In Washington, DC, the 44th Congress ends its first session

In Washington, DC, Speaker Michael Crawford Kerr of Indiana gavels the end of the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress of the United States. The House has sat for a total of 254 days. Speaker Kerr will die at the Rockbridge Alum Springs health retreat in Virginia four days later. (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
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