

Births

 * January 23:
 * Thomas Richard Carper - Senator of Delaware (Living)
 * February 4:
 * James Danforth Quayle - Vice President of the United States (Living)
 * March 12:
 * Willard Mitt Romney - Senator of Utah (Living)
 * April 13:
 * Deborah Anne Batts - Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (d. 2020)
 * July 30:
 * Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger - 38th Governor of California (Living)
 * October 26:
 * Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton - 42nd First Lady of the United States (Living)