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Birthdays

Silas Benson Best

1836-02-28 - 1888-03-02

André Cailloux

1825-02-28 - 1863-05-27

Benjamin Davenport Chenoweth

1824-02-28 - 1898-06-01

Matthew Duncan Ector

1822-02-28 - 1879-10-29

Henry Stuart Foote

1804-02-28 - 1880-05-20

William Henry Miller

1829-02-28 - 1870-09-12

William Henry Miller

1829-02-28 - 1870-09-12

John Creed Moore

1824-02-28 - 1910-12-31

David Trotter Patterson

1818-02-28 - 1891-11-03

Samuel Simon Schmucker

1799-02-28 - 1873-07-26

William Eccleston Stewart

1839-02-28 - 1910-12-02

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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 Herald, “Trouble among the Republican President Makers,” February 28, 1860	02/28/1860
Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Fraudulent Voting,” February 28, 1860	02/28/1860