Speaker James L. Orr of South Carolina called the Thirty-fifth Congress of the United States to order as it returned from its ten day holiday period recess. It sat until June 14, 1858, a period of 148 days. (By John Osborne)
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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, "House History." http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/index.html
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