Events from the year 1843 in the United States.
Incumbents
:John White (W-Kentucky) (until March 4)
:John Winston Jones (D-Virginia) (starting December 4)
State governments
Events
JanuaryâÂÂMarch
AprilâÂÂJune
JulyâÂÂSeptember
OctoberâÂÂDecember
Undated
Births
- January 6 – John Coit Spooner, politician (died 1919)
- January 8
- John H. Moffitt, politician (died 1926)
- Letitia Stevenson, wife of Adlai Stevenson I, Second Lady of the United States (died 1913)
- January 10 – Frank James, outlaw (died 1915)
- January 15 – William H. Harries, Representative in the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota (died 1921)
- January 16 – George E. Gard, sheriff (died 1904)
- January 29 – William McKinley, 25th president of the United States from 1897 to 1901 (died 1901)
- February 2 – Knute Nelson, Norway-born 12th governor of Minnesota from 1893 to 1895 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1895 to 1923 (died 1923)
- February 3 – William Cornelius Van Horne, North American railway magnate (died 1915 in Canada)
- February 7 – John B. Babcock, U.S. Army officer (died 1909)
- February 9 – Andrew Traynor, soldier (died 1920)
- February 15 – Russell Conwell, Baptist minister (died 1925)
- February 27
- Thomas Hammond, politician (died 1909)
- Thomas Lowry, lawyer and businessman (died 1909)
- March 8 – Arthur Brown, U.S. Senator from Utah from 1896 to 1897 (died 1906)
- March 17 – Henry Ware Lawton, general (died 1899)
- March 23 – Joseph F. Johnston, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1907 to 1913 (died 1913)
- April 4 – William Henry Jackson, explorer and photographer (died 1942)
- April 8 – Howard Roberts, sculptor (died 1900)
- April 15 – Henry James, fiction writer (died 1916)
- May 6 – G. K. Gilbert, geologist (died 1918)
- June 4 – Charles Conrad Abbott, archaeologist and naturalist (died 1919)
- June 6 – Russell J. Waters, U.S. Representative from California (died 1911)
- April 25 – Dwight M. Sabin, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1883 to 1889 (died 1902)
- July 15 – Alfred W. Benson, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1906 to 1907 (died 1916)
- July 19 – Francis J. Higginson, U.S. Navy admiral (died 1931)
- June 29 – Charles Warren Stone, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (died 1912)
- August 1 – Robert Todd Lincoln, statesman and businessman, son of Abraham Lincoln (died 1926)
- August 19 – C. I. Scofield, theologian (died 1921)
- September 25 – Melville Reuben Bissell, entrepreneur, inventor of the Carpet sweeper (died 1889)
- October 28 – Julia Anna Orum, educator, lecturer, and author (died 1904)
- November 23 – Henry C. Payne, politician (died 1904)
- November 25 – Henry Ware Eliot, industrialist and philanthropist (died 1919)
- November 26 – Charles A. Chickering, representative of New York (died 1900)
- November 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, railroad magnate (died 1899)
- November 30 – Martha Ripley, physician (died 1912)
- December 28 – Prentiss Ingraham, military officer and author of dime fiction (died 1904)
Deaths
- January 11 – Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (born 1779)
- March 27 – Samuel McRoberts, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1841 to 1843 (born 1799)
- March 31 – George A. Waggaman, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1831 to 1835 (born 1782)
- April 1 – John Armstrong Jr., 7th United States Secretary of War (born 1758)
- April 17 – Samuel Morey, inventor (born 1762)
- April 25 – John McCracken Robinson, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1830 to 1841 (born 1794)
- May 28 – Noah Webster, lexicographer (born 1758)
- July 7 – John Holmes, Maine politician (born 1773)
- July 9 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian", and poet (born 1779)
- August – Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary (b. c. 1767)
- August 10 – Robert Adrain, mathematician (born 1775 in Ireland)
- September 11 – Joseph Nicollet, geographer (born 1786 in France)
- September 30 – Richard Harlan, zoologist (born 1796)
- November 10 – John Trumbull, painter (born 1756)
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