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Birthdays

William E. Clarke

1829-03-05 - 1906-08-10

James Geddes Craighead

1823-03-05 - 1895-04-28

Robert Lewis Dabney

1820-03-05 - 1898-01-03

Hubert Anton Casimir Dilger

1836-03-05 - 1911-05-04

John Dunovant

1825-03-05 - 1864-10-01

Robert Cooper Grier

1794-03-05 - 1870-09-25

Sylvanus Townsend

1837-03-05 - 1906-02-01

John Wentworth

1815-03-05 - 1888-10-16

Francis West

1810-03-05 - 1868-09-24

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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	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
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862

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Documents

Newspaper

Washington (DC) National Era, “Affairs in Kansas,” March 5, 1857

03/05/1857