Speaker James G. Blaine brings down the gavel in the House on the first session of the Forty-first Congress. The House and the Senate will gather again on December 6, 1869. (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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Legal/Political