03/03/1857
Speaker Nathaniel Banks gavels the ninety-three day "lame-duck" second regular session of the House of Representatives to a close, ending the term of the Thirty-fourth Congress of the United States. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation:
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, "House History." http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/index.html