In Washington, Speaker John White brought down the gavel on the first House session of the Twenty-seventh Congress of the United States. This was an early special session that had sat for 106 days. Congress recessed until the opening of its second session on December 6, 1841. (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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