Daily Report

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Birthdays

Benjamin Franklin Cheatham

40 years old today

James Wilson Grimes

44 years old today

Gazaway Bugg Lamar

62 years old today

Daniel Edgar Sickles

41 years old today

George Jerrison Stannard

40 years old today

Mason Weare Tappan

43 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

Letter	David Wilmot to Abraham Lincoln, October 20, 1860	10/20/1860
Letter	David Hunter to Abraham Lincoln, October 20, 1860	10/20/1860
Newspaper	New York Times, “The Alabama Insurrection,” October 20, 1860	10/20/1860