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Birthdays

Jacob Beeson Blair

1821-04-11 - 1901-02-12

Alfred Victor DuPont

1798-04-11 - 1856-10-04

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth

1837-04-11 - 1861-05-24

Edward Everett

1794-04-11 - 1865-01-15

George Armstrong Lyon

1784-04-11 - 1855-01-06

Ralph Pierce

1827-04-11 - 1908-03-17

John S. Stamm

1838-04-11 - 1871-01-04

Nathan Grier White

1810-04-11 - 1895-09-29

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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 National Anti-Slavery Standard, "The Chief Justice Insane!," April 11, 1857	04/11/1857
Newspaper	New York Times, “The Dred Scott Decision in the Ohio Legislature,” April 11, 1857	04/11/1857