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Personal Mary Lincoln visits Springfield, Illinois in the spring of 1837
Personal John Brown responds to abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy's murder in 1837
Legal/Political Roger Taney issues decision in Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge Company
Personal William Elisha Stoker is born in Chambers County, Alabama
Personal Gustavus Vasa Fox joins the US Navy as acting midshipman
Legal/Political Roger Taney issues decision in Bank of Augusta v. Earle
Personal Mary Lincoln moves to Springfield, Illinois
Lawmaking/Litigating - The 26th Congress is in session in Washington, DC, sitting from early December, 1839 to mid-July, 1840
Lawmaking/Litigating The 26th Congress ends its first session in Washington, DC
Personal James Miller McKim marries Sarah Allibone Speakman
Personal William Danenhower marries Elizabeth Uber
Lawmaking/Litigating The second session of the 26th Congress opens in Washington, DC
Lawmaking/Litigating - The second session of the 26th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between early December, 1840 and early March, 1841
Legal/Political Supreme Court finds in favor of The Schooner Amistad
Lawmaking/Litigating In Washington DC, the 26th Congress of the United States finishes its term and adjourns
Legal/Political President William Henry Harrison calls a special early session of the 27th Congress in Washington, DC
Commercial Horace Greeley establishes the New York Tribune
Lawmaking/Litigating The 27th Congress opens early, in special session, in Washington, DC
Lawmaking/Litigating - The 27th Congress is in session in Washington, DC, sitting from late May, 1841 till mid-September, 1841
Lawmaking/Litigating The 27th Congress ends its early first session in Washington, DC
Lawmaking/Litigating The second session of the 27th Congress opens in Washington, DC
Legal/Political - The second session of the 27th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between early December, 1841 and late August, 1842
Lawmaking/Litigating The 27th Congress ends its second session in Washington, DC
Lawmaking/Litigating The third session of the 27th Congress opens in Washington, DC
Legal/Political - The third session of the 27th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between early December, 1842 and early March, 1843
Science/Technology Spencer Fullerton Baird publishes his first scientific article
Personal Owen Lovejoy marries Eunice Storrs Denham in Princeton, Illinois
Lawmaking/Litigating In Washington DC, the 27th Congress of the United States finishes its term and adjourns
Legal/Political - John Wentworth serves in the United States House of Representatives
Personal Lyman Trumbull marries Julia Maria Jayne in Springfield, Illinois