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Birthdays

Theodore Washington Brevard

1835-08-26 - 1882-06-20

James Harlan

1820-08-26 - 1899-10-05

Benjamin Grubb Humphreys

1808-08-26 - 1882-12-20

John Auchincloss Inglis

1813-08-26 - 1879-08-26

John Edward McCahan

1832-08-26 - 1916-11-01

John McKinney

1797-08-26 - 1867-08-25

Samuel James Powell

1824-08-26 - 1901-08-03

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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

Boston (MA) Liberator, “Meetings in Boston,” August 26, 1859

08/26/1859