In Washington, D.C., Speaker Samuel J. Randall of Pennsylvania brings down the gavel on the second session of the Forty-sixth Congress of the United States. Congress will reassemble for its third "lame duck" session on December 6, 1880. (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
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Legal/Political