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)
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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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