Birthdays

Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
Turns 50 on this date

Salmon Portland Chase
Turns 49 on this date

Wesley Cochran
Turns 43 on this date

William Henry French
Turns 42 on this date

Joseph Eldridge Hamblin
Turns 29 on this date

Humphrey Marshall
Turns 45 on this date

Ernestine Louise Polowsky Rose
Turns 47 on this date

Edward Stout
Turns 36 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, "The Re-election of Mr. Sumner," January 13, 1857 | 01/13/1857 |