James Murray Mason (Congressional Biographical Directory)
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"Mason, James Murray," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000216.
MASON, James Murray, a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born on Analostan Island, Fairfax County, Va.
Daniel Edgar Sickles (American National Biography)
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Richard A. Sauers, "Sickles, Daniel Edgar," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/05/05-00714.html.
In 1847 Sickles won election to the New York State Assembly. Six years later, in January 1853 he was appointed corporation counsel of New York City, but he resigned after eight months to become secretary of the American legation in London. While serving under Ambassador James Buchanan, Sickles had a hand in drawing up the notorious Ostend Manifesto, the document that claimed America's right to seize Cuba, thereby embarrassing the Franklin Pierce administration. While attending a U.S.
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Mason Weare Tappan (Congressional Biographical Directory)
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"Tappan, Mason Weare," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000040.
TAPPAN, Mason Weare, a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Newport, Sullivan County, N.H., October 20, 1817; moved to Bradford, N.H., with his parents; attended private schools and the Hopkinton and Meriden Academies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1841 and commenced practice in Bradford, N.H.; served in the state house of representatives 1853-1855; elected as an American Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Claims (T
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Elbridge Hoffman Gerry (Dickinson Chronicles)
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John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Elbridge Hoffman Gerry,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/g/ed_gerryEH.htm.
In Montgomery, Alabama, the special session session of the Confederate States Congress ends
The Congress of the Confederate States ended its special session in Montgomery, Alabama. The Provisional Congress reassembled in Richmond, Virginia on July 20, 1861. (By John Osborne)
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