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Birthdays

William Woods Averell

1832-11-05 - 1900-02-03

Benjamin Franklin Butler

1818-11-05 - 1893-01-11

William H. Gray

1805-11-05 - 1890-02-08

Benjamin Chew Howard

1791-11-05 - 1872-03-06

John Duncan Mahon

1796-11-05 - 1861-07-03

Alexander Herritage Newton

1837-11-05 - 1912-01-01

Alphonso Taft

1810-11-05 - 1891-05-21

Isaac Toucey

1792-11-05 - 1869-07-30

Edward Dorr Tracy

1833-11-05 - 1863-05-01

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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 Times, "The Brown Invasion Transplanted From Kansas," November 5, 1859	11/05/1859
Letter	Jonathan Worth to Edward Jones Hale, November 5, 1859	11/05/1859