January 4: Democrat Ed Case is elected in a Hawaii special Congressional
election, replacing Patsy Mink, who had
been elected to Congress posthumously in November 2002.
February 5: The
head of the pro-Moscow
administration of Chechnya, announces the dismissal of their Prime Minister,
who is later replaced by Anatoly
Popov.
June 3: Republican Randy Neugebauer defeats fellow Republican
Mike Conaway in a Texas Congressional
special runoff election to succeed Larry
Combest, who resigned in November 2002. Both men had advanced
to the runoff in a May 2003 primary.
September 9: Indiana lieutenant
governor Joe Kernan becomes acting
governor when governor Frank O'Bannon
suffers a stroke, and is officially sworn in as governor when
O'Bannon dies a few days later. Both are Democrats.