1891

Events

 * March 4:
 * Edward White becomes a Senator of Louisiana
 * June 16:
 * Howell Jackson becomes Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Births

 * January 10:
 * Louis Arthur Johnson - United States Secretary of Defense (d. 1966)
 * January 20:
 * Levi Stewart Udall - Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court (d. 1960)
 * March 19:
 * Earl Warren Sr. - Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)

Deaths

 * February 14:
 * William Tecumseh Sherman Sr. - Acting United States Secretary of War (b. 1820)
 * July 4:
 * Hannibal Hamlin - Vice President of the United States (b. 1809)
 * December 15:
 * Anson Pacely Killen Safford - Territorial Governor of Arizona (b. 1830)