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Birthdays
Manning Ferguson Force
48 years old today
John Stansbury Gorsuch
52 years old today
Joseph Henry
75 years old today
James Thadeus Holtzclaw
39 years old today
Samuel Jones
53 years old today
Frederick West Lander
51 years old today
John O'Neill
50 years old today
William Gaston Steele
52 years old today
Delia Ann Webster
55 years old today
John Greenleaf Whittier
65 years old today
Events
Legal/Political
Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate
03/04/1855
to
03/03/1873
Legal/Political
Elihu Washburne serves as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France
03/17/1869
to
09/10/1877
Legal/Political
The 42nd Congress is sitting in Washington, DC before its holiday recess which begins on December 20, 1872
12/03/1872
to
12/19/1872
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