Daily Report

Birthdays

Christopher Columbus Augur

27 years old today

Andrew Berryhill Buchanan

38 years old today

George Mifflin Dallas

56 years old today

James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow

28 years old today

Jacob Merritt Howard

43 years old today

Robert Miller Patton

39 years old today

Lucius Eugene Polk

15 years old today

Andrew Porter

28 years old today

Thomas Sargent Reese

8 years old today

John Stuart Williams

30 years old today

Events

Legal/Political	John Wentworth serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1843 to 03/03/1851
Legal/Political	David Wilmot serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1845 to 03/03/1851
Legal/Political	Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political	Abraham Lincoln serves a single term in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1847 to 03/03/1849
Legal/Political	The 30th Congress is in session in Washington, DC, sitting from early December, 1847 till mid-August, 1848	12/07/1847 to 08/13/1848

Documents

Letter

Abraham Lincoln to William Herndon, Washington, DC, July 10, 1848

07/10/1848