2005

Events

 * January 3:
 * Thomas Price becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * Richard Burr becomes Senator of North Carolina
 * Richard Durbin becomes Senate Minority Whip
 * John McCain becomes Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee
 * Theodore Stevens becomes Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee
 * Debra Fischer becomes Member of Nebraska Legislature
 * January 4:
 * Christopher Coons becomes County Executive of New Castle County
 * Paul Clark becomes President of the New Castle County Council
 * January 18:
 * Robert Casey becomes Treasurer of Pennsylvania
 * May 17:
 * Robert Portman becomes United States Trade Representative
 * June 1:
 * Robert O'Rourke becomes Member of the El Paso City Council
 * June 14:
 * Robert O'Rourke becomes Mayor pro tempore of El Paso
 * July 22:
 * Alex Azar becomes United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services
 * August 10:
 * William Webster becomes Chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council
 * September 21:
 * Ted Lieu becomes a Member of the California State Assembly
 * September 29:
 * John Roberts becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Deaths

 * March 29:
 * Howell Thomas Heflin - Senator of Alabama (b. 1921)
 * April 1:
 * Robert Coldwell Wood - United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (b. 1923)
 * September 3:
 * William Hubbs Rehnquist - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1924)