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Birthdays

Silas Benson Best

1836-02-28 - 1888-03-02

André Cailloux

1825-02-28 - 1863-05-27

Benjamin Davenport Chenoweth

1824-02-28 - 1898-06-01

Matthew Duncan Ector

1822-02-28 - 1879-10-29

Henry Stuart Foote

1804-02-28 - 1880-05-20

William Henry Miller

1829-02-28 - 1870-09-12

William Henry Miller

1829-02-28 - 1870-09-12

John Creed Moore

1824-02-28 - 1910-12-31

David Trotter Patterson

1818-02-28 - 1891-11-03

Samuel Simon Schmucker

1799-02-28 - 1873-07-26

William Eccleston Stewart

1839-02-28 - 1910-12-02

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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

Speech	Lincoln's Notes for Speech at Chicago, February 28, 1857	02/28/1857
Newspaper	New York Times, “The Buchanan Cabinet,” February 28, 1857	02/28/1857