The second session of the 28th Congress opens in Washington, DC

The second session of the Twenty-eighth Congress of the United States opens in Washington, D.C. with Speaker John W. Jones presiding. This "lame duck" session will sit for 92 days and adjourn on March 3, 1845. (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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