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 - Vice President of the United States (Living)
 * July 22:
 * David Jonathan Shulkin - United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Living)
 * November 19:
 * Josiah Robins Bonner Jr. - Member of the House of Representatives (Living)

Deaths

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