1844

Events

 * Unknown:
 * Edmund Dargan becomes a Member of the Alabama State Senate
 * Sampson Harris becomes a Member of the Alabama State Senate
 * April 1:
 * John Calhoun becomes Secretary of State
 * April 9:
 * William King becomes United States Minister to France
 * April 22:
 * Dixon Lewis becomes a Senator of Alabama
 * December 2:
 * William Yancey becomes a Member of the House of Representatives

Births

 * February 26:
 * Horace Harmon Lurton - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (d. 1914)
 * June 3:
 * Garret Augustus Hobart - Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
 * September 16:
 * William James Samford - Member of the House of Representatives (d. 1901)

Deaths

 * March 6:
 * Gabriel Duvall - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1752)
 * April 21:
 * Henry White Baldwin - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1780)
 * June 3:
 * Alexander James Dallas Jr. - United States Navy Captain (b. 1791)