1955

Events

 * January 3:
 * Alben Barkley becomes Senator of Kentucky
 * Stewart Udall becomes a Member of the House of Representatives

Births

 * January 27:
 * John Glover Roberts Jr. - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (Living)
 * February 16:
 * Bradley Roberts Byrne - Member of the House of Representatives (Living)
 * March 15:
 * Elizabeth Harper Stevens - Daughter of Senator Theodore Stevens (d. 2014)
 * March 26:
 * Aldona Zofia Wos - United States Ambassador to Estonia (Living)
 * October 20:
 * Sheldon Whitehouse - Senator of Rhode Island (Living)
 * November 30:
 * Richard Mauze Burr - Senator of North Carolina (Living)
 * December 19:
 * Robert Jones Portman - Senator of Ohio (Living)