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Birthdays

Benjamin Franklin Brooke

1820-02-05 - 1882-09-25

Samuel Maxwell Harrington

1803-02-05 - 1865-11-28

Isaac McIIvaine

1799-02-05 - 1884-06-30

William Edward Miller

1836-02-05 - 1919-12-10

John Hovey Rice

1816-02-05 - 1911-03-11

Abram Joseph Ryan

1838-02-05 - 1886-04-22

William Holland Thomas

1805-02-05 - 1893-05-10

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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	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858
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

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Documents

Newspaper	Letter to the Editor, “Affairs in Kansas"	02/05/1857
Newspaper	New York Times, “Gen. Scott and the Secretary of War,” February 5, 1857	02/05/1857