Daily Report

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Birthdays

John Francis Bird

43 years old today

John Bratton

28 years old today

David Bachman Brunner

24 years old today

George William Caruth

17 years old today

Norton Parter Chipman

25 years old today

Henry DeLamar Clayton

32 years old today

Alexander Laws Hays

66 years old today

Abraham Herr Smith

44 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
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865

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Documents

Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Personal,” March 7, 1859	03/07/1859
Newspaper	New York Herald, “News from Porto [Puerto] Rico,” March 7, 1859	03/07/1859
Newspaper	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Br. [Mr.] Buchanan and the Democratic Party,” March 7, 1859	03/07/1859