1927

Events

 * Unknown:
 * Hugo Black becomes Secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference
 * January 1:
 * Benjamin Cardozo becomes Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
 * March 4:
 * Alben Barkley becomes Senator of Kentucky
 * Hugo Black becomes a Senator of Alabama

Births

 * September 19:
 * Harold Brown - 14th Secretary of Defense (d. 2019)

Deaths

 * September 21:
 * George Brydges Rodney Jr. - 6th Commander of the Department of Alaska (b. 1842)