Daily Report

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Birthdays

John Quincy Adams

12 years old today

James Henry Carlisle

35 years old today

Phil Moore Leakin

30 years old today

John Henry Martin

26 years old today

Dixon Stansbury Miles

56 years old today

William Pennington

64 years old today

John Harmon Phillips

40 years old today

Joseph Pannell Taylor

64 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	Boston (MA) Advertiser, “The Wide Awakes,” May 4, 1860	05/04/1860
Periodical	Boston (MA) Liberator, “The Late Homicide in Kansas,” May 4, 1860	05/04/1860