Daily Report

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Birthdays

William Embre Gaines

16 years old today

Horace Maynard

46 years old today

Daniel Webster McCurdy

19 years old today

Joseph W. Redden

26 years old today

Alexander Hamilton Rice

42 years old today

William Paine Sheffield

40 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	Charlestown (VA) Free Press, “A Broken Platform,” August 30, 1860	08/30/1860
Letter	Abraham Lincoln to Alexander McClure, August 30, 1860	08/30/1860