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Birthdays

Manning Ferguson Force

1824-12-17 - 1899-05-08

John Stansbury Gorsuch

1820-12-17 - 1852-03-16

Joseph Henry

1797-12-17 - 1878-05-13

James Thadeus Holtzclaw

1833-12-17 - 1893-07-19

Samuel Jones

1819-12-17 - 1887-07-31

Frederick West Lander

1821-12-17 - 1862-03-02

John O'Neill

1822-12-17 - 1905-05-25

William Gaston Steele

1820-12-17 - 1892-04-22

Delia Ann Webster

1817-12-17 - 1876-01-01

John Greenleaf Whittier

1807-12-17 - 1892-09-07

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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, “Secretary Stanton’s Call for an Extra Session of the Kansas Legislature,” December 17, 1857	12/17/1857
Letter	William Brady to William Still, December 17, 1857	12/17/1857