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Birthdays

Absalom Baird

1824-08-20 - 1905-06-14

Madison Brown

1810-08-20 - 1872-08-03

Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt Lowe

1832-08-20 - 1913-01-16

Gilman Marston

1811-08-20 - 1890-07-03

Francis Redding Tillou Nichols

1834-08-20 - 1912-01-04

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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	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
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, “The Emancipation Scheme,” August 20, 1857

08/20/1857