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The Forty-fourth Congress of the United States is in session in Washington, D.C. It will sit for two weeks until its usual holiday recess which begins on December 21, 1875. Michael Crawford Kerr, Democrat of Indiana, is in the Speaker's chair in the House. (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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