1959

Events

 * September 21:
 * Harry Blackmun becomes Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Births

 * June 7:
 * Michael Richard Pence - 48th Vice President of the United States (Living)
 * July 22:
 * David Jonathan Shulkin - 9th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Living)

Deaths

 * October 16:
 * George Catlett Marshall Jr. - 3rd United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1880)