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Birthdays

David Wyatt Aiken

1828-03-17 - 1887-04-16

Patrick Edward Connor

1820-03-17 - 1891-12-17

Moncure Daniel Conway

1832-03-17 - 1907-11-15

John Covode

1808-03-17 - 1871-01-11

Martin Jenkins Crawford

1820-03-17 - 1883-07-23

James Culbertson

1803-03-17 - 1854-03-30

Thomas Morris Gunn

1840-03-17 - 1917-06-01

Jacob Hoke

1825-03-17 - 1893-12-26

Lewis Sheridan Leary

1835-03-17 - 1859-10-18

Samuel Lawrence Lupton

1835-03-17 - 1907-01-16

Roger Brooke Taney

1777-03-17 - 1864-10-12

Benjamin Sterling Turner

1825-03-17 - 1894-03-24

Sterling Alexander Martin Wood

1823-03-17 - 1891-01-26

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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

Diary	Entry by Francis Hall, March 17, 1860	03/17/1860
Newspaper	(Montpelier) Vermont Patriot,“For President In 1860, Stephen A. Douglas,” March 17, 1860	03/17/1860
Newspaper	Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Kellogg on Douglas,” March 17, 1860	03/17/1860
Letter	James A. Briggs to Salmon Portland Chase, March 17, 1860	03/17/1860
Diary	Entry by Edward Bates, March 17, 1860	03/17/1860