Birthdays
Oakes Ames
Turns 53 on this date
Jeremiah Sullivan Black
Turns 47 on this date
Daniel Stem Burns
Turns 25 on this date
James Mason Campbell
Turns 47 on this date
Meriwether Lewis Clark
Turns 48 on this date
Alexander Brydie Dyer
Turns 42 on this date
Alexander Travis Hawthorn
Turns 32 on this date
John Thompson Hoffman
Turns 29 on this date
Alexander Franklin James
Turns 14 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second regular session of the 34th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between early December and early March |
12/02/1856 to 03/02/1857 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Times, “Congressional Corruption,” January 10, 1857 | 01/10/1857 |