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Birthdays

George Andreas Atzerodt

1835-06-12 - 1865-07-07

Samuel Cooper

1798-06-12 - 1876-12-03

John Hanson McNeil

1815-06-12 - 1864-11-10

David Levy Yulee

1810-06-12 - 1886-10-10

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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, “Commencement of Republican Cabinet Making,” June 12, 1860	06/12/1860
Letter	Richard W. Thompson to Abraham Lincoln, June 12, 1860	06/12/1860