The second session of the 32nd Congress opens in Washington, DC

The second session of the Thirty-second Congress of the United States opens in Washington, D.C. with Speaker Linn Boyd of Kentucky presiding. This "lame duck" session will sit for 88 days and adjourn on March 3, 1853. (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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