Daily Report

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Birthdays

James Hervey Barton

25 years old today

Richard Ridgely Battee

37 years old today

Alexander Gwin

52 years old today

David Benjamin Herman

15 years old today

John James Ingalls

26 years old today

Andrew Johnson

51 years old today

Mark Perrin Lowrey

31 years old today

Albert Pike

50 years old today

Eli Saulsbury

42 years old today

Philip Benner Waddle

50 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

Periodical	New York Evangelist, "A Time to Pray," December 29, 1859	12/29/1859
Newspaper	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "Suspicious Characters," December 29, 1859	12/29/1859
Newspaper	San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “The New Crusade against the Union,” December 29, 1859	12/29/1859