Daily Report

Sunday, August 11, 1850

Birthdays

David Rice Atchison

43 years old today

James Horace Buckner

7 years old today

William Fletcher Perrie

17 years old today

Edward Salomon

22 years old today

Leonard Swett

25 years old today

Benjamin Ryan Tillman

3 years old today

Jeptha Homer Wade

39 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	New York Herald, "A Nest of Runaway Slaves Captured by Pennsylvanians," August 11, 1850	08/11/1850