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Birthdays

Alfred Horatio Belo

1839-05-27 - 1901-04-19

Amelia Jenks Bloomer

1818-05-27 - 1894-12-30

John Neff Coombs

1823-05-27 - 1874-12-27

John Gray Foster

1823-05-27 - 1874-09-02

Robert Frederick Hoke

1837-05-27 - 1912-07-03

Julia Ward Howe

1819-05-27 - 1910-10-17

Richard Watson Humphriss

1836-05-27 - 1918-04-05

George Washington Johnson

1811-05-27 - 1862-04-08

Edwin Gray Lee

1836-05-27 - 1870-08-24

John Quincy Marr

1825-05-27 - 1861-06-01

Samuel Franklin Miller

1827-05-27 - 1892-03-16

John Smith

1776-05-27 - 1860-06-17

Cornelius Vanderbilt

1794-05-27 - 1877-01-04

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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, “Emancipation of Dred Scott and Family,” May 27, 1857	05/27/1857
Letter	G. S. Nelson to William Still, May 27, 1857	05/27/1857
Newspaper	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Southern Rights," May 27, 1857	05/27/1857