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The third session of the Twenty-seventh Congress of the United States is sitting. This "lame duck" session will sit for 89 days and adjourn on March 3, 1843. John White, a Kentucky Whig, is presiding as Speaker. (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
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Legal/Political
Washington, DC
United States Capitol, Washington DC
How to Cite This Page: "The third session of the 27th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between early December, 1842 and early March, 1843," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/21885.