Daily Report

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Birthdays

Benjamin Franklin Brooke

37 years old today

Samuel Maxwell Harrington

54 years old today

Isaac McIIvaine

58 years old today

William Edward Miller

21 years old today

John Hovey Rice

41 years old today

Abram Joseph Ryan

19 years old today

William Holland Thomas

52 years old today

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Events

Legal/Political	Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political	Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Legal/Political	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858
Legal/Political	Samuel Galloway serves in the Thirty-fourth US Congress	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1857
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873

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Documents

Newspaper	Letter to the Editor, “Affairs in Kansas"	02/05/1857
Newspaper	New York Times, “Gen. Scott and the Secretary of War,” February 5, 1857	02/05/1857