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 |