Daily Report

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Birthdays

Benjamin Franklin Cheatham

39 years old today

James Wilson Grimes

43 years old today

Gazaway Bugg Lamar

61 years old today

Daniel Edgar Sickles

40 years old today

George Jerrison Stannard

39 years old today

Mason Weare Tappan

42 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	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, “Negro Insurrection!," October 20, 1859	10/20/1859
Newspaper	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “So Perish All The Enemies of Our Country!,” October 20, 1859	10/20/1859
Letter	Charles H. Ray to Abraham Lincoln, October 20, 1859	10/20/1859