1789

Events

 * Unknown:
 * Samuel Adams becomes Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
 * March 4:
 * Oliver Ellsworth becomes a Senator of Connecticut
 * April 30:
 * Martha Dandridge becomes First Lady of the United States
 * July 25:
 * Rufus King becomes a Senator of New York
 * September 11:
 * Alexander Hamilton becomes United States Secretary of the Treasury
 * September 15:
 * John Jay becomes Acting United States Secretary of State
 * September 26:
 * John Jay becomes Chief Justice of the United States
 * September 29:
 * Aaron Burr becomes Attorney General of New York
 * November 26:
 * Samuel Johnston becomes a Senator of North Carolina

Births

 * June 6:
 * Samuel B. Moore - Governor of Alabama (d. 1846)
 * December 17:
 * Clement Comer Clay - Governor of Alabama (d. 1866)

Deaths

 * August 25:
 * Mary Ball - Mother of George Washington (b. 1707)