07/17/1862
Speaker Galusha Grow of Pennsylvania gaveled the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress of the United States to a close. The House sat for for 228 days and was in adjournment till December 5, 1862. (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