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Isaac Cook is born in Long Branch, New Jersey |
| Personal |
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Stephen A. Douglas is born in Brandon, Vermont |
| Personal |
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James Buchanan is admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar |
| Personal |
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Theophilus Lyle Dickey born in Bourbon County, Kentucky |
| Personal |
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Robert Grier enters Dickinson College |
| Personal |
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William H. Bissell is born in Hartwick, New York |
| Personal |
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Samuel Galloway is born in Gettysburg, Pennslyvania |
| Personal |
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Horace Greeley is born in Amherst, New Hampshire |
| Personal |
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Owen Lovejoy is born in Albion, Maine |
| Personal |
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James Miller McKim is born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania |
| Personal |
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Zachary Taylor marries Margaret Mackall Smith in Lexington, Kentucky |
| Personal |
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Gustave Philipp Koerner is born in Frankfort, Germany |
| Personal |
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James Buchanan graduates from Dickinson College |
| Personal |
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Usher Ferguson Linder is born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky |
| Personal |
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Abraham Lincoln is born in Hardin County, Kentucky |
| Personal |
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Andrew Johnson is born in Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Personal |
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Dickinson College expels James Buchanan |
| Personal |
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James Buchanan enters Dickinson College |
| Personal |
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Orville Hickman Browning is born in Cynthiana, Kentucky |
| Personal |
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Roger Taney marries Anne Key |
| Personal |
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William Seward is born in Florida, New York |
| Personal |
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Roger Taney moves to Frederick, Maryland |
| Personal |
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Sidney Breese is born in Whitesboro, New York |
| Personal |
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John Brown is born in Torrington, Connecticut |
| Personal |
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Simon Cameron is born in Maytown, Pennsylvania |
| Personal |
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Roger Taney is admitted to Maryland bar |
| Personal |
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Roger Taney enters the Maryland legislature |
| Personal |
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Roger Taney graduates from Dickinson College |
| Personal |
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Robert Cooper Grier is born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania |
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James Buchanan born in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania |
