Daily Report

Saturday, March 23, 1850

Birthdays

William Willis Blackford

19 years old today

Don Carlos Buell

32 years old today

Schuyler Colfax

27 years old today

Thomas Miller Griffith

16 years old today

Edward Lloyd Thomas

25 years old today

George Henry Williams

27 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	William H. Bissell serves in the US House of Representatives	03/04/1849 to 03/03/1855
Legal/Political	The 31st Congress is in session in Washington, DC, sitting from early December, 1849 till late September, 1850	12/04/1849 to 09/29/1850

Documents

Newspaper	Boston (MA) Advertiser, "Extradition of Fugitive Slaves," March 23, 1850	03/23/1850