Daily Report

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Birthdays

Isaac Cook

46 years old today

David G. Eshleman

43 years old today

Reuben Eaton Fenton

40 years old today

Stephen Foster

33 years old today

Daniel Chevilette Govan

30 years old today

Nathaniel Hawthorne

55 years old today

George Latimer

40 years old today

William Porcher Miles

37 years old today

James Johnston Pettigrew

31 years old today

John Osborne Putnam

41 years old today

William Andrew Quarles

34 years old today

Green Clay Smith

33 years old today

William Henry Wadsworth

38 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	Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “The Douglas Manifesto,” July 4, 1859	07/04/1859
Newspaper	Washington (DC) National Intelligencer, “Railroad Disasters,” July 4, 1859	07/04/1859