Daily Report

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Birthdays

August Belmont

44 years old today

Robert Bullock

29 years old today

William Downey

32 years old today

Clinton Bowen Fisk

29 years old today

Otis Gibson

31 years old today

Lewis Winans Ross

45 years old today

Henry Timrod

57 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	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

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Documents

Newspaper	New York Times, “The Kansas Constitution,” December 8, 1857	12/08/1857
Newspaper	Southern Slavery versus Northern Hireling	12/08/1857