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Birthdays

John Brewer Brown

1836-05-13 - 1896-05-16

William McClanahan Busey

1843-05-13 - 1915-06-15

Howard Copeland

1828-05-13 - 1884-12-02

Harmar Denny

1794-05-13 - 1852-01-29

William Hamilton Getzendaner

1834-05-13 - 1909-05-12

Jacob V. Gotwalts

1840-05-13 - 1921-01-06

Zebulon Baird Vance

1830-05-13 - 1894-04-14

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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, “A Slave State on the Pacific,” May 13, 1859

05/13/1859