Daily Report

Monday, March 16, 1857

Birthdays

James Buffington, circa 1862, detail

James Buffington

40 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

James Hunter Bull

40 years old today

Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, detail

Patrick Ronayne Cleburne

29 years old today

Benjamin Heck Crever, detail

Benjamin Heck Crever

40 years old today

Charles Brown Lore, detail

Charles Brown Lore

26 years old today

George Archibald McCall, detail

George Archibald McCall

55 years old today

George Maxwell Robeson, detail

George Maxwell Robeson

28 years old today

Henry Washington Sawyer, detail

Henry Washington Sawyer

28 years old today

Alexander Jacob Schem, detail

Alexander Jacob Schem

31 years old today

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	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Legal/Political	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862

Documents

Newspaper	New York Times, “Massachusetts Legislature,” March 16, 1857	03/16/1857
Newspaper	The Dred Scott Decision-The Republicans in Council at Albany	03/16/1857
Newspaper	The Decision in the Dred Scott Case	03/16/1857
Newspaper	The New Federal Constitution	03/16/1857
Newspaper	The Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case, and its Tremendous Consequences.	03/16/1857