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Birthdays

Thomas Morris Chester

1834-05-11 - 1892-09-30

Burton Chauncey Cook

1819-05-11 - 1894-08-18

Byron Mac Cutcheon

1836-05-11 - 1908-04-12

Clement Alexander Finley

1797-05-11 - 1879-09-08

Robert Smith Grier

1790-05-11 - 1865-12-29

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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 Times, “Amendment to the Massachusetts State Constitution,” May 11, 1859	05/11/1859
Newspaper	New York Times, “When Did He Die?,” May 11, 1859	05/11/1859