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Roger Taney issues decision in Bank of Augusta v. Earle |
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Gustavus Vasa Fox joins the US Navy as acting midshipman |
Personal |
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William Elisha Stoker is born in Chambers County, Alabama |
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Roger Taney issues decision in Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge Company |
Personal |
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John Brown responds to abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy's murder in 1837 |
Personal |
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Mary Lincoln visits Springfield, Illinois in the spring of 1837 |
Personal |
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McKim becomes a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society |
Personal |
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Horace Greeley marries Mary Youngs Cheney in Warrenton, North Carolina |
Personal |
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Gustave Philipp Koerner marries Sophie Engelmann |
Personal |
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Adele Cutts Douglas is born in Washington, DC |
Legal/Political |
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Roger Taney becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
Legal/Political |
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James Buchanan enters the United States Senate |
Personal |
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Horace White is born in Colebrook, New Hampshire |
Personal |
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Anthony Burns is born in Stafford County, Virginia |
Personal |
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Robert Roberts Hitt is born in Urbana, Ohio |
Personal |
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John Brown marries Mary Ann Day |
Personal |
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Grier is appointed judge of the District Court of Allegheny County |
Personal |
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John Brown's first wife dies in August 1832 |
Personal |
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Moncure Conway is born in Stafford County, Virginia |
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Senate confirms James Buchanan's appointment as minister to Russia |
Personal |
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John McClintock attends the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia |
Personal |
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Theophilus Lyle Dickey marries Juliet Evans |
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Roger Taney becomes Attorney General of the United States |
Personal |
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Shelby Moore Cullom is born in Wayne County, Kentucky |
Personal |
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Robert Grier marries Isabella Cooper |
Personal |
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Alexander McClure is born in Sherman’s Valley, Pennsylvania |
Legal/Political |
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Roger Taney becomes State Attorney General for Maryland |
Personal |
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Leonard Swett is born in Turner, Maine |
Personal |
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William Walker is born in Nashville, Tennessee |
Legal/Political |
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Roger Taney becomes Secretary of the Treasury due to the Bank War |