1974

Events

 * August 22:
 * Antonin Scalia becomes a United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel
 * December 20:
 * William Sessions becomes Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas

Births

 * August 22:
 * Cory Scott Gardner - Senator of Colorado (Living)

Deaths

 * February 5:
 * Dan Edward Garvey - 12th Governor of Arizona (b. 1886)
 * June 26:
 * Ernest Henry Gruening - Senator of Alaska (b. 1887)
 * July 9:
 * Earl Warren Sr. - 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891)