Daily Report

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Birthdays

John Julian Chisolm

29 years old today

John Thompson Ford

30 years old today

Edward Johnson

43 years old today

Erskine Mason

54 years old today

Caleb Blood Smith

51 years old today

Orlando Bolivar Wilcox

36 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	Ripley (OH) Bee, “Gov. Wise and the Presidency,” April 16, 1859	04/16/1859
Letter	Abraham Lincoln to Thomas J. Pickett, April 16, 1859	04/16/1859