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Birthdays

James Armstrong

1794-01-17 - 1868-08-27

Caleb Cushing

1800-01-17 - 1879-01-02

Isaac T. Goodnow

1814-01-17 - 1894-03-20

Philip Johnson

1818-01-17 - 1867-01-29

Henry Elliot Shepherd

1844-01-17 - 1929-05-29

Joseph Culbertson Snively

1836-01-17 - 1885-03-22

James Noble Tyner

1826-01-17 - 1904-12-05

George Ross Veazey

1820-01-17 - 1856-09-12

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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
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865

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Documents

Newspaper

New York Herald, “The Present Congress and the Next President,” January 17, 1859

01/17/1859