1843

Events

 * Unknown:
 * David Hubbard becomes a Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
 * Samuel Tilden becomes Corporation Counsel of New York City
 * January 1:
 * William Bouck becomes Governor of New York
 * March 4:
 * Dixon Lewis becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * James Belser becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * James Dellet becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * Reuben Chapman becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * Washington Hunt becomes a Members of the House of Representatives

Births

 * January 29:
 * William McKinley Jr. - President of the United States (d. 1901)
 * February 9:
 * Richard Henry Clarke - Member of the House of Representatives (d. 1906)
 * August 1:
 * Robert Todd Lincoln - United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
 * August 29:
 * David Bennett Hill - Senator of New York (d. 1910)

Deaths

 * December 18:
 * Smith Thompson Sr. - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1768)