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Birthdays

William Armstrong

1836-04-20 - 1902-01-24

Alfred Holt Colquitt

1824-04-20 - 1894-03-26

John Gibbon

1827-04-20 - 1896-02-06

James Henry Loomis

1842-04-20 - 1920-01-01

Albert Gallatin Porter

1824-04-20 - 1897-05-03

Charles Debrille Poston

1825-04-20 - 1902-06-24

John Smith Preston

1809-04-20 - 1881-05-01

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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 Charleston Convention,” April 20, 1859	04/20/1859
Newspaper	New York Times, “The Massachusetts Two Years’ Amendment,” April 20, 1859	04/20/1859