In Washington, Speaker Linn Boyd brings down the gavel on the first session of the Thirty-third Congress of the United States. The House has been in session for 246 days. It will adjourn till the opening of its second session on December 4, 1854. (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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