In Washington, Speaker Linn Boyd brings down the gavel on the first House session of the Thirty-second Congress of the United States. The chamber has been in session for 275 days. It will adjourn until the opening of its second session on December 6, 1852. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
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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