Birthdays

Christopher Columbus Augur
Turns 38 on this date

Andrew Berryhill Buchanan
Turns 49 on this date

George Mifflin Dallas
Turns 67 on this date

James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow
Turns 39 on this date

Jacob Merritt Howard
Turns 54 on this date

Robert Miller Patton
Turns 50 on this date

Lucius Eugene Polk
Turns 26 on this date

Andrew Porter
Turns 39 on this date

Thomas Sargent Reese
Turns 19 on this date
Events
Lawmaking/Litigating | The convention charged with creating a Kansas State Constitution is meeting in Wyandotte, Kansas |
07/06/1859 to 07/28/1859 |
Documents
Newspaper | New York Herald, “Horace Greeley and His Pike’s Peak Humbuggery,” July 10, 1859 | 07/10/1859 |