1880

Events

 * Unknown:
 * Howell Jackson becomes a Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
 * November 24:
 * James Pugh becomes a Senator of Alabama

Births

 * December 31:
 * George Catlett Marshall Jr. - 3rd United States Secretary of Defense (d. 1959)

Deaths

 * December 31:
 * Percy Walker - Member of the House of Representatives (b. 1812)