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Birthdays

Olympia Brown

1835-01-05 - 1926-10-23

Jeremiah Chamberlain

1794-01-05 - 1851-09-05

Henry Eaton Coleman

1837-01-05 - 1890-06-25

William Preston Johnston

1831-01-05 - 1899-07-16

Augustus Valentine Kautz

1828-01-05 - 1895-09-04

John Doby Kennedy

1840-01-05 - 1896-04-14

Joseph Brevard Kershaw

1822-01-05 - 1894-04-13

George Fiske Round

1840-01-05 - 1928-05-02

Edmund Ruffin

1794-01-05 - 1865-06-17

James William Sanders

1840-01-05 - 1901-01-29

Daniel M. Smyser

1809-01-05 - 1873-01-10

Thomas Neville Waul

1813-01-05 - 1903-09-28

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Events

Legal/Political	Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political	Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Legal/Political	Samuel Galloway serves in the Thirty-fourth US Congress	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1857
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Legal/Political	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858

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Documents

Newspaper	New York Times, "The Dred Scott Case," January 5, 1857	01/05/1857
Letter	John Henry Hill to William Still, January 5, 1857	01/05/1857