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John Louis O'Sullivan (American National Biography)
Robert D. Sampson, "O'Sullivan, John Louis," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-01816.html.
During the presidential campaign of 1844, John Louis O'Sullivan and Samuel J. Tilden founded and edited the New York Morning News, a paper boosting the campaign of James K. Polk….In editorials in the News and the [United States Magazine and] Democratic Review, O'Sullivan outlined his vision of continental expansion summarized in the phrase "manifest destiny." O'Sullivan's expansionism was essentially peaceful, and his first editorials in the News on the Mexican War questioned the circumstances of its initiation.
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President Abraham Lincoln calls a special early session of the new 37th Congress
In light of the national crisis, President Abraham Lincoln called an early special session of the 37th Congress, by executive order. The Congress assembled on July 4, 1861. By that time hostilities between northern and southern forces had commenced in earnest. (By John Osborne)
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The second session of the Twenty-sixth Congress of the United States opened in Washington, D.C. with Speaker Robert Hunter presiding. This "lame duck" session sat for 87 days and adjourned on March 3, 1841. (By John Osborne)
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In Washington, Speaker Hunter brought down the gavel on the first House session of the Twenty-sixth Congress of the United States. The chamber had been in session for 233 days. It was in recess until the opening of its second session on December 7, 1840. (By John Osborne)
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The 26th Congress is in session in Washington, DC, sitting from early December, 1839 to mid-July, 1840
The Twenty-sixth Congress of the United States was in session in Washington, DC. It sat in this first session until July 21, 1840. Democratic representative Robert M. T. Hunter was in the Speaker's chair. (By John Osborne)
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