1937

Events

 * Unknown:
 * Louis Johnson becomes United States Assistant Secretary of War
 * January 3:
 * Hugo Black becomes Chair of the Senate Education Committee
 * July 14:
 * Alben Barkley becomes Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus and Senate Majority Leader
 * August 18:
 * Hugo Black becomes Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

Births

 * February 15:
 * Robert Terry Everett - Member of the House of Representatives (Living)
 * May 8:
 * Dennis Webster DeConcini - Senator of Arizona (Living)

Deaths

 * March 16:
 * Benjamin Baker Moeur - 8th Governor of Arizona (b. 1869)