Birthdays
Lemuel Jackson Bowden
Turns 42 on this date
Charles Henry Davis
Turns 50 on this date
Henry Wager Halleck
Turns 42 on this date
Robert Roberts Hitt
Turns 23 on this date
Thomas Edwin Massey
Turns 35 on this date
William Alexander Richardson
Turns 46 on this date
James Phillip Sims
Turns 20 on this date
John Palmer Usher
Turns 41 on this date
James David Watters
Turns 23 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 Tariff Bill,” January 16, 1857 | 01/16/1857 |