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 |