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Birthdays

Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter

1809-04-21 - 1887-07-18

Daniel Kaufman

1818-04-21 - 1902-07-26

Richard McAlister

1819-04-21 - 1887-01-01

Thomas Paschall Roberts

1843-04-21 - 1924-02-25

William Rufus Terrill

1834-04-21 - 1862-10-08

Louis Trezevant Wigfall

1816-04-21 - 1874-02-18

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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

Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Lincoln in New York,” April 21, 1859

04/21/1859