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Birthdays

Alexander Sandor Asboth

46 years old today

George Dashiell Bayard

21 years old today

Jesse David Bright

44 years old today

John Mercer Brooke

30 years old today

Thomas Pleasant Dockery

23 years old today

Arnold Elzey

40 years old today

Charles Griffin

31 years old today

George Dennison Prentice

53 years old today

Events

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Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate to
Legal/Political
Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives to
Legal/Political
Samuel Galloway serves in the Thirty-fourth US Congress to
Legal/Political
Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives to
Legal/Political
Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate to