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Birthdays

Judah Philip Benjamin

1811-08-06 - 1884-05-06

Preston Smith Brooks

1819-08-06 - 1857-01-27

Francis Bicknell Carpenter

1830-08-06 - 1900-05-23

Samuel Powhatan Carter

1819-08-06 - 1891-05-26

Lewis William Foulke

1809-08-06 - 1887-01-01

John Perdue Gray

1825-08-06 - 1886-11-29

Thomas Charles Murphey

1821-08-06 - 1903-09-22

Henry Moore Ridgley

1779-08-06 - 1847-08-06

Susie King Taylor

1848-08-06 - 1912-10-06

Samuel Cyrus Wingard

1825-08-06

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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

Periodical

Boston (MA) Liberator, “Emancipation Day in Poughkeepsie,” August 6, 1858

08/06/1858