1873

Events

 * January 13:
 * Thomas Hendricks becomes Governor of Indiana
 * March 4:
 * Charles Pelham becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * Frederick Bromberg becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * James Rapier becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * William Wheeler becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * September 5:
 * Horace Gray becomes Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Deaths

 * January 26:
 * Benjamin White Norris - Member of the House of Representatives (b. 1819)
 * May 7:
 * Salmon Portland Chase - Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1808)