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Birthdays

James Dixon

1814-08-05 - 1873-03-27

Joseph Gordon Hamblen

1844-08-05 - 1916-12-23

James Bedell McKean

1821-08-05 - 1879-01-05

Carnot Posey

1818-08-05 - 1863-11-13

Duke Slavens

1840-08-05 - 1920-09-14

Thomas Weston Tipton

1817-08-05 - 1889-11-26

Erastus Wentworth

1813-08-05 - 1868-05-01

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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 Herald, “Trouble Among the Republicans,” August 5, 1860

08/05/1860