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Birthdays

John Francis Bird

1816-03-07 - 1904-06-22

John Bratton

1831-03-07 - 1898-01-12

David Bachman Brunner

1835-03-07 - 1903-11-29

George William Caruth

1842-03-07 - 1921-01-15

Norton Parter Chipman

1834-03-07 - 1924-02-01

Henry DeLamar Clayton

1827-03-07 - 1889-10-03

Alexander Laws Hays

1793-03-07 - 1875-09-13

Abraham Herr Smith

1815-03-07 - 1894-02-16

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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	New York Times, “Slavery in the Territories,” March 7, 1857	03/07/1857
Newspaper	Boston (MA) Herald, “The Dred Scott Decision,” March 7, 1857	03/07/1857
Newspaper	Decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case	03/07/1857