Birthdays
Samuel Augustus Bridges
Turns 58 on this date
John Price Clark
Turns 30 on this date
Robert Sanford Foster
Turns 26 on this date
James Morrison Hawes
Turns 36 on this date
John Percival Jones
Turns 31 on this date
William Henry Fitzhugh Payne
Turns 30 on this date
Samuel Allen Rice
Turns 32 on this date
Richard Taylor
Turns 34 on this date
Martin Russell Thayer
Turns 41 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. |
12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860 |
| Business/Industry | The legislatures of Kentucky and Tennessee are hosted lavishly in Cincinatti, Ohio |
01/27/1860 to 01/28/1860 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | Thirty-ninth ballot in the election for Speaker sees John Sherman fall behind for the first time | 01/27/1860 |