Daily Report

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Birthdays

Rush Elmore

38 years old today

Richard W. Johnson

30 years old today

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

50 years old today

James Madison Marvin

48 years old today

William Pape

7 years old today

Edward Alfred Pollard

26 years old today

John Locke Scripps

39 years old today

John William Clark Watson

49 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	New York Times, “Important from Kansas,” February 27, 1857	02/27/1857
Letter	Theodore Parker to Charles Sumner, February 27, 1857	02/27/1857