2018

Events

 * January 29:
 * Alex Azar becomes 24th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
 * February 6:
 * Benjamin Cardin becomes Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee
 * March 28:
 * Robert Wilkie becomes Acting United States Secretary of Veteran Affairs
 * April 10:
 * Richard Shelby becomes Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee
 * July 21:
 * Stephen Bullock becomes Chair of the National Governors Association
 * July 30:
 * Robert Wilkie becomes United States Secretary of Veteran Affairs
 * September 5:
 * Jon Kyl becomes a Senator of Arizona
 * September 6:
 * James Inholfe becomes Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee
 * November 11:
 * Richard Ojeda announces candidacy for President of the United States
 * December 3:
 * Michael Dunleavy becomes Governor of Alaska
 * December:
 * Albert Abramson becomes Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives

Deaths

 * January 18:
 * Stansfield Turner - 12th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1923)
 * August 25:
 * John Sidney McCain III - Senator of Arizona (b. 1936)
 * November 30:
 * George Herbert Walker Bush - 41st President of the United States (b. 1924)