Following its special session of the summer, the second session of the Twenty-seventh Congress of the United States opened in Washington, D.C. with Speaker John White presiding. This session sat for 269 days and adjourned on August 31, 1842. (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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Lawmaking/Litigating