Birthdays
James Armstrong
Turns 65 on this date
Caleb Cushing
Turns 59 on this date
Isaac T. Goodnow
Turns 45 on this date
Philip Johnson
Turns 41 on this date
Henry Elliot Shepherd
Turns 15 on this date
Joseph Culbertson Snively
Turns 23 on this date
James Noble Tyner
Turns 33 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 35th U.S. Congress is sitting between early January and early March, 1859 |
01/05/1859 to 03/02/1859 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Herald, “The Present Congress and the Next President,” January 17, 1859 | 01/17/1859 |