1879

Events

 * March 4:
 * Adlai Stevenson is re-elected as a member of the House of Representatives

Deaths

 * January 13:
 * Francis William Kellogg - Member of the House of Representatives (b. 1810)
 * March 18:
 * George Goldthwaite - Senator of Alabama (b. 1810)
 * November 22:
 * Edmund Strother Dargan - Member of the House of Representatives (b. 1805)