| Personal |
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William H. Bissell is born in Hartwick, New York |
| Personal |
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Robert Grier enters Dickinson College |
| Personal |
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Theophilus Lyle Dickey born in Bourbon County, Kentucky |
| Personal |
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James Buchanan is admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar |
| Personal |
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Stephen A. Douglas is born in Brandon, Vermont |
| Personal |
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Isaac Cook is born in Long Branch, New Jersey |
| Personal |
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Lyman Trumbull is born in Colchester, Connecticut |
| Personal |
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David Wilmot is born in Bethany, Pennsylvania |
| Personal |
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Ozias Mather Hatch is born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire |
| Personal |
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John McClintock is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Legal/Political |
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James Buchanan enters the Pennsylvania House of Representatives |
| Personal |
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John Wentworth is born in Sandwich, New Hampshire |
| Personal |
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David Davis is born in Cecil County, Maryland |
| Personal |
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Andrew Gregg Curtin is born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania |
| Personal |
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Roger Taney manumits his slaves |
| Personal |
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Roger Taney enters the Maryland senate |
| Personal |
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Elihu Washburne is born in Livermore, Maine |
| Personal |
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Thomas Langrell Harris is born in Norwich, Connecticut |
| Personal |
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Robert Grier is admitted to the Pennsylvania bar |
| Personal |
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John McAuley Palmer is born in Eagle Creek, Scott County, Kentucky |
| Personal |
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John W. Forney is born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
| Personal |
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Charles Lush Wilson is born in Fairfield County, Connecticut |
| Personal |
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Mary Lincoln is born in Lexington, Kentucky |
| Personal |
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William Herndon is born in Greensburg, Kentucky |
| Legal/Political |
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Roger Taney defends abolitionist minister Jacob Gruber against charges of inciting a slave riot. |
| Personal |
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John Courts Bagby is born in Glasgow, Kentucky |
| Personal |
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Burton Chauncey Cook is born in Pittsford, New York |
| Personal |
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James Buchanan's fiancée dies |
| Personal |
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William Danenhower is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Personal |
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John Brown marries Dianthe Lusk |
